7th Grade Additional Practice

Arcade Games: Fractions, Decimals and Percents
1. Fruit Shoot
2. Animal Rescue

Khan Videos/Practice
1. Follow the List of Video on the left side of Khan

Homework Update!

ALL: (DUE: 10-29-16) 6000 more math points earned on Khan Academy between 10-24-16 and the end of the day on 10-29-16!

7th:(Due 10-26-16) Bonnie says that her little sister ate 3 of the last 4 cookies. She ate 75% of the cookies! Your task: Visually show 75% five different ways.  

8th: (Due 10-26-16) Put positive slope, negative slope, zero slope, undefined slope in your foldable you started with the word rate. Hand in the foldable for Mr. A to check

Alg: (Due 10-28-16) Redux: Two page handout--factoring and graph stories

Math Week 10-24-16

7th: The seventh graders will focus on learning about percents. We will start with a review on the meaning of percent and how to represent percent in visual models and mathematically. We will then solve tasks finding percent of, percent off (sales), and percent on (tips and tax).

Here's a practice game: http://www.mathplayground.com/Decention/Decention.html

Here's a helpful video:

8th: We will begin to explore the concept of slope and how it is related to the idea of rate of change. Students will be able to identify positive, negative, zero, and undefined slopes in a linear graph. Students will be able to find the slope from a linear graph. 

Here's a helpful video:

Volleyballs Needed for Our Warriors--a message from Ms. Ip

FOLLOW THIS LINK TO HELP: https://www.donorschoose.org/project/volleyballs-needed-for-our-warriors/2286601/?challengeid=20665678

My students need volleyballs for practice so they can work on their basic skills in bumping, setting, and hitting.

My Students

This is the second year that our school has a volleyball team. Last year, we had nine players on our 7th/8th grade team, and we survived practice with only six balls during the whole season. Almost all of our players are new to the sport, but we have heard that a few of them have gone on to play volleyball in high school after graduation. Starting this second year, we have more forty students who tried out for the team, and currently about 24 players remain for both the 5th/6th team and 7th/8th team.

Our players work hard during practice and in the games.

They are positive and encouraging towards their teammates even though we only have a small gym to practice. Many students are new to the sport, but they have been making progress due to their hard work and dedication. If anything, we are a team that cares for each other and grow together.

Week 10-17-16

Hello!

Here is what will be going on in the classroom this week...

1. 7th Graders on Monday had a performance task where they looked at paintings from some of the worlds best artists and checked to see if the painting was proportional. The rest of the week will be focused on real world applications of proportions. The class will then shift our focus over to finding the constant in a table and graph. 

2. 8th Graders will be reviewing ratios and proportions, as well as looking at graphs and tables to find the constant or unit rate. This will set us up to learn about different types of graphs, slope and how to find a linear equation looking at the graph. 

PICTURE DAY!!

Reminder: picture day is tomorrow, 10-17-16!

Homework for the week of 10-17-16

ALL: (DUE: 10-22-16) 6000 more math points earned on Khan Academy between 10-17-16 and the end of the day on 10-22-16!

8th Grade: (DUE: 10-20-16) Worksheet on Graphs of Proportional Relationships 

7th Grade: (Due: 10-21-16) Picture Sort on Proportions vs Non-Proportions. Directions: Cut out the different charts, graphs, words and equations. Check and see if they are proportional, then glue them to the other sheet of paper that is split. One side says Proportional and the other Non-Proportional. Decide if that piece is proportional or not and glue it to the side you choose. 

ALG: Packet from Mr. Papczun due 10-21-16