Math Week 11-28-16 is DATA WEEK!

7th/8th: All students will be learning about data displays. We will look at how data is displayed and why we display it the way we do. We are having Data Week to get ready for Science Fair--knowing students will need to display and interpret data for their projects. Specifically this week, we will focus on three topics: misleading graphs, circle (pie) graphs, and scatter plots. Lots of helpful links and videos below.

Types of graphs from Skills You NEED: http://www.skillsyouneed.com/num/graphs-charts.html

Which graph to use and when from Turtle Diary:

Creating Circle Graphs from TeacherVision: https://www.teachervision.com/tv/printables/SISA00191_3.pdf 

Pie Graphs from Khan:

Misleading Graphs from Passy's World of Mathematics: http://passyworldofmathematics.com/misleading-graphs/ 

Homework Update!

ALL: (DUE: 12-3-16) 6000 more math points earned on Khan Academy between 11-27-16 and the end of the day on 12-3-16!

7th/8th:(Due 12-2-16) Handout--Survey Your Classmates about their pets. (Also Bonus!-- find a misleading graph in the media! Hand in a misleading graph you found in the media with a description of how and why it is misleading for 20 extra credit points!)

Alg: Mr. Papczun's week

UChicago tutoring program update

Hello Parents and Students,

The UChicago drop-in tutoring program for middle school math that runs from 3:45 to 4:45 will have its last day for this calendar year on Monday, December 5, 2016. The UChicago students will be on break. They will return in January and tutoring will resume on a date TBA.

Sincerely,

Mr. Albrecht

lalbrecht@cps.edu

Math Week 11-21-16

This is a short week. With the Thanksgiving Holiday, students will only be in school Monday and Tuesday. 7th graders will finish our thinking and learning on scale factor with tasks about how we use scale factor to understand and use maps. 8th graders will practice with translating real-world tasks into equations.

I hope everyone has a safe and happy Thanksgiving Holiday!

Homework Update for the Week 11-21-16

ALL: NO KHAN OVER THANKSGIVING!! Have a safe and happy holiday!

7th:(Due 11-28-16) 

PROJECT: Create a Scale Model

You should build a model, draw a map, or create a blueprint of something you are interested in. Make a model of a building you think is cool. Create a diorama of a scene from a book or movie you enjoy. Make a map the neighborhood, or your walk to school. Create a blueprint of your bedroom. Use grid paper, legos, or whatever creative idea you choose. EXAMPLES ON MR. A’s BLOG.

You will need to determine and show the scale factor between the actual thing you model and the model you create and demonstrate an understanding through a written description of how you determined the size of objects or drawings in your model based on the actual thing you are modelling.

Please talk to Mr. A before Thursday if you do not understand any part of this project!

Rubric:

	Beginning-1	Developing-2	Proficient-3	Advanced-4
Design and Construction	Design and construction are incomplete.	Scale model shows evidence of hasty construction.	Scale Model shows evidence of careful craftsmanship to scale.	Scale Model shows evidence of very careful craftsmanship and the design is to scale and detailed.
Scale Understanding	Does not know how to find scale to construct a model.	Knows how to find scale of a model but is unable to put it to use.	Knows how to find scale of a model and puts it to use.	Knows how to find scale of a model and puts it to use. Describes the process of finding scale to construct the model.

Examples:

Video Help: 

8th: None!

Alg: 7th graders need to complete the scale model project above. 8th grade students will do handout: Make a Box-and-Whisker Plot

Math Week 11-14-16

7th: Students continue to use similar figures and proportionality to find indirect measures. We also learn how to use the idea of similar figures to find scale factor. The students will then apply an understanding of scale factor to create scale drawing and models. 

Video help from Virtual Nerd here.

8th: Students use the idea of a balance to solve linear equation in one variable. Solid resource to develop student thinking around this idea is here.

Homework Update for week of 11-14-16

ALL: (DUE: 11-19-16) 6000 more math points earned on Khan Academy between 11-13-16 and the end of the day on 11-19-16!

7th:(Due 11-28-16) 

PROJECT: Create a Scale Model

You should build a model, draw a map, or create a blueprint of something you are interested in. Make a model of a building you think is cool. Create a diorama of a scene from a book or movie you enjoy. Make a map the neighborhood, or your walk to school. Create a blueprint of your bedroom. Use grid paper, legos, or whatever creative idea you choose. EXAMPLES ON MR. A’s BLOG.

You will need to determine and show the scale factor between the actual thing you model and the model you create and demonstrate an understanding through a written description of how you determined the size of objects or drawings in your model based on the actual thing you are modelling.

Please talk to Mr. A before Thursday if you do not understand any part of this project!

Rubric:

	Beginning-1	Developing-2	Proficient-3	Advanced-4
Design and Construction	Design and construction are incomplete.	Scale model shows evidence of hasty construction.	Scale Model shows evidence of careful craftsmanship to scale.	Scale Model shows evidence of very careful craftsmanship and the design is to scale and detailed.
Scale Understanding	Does not know how to find scale to construct a model.	Knows how to find scale of a model but is unable to put it to use.	Knows how to find scale of a model and puts it to use.	Knows how to find scale of a model and puts it to use. Describes the process of finding scale to construct the model.

Examples:

Video Help: 

8th: (Due 11-18-16)-- Handout: Scale Problems (balancing equations)

Alg: See Mr. Papczun for homework

7th/8th grade survey link for 11-7-16

https://goo.gl/forms/MYX1SIwHDqUZVbV53 

Report Card pick-up and Parent-Teacher Conferences on 11-9-16

Hello all!

No school for students on Wednesday this week. Seventh and eighth grade teachers will meet with parents in the cafeteria from 11:45 to 6:00. 

Homework Update!

ALL: (DUE: 11-5-16) 6000 more math points earned on Khan Academy between 11-6-16 and the end of the day on 11-12-16!

7th:(Due 11-10-16) 

Foldable for the vocabulary:
1. Congruent
2. Similar
3. corresponding sides
4. corresponding angles
5. Similar figures
6. Scale factor

Example:

8th: (Due 11-10-16) 

Create an anchor chart like Mr. A would do in class that explains and models the distributive property

Alg: (Due 11-10-16)
Handout: Rule of Four Handout

Math Week 11-7-16

7th: This week we continue to use proportional thinking and reasoning by applying it to similar figures. We will define the vocabulary of similar figures and then use the vocabulary and similar relationships to solve tasks. We will end this week indirectly measuring the height of the big cottonwood tree in Ray's east field!

Video help: check this link from the Virtual Nerd! LINK!

8th: We will continue with another building block for students to learn about the language of algebra and how we use that language to understand the world through relationships and patterns. We specifically focus on the distributive property. Over the next few months we will continue to learn how these blocks and others like them come together as a mathematics literacy that helps us make meaning of our world. 

Video help: 

7th grade screencast for Math Class 11-3-16