September 13 and 14

Whew! What a week already! Due to block scheduling, I will only see each class once during the next two days.

Math 8: We are investigating the resources that accompany our new book, McDougal-Littell's Mathematics Course 3. You can find a link to McDougal's website on the right hand side of this page or you can visit www.classzone.com, choose math, choose middle school math, click on Missouri and then choose Middle School Mathematics Course 3. On this page, you will find parent resources, extra examples, practice problems and a link to the online textbook. This is especially important since students will only have access to in-class copies of the book. To access the online book for the first time, students must create a new account. The required student access code is 0618594027. All students should have recorded this in their agendas. After creating a new account, students will be able to login with just their username and password.

In class today we completed a textbook inventory which was a guided "scavenger hunt" through the book so that students became aware of the resources available to them. We also learned about histograms and frequency tables. Histograms look just like bar graphs except the bars have no spaces between them and they have intervals on the x-axis (horizontal axis). The homework is to complete Practice 1.1 worksheet for Friday. We will also grade the textbook inventory which should have been completed in class.

Integrated I: Today we reviewed integers (positive and negative numbers). In addition to this, we reviewed evaluating expressions for values...I think they are feeling a bit more challenged now!!! The homework is two-fold. Complete the skills bank worksheet, evens only as well as p. 67-70 1-12, 15-26, 28, 29, 33-34, 49-52.