Thursday, October 6, 2011

Week of 10/10

I hope everyone has a wonderful 4 day weekend. This is a very exciting weekend for me, my sister is getting married!

When the students come back to school Wednesday 10/12 they have a short but busy week. Course 2 students will be turning in their "Are you an average 7th grader?" project at the start of classes on Wednesday. They have had a lot of in class time to work in it and everyone should be ready to turn it in. After that we will be starting Chapter 4. This week we will be looking into prime factorization and greatest common factor to prep for fractions.

Pre-Algebra students will have a quiz over fraction operations on Wednesday. I have made copies of extra practice problems to help them prepare for this. The sections covered will be 3-1 to 3-5. We will then move on to solving equations with rational numbers. The students are getting more practice with solving equations and hopefully by the end of this chapter they will all be pros at it!