Monday 5/22 - Friday 5/26

Today was our first day of California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) testing. We'll continue our state testing for the remainder of the week.

There will be no homework this week while we conduct state testing. Woo-hoo!!

Be sure to get a good night's sleep each night and eat a filling and nutritious breakfast each morning. We want you ready to show off and demonstrate everything you've learned this year!

Also, I will not be in this week, due to my being at the Division 3 National Track & Field Championships. I look forward to seeing you all again next Tuesday, best of luck to all of you!

Friday 5/19

Today, you either worked on MATHia or Desmos or making sure we are getting caught up on everything we needed for the end of the year. Come ready to ace the SBAC next week, you'll all do great!

Here is this weeks extra credit:

Wednesday 5/17 & Thursday 5/18

Today we worked on a review of our second semester material to prepare for both the SBAC next week and our Final the following week. Make sure to hold on to it to use as a study tool!

Monday 5/15 & Tuesday 5/16

Today we worked on a practice performance task in class.

Homework: Please be reviewing our past work to prepare for testing next week!

Friday 5/12

We worked on MATHia and Desmos today, remember Volume Module in MATHia is due tonight! If you didn't get it done in class finish it at home.

Here is this week's extra credit:

Thursday 5/11

Today we worked with the volume of spheres in Lesson 14.3, and noticed how all three formulas you have now learned are all related to one another!

Homework: Student Assignments 14.3

Wednesday 5/10

We continued our work with cylinders and volume today, along with introducing volume of cones using two worksheets separate from the book. Tomorrow we will look at spheres to finish up our work on volume.

Homework: Student Assignments 14.2

Tuesday 5/9

Today we began our look at volume by investigating the properties of cylinders in Lesson 14.1. We did the first two parts of the lesson today, and will continue with the rest of it tomorrow.

Homework: Textbook pages 752-754

Monday 5/8

Unfortunately I was out again today. Again, you all should have progressed in MATHia and Desmos, our Volume Module is due Friday!

Friday 5/5

I was out today, but you all should have progressed in MATHia and Desmos while I was gone.

Thursday 5/4

We took our Chapter 13 Test today. If you need more time to finish up we will do that tomorrow during class and at lunch.

Wednesday 5/3

We had a review day for the chapter 13 test tomorrow. Well done everyone, we did very well on it! Keep the sheet you were working on close to your chapter 13 packet, it's good review material.

Homework: Textbook page 737-739

Tuesday 5/2

We discussed operations with scientific notation today in Lesson 13.5.

You should now be able to add, subtract, multiply, and divide numbers written in scientific notation, just as you can numbers written as a integer, decimal, or fraction. It's all connected.

Homework: Student Assignments workbook 13.5

Monday 5/1

We had a Boss Battle today to review powers, along with work in MATHia and Desmos. Make sure we are getting work done quickly, we have a very busy end of the year coming up!

Homework: MATHia Practice

Friday 4/28

I wasn't here today due to some coaching business I had to attend to. While I was gone you worked on Mathia and Desmos with Mr. Zambrows.

Here is this week's extra credit, you will have until Thursday to complete it due to the late post.

Thursday 4/27

Today for our minimum day we finished our intro to scientific notation today with the last part of Lesson 13.4.

Homework: Student Assignments workbook 13.4

Wednesday 4/26

Today we learned how to use scientific notation to represent both really large and really small numbers in Lesson 13.4. We'll do some more work with scientific notation tomorrow.

Here's a great visualization of the kinds of things for which we'd need scientific notation to measure or count. Notice the base 10 power in the lower right corner?

Homework: Textbook pages 714-715 (#2-4) & page 717

Tuesday 4/25

Today we finished our look at exponent properties with a look at negative and zero exponents in Lesson 13.3.

This now completes all six of the exponent rules that you need to memorize and be able to use to solve and simplify a variety of problems. You'll find all six in the graphic on this post. Study, study, study; practice, practice, practice!

• Product Rule of Powers
• Quotient Rule of Powers
• Power to a Power Rule
• Negative Exponent Rule
• One Power Rule
• Zero Power Rule

Homework: Student Assignments workbook 13.3

Monday 4/24

We had a Boss Battle then worked in MATHia/Desmos for the rest of the period.

Homework: MATHia practice

Friday 4/21

We visited the math fair today. I hope you had a lot of fun looking at all the projects, and reflecting on just how much you've grown since last year. 

Here is this weeks Extra Credit: