End Of 7th Grade Survey

Every student must complete the End of Year Survey. Click here.

Note taken on 5/25/11.

Note taken on 5/25/11.

Sem 2. Week 6 Extension Assignments

Once you have earned more than 20 points the extra credit points are only worth half their original value.

"Fibonacci Part 2" math reading - read, discuss with family, 1 paragraph reflection explaining, what was most interesting to you about the article (5 pts.)

Skills: Finding the Point of Intersection (5 pts)
Popsicle Picking (5 pts)
Skill: Solving Linear Equations (5 pts)
Is There Room for All These Gifts? (10 pts)
Friendly Fire Fighters (5 points)

Sem. 2 Week 5 Extension Assignments

Once you have earned more than 20 points the extra credit points are only worth half their original value.

Skills: Exploring Equality (5 pts)
Zooming Zucchini Problem (5 pts)
Who Runs Faster? (10 pts)
Balancing Act Problem (5 points)

Extension Assignments Week 4, Sem. 2 (Feb 14 - Feb 18)

Once you have earned more than 20 points the extra credit points are only worth half their original value.

"The Code Bar Check"math reading - read, discuss with family, 1 paragraph reflection explaining, what was most interesting to you about the article (5 pts.)

Skills: Linear Functions, Graphs and Tables (5 pts)
EZ Grow (5 pts)
Additional Practice (10 pts)
How Steep Can a Ramp Be? (10 pts)
Gassing Up (5 points)

Unit 5: Moving Straight Ahead: Linear Relationships

The next unit in your child’s mathematics class this year is Moving Straight Ahead: Linear Relationships. In this unit, students are developing skills in areas that are traditionally known as algebra. This unit introduces them to situations that can be modeled with linear functions and graphed with straight lines.

UNIT GOALS

The primary goal of this unit is to develop understanding of linear relationships or linear functions. Students learn to recognize linear functions by the constant rate of change between two variables in a verbal context, table, graph, and equation.

Students identify, represent, and interpret linear relationships. They solve linear equations and write equations for lines. These last two ideas will be revisited with more complexities in later units—in particular, the Thinking with Mathematical Models and Say It with Symbols units.

Investigation 1: Running Rates

• Notebook (Sem 2, Week 3 and part of Week 4)
• ACE Questions

Investigation 2: Exploring Linear Functions with Graphs and Tables

• Notebook (Sem 2, Week 4)
• ACE Questions

Investigation 3: Solving Equations

• Notebook (Sem 2, Week 5)
• ACE Questions

Investigation 3 continued: Solving Equations

• Notebook (Sem 2, Week 6)
• ACE Questions

Extension Assignments Sem 2. Week 3 (Feb. 07 - Feb. 11)

Once you have earned more than 20 points the extra credit points are only worth half their original value.

• "Fibonacci's 3 Wishes" math reading - read, discuss with family, 1 paragraph reflection explaining, what was most interesting to you about the article (5 pts.)
• Skills: Linear Relationships (5 pts)
• TV Watching Time (5 pts)
• Additional Practice (10 pts)
• Will Women Ever Make as Much Money as Men? (10 pts)
• Tadpoles and Minnows (5 points)

Food Pyramid Resources

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Semester One Reflection

1. In one paragraph, briefly describe your project. What did you do? What did you share at your exhibition? Why did you choose to share this?

Answer in complete sentences:

2a. What went well with respect to the planning phase of your project?

(Consider how well you worked with your partner, how the creation process went, how you decided on your project.)

2b. What went well with respect to the actual exhibition?

(Did you have enough information to share? Were you knowledgeable about your topic? Was what you created interesting to look at and did it encourage visitors to stop and learn more? Did you speak clearly?)

3a. What could be improved with respect to your planning process?

(Consider how well you worked with your partner, how the creation process went, how you decided on your project.)

3b. What could be improved with respect to the your exhibition?

(Did you have enough information to share? Were you knowledgeable about your topic? Was what you created interesting to look at and did it encourage visitors to stop and learn more? Did you speak clearly?)

4. Considering how much freedom you had in this project (freedom to choose your topic, freedom to choose how you would present your topic, freedom to use your time how you see fit and set your own deadlines) how do you think it all went? Was this process difficult? Was it hard not to have someone telling you specifically what to do? Did you find yourself wasting time or using your time well? Does what you created represent your best work? Do you think the audience was impressed with what our class created?

Extension Assignments Week 15 (Jan. 11 - Jan. 15)

Once you have earned more than 20 points the extra credit points are only worth half their original value.

• "Pythagoras" math reading - read, discuss with family, 1 paragraph reflection explaining, what was most interesting to you about the article (5 pts.)
• Skills: Writing Ratios (3 pts)
• Skills: Ratios and Fractions (5 pts)
• Summing Odds Problem (5 pts)
• Pump, Pump, Pump Problem (5pts)
• Additional Practice for Investigation 1 Comparing and Scaling (10 points)

Unit 3: Comparing and Scaling: Ratio, Proportion and Percent

The next unit in your child’s mathematics class this year is Comparing and Scaling: Ratio, Proportion, and Percent. Students look at problems involving many situations and learn to make comparisons using ratios, fractions, percents, and rates.

UNIT GOALS

One goal of this unit is to develop students’ abilities to make useful comparisons of quantitative information using ratios, fractions, decimals, rates, unit rates, and percents. A second goal is to have students learn to use quantitative comparison information to make larger or smaller scale models.

Students should also learn different ways to reason in proportional situations and to recognize when such reasoning is appropriate.List of Class Readings/Resources (organized by date)

Investigation 1: Making Comparisons

• Notebook
• ACE Questions
• Text 1.1 (Monday 1/10)
• Text 1.2 (Tuesday 1/11)
• Text 1.3 (Friday 1/15)

Investigation 2: Comparing Ratios, Percents and Fractions

• Notebook (Sem 2, Week 1)
• ACE Questions

Investigation 3: Comparing and Scaling Rates

• Notebook (Sem 2, Week 2)
• ACE Questions