12/17 Number Sense Quiz; Lessons 4.2.1/4.2.2 Tidy-up

1.  Number Sense Quiz

2.  Tidy up Lessons 4.2.1 and 4.2.2

• Focus questions:
• How can you use a table to decide if a relationship is proportional?
• How can you use a graph to decide if a relationship is proportional?
• 4 graphs side by side with their tables underneath
• 3 relationships are proportional, 1 is not.  Can you find the one that is not proportional?  What makes it different from the rest?  Explain what is different about the graph.  Explain what is different about the table.
• Math Notes:  Proportions in tables and graphs

3.  Now you try:  Problems 37 through 39 in teams (page 204)

No Homework tonight!

12/16 Prepare for Number Sense Quiz

1.  Grab a Number Sense practice packet from the guest teacher.  This will help you prepare for the Number Sense quiz tomorrow.

You may work quietly with a partner at your table group, but you may not move around the classroom.

Try at least 5 problems on every page!  Do not spend the entire period working on one page.  Practice each of the skills multiple times

Use a calculator only to check your answers!


2.  If you finish the practice packet early, grab a computer and continue working on your Ch. 5 ILP

Homework:  Continue practicing for the quiz tomorrow

12/15 Lesson 4.2.2

1.  Warm-up:  Examine the graphs from Lesson 4.2.1  Copy the T-chart (on side whiteboard) in your notebook and discuss with your team:  What similarities and differences do you note between the two graphs?

2.  Lesson 4.2.2 Proportional Relationships with Tables and Graphs

• Objective:  I will be able to recognize a proportional relationship by looking at either a table or a graph
• Problem 34: Graph Penny Tower data by hand
• Problem 35: Graph using Desmos.  Answer questions on the half-sheet as a team.  Be prepared to share out your team's answers.
• Whole class discussion:
• How can you use a table to decide whether a relationship is proportional?
• How can you use a graph to decide whether a relationship is proportional?

3.  Exit ticket- Did you meet the objective?

• Problems 37 and 38

Homework:  4.2.2 R/P (answers in GC) 

12/14 Lesson 4.2.1 Recognizing Proportional Relationships

1.  Warm-up:  Number Sense problems (on side whiteboard)

2.  Announcements:

• Chapter 4 ILP, due last Monday, is in the grade book.  Too many zeros and incomplete.
• Chapter 5 ILP due Friday 1/8.  Paper copies available
• Number Sense quiz on Thursday.  It will be very similar to our Chapter 3 Test

3.  Lesson 4.2.1 Recognizing Proportional Relationships

• Review from Friday:  Gustavo's College Fund
• Problems 22 through 24 as team/whole class discussion
• Problem 25 in teams.  Copy the ratio table into your notebook.
• Problem 26 in teams.  Make a T-chart (like the one on the side whiteboard) to examine the similarities and differences.

Homework:  Lesson 4.2.1 R/P (answers in GC)

Finish Lesson 4.1.2, Start Lesson 4.2.1 Recognizing Proportional Relationships

1.  Warm-up:

Investigate each pair of figures.  Are the pair of figures similar?  How do you know?

2.  Add percent practice and similar figures (dot paper) to CPM Notebooks

Period 1:  Take the Chapter 5 pre-assessment in Google Classroom (if you haven't already)

While waiting for everyone to finish, you may work on your ILP.  I have paper copies for people who won't have internet access over the break.

Period 2:  Finish the scale drawing from yesterday (10 minute timer)

3.  Finish Lesson 4.1.2.  Do problem #13 in teams (5 minute timer)

4.  Start Lesson 4.2.1 Recognizing Proportional Relationships

• Problems 21 through 23 as team/whole class discussion

Homework:  Lesson 4.2.1 R/P due Tuesday

12/10 Lesson 4.1.2 Creating a Scale Drawing

1.  Warm-up:

a)  Is the copy an enlargement or reduction of the original?

b)  Examine 3 pairs of corresponding sides.  What is the ratio of their length? ^Copy/_Original

c)  Using your answer from part b, state the scale factor.

2.  Lesson 4.1.2 Creating a Scale Drawing (page 192)

• Objectives:
• I will create a scale drawing given a specific set of actual measurements
• I will use scale drawings to solve problems
• Problem 12 in teams (objective #1)
• Choose a scale
• Draw the lot first
• Use a ruler!
• Problem 13 in teams (objective #2)
• Dojo Challenge:  Problem 15

Homework:  Lesson 4.1.2 R/P (answers in GC)

12/9 Lesson 4.1.1 Similar Figures

1.  Warm-up:  Convert the following percents into decimals

a)  50%      b)  300%    c)  142%     d)  7.5%   


2.  Lesson 4.1.1 Similar Figures (page 188)

• Objective:  I will identify corresponding sides of similar figures and compare their ratios
• Similar figures video.
• Vocabulary building:
• Enlargement
• Reduction
• Scale Factor
• Corresponding Sides
• Problem #1 as whole class
• Problem #2-4 in teams

3.  Closure:  How do you identify similar figures?  What can you conclude about two figures if you know they are similar?  (You may want to read problem #4 to help you with these questions)

Homework:  4.1.1 R/P (answers in GC)

12/8 ILP Day

1.  Warm-up:  Diamond problem (on side whiteboard)

2.  Test Corrections available in the back of the classroom on Table 5.  Complete the problems to earn back points from our Chapter 3 test.  Available to those students who earned less than 10 points.

3.  Assign New ILP: Preparing for Chapter 5

Period 1 instructions:  Go to Google Classroom and take the Chapter 5 Pre-assessment

Log-on to your computer and check your email.  You have received your new ILP.  Because we were unable to do the pre-assessment yesterday, you will just need to choose the activities you would like to work on today.

Period 2 instructions:  Log-on to your computer and check your email.  You have received your new ILP based on your pre-assessment.

• Highlight any "Not Yet..." activities that you need to complete
• Highlight "Rocked It!" activities that you will complete
• You must highlight a total of 3 activities
• ILP is due 1/7/16, the Friday we return from break

4.  Work on your ILP

12/7 Return Chapter 3 Tests, Begin Lesson 4.1.1

1.  Warm-up: Diamond problem

2.  Weekly Privilege Prize

3.  Change seats!  Log on to new computers.  Create a team high five!

4.  Pass back Tests

• Feedback
• Re-collect District Common Assessments

5.  Chapter 5 pre-assessment (in Google Classroom)

6.  Time permitting: % Conversion.  Glue into notebooks

Homework:  Finish Percent to decimal conversion worksheet.

12/4 Chapter 3 Test

After you have finished the test, turn it face down on your desk and:

• Finish your ILP
• Read silently
• Play one of these math games.
• Try a logic puzzle from this website (click the link)

ILP is due on Monday

12/3 Chapter 3 Practice

1.  Warm-up:  Diamond problems on side whiteboard

2.  Continue Chapter 3 Practice

Tonight's homework:  Finish Chapter 3 Closure #131, 135-137.  Correct the answers using the table at the end of the Closure section.  Use the table to practice problems that you have not yet mastered.

ILP due date moved to Monday, 12/7

12/2 Chapter 3 Review and Practice

1.  No warm-up. Grab your computer, log on, and be ready to review and practice!

2.  Chapter 3 Review and Practice

• Chapter 3 "note card"
• As you work today, write down strategies and examples for the different types of problems you solve
• You will be able to use your note card on the test!
• Chapter 3 Review Problems
• Parts a) and b) Individually
• assess your understanding
• Parts c) and d) Sage and Scribe
• Parts e) and f)  Free choice (individual or partner)
• Check your answers in Google Classroom

Homework: Chapter 3 Closure problems #131, 135-137
                  ILP is due on Friday 12/4 (paper copies available)

12/1 Lesson 3.3.3 Properties of Arithmetic

1.  Warm-up (on side whiteboard):  Use the Commutative Property to strategically re-arrange the expressions. Most can be solved using mental math!

2.  Finish Lesson 3.3.3 Properties of Arithmetic

• Objective:  I will strategically use Properties of Arithmetic to rewrite expressions into simpler, easy to solve, problems.
• Problem 114 in teams. Stoplight problem!
• Mini-lesson: Rewriting subtraction as addition to make problem-solving more efficient
• Problem 118 in teams. This is great practice for the test!  When team has consensus, check using Top Secret: Answer Key

Homework: Lesson 3.3.3 R/P  #125-129