Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Surface area of prisms

Today, please start with the following Khan activities. First, go to Khan and sign in, then open a new tab or window to click on the following links, they will help you practice and work towards mastery of our current skills.
Do them in order and make sure you ask questions if you are stuck or not sure how to complete them.

The term ends today, so we'll make sure to do a level up on either Wednesday or Thursday.

Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Geometric Shapes and Isometric Drawings

Today we are looking more at the Geometry standard, specifically nets and shapes.

First check out this game to get ready for today's topic:

http://www.mathplayground.com/cube_perspective.html

Let's look at what you're supposed to have a working knowledge of before we start.  You should be able to find the area of rectangles and triangles using a formula.  You should also be able to find them using whole numbers and fractional or decimal numbers.



Isometric Drawing Video


We'll practice drawing some of these today using blocks from the front table.


http://www.freeqbert.org/

Thursday, March 12, 2015

Thursday Math fun

Here are some review problems at different levels that should provide you a great opportunity to learn and show off what you already know.

https://docs.google.com/a/msd.k12.wi.us/forms/d/1ucfD9vuwS1CKstdcct5YEO2-a7exz-e_rs5CyXegxbE/viewform?usp=send_form

Enjoy the challenge!

Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Tuesday, Multiplication of Fractions review

Greetings, only a few days away from spring break.  We'll be starting our next chapter when we come back, so it's a great time to review and re-learn some skills that we did earlier.

Today:

1. RPJ page 34, rip it out and turn it in to the basket when you have completed it.  Here's something that might help:


2. Complete at least 15 minutes of www.khanacademy.org your goal is to master as many skills as possible, so do the mastery challenges when you can!

3. Complete www.xtramath.org for the day, let me know if you finish the whole program.

4. If you had some struggles on your inequalities portion of the assessment, watch this video to help you see another perspective of another teacher-type person showing it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX532aavhVo