Revision Details

Hi guys, as you prepare for your exams that will start next week, please take into consideration these tips I found on www.how-to-study.com.

• Review the schoolwork over the weekend
• Try not to do too much at once
• Plan specific times for studying
• Set specific goals(what topic will I do in this study session)
• Try to work on topics that are most challenging to you (www.Khanacademy.com, www.IXL.com)
• Call on an expert when you get stuck (parents, older brothers and sisters, classmates, teachers)

Please review these pointers while you use the study guides provided to prepare for your exams.

Study Guides

Hi guys. It has been a while but you are never far from my thoughts nor my plans.

The study guides are ready and they should not sit in your bookbags. They should be used as instructed every single day of the week.

Grade six you are doing very well with your fractions but you will do much better if you work on the worksheets that were given. In addition, please visit multiplication.com to sharpen your multiplication skill. I have come across some fun games on this site so go ahead and have fun doing math.
I also stumbled upon a few fraction games that you could play with your family on math-play.com

Grade seven please work on the formula review sheets that were given, especially the ones you are least familiar with. See you in the computer lab tomorrow.

Grade eight, I enjoyed the presentations on permutation and combination that were done today. David has a few pics that he would like to upload. We might be able to do that over the weekend. Well...no class tomorrow....have fun with your study guides and do enjoy your trip.

Happy Thanksgiving week:-)

Hi guys, I hope you are enjoying your thanksgiving week and you are truly giving thanks for all the  wonderful gifts that you have been blessed with.

Here is a quick reminder to let you know that you do have your math packages that you have to turn in when you return to school on Monday the 28th of November.
Grade 8 I think you are almost done with yours, grade seven, start yours now! and grade six I hope you are still excited about doing yours today as the day you were when you got them. Please guys do not wait until the days aftyer thanksgiving to do them. You will not have enough time then to really concentrate on the task at hand.

I will drop in again to remind you. In addition, I hope grades seven and eight are still working from Khan academy .org. I will be able to see what you have done.


Happy Thanksgiving.

Students Homework

8th Grade Homework: : Do the Frequency Tables Package
7th Grade Homework: Do the Surface Area Worksheet
6th Grade: Get test Signed
~Ms. Campbell : P

A Quick Reminder

Be reminded that we have a lot of work to cover this week.
Grade six. You will have a test on Monday November 7th. Please go over FACTORS AND INDICES, WRITING NUMBERS AS PRODUCT OF PRIME FACTORS, YOUR VOCABULARY ASSOCIATED WITH NUMBER THEORY, USING THE ORDER OF OPERATION TO EVALUATE NUMERICAL EXPRESSIONS AND WRITING NUMBERS IN SCIENTIFIC NOTATION.
Cool websites to practice from:

• IXL.com
• math-play.com
• multiplication.com

Grade Seven. Nets and Properties of solids. Continue to look at the solids that were listed on the board. You should be able to identify their nets, the shape of their faces, the number of edges, vertices and faces of each. Please visit learner.org/interactives/geometry/3d for some cool visuals and related games.

Grade eight: I look forward to continue working on Special Right Triangles with you. Please complete the assignent from Tuesday's class.

Have a great evening.

Welcome back

Just a couple weeks to go and we will be staring at thanksgiving week, use your time wisely. Happy Halloween guys, get dressed in your costumes and get right to the assignments after you go trick or treating. Do not have too many candies.



Grade eight, look at special right triangles as you prepare for tomorrows class.



Grade six: Please write an explanation for scientific notation and complete the research paper for Friday's class. The other worksheet should come in with you on Wednesday. I had a great class with you and your behavior and participation was perfect.

See you Wednesday.

Assignment for the long weekend

Grade seven, while you are enjoying your Friday off from school, do take some time to visit IXL.com to practice exercises from grade 7 consumer math; this is found under percent application. The questions relating to tax, tips, commissions and discounts will keep your skills sharp.

In addition, please complete, in your composition books, problems 24-33 from page 493 of your text.

You do not need to write the questions out but you do need to properly number your questions and show all working for each response. Simply putting an answer on the page will not be sufficient. Responses should be presented in the same manner in which they were done on the board in class.

Grade eight; please complete the worksheet you are currently working on on multiplication and division of radicals. Remember to rationalize the denominators if they are irrational.

Grade six; work on writing numbers as product of their prime factors, writing numbers as powers and evaluating numerical expressions by using the order of operations. All of these concepts are on the worksheet that you were given to complete over the weekend.

Guys do remember to take a few minutes each day to visit IXL.com so that you can practice to get better.

See you on Monday.

Home Work Due Dates

Hi Guys,
Grade Eight, please complete the radical sheets and let me have them on Thursday afternoon before you leave.

Grade Seven, continue to work on using the Simple Interest formula to solve for Rate, Time and Principal. Bring your revised assignments to class on Wednesday.

Grade six, take to class the completed worksheet that had you evaluating numbers that are written in exponential form.

Work hard guys:-)

Practice makes Perfect

Hi everyone, the homework schedule is as follows:
Grade six: worksheet on writing numbers in index form
Grade seven: Complete worksheet on Simple interest
Grade eight: Complete the worksheet on the product and quotient rules of radicals

If you haven't already done it... Go do it now.

Hi guys just a quick reminder to let you know that you do have home work to turn in come Monday and Tuesday.


Monday:
Grade eight, the completed systems of inequalities packages should be completed for Monday's class.
Grade six, don't forget to take in your prime factorization worksheet.

Tuesday:
Grade seven...Simple Interest information and brochures please.

Do enjoy the rest of your weekend and come ready to go on Monday.

Way to Go Guys

Grade seven please remember to complete your SPORTS STUFF ON SALE worksheets, have them signed and return to class tomorrow. Be careful when calculating discounts...tip: change your percents to decimals then multiply. Congratulations to Timmie, James C and Jonathan H.. please share the knopwledge.


Grade six:Please tighten up on your multiplication facts as wellmas division. Complete your DIVIDE THE SAVINGS worksheet for your assignment this afternoon. Have the assignment signed before you turn them in. In addition, I want you to visit IXL.com and spend some time working on rules of divisibility.

We are back on spot

Sorry guys for being out sooo long. You are all doing a wonderful job of keeping up with your assignments... both in and out of the classroom and that's all I could ever ask for....in addition to practicing and studying hard.

Grade eight please remember to pay close attention to graphing linear inequalities. You need to know which section of your graph will be shaded and whether or not your represention of the inequality will demand that you have a broken or an unbroken line segment. Use your knowledge of graphing linear equations to help you identify the y-intercepts as well as your slopes. I look forward to seeing your completed assignments on Thursday

Grade Seven, in Wednesday's class we will be doing further work with tax and tip. The HW worksheet you are completing on discounts will help you tremendously when you start adding up these bills. Keep working hard and never give up.By the way, I enjoyed your enthusiasm in todays class...you really did a wonderful job with your calculations.

So much work...so little time!

Guys, make sure that you are managing your time well. Too little effort and time is being spent on completing your projects well.

Grade Six..please complete your foldables and take them to me by Wednesday's class. In addition, you need to have ready on Wednesday the problems that were given to you on the worksheet. Please be reminded that you are using the distributive property to solve these questions.


Grade Eight... I have come across some beautifully made math lectures by Julie Harland. Please take some time to browse through her work at yourmathgal.com. You will be glad you did.


Grade Seven, Im looking forward to seeing you tomorrow. Please bring your best math brains along with your homework to class  :-)

Keeping up?

Hi guys, are you keeping up?
Guys, you should be buckling down to some very serious work. Before you know it, the midsemester exams will be rolling around and by then the workload will be much greater. Pace yourselves well and seek help when you do not understand a particular concept. Remember you get out of this class what you put in, therefore let us put in the hard work to ensure success.


Grade Eight, you are doing a wonderful job of doing what is required...keep up the hard work(practice as much as you can).
Thank you David for your assistance with class today. Those videos, especially "Teach me how to factor", were awesome. The boys clearly enjoyed them.
Remember to complete your worksheet for Wednesday's class.

Grade Seven...You will be going to the NASHER museum of Art at Duke University tomorrow, come prepared to do a lot of math in addition you have a make up quiz on Friday. Do all assignments and be ready to share your findings with each other.

Grade Six, you did an outstanding job on your first major assignment...keep working hard. Remember to learn your multiplication facts up to your twelve times table for this week's classes.

To each of you remember  "HARD WORK BRINGS TRUE JOY"
This was the motto of the High School I attended back home, maybe we could make it ours...that's if you do not already have one.

Welcome back from your extended weekend Guys

Assignment for grade 7:
Continue working on proportional reasoning.
Complete work on maps and scale drawings. Make sure to take accurate measurement of distances between specified places. Use the given scale to help set up your proportion then use cross multiplication to solve for missing distances.

Assignment for grade 8:
Please complete exercise32-34 and 41-42 on page 736 0f yout text

All  grades:
Remember to prepare for your upcoming quizzes on Friday the 9th of September.

Home work line up

Grade 6:
Please take to class on Wednesday the information needed to complete the poster board for your assignment/project.

Grade 7:
Complete the give problems relating to proportional reasoning(exercise5-5). This is due in Wednesday the 31st. August class.


Grade 8:
Literal Equations and Formulas: Change the subject to the letters in bracket in the given equations. This is due in Thursday the 1st. September class.

Assignment Schedule for students

Grade 6:
Complete the worksheets given on rounding whole numbers and decimals. Even though you do not have a class on Tuesday, that evening's assignment should be completed in homework help and should be returned on Wednesday.
Your group project on numbers is due on Thursday

Grade 7:
If you have not done so by now, please complete the questions on sharing a given quantity in proportional parts. Please do not hand in any "short hand" work, show steps in solving each problem.

Grade 8:
We have just started wok on Formulae but I am impressed with how receptive you are to the concept. Continue working on the problems you started in class and we will further discuss areas of concern when you return.

Grade 7 assignment due Aug. 26th

Catch up on your Math guys!

Grade 6 assignment due Aug 25th
Please continue looking at the extended place value chart on page 121 of your text, recognize how decimals are written and read. Do the five practice exercises given from the following page. We will further discuss this topic in class tomorrow. Please come to class with relevant questions.


Grade 7 assignment due Aug. 26th

Assignment schedule

Welcome students and parents to the new school year.

I am delighted to be guiding you 7^th and 8^th graders through another year and am especially excited to be working with my new students.

6^th graders your first project  WHAT IS SO SPECIAL ABOUT NUMBERS? is due on the on 1st of September. I will be checking on your progress on a daily basis, therefore, please take to class the data that your groups have collected.

Assignments:

August 22, 2011: Complete worksheet (Write the names for the numbers given) Due Wed. 25^th. Aug.

7^Th graders

Please look over and get familiar with the vocabulary associated with Ratio. Students who need assistance with writing equivalent fractions as well as simplification of fractions could visit IXL.com or cool math.com to do some of the exercises that are provided. Do not have access to the internet? Please don’t be afraid to utilize your teacher, your text or your friends. You will need these skills to work with Ratio and Proportion.

Assignments:

August 22, 2011: From Text, page 402 # 46 – 55. Due Wed. 25^th Aug.

8th graders

Am I excited to see you working so hard? Of course I am. Please keep bringing it, you will only get better…I promise you.

Continue working on your algebra work-sheet. This assignment is due on Thursday 26^th August. Those of you who are already finished with this assignment please look at writing and solving inequalities in one variable. Please be careful with the vocabulary associated with a particular inequality sign. This can be found on page 148 of your text.

Please work hard at your specific task.