Monday, August 31st
Link Crew Day: No class
Tuesday, September 2nd
Homework: Begin your letter to me and have your parent or guardians sign it.
Wednesday, September 2nd
Due Tomorrow: Letter to Mr. Walters
Today's Activity: Explaining and Legos
Homework: Finish the letter to me and have your parents or guardians sign it.
Thursday, September 3rd
Due Today: Letter to Mr. Walters
Today's Activity: Crossing the Rickety Bridge Problem
Homework: Finish the Crossing The Rickety Bridge Problem and have an excellent 4 day weekend.
Tuesday, September 8th
Due Today: Nothing
Today's Activity: Introduce Variables, Go over Syllabus, make progress on Crossing the Rickety Bridge Problem, sign up for Remind, share contact information in our groups
Homework: Finish the Crossing The Rickety Bridge Problem using the new clues we learned in class today.
Wednesday, September 9th
Due Today: Rickety Bridge Problem Progress
Today's Activity: Review Crossing The Rickety Bridge Problem and share hints, Scavenger hunt activity, variables and trucks
Homework: Finish the Crossing The Rickety Bridge Problem by completing a written description and picture. We will be discussing the solution tomorrow.
Thursday, September 10th
Due Today: Rickety Bridge Problem
Today's Activity: Share our solutions to the Crossing The Rickety Bridge Problem. Practice making sense of word problems and re-writing them with variables.
Homework: Finish the activity we did in class. Be prepared to ask for help on a part that's difficult or turn it in tomorrow.
Friday, September 11th
Due Today: nothing!
Today's Activity: Solve the doughnut problem
Homework: Solve the Don't trust Mr. Walters with Cookies Problem. Be ready to explain your thinking on Monday.
Monday, September 14th
Due Today: Cookies problem is now due tomorrow
Today's Activity: Reflect on the doughnut problem posters, develop math strategies for supporting your conclusion, use those skills to better understand the Don't trust Mr. Walters with Cookies problem and come back with a correct solution that you can prove tomorrow
Homework: one more shot at the Don't trust Mr. Walters with Cookies problem.
Tuesday, September 15th
Due Today: Cookies Problem!
Today's Activity: Go over the Don't trust Mr. Walters with Cookies problem. Use our skills to begin understanding how to solve for x.
Homework: Attempt the back side of the solve for x problems
Wednesday, September 16th
Due Today: Attempted the the back side of the solve for x problems
Today's Activity: Discuss the homework, introduce the distributive property, practice solving 2 and 3 step problems in a scavenger hunt.
Homework: None
Thursday, September 17th
Due Today: None
Today's Activity: Finish solving 2 and 3 step problems in a scavenger hunt. Tie together distributive property and solving for x, and introduce the Broken Eggs Problem
Homework: Look for patterns in the Broken Eggs Problem that you will share with your group tomorrow at the beginning of class.
Friday, September 18th
Due Today: Progress on Broken Eggs Problem
Today's Activity: Share clues about Broken Eggs Problem:
-Yesterday's Clues: the answer must be odd and divisible by 7
-Today's discovery: the answer must end it the digit "1"
Homework: Finish the practice test and practice problems. We're going over the answers first thing Monday.
Monday, September 21th
Due Today: Practice Test & Practice Problems
Today's Activity: Share clues about Broken Eggs Problem, Go over answers to practice test and practice problems, and do a "solving for x" review activity.
Homework: Study for tomorrow's test!
Tuesday, September 22th
Due Today: Nothing
Today's Activity: Take test, Share solutions to the Broken Eggs Problem, begin the new problem of the week: the 1-2-3-4 problem.
Homework: have at least 10 examples prepared for the 1-2-3-4 problem.
Wednesday, September 23th
Due Today: 10 examples for the 1-2-3-4 problem.
Today's Activity: Introduce graphing, graph our location from C207, make sense of graphs, and take a linear equations pretest.
Homework: have at least 15 examples prepared for the 1-2-3-4 problem.