Ms. Pydyn / Math

week of 5/7 - 5/11

This week we completed various activities:

Monday - Quiz on solving equations.  All students were allowed to use their notes and textbooks.

Tuesday/Wednesday:  Students were given 15-20 minutes to make any corrections or finish their quiz. Then with the exception of 1st and 3rd period all students worked on a Creating Equations

Thursday/Friday:  Students explored various other number systems (Heiroglyphics, Roman, Greek, Aztec and Mayan).  If you were absent here are the handouts:  Download Exploring ancient number systems

FINALLY:  ALL MATH TEXTBOOKS ARE DUE MONDAY 5/14 - PLEASE BRING YOUR TEXTBOOK TO MY ROOM - 426.

Week of 4/30 - 5/4

Testing is over!!!!

This week is finalizing several projects and activities:

Monday - All students took a quiz on using the calculator.  The quiz gave students certain directions and then they had to record their results.

Tuesday/Wednesday:  with the exception of 1st and 3rd period students started a project of creating a Tessellation last week.  They will finish the project and we will be doing some "house cleaning"

Thursday/Friday: - students will be doing an activity with the graphing calculator and learn to make box plots and histograms. Here are the handouts - if you were not in class then you can do the activity but you will have to do it by hand.  Download Migraines_Histograms; Download Migraines_BoxPlots

ATTN: YOU MAY BRING IN YOUR MATH TEXTBOOK ON MONDAY!!!!!!

week of 4/16 - 4/20

Monday - since this is a new six weeks all students were given a grade report and their STAAR review packet which were to be signed by parents and returned next class period and the homework assignment of Solving Equations by adding and subtracting Download Solving Equations by adding or subtracting

Tuesday/Wednesday - we work on making scatter plots using graphing calculators and then solving equations by multiplication or division. Download Solving Equations by multiplying or dividing

Thursday/Friday - we worked today on solving equations that require doing more than one step.  Remember that to solve an equation your first step is to isolate the variable to one side of the equation and then the next step is do what you need to do to have the coefficient be a one. Download Using Several Transformations

Week of 4/10 - 4/13

As stated earlier there are no TOC - reminder that the 5th six weeks ends this Friday. Also since this is a 4 day week we are on an ABAB schedule

Monday/Tuesday -  we went over the handout on Multiplyiing and Powers of Monomials then students were given all the handouts and problems that we had on polynomials and used them for a short quiz.  We then finished up with a short review on several of the properties: Closure, Commutative, Associative, Identity, Zero, Distributive and Transitive. (examples and explanation of these are on page 829 in the textbook).  The homework assignment is page 829 # 1- 26

Wednesday/Thursday - Today we worked on Multiplying Polynomials by Monomials  Download Multiplying Polynomials by Monomials

 

Week of 4/2 - 4/5

There is no Table of Contents - homework is due on the next class day.

Monday/Tuesday - Adding and Subtracting Polynomials  Download Adding and Subtracting Polynomial handout

Wednesday/Thursday - Multiplying and Powers of Monomials:  Download Multiplying and Powers of Monomials

Week of 3/26 - 3/30

This is STAAR Week!! - Students took the Math and Reading STAAR for 8th grade on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Thursday / Friday: Since we have taken the STAAR we will now begin to get the students ready for high school - Algebra I.  We will be introducing Algebra concepts as well as how to use the graphing calculator.  We are starting by working with exponents and polynomials.  Attached is the handouts that they will be working on Thursday/Friday - Download Intro to Polynomials

REMINDER:  Next week is a 4 day week so we will have an ABAB schedule!!!

Week of 3/5 - 3/9

Here is this weeks TOC Download TOC_2011_2012_week_5.3

Week of 2/27 - 3/2

It was a short week due to MOY testing but here is the Table of Contents for this week:

Download TOC_2011_2012_week_5.2

Week of 2/27 - 3/2

It was a short week due to MOY testing but here is the Table of Contents for this week:

Download TOC_2011_2012_week_5.2

Week of 2/20 - 2/24

Here is the TOC (Table of Contents) for this week:  Download TOC 5th six weeks_5.1