Mr.

Rowes 8th Grade Math

Please Note: Please make sure you and your parents have looked at and signed the class rules understanding & agreement form. My contact information and website location are on the form. Write it down!
Monday
o Student Holiday

First Semester

September 3-13, 2013

Welcome! Welcome to 8th Grade Math! Lets get ready to rumble! Its going to be an awesome year!

Tuesday
o o o o o Warm up: student questionnaire Meet and greet Classroom procedures Class rules handout Homework: student and parent signatures on agreement form; log on to teacher website

Wednesday
o o o o Warm up: Math assessment test Assessment Review Vocabulary review: Order of Operations Homework: Vocabulary quiz

Thursday
o o o o o Warm up: Order of Operations graphic organizer review Homework review Lesson Plan: Solving Problems using Order of Operation Group Practice Homework: Order of Operations handout

Friday
o o o o o o Warm up: Journal entry: why Order of Operations is needed Review Journal response Homework review Order of Operations practice Preferred Activity Time (if time): team competition! Homework: none enjoy your weekend!

Monday
o o o o o o Warm up: which is more? Review response Vocabulary Review: Ordering numbers Lesson Plan: Converting fractions, decimals, percents Practice Homework: Converting fractions, decimals and percents

Tuesday
o o o o o o Warm up: Journal entry, when are fractions better than decimals? Homework review Lesson plan: Multiplying with positive & negative exponents Group work Group work review Homework: Exponents

Wednesday
o o o o Warm up: which is more? Warm up review Lesson Plan: Ordering numbers with exponents Group Practice: Ordering numbers cards using fractions, decimals, percents and exponents cards Homework: word problems Ordering numbers

Thursday
o o o o o Warm up: team competition Ordering numbers Homework review Review Order of Operations Group practice: student choice per SOL; individual instruction also Homework: optional practice sheets for quiz (call me if needed!)

Friday
o o o o o Quiz Quiz review Preview of coming attractions: computation and estimation Preferred Activity Time Homework: none enjoy your weekend!

Homework will be crossed-check by your fellow students and handed in. I do not grade for accuracy but for completion however, I must see serious attempts to do the work in order for it to be graded as complete!

SOL Objectives:
8.1a The student will simplify numerical expressions involving positive exponents, using rational numbers, order of operations, and properties of operations with real numbers. 8.1b The student will compare and order decimals, fractions numbers written in scientific notation.

Next up: Computation and Estimation oh yeah!