Wednesday 8/31

Agenda

Learning Goal: Be able to solve multi-digit multiplication problems.

Task 1: Review Homework Quiz 1.1

If you have worksheets stapled to your quiz, do not unstaple them!! You will turn the entire packet in to me by Friday!!

• If you have a multiplication page stapled to your quiz, you will work on that today.
• If you don't, you will work with a partner on the brain sizzlers

Task 2: Multi-digit division multiplication and practice

Homework: Finish multiplication practice worksheet

Tuesday 8/30

Agenda

Learning Goal: Be able to determine which operation to choose when solving real life problems and check your solutions.

Task 1: Get out last night's homework. Any questions?

Task 2: Homework Quiz

Task 3: After you finish the quiz and turn it in, Go to Clever.com and log on to Big Ideas Math. Go to Assignments and click on today's assignment and start working on it.

Homework: Textbook pages 7-8, Problems 13-33 odd only.

Monday 8/29

Agenda

Learning Goal: Be able to determine which operation to choose when solving real life problems and check your solutions.

Warm-Up (in your math notebook)

Lesson 1.1: Performing Operations with Whole Numbers

Homework: Textbook pages 7-8, Problems 1-11, and problems 12-26 even only.

Friday 8/26

Agenda

Learning Goal: Be able to determine which operation to choose when solving real life problems.

Task 1: Warm-Up (in your notebook, include heading - 8/26 Warm-Up)

Bonus Question:

Only one number in the English language is written with its letters in alphabetical order. What number is it?

Task 2: With a partner at your table, complete the activities on the worksheets:

• Activity 2, Checking Answers
• Activity 3, Using Estimation

Task 3: Staple pages 3-6, make sure your name is on them (first and last), and put them in a pile on your table.

Task 4: Practice: Use what you learned about choosing operations to complete Exercises 8-11 on page 7 of the textbook. Show the work in your notebook.

Homework: None

Thursday 8/25

Agenda

Learning Goal: Be able to determine which operation to choose when solving real life problems.

Task 1: Take our your homework, be sure your name is on it (first and last), and make a stack on your table

Task 2: Warm-Up (10 min)

• Write the heading Warm-Up 8/25 on the next blank page in your math notebook
• Get the textbooks out of the table cabinet and turn to page 1 (it's not numbered, but it's before page 2!)
• Look at problems 1-9. Which ones are prime numbers? Record them in your notebook.
• Solve problems 10-15 and show the work in your notebook.

Task 3: With a partner at your table, complete the activities on the worksheets:

• Activity 1, Choosing an Operation
• Activity 2, Checking Answers

Homework: Worksheet p. 6 1-13

Wednesday 8/24

Agenda

Task 1: Warm-Up 

• Write the heading Warm-Up 8/24 on the next blank page in your math notebook and answer the questions below.

Task 2: Discussion of Building Rectangles project

Review Adding and Subtracting Mixed Numbers with Like Denominators

Homework: Log on to Big Ideas Math through clever.com and complete the assignment. OR complete odd numbered problems on handout (p. 1-2 from workbook)

Tuesday 8/23

Agenda

Task 1: Question of the Day

• How far have you gotten in the Building Rectangles Project? What is your next step?

Task 2: Finish Building Rectangles project

Instructions for project:

1. work with your partner or triad
2. get a card from Ms. Lopez
3. in your math notebook, write down all the factors of each number
4. get a piece of graph paper and build a rectangle for each factor pair
5. color each rectangle and carefully cut them out and glue them onto construction paper
6. create a poster for each number that includes all the possible factor pairs and corresponding rectangles. The number must be on the top of the poster

Monday 8/22

Lakeview Middle School 
EAGLE PR²IDE
student creed

I am a Lakeview Eagle, powerful beyond measure
I believe I can succeed
I am exceptional-not because I say it, but because I work hard for it
I believe in Perseverance and have the will to overcome any challenge
I have Respect for myself & others and I treat everyone with courtesy
I take Responsibility for my education, my actions and my future
I have Integrity
I am honest and I always strive to do the right thing
I believe in Diversity
I value the differences in others
I manifest pride and the relentless pursuit of Excellence for myself, my family, my community and my world.
This is my promise, this is my creed
I am a Lakeview Eagle
Soaring Above and Beyond

Agenda

Task 1: Question of the Day

• Pair Share: What are "factors" in math? Pick two numbers between 1 and 20 and list all their factors. (in your math notebook)

Task 2: Building Rectangles project

Instructions for project:

1. work with your partner or triad
2. get a card from Ms. Lopez
3. in your math notebook, write down all the factors of each number
4. get a piece of graph paper and build a rectangle for each factor pair
5. color each rectangle and carefully cut them out and glue them onto construction paper
6. create a poster for each number that includes all the possible factor pairs and corresponding rectangles. The number must be on the top of the poster

Friday 8/19

Agenda

Task 1: Finish Pre-Assessment

Task 2: Start Star Poster Project (finish it for homework over the weekend, due on Monday)

Create a poster about your strengths and goals for the year that includes:

• Your name, math period, date
• One or two strengths that you have
• Two specific academic goals for the year (we'll brainstorm)
• Three study habits that will help you reach your goals (we'll brainstorm this, too)
• A picture of yourself (can be recent or a picture of you when you were younger - you'll get this back by the end of the school year)
• Color it! Lots of color, please. It will be up in our room, so make it look good.

Thursday 8/18

Agenda

• Pre-Assessment
• Go to the library to check out Textbooks

Wednesday 8/17 Agenda

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Agenda

• Icebreaker
• Textbook Scavenger Hunt