Monday, November 30, 2009


Back to school, Back to school....here we are again, Rollin on! Today in the Regular classes we were introduced to equations. The students were to do Pg. 106 #17-26 (there are vocab terms listed below as well). In the advanced class we also introduced a new topic; square roots! For homework they have Pg. 148 #s 10-44 even (they also have Vocab listed below).  Happy Holidays!
Fact of the day:
Armadillos always have 4 babies in a litter, they are also all the same gender.

Regular Vocab:
Equation
Solution

Advanced Vocab:
Principle Square Root
Perfect Square

Monday, November 23, 2009


Hiddie Ho Students! Today we are watching a Video (8 Below, hence the pic!) and starting a video observation guide that we will complete on Wednesday. The guide shows students that math pertains to everything, even Antartica! Tomorrow we have the benchmark test! Have a terrific evening!

Friday, November 20, 2009


Friday! We got all agendas, journals, and vocab checked and in the gradebook. I also gave the students their averages for the 2nd six weeks while they worked on a worksheet. In the advanced class the students took a quiz as promised. Have a great weekend. I'm off to the State Sr. High Convention in Hurricane. See ya!

Thursday, November 19, 2009


Thursday's gone with the wind, on to FRIDAY!!!! Tomorrow we will be checking agendas, notebooks, and vocab for the week in the regular classes. In the advanced class the kids will be taking a quiz. As for today? In the regular classes we went over combining like terms and the students completed Pg. 102 #18-28. In the advanced class we had a review worksheet to complete. Have a great evening!

Wednesday, November 18, 2009


Rain, Rain, Go away! Well, I guess you have to take the bad with the good sometimes! In the regular class we were busy, working on combining like terms, in class they did vocab (see below) and worked on Pg. 102 #s 1-17. In the advanced class we played a game similar to 1 vs. 100 for bonus points for their quiz on Friday. The big winners were Maddie Bess, Levi Ashworth, Josiah Wise, Haley Neal, and Vanessa Straley. The person who got the farthest in the game was Tyler McComas, however he got greedy and ended up loosing all his points to the those left in the class! Tomorrow will be a review day for their quiz on Friday. Well, it's off to church tonight, more teenagers, GREAT! :-) (the picture is from the clay center)

Vocab:

term
coefficient
like terms

Tuesday, November 17, 2009


What a B-E-A-Utiful day! Get outside and run around some, come to school tired tomorrow! In the regular classes we started on Verbal Expressions....lots of work ahead of us on this subject!!! In class we copied a chart and worked on some problems in class. In the advanced class we finished the rest of the study guide on Pg. 144. Tomorrow we will play a review game, Thursday will be a review day, followed by a quiz on Friday! Have a great afternoon, get outside and run off some of that energy by all means neccessary! :)

Monday, November 16, 2009


After a couple days of sickness the blog is back at it! In the regular classes we talked about algebraic expressions, substitution, variables, and constants. In class the students completed Pg, 94 #20-27 and in some classes we got a little ahead and copied a chart from the book to our journals. In the advanced class we reviewed solving inequalities containing rational numbers (fractions and decimals). For homework they have Pg. 144 # 1-19. The advanced class will have a quiz soon! Have a great evening!

Tuesday, November 10, 2009


Phew, today was a looonnnngggg one. The assembly went very well, good job guys! In the regular classes the students worked on a few problems from ancient Egypt, yes math was around then, and it always has been! After we finished that we did a few vocab terms (see below). In the advanced class we worked on some work we didn't finish Friday and then copied some examples out of the book. The picture is from the veteran's day assembly. Enjoy your day off!

Vocab:

Variable
Constant
Algebraic Expression
Evaluate

Monday, November 9, 2009


Wow, I have been slacking! Last week I had bus duty which meant that I didn't have the time after school to keep up with the blog! Well today we went to the clay center in charleston to see an exhibit on egyptians. It was a blast! I have posted a  cool "wordle" the kids made when we got back this afternoon. For bonus points list a word from the wordle in the comment box and what you learned that had to do with that word! Tomorrow we have a Veteran's Day assembly in the a.m. and of course we have  Wednesday off due to Veteran's Day. Have an awesome afternoon!

Monday, November 2, 2009


I can't believe it is already November! We put the rubber to the road today in both classes. The regular class began work with Order of Operations while the advanced class worked on simplifying fractions, converting fractions to decimals, and vice versa. They also both had vocab which you can see below. Advanced had homework on Pg. 115 #s 1-47 odd. See ya tomorrow!

Regular Vocab:

Numerical Expression
Order of Operations

Advanced Vocab:

Rational Numbers
Relatively Prime