Remember that we will not have school on Friday, Oct. 13th!
6th Grade Math – Mrs. VonFeldt
The sixth graders are becoming proficient on all operations with fractions. We encounter fractions so often in life (cooking, statistics, time). It is important to be comfortable calculating. Please watch the following video for a review on all operations in just seven minutes!
7th Grade Math – Mrs. VonFeldt & Mrs. Evans
The 7th graders will be applying what they learned about adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing integers to rational numbers. Rational numbers include fractions, decimals and mixed numbers. We will spend a day reviewing decimal arithmetic and another day reviewing fraction arithmetic. Here is a great summaries of fraction and decimal arithmetic:
8th Grade Math – Mrs. Evans
We are finishing our Chapter 1 review of rational numbers and basic algebra and moving into Chapter 2. Our test on Chapter 1 will be on Wednesday, Oct. 12th. We will then learn about functions and how ordered pairs can be solutions to equations. The benefit of this is that we can graph ordered pairs. Here is a video that can help with this topic:
Algebra – Mrs. VonFeldt
In Algebra, we are solving single variable equations. The students are doing a great job setting up and finding different strategies to solve equations. The Chapter 2 team test will be on Friday, October 20. The following video summarizes how to solve multi-step linear equations: