9/5 Create Math Blogs

1.  Warm-up: The Game

2.  Create Math Blog using Blogger.

• Look at eBook (7th grade), Lesson 1.1.4 problem 1-34.  Anytime you are asked to write a "Learning Log" you will make a new entry in your blog.
• Why?  Research shows that people learn deeper if they are given time to reflect on their learning.
• Give your blog a creative name. Something catchy, something math related.
• Your first entry will be about proportional relationships.  Think about how you used this concept when you figured out how tall 1 million pennies would be.

3.  Introduction to ILP (Independent Learning Plan)

• Based on pre-assessment
• Targeted practice to suit your areas of strength/need
• Time in class will be allowed for ILP

4.  BuzzMath sign-up!

5.  ILP time

No homework tonight!  ILP is due on Friday

9/4 Is the Roller Coaster Dangerous?

1.  Warm-up: Investigate our class graph.  What do you notice?

2.  Finish 1.1.4 (8th grade)  Is the roller coaster dangerous?

You will need to make a graph using the class data.

3.  Pre-assessment

4.  Puzzle Investigator or R/P time

Homework:  Lesson 1.1.4 (8th grade) R/P only 30, 31, 39, 40 due Tuesday
Puzzle Investigator (due next Friday, 9/11)

9/3 8th grade books: Finish 1.1.2, start 1.1.4

1.  Warm-up:  

2.  10 minutes to wrap-up Lesson 1.1.2 (increasing patterns)

3.  8th grade eBook log-in information

4.  Begin Lesson 1.1.4

Class Dojo Weekly Privlege

Homework:  Lesson 1.1.2 (8th grade book) Review/Preview, #12 and 14 only 

9/2 8th grade books! Lesson 1.1.2

1.  Warm-up:

Grab a piece of graph paper from the middle of the table.  Investigate this pattern.  What do you notice?

Draw the 1st, 5th, and 6th figures on your graph paper.



2.  Review Collaborative Learning Expectations

3.  Begin Lesson 1.1.2 (in 8th grade book!)

• Reporter/Recorder: read instructions in GC
• Resource Manager: grab 8th grade (green) books
• Facilitator: Get team started
• Task Manager:  Everyone contributes.  Leave no one behind, no one races ahead.

4.  Patterns debrief:

• Are there multiple ways to explain the growth of the pattern?

5.  8th grade eBook log-ins

6.  Time for Puzzle Investigator? (due Friday, 9/11)

Homework: 8th grade book Lesson 1.1.2 R/P only #12 and 14     Work on Puzzle Investigator

Lesson 1.1.4 How tall is a million pennies?

1.  Warm-up: watch the video: How Much is a Million?

Make a prediction/estimation:  How tall would a million pennies be?  Taller than a person? The gym?  Taller than Mount Everest?

2.  Begin lesson 1.1.4

• Recorder/Reporter opens GC and reads Mr. Robinett's instructions to the team
• Resource Manager gets CPM textbooks from book shelf
• Facilitator gets the team started

Homework:  Lesson 1.1.4 Review/Preview