WMS: Math Daily Update and Quiz Tomorrow!

Dear Families,

This week I want to give you a day-by-day play of what your students should be bringing home and what their homework is just so that we all know what to expect as semester 2 begins. That run-down comes after this brief message.

I am also making changes to how I use Zangle (Parent Connect) to share more timely information with you. A calculated grade estimate is now visible as a spot-check on how your child is doing. Please be aware, however, that at the beginning of the semester it can swing wildly until there are more items in there to balance it. You can find more information about those changes on the different tabs in my blog at http://www.mrmacnevin.com. 

Thank you for all you do to support your child's education,

Brian

First Announcement: Math Quiz Tomorrow

Our first summative math quiz on the area and perimeter of triangles and parallelograms is tomorrow (2/22). Students brought practice work and answers home today. But if they lost it, they can download them here: LINK.

Second Announcement: Today's Math To-Do-List

These bullets represent what we did in math today during the period. There were three sections to the period: Math Review, Practice, and Homework.

• Math Review 2A: Students had 10 minutes to work on four math problems. If they needed help or a strategy, I was available to give it to them. Afterward we reviewed answers and strategies. If a student gets a correct answer, they mark the box with a star. If it was incorrect, they mark it with an "H" that means they should look at it again as homework. But if they wrote an "H", they should also have written down the correct answer and a strategy. On Friday students will have a quiz based very heavily on these daily practice problems.
• Practice: For practice today we re-examined building parallelograms within constraints in Problem 4.3 of the book (page 57). These questions try to help students look beyond the basics of calculating area and perimeter of parallelograms and instead ask students to look for patterns between parallelograms. They are not necessarily easy questions and not everyone completed all the questions. You child should have made it at least to question D (there were questions A-E) and checked his/her answers with the correction packets in the room.
• Homework: Students were asked to open their planners to Wed. Feb 22 and to write down these three things that are due on that date. I will stamp the homework assignment if things are complete.
• MR 2B (math review 2B to be done as homework)
• LT 3&4 Quiz (Quiz on learning targets 3 and 4 tomorrow at the start of class)
• Quiz Practice Problems (I provided students with a set of practice problems and answers that are available here: link)