Math Class

Multiple representations part 3

noreply@blogger.com (C. Barrett) — Wed, 11 Sep 2013 20:55:00 -0700

The following video defines and shows how to use the rate of change to write the equation of a line from a table and a graph.

Multiple representations part 2

noreply@blogger.com (C. Barrett) — Wed, 11 Sep 2013 20:50:00 -0700

The following video demonstrates how to write an equation from a word problem.

Multiple representations part 1

noreply@blogger.com (C. Barrett) — Wed, 11 Sep 2013 20:40:00 -0700

The following video demonstrates how to generate an appropriate equation from a table.

Prerequisite skills on rational numbers

noreply@blogger.com (C. Barrett) — Tue, 9 Oct 2012 11:10:00 -0700

Integer operations

noreply@blogger.com (C. Barrett) — Thu, 4 Oct 2012 15:47:00 -0700

The following video demonstrates the reason why some of the integer rules are as they are and how to apply the rules for addition and subtraction of integers.

Rational numbers checkpoint

noreply@blogger.com (C. Barrett) — Wed, 3 Oct 2012 17:11:00 -0700

The following video demonstrates how to order rational numbers. It demonstrates how we can answer our questions from the checkpoint.

How to find the rule for the nth position of a sequence

noreply@blogger.com (C. Barrett) — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 11:03:00 -0700

Today we learned how to find the nth position of a sequence.

Multiple Representations verbal to equation, table, and graph

noreply@blogger.com (C. Barrett) — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 17:27:00 -0700

The following video shows examples of how to convert a verbal situation to a table, graph and equation.

Equation to table

noreply@blogger.com (C. Barrett) — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 06:50:00 -0700

Today we wrote an equation based on the table. We used the following pdf.

Homework: writing an equation from a verbal description

noreply@blogger.com (C. Barrett) — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 14:45:00 -0700

Tonight the eighth grade students should write an equation for the following situations:
1.Eight times a number equals 64.
2.A number divided by 9 equals 108.
3.The difference between the number of boys, b, and 13 girls is 4.
4. The amount of money Horace made this week, m, is twice the amount of money he made last week.

Grade 8 STAAR test information

noreply@blogger.com (C. Barrett) — Fri, 3 Feb 2012 12:31:00 -0800

As you may know our students will take the grade 8 STAAR test on Monday, March 26. A break down of the topics to be covered on the STAAR test may be found below. Also, the example questions that TEA released may be found here. Please also note that additional resources that the students may use are Reflex Math (To practice some basic skills that sometimes prevent some students from successfully completing math problems) and Measuring up. They may see me for their reflex math log in if they don't already know it. The Measuring up log in may be filled in as following. If the students real name were "John Smith" their log in is "JOHNSMITH" and their password is their student id number.

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Studying is required

noreply@blogger.com (C. Barrett) — Fri, 3 Feb 2012 11:01:00 -0800

Please remember that the study log will be counted as a grade. Remember that studying is required and fundamental to success in math. Also homework does not count as studying. Studying is additional work done for the purpose of understanding the underlying principles behind the concepts being taught. recall that you were given a study log to help both you and your parents keep track of how much, how often, and what you study. If you misplaced it you may print a copy here.

Project

noreply@blogger.com (C. Barrett) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:24:00 -0800

The purpose of this assignment is to review some of the topics covered first semester. The rubric is posted below.

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New homework calendar

noreply@blogger.com (C. Barrett) — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 07:59:00 -0700

I have posted the new homework calendar below. If you do not have the textbook yet you may access it through this link.

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Multiple representations of scenarios

noreply@blogger.com (C. Barrett) — Thu, 1 Sep 2011 14:11:00 -0700

Today we generated multiple descriptions (verbal, equation, graph, and table) of a real world scenario. The homework for tonight was to create a verbal, equation, table, and graph description for the following scenario: "To fix a car, Joe’s Garage charges a base fee of $25 and $40 per hour "

Writing equations

noreply@blogger.com (C. Barrett) — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:02:00 -0700

Today we wrote equations from problem situations by analyzing the key words and ideas in them. We ended with the following homework assignment : "Wade's small bathtub will hold 15 gallons of water. If the tub drains at a constant rate of 3.5 gallons per minute, write an equation that can be used to find g, the number of gallons of water in the bathtub after 2 minutes."

Another good project

noreply@blogger.com (C. Barrett) — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 13:00:00 -0700

I wanted to share this student example. I thought it was well done. This student had some typos, but they will fix it and I will show the corrected version.

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Projects

noreply@blogger.com (C. Barrett) — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:22:00 -0700

Class projects were due Monday. Some of the projects were really interesting. Particularly some of the animations. It was nice to see the amount of effort that was put into these projects.
This is an example. However, there is a mistake. 10^4 should be 10^2.
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Scale factor

noreply@blogger.com (C. Barrett) — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 06:51:00 -0800

I had to repost this video because it did not appear correctly in a previous post.

If the video still does not play then it is viewable here: Scale factor

The district assessment is tomorrow

noreply@blogger.com (C. Barrett) — Tue, 9 Nov 2010 14:38:00 -0800

Click below to see the answers to the review we did today in class.

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rational number examples part2

noreply@blogger.com (C. Barrett) — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 14:54:00 -0700

The following are additional rational number questions (the answers will be posted shortly).

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Rational number operations

noreply@blogger.com (C. Barrett) — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 14:35:00 -0700

The following video explains how to answer the questions from the study guide. a copy of the study guide is also located below the video explanation.

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Pythagorean theorem applied

noreply@blogger.com (C. Barrett) — Thu, 7 Oct 2010 12:44:00 -0700

How could you use the pythagorean theorem if you know only the value of a leg and the hypotenuse? The following video demonstrates how to do that. If you would like more information about the pythagorean theorem you may click here: Pytyhagorean theorem

Pythagorean theorem explained geometrically 2

noreply@blogger.com (C. Barrett) — Thu, 7 Oct 2010 12:39:00 -0700

The following video demonstrates how the pythagorean theorem is may be applied to solve a word problem.

Pythagorean theorem explained geometrically

noreply@blogger.com (C. Barrett) — Thu, 7 Oct 2010 12:34:00 -0700

The pythagorean theorem may be interpreted geometrically by saying that the area of the squares on the legs of the right triangle must equal the area of the square on the hypotenuse. You may see additional information and explanations of this concept by clicking here:Pythagorean theorem