Assignment for Monday, September 28

 Monday: Mystery Picture!

This assignment helps you practice graphing coordinate points with a picture result at the end ... if you do it correctly! Be accurate. It's like shooting a basket: it only counts if you make it!

Tips:

*x is always the first number in the pair, y is always the second.

*you always begin at 0 and go to the mountain (left or right) before you climb it (up or down)

*be accurate! Put your points on the intersections and connect the points with your ruler. 

*all work for this picture will be done on the single sheet of graph paper. The sets will eventually be connected ...

*color when instructed, before you know what the picture is. It makes it better. ;-) You may go back and color more when you are done.

*your picture should look like a picture ... if it does not, go back and try to figure out where you may have made mistakes.

*this assignment is marked as done in the Google Classroom (due Tuesday), then handed in physically when you pick up your next kit this coming Thursday or Friday. Don't forget it!

Enjoy,

Mo ;-)

Assignment for Tuesday, Sept. 22

 Assignment: The Ups and Downs of Shopping - in our G.C.

The directions are on this assignment, but here is my advice:
1) Draw yourself a picture that is organized. If you know how to do it digitally, feel free! But you need a picture as your "proof" and that is worth up to 2 points of the assignment value, so make it good! I need to be able to follow your thinking without you there to explain it to me.
2) Think about the word clues they are giving you. They do matter.
3) Work back through your solution by reading the story again to make sure that your answer works with the information.
4) Think about reading it to another family member and showing them how your "proof" works. It's fine!
The answer itself is worth one point if correct. There IS an answer meaning you DO have enough information to answer how many floors the department store has.

Due Wednesday

Monday, September 21

 Homework: Negative Addition

There are three levels of homework tonight, your choice of challenge:

Basics - just getting used to this? Practice!

Medium - want to use larger numbers for practicing? Try these!

Big - want some big numbers and some equations to reorganize? This is it!

On my Mo'Help tab of this blog you will find some reviews for how to think about negative numbers. Visualizing what these numbers stand for will help a LOT. Seeing them in equations means that you will need to recreate the visual that works best for you: a number line? cowboys? cards? 

You only need to do ONE of these assignments. Once you've completed one, you can delete the other two assignments to make my life easier. Thank you. And this! Explained in 1st period by Mino and typed up for you all here by Lilia: 

"If you go to the assignment, on the side of the link to a document attached, there should be an X. If you click that, it will remove the attachment, and it will not be turned in to your teacher.

*If you accidentally delete all three assignments, please email Mo for another copy! 

Due Tuesday at 8:30 a.m.

Assignment Sept. 17, Hints for thinking about "real" negatives

Assignment: Real Life Negatives - A

Welcome to the "real" world (as real as it gets in these examples) of negative integers.  Today you are to focus on what you are doing not how you write it.  
Mo's advice:
*Think about what the numbers represent.  Draw pictures on the page or in your mind, but use your imagination to think about the story behind the question.
*Associate!  These numbers all have values that go in a direction:  towards zero or away from zero. So if you go down the steps at Hogwarts, all of those downward steps represent going DOWN (aka a negative number, fyi) and all of the times you go UP get you higher (a positive direction).  Again, picture the story.
*HOW you solve these problems should be common sense.  I'm not at all concerned how you represent it mathematically, I want to know where you end up: behind the starting point?  above sea level?  above zero?  with less money?  How can you collect (commute and associate) the values of the numbers and use them to come up with an answer?   
Think about what you know to be true and then figure out how to get to that point.
EXAMPLES:  each with different answers, yet essentially the same numbers ...
A) If your horse is 7 miles away from Olympia, and runs for 5 miles towards Olympia, rests, then runs 4 more miles in the same direction, he ends up 2 miles PAST Olympia, right?  Right!
B) If your horse is 7 miles away from Olympia, and begins running to Olympia for 5 miles, but realized he forgot his baby horse, so he runs back for 4 miles, he is now  6 miles away from (before) Olympia, right? Try drawing that scenario.
*The rest of it is up to you.  I strongly, strongly recommend drawing yourself a simple scenario and figuring out what it is you want to know.  Don't worry about the negatives or positives, just think about what they represent in the story.  I keep saying this because it is key to your "aha" moment!
*And yes, labels are VERY important ... you MUST fill out the table and label the sets as we practiced in class. 

No calculators, you can do these!
Due Friday - Enjoy!  ;-)

Welcome! Fall 2020

 Welcome to the 2020 - 2021 school year, the year of the great unknown! Yes, it is finally time to begin our time together and we are going to do it in style. 

On this blog you will find assignments, handy links, and resources to supplement what we are doing in our distance classroom. Its primary purpose is to assist my math students and their parents in completing homework at home, so please poke around and get an idea about what things will look like. Typically I update this blog every day, but as of this moment, I am not sure how much extra I will be putting here while distance learning, so we'll see. Primarily I wanted you to know this is a source and to know where to find it. 

And if you are still reading (which you should be), it's the ultimate source for trivia I ask in class ... so look around and keep checking back!

I look forward to this school year, whatever it may bring,
Mo ;-)