Homework for Tuesday, February 10

 Assignment: Verbal Percentages

Due: Wednesday, February 11

*Note: it is highly likely our test on this material will be next Friday, February 20! Be sure your child feels like they have the information they need! Right now they need practice. They need to feel confident in the set-up and execution without you present for reminders.

So first, this assignment has them practicing what was, for me, the bane of my mathematical experience. This organizational system helps to set UP the problem so they can SEE how to solve it. From there are a multitude of options, but for now they should be practicing the steps I have laid out for learning this type of organization. This is the same way we are addressing all ratios, and it's a great step towards understanding how these all relate to one another. 

Tonight's homework is the what-is-of organization that gives them the home field advantage. Start there. As I said in yesterday's post, don't skip ahead to how you might solve it now. It's like the way my father, may he rest in peace, would always explain the strategy of a game before I even knew how to play it. Remember that playing T-ball comes before playing baseball. Shooting a penalty kick in soccer comes after learning how to strike the ball consistently. Let your child build on this organizational system and you should literally be able to see them come to realizations as they get more fluent with solving these types of problems. But it takes PRACTICE.

So how can you help?

Again, refer back to the top of this post: they need to feel confident in the set-up and execution of such problems without you present for reminders. Help by having them write notes in their Notes Book, especially for any areas they struggle with. They should have examples and anything that triggers how to organize the critical information. Have them set up the ?/? = ?%/?% and fill in the blanks. 

*There are documents in the Google Classroom that can help. Have them show you these resources if you get stuck. 

*I will be posting ungraded practice sets, with answers, in the Google Classroom this weekend. Look for them!