2nd+Period+Math

**Mrs. McCarthy's 2nd Period Math Class **

Welcome to 7th Grade and welcome back to my math class!

March

We will be finishing up our Decimals unit next week and will be on to...

Percents the Mrs. Mac way!!! By the end of this month, the students will be able to mentally calculate a percentage of a number by breaking down the percents into friendly chunks. My classroom mantra is "If you can find 10%, then you can find ALL percents".

For example,

To find 16% of 30, you can break the numbers into 1 - 10% plus 6 - 1% chunks OR you can take 10% and cut it in half to find 5% and add an additional 1%.

This sounds so much more complicated than it really is to use! 10% of any number is just a decimal hop to the left (10% of 30 = 3). 1% of any number is just TWO decimal hops to the left (to the left, to the left as Beyonce says) so 1% of 30 = .30 Now all you have to do is add up your chunks :)

As my talented colleague Ms. D says, "Everything comes together in the end!". Students will learn how fractions, decimals and percents are related, and that numbers can be **expressed ** (vocab word!) in different ways. We will create a foldable for these conversions before moving on to our next unit: Rates, Ratios and Proportions.

January

As my talented colleague Ms. D says, "Everything comes together in the end!". Students will learn how fractions, decimals and percents are related, and that numbers can be **expressed** (vocab word!) in different ways. We will create a foldable for these conversions before moving on to our next unit: Rates, Ratios and Proportions.

December

I have been negligent in putting pictures of the lovely foldables the students have created for our units! I will try to get some out soon. Students will finish up with decimals this month, and have a brief review of some geometry skills before the break. After the break, we will dive right back in with converting between fractions, decimals and percents (and yes, another foldable).

November

<span style="color: #824fad; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 22px;">This month, students completed the **<span style="color: #824fad; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 22px;">fractions unit and started working with decimals. **<span style="color: #824fad; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 22px;">Students will be identifying decimals to the thousandths place, and will be learning to add, subtract, multiply and divide decimals to the thousandths place.

<span style="background-color: #404040; color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">October


 * <span style="color: #824fad; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;">Fractions, fractions and more fractions! **<span style="color: #824fad; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;">We are completing our last 2 concepts before embarking on the next unit: decimals. Students have been converting improper fractions into mixed numbers and vice-versa. This is an extremely important skill to retain as we move on to higher level concepts such as rates, ratios, proportions and slope.

<span style="color: #824fad; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;">Students have made a foldable that they will be adding to their interactive notebooks. Pictures will be coming soon!

<span style="background-color: #404040; color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 25.55555534362793px;">September

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;">We have been busy reviewing concepts from last year, and have been working hard on our interactive math notebooks! Here are the first 2 entries into our books:

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;">H's Word Problem Foldable

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;">T's Finding Common Denominator Foldable: <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;">The Grid Method.............................. Find the Foo Method

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;">During the first 2 weeks of school, we will be reviewing concepts from last year. After this review, we will then start a unit on place value to the thousandths, which will lead into our decimals unit.

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;">Now that students are comfortable with divisibility rules, we will begin working on factoring, prime factorization, Least Common Multiple and Greatest Common Factor.

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<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;">We have been working on divisibility rules in class, watch the video and learn about the power of numbers and pattern rules!

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 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Divisibility Rules Practice ** ||  ||   ||   ||
 * [[image:http://757f8ed9aaa522dde29d-4c07cfa4f788be17c79661948c0f2477.r99.cf1.rackcdn.com/114558_0_vectorkids-divisibility-rules.jpg align="center" link="@http://www.vectorkids.com/vkdivisible.htm"]] ||  ||   ||   ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%; text-align: center;">**Number Cracker** || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%; text-align: center;">** Crack Hacker's Safe ** || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%; text-align: center;">**Pattern Mania** || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%; text-align: center;">**Find the Function** ||
 * [[image:number_cracker.png width="151" height="151" link="http://www.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/cracker.cgi?A1=s&A2=0&submit=Start+Game"]] || [[image:cyberchase.png width="157" height="143" link="http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/math-games/crack-hackers-safe/"]] || [[image:pattern_mania.PNG width="204" height="137" link="http://www.primarygames.com/patterns/start.htm"]] || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px; text-align: left;">[[image:function.PNG width="177" height="143" link="http://teams.lacoe.edu/documentation/classrooms/amy/algebra/3-4/activities/functionmachine/functionmachine3_4.html"]] ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%; text-align: center;">Function Machine || **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> Cyber Pattern Player ** ||  ||   ||
 * [[image:math_playground.png width="153" height="113" link="http://www.mathplayground.com/functionmachine.html"]] || [[image:cyber_pattern.PNG width="166" height="119" link="http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/math-games/cyber-pattern-player/"]] ||  ||   ||


 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%; text-align: left;">Expanded Form of Numbers ||  || <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%; text-align: left;">More on Place Value ||   || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%; text-align: center;">Review notes on Place Value || <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19.2px; text-align: center;">Try the Place Value Game! ||   ||
 * [[image:numbers_as_words.png width="223" height="94" link="http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/math4/d/expandedform4l.cfm"]] ||  || [[image:pt148_stick_figure_reading_pc.png width="159" height="113" link="http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/math4/d/placevalue4p.cfm"]] ||   || <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%; text-align: left;">[[image:CoolMath4Kids.gif width="213" height="109" link="http://www.coolmath4kids.com/addition/03-addition-lesson-place-values-01.html"]] || [[image:pv_games.gif width="160" height="132" align="center" link="http://www.funbrain.com/tens/index.html"]] ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">Feed Fribbit Addition ||  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">Comparing Numbers Game ||   || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">Order! Order! Game || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">**Greater than, Less than Game** ||   ||
 * [[image:fribbit.png width="194" height="138" link="http://www.coolmath-games.com/0-feed-fribbit-addition/index.html"]] ||  || [[image:Comparing_Numbers.gif width="176" height="144" align="center" link="http://www.abcya.com/comparing_number_values.htm"]] ||   || [[image:order_order.png width="148" height="138" align="center" link="http://www.ezschool.com/Games/Order.html"]] || [[image:ordering_numbers.JPG width="198" height="134" align="center" link="http://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/ordering-game.php"]] ||   ||

<span style="color: #9a139a; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px;">Try Splat Square to skip count. What patterns do you see?




 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px;">How to create a good graph: **
 * <span style="background-color: initial; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px;">[|How to read a graph] **

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 * <span style="color: #3b2d85; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px;">Try some games to build your algebra skills **


 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: center;">Weigh the Wangdoodles || **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Solve for Missing Numbers ** ||  ||   ||
 * [[image:wangdoodles.PNG link="http://www.mathplayground.com/wangdoodles.html"]] || [[image:sheppard_games.jpg align="center" link="http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/matching/AdditionX.htm"]] ||  ||   ||