May 29-31

Work that I will still accept this week:

• PODs (Self Starters)
• Excel Project
• Extra Credit
• Proportions Review Packet

 

Tuesday: Final Exam
Homework: See above and finish any work that you haven't yet.

 

Wednesday: Logic Games - bring a pencil, calculator card, planner
Homework: None

 

Thursday: Last Day for 7th graders
                Full Day - 7:50 - 2:50
                Bring a pen to sign yearbooks

 

HAVE A GREAT SUMMER!

 

May 21-25

ALL LATE WORK IS DUE MAY 24th AND 25th!

Monday: Excel Project - Analyze Weekly Activities
Homework: Missing Assignments (Finish Google Maps!)

Tuesday: Excel Project - Create Charts and Graphs of How You Spend Your Time
Homework: Missing Assignments - Quiz Correctives

Wednesday: Excel Project - Reflect on How You Spend Your Time
Homework: TBA

Thursday/Friday: Review for Final Exam - LATE WORK DUE!
Homework: Finish Review Packet

May 14-18

Textbooks are due on Thursday and Friday!

Periods 1-2
Monday: Combinations - Tree Diagrams and the Fundamental Counting Principle
Homework: Tree Diagrams and the Fundamental Counting Principle

Tuesday: Using Models to find Probability of Compound Events
Homework: Probability of Compound Events

Wednesday: Compound Probability - With and Without Replacement
Homework: Practice: Probability Without Replacement

Thursday: TEXTBOOKS DUE, Quiz on Probability and Combinations, Using Maps
Homework: Google Maps

Periods 3-7
Monday: Combinations - Tree Diagrams and the Fundamental Counting Principle
Homework: Tree Diagrams and the Fundamental Counting Principle

Tuesday: More of the Fundamental Counting Principle
Homework: 9-3 Study Guide and Practice

Wednesday: Using Models to find Probability of Compound Events
Homework: Probability of Compound Events

Thursday: TEXTBOOKS DUE, Quiz on Probability and Combinations, Using Maps
Homework: Google Maps

May 7-11

Monday: Probability Introduction - Theoretical vs. Experimental
Homework: The Mystery Container

Tuesday: More Probability - Sample Space, Fair Game, Complements
Homework: Probability Packet

Wednesday: Probability and Predictions
Homework: Socks and Sports Worksheet

Thursday/Friday: Probability Experiment Stations - More Predictions
Homeowork: 9-6 Practice

Textbooks will be turned in on May 17-18th.  All late work for 4th quarter is due May 24-25th.  This means you should get caught up on any late work from the textbook by the 18th because you won't have your textbook to use after that!

April 30 - May 4

Monday: Review for CRT
Homework: Study, Work on Missing Assignments, Quiz Correctives (1-5th periods)

Tuesday: CRT Testing - Bring pencils and a reading book

Wednesday: CRT Testing - Bring pencils and a reading book

Thursday/Friday: More work on inequalities and special angle sums
Homework: Finish Orgo Joke Worksheet, 10-3 Study Guide and Practice

CRT Dates!

Our State CRT Tests for Ms. McKnight's classes will be on Tuesday May 1 and Wednesday May 2.
Please be sure to be in attendance on those days - get enough sleep and eat a good breakfast!

April 23-27

Monday: One-Step Inequalities - Addition and Subtraction
Homework: Solving One-Step Inequalities

Tuesday: One-Step Inequalities - Multiplication and Division Sign Reversal
Homework: Textbook page 353

Wednesday: Two-Step Inequalities
Homework: Textbook page 357

Thursday/Friday: Review Activities - Prepare for CRT Tests
Homework: Finish Practice CRT, Study Old Exams

April 16-20

Monday: Basic Angles, Using Protractors
Homework: Exercise 39 (finish if you didn't in class), 10-1 Practice

Tuesday: Angle Facts - Supplementary, Complementary, Vertical Angles
Homework: Exercise 38 (all sides)

Wednesday: Introduction to Graphing Inequalities - Variable Number Line
Homework: Finish Variable Number Line, Quiz Correctives

Thursday/Friday: More Graphing Inequalities - Writing Inequalities
Homework: Graphing Inequalities, Inequalities

April 10-13

Tuesday: The Percent Proportion
Homework: Proportions and Percent

Wednesday: More Percent Proportion
Homework: Textbook page 291

Thursday/Friday: Similar Figures and Proportions
Homework: Textbook page 473, Google Maps

April 2-4

Monday: Revisting Proportions, Introduce Cross Multiply
Homework: Is it Proportional? 

Tuesday: Solving Proportions
Homework: 6-2 Study Guide

Wednesday: Using Proportions to Solve Word Problems
Homework: Proportion Problems

Thursday/Friday:  NO SCHOOL
Have a great Spring Break!

March 27-30: TEST THIS WEEK!

Tuesday: Extra Practice Solving One and Two-Step Equations: Inverse Operations
Homework: One-Step Equations (Fractions) and Two-Step Equations
                   Finish both sides of Story Problem Worksheet (green)

Wednesday: Review for Equations Test
Homework: Solving Equations REVIEW
                   STUDY

Thursday/Friday: Prepare for and take EQUATIONS TEST
Homework: Extra Credit (Optional)

March 19-23

Monday: Solving Two Step Equations
Homework: 3-5 and 3-6 Skills Practice

Tuesday: More Two-Step Equations
Homework: Books Never Written Worksheet

Wednesday: Solving Equations with Parenthesis
Homework: Solving Equations Using the Distributive Property

Thursday/Friday: QUIZ on One-Step and Two-Step Equations
                           Story Problems and Equations
Homework: Finish Story Problem Worksheet and TBA

Solving Equations: Multiply and Divide

Click Here for an Online Fraction Calculator

Another Fraction Calculator

Yet Another Fraction Calculator

March 12-16

Monday: Practice Solving Equations Using Addition and Subtraction
Homework: Alien Algebra/3-3 Practice

Tuesday: Solving Equations Lab: Undoing Multiplication
Homework: Finish Lab 10-5

Wednesday: Practice Solving Equations Using Multiplication and Division
Homework: Solving Equations Using Multiplication and Division Worksheet
                   (It is okay to use a calcuator but please show the step you used to solve the equation!)

ALL LATE WORK FOR 3rd QUARTER IS DUE ON THURSDAY and FRIDAY!
Thursday/Friday: Lab 10-6: Solving Two-Step Equations
Homework: Finish Lab 10-6, also do assigned textbook problems

March 5-9

Monday: Introduction to Equations: What is a Solution?
              Return Variables and Expressions Test
Homework:  What is a Solution?
              Test Correctives (due Wednesday)

Tuesday: Writing Equations
Homework: Analyzing Equations
              Finish Test Correctives

Wednesday: Equations Lab: Setting Up Equations
Homework: Finish Lab 10-1

Thursday/Friday: Solving Equations Using Addition and Subtraction
Homework: From Textbook

February 27 - March 1

Monday: Factoring Expressions using a Common Factor
Homework: Factoring Linear Expressions

Tuesday: Review of Simplifying - being careful with negative signs and subtraction
Homework: Simplifying Expressions Review
Student-Led Conferences: 4-8 pm

Wednesday: Review Variables and Expressions
Homework: Variables and Expressions Review - STUDY!!!
Student-Led Conferences: 4-7:30 pm

Thursday: TEST on Variables and Expressions
Homework: Extra Credit (optional)

Friday: No School

Test, Conferences

Our next test will be Thursday, March 1st.
It will be on variables, expressions, combining like terms, and the distributive property.

Student-Led Conferences are Tuesday and Wednesday, February 28th and 29th.
Please come between 4:00 and 7:30 to speak with me about your student's progress.

The Distributive Property

February 21-25

Tuesday: The Distributive Property
Homework: 3-1 Study Guide

Wednesday: Simplifying Expressions with the Distributive Property
Homework: 3-2 Practice

Thursday/Friday: Factoring Using Area Models
Homework: TBA

February 13-17

Monday: Variable Expressions
Homework: Variable Expressions Worksheet

Tuesday: Simplifying Expressions
Homework: 3-2 Skills Practice (both sides)

Wednesday: The Distributive Property
Homework: Distributive Property Worksheet

Thursday/Friday: Modeling the Distributive Property
Homework: Distributive Property - finish packet

February 6-10

Monday: Algebraic Properties
               Return Order of Operations Test
Homework: Commutative and Associative Properties - Get the Picture
                    Test Correctives - Due Wednesday!

Tuesday: Algebraic Properties
Homework: Algebraic Properties

Wednesday: Combining Like Terms
Homework: Simplifying Expressions - Combining Like Terms

Thursday/Friday: Simplifying Expressions - Notes on "constant, coefficient, like terms"
Homework: From textbook

Order of Operations

Example and Practice Page

Citizenship Grades for Ms. McKnight's Class

January 30 - February 3

Monday: Order of Operations Practice
Homework: Order of Operations (SHOW EVERY STEP!)

Tuesday: Introduction to Variables
Homework: Number Trick

Wednesday: Evaluating Variable Expressions with the Order of Operations
Homework: Study Guide 1-3

Thursday/Friday: TEST on Order of Operations
                          Writing Variable Expressions
Homework: In Textbook

January 23-27

Monday: Cuatro Cuatros - Order of Operations
Homework: Finish Coordinate Graphing Picture - Four Digits Problem (figure out at least 10 of the problems)

Tuesday: Expressions
Homework: Expressions Packet (yellow)

Wednesday: Exponents
Homework: Get Rich Quick

Thursday/Friday: Exponents and Order of Operations
Homework: TBA

January 17-19

Tuesday: Reveiw Fraction Operations
Homework: MDAS Fraction Practice - Study!

Wednesday: Benchmark (Mastery Test)
   Add, Subtract, Multiply, and Divide Positive and Negative Numbers
   Add, Subtract, Multiply, and Divide Positive and Negative Fractions
   Draw Models for Operations with Positive and Negative Numbers
   Solve Problems with Positive and Negative Numbers
Homework: Extra Credit (optional)

Thursday: Coordinate Graphing
Homework: Coordinate Graphing Picture - due Tuesday, January 24

Friday: No School

January 9-13

Periods 1 and 2
Monday: Brownie Fractions - Modeling Addition with Unlike Denominators
Homework: Finish Brownie Fractions (2 pages)

Tuesday: Adding and Subtracting Unlike Fractions (notes)
Homework: 235/11-28, 33, 34

Wednesday: Operating with Fractions and Decimals
Homework: Number Line City

Thursday: Problem Solving with Fractions and Decimals
 QUIZ on Adding and Subtracting Fractions
Homework: Finish Grid Sums, Problem Solving - Fraction and Decimal Operations

Periods 3-7
Monday: Adding Fractions on a Number Line
Homework: Investigation 2 page (both sides)

Tuesday: Brownie Fractions - Modeling Addition with Unlike Denominators
Homework: Finish Brownie Fractions - find out what a "Common Denominator" is

Wednesday: Adding and Subtracting Unlike Fractions (notes)
Homework: 5-7 Practice and Skills Practice

Thursday/Friday: More Practice Adding and Subtracting Fractions
 QUIZ on Adding and Subtracting Fractions
Homework: Independent Practice Worksheet, Pizzazz Worksheets (Jokes)

January 3-6

Periods 1-2
Tuesday: Review Multiplying and Dividing Fractions
Homework: Multiplying and Dividing Fractions (green)

Wednesday: Adding and Subtracting Fractions on a Number Line
Homework: Finish Add and Subtract on Number Line Packet

Thursday:  Notes on Adding and Subtracting Fractions / Brownie Fractions I and II
Homework: 222/17-34,45,46   - also finish Brownie Fractions I (pink) and II (tan) if you didn't finish in class

Periods 3-7
Tuesday: Review Multiplying and Dividing Fractions
Homework: Multiplying and Dividing Fractions (green)

Wednesday: Notes on Dividing Fractions / Brownie Fractions I
Homework: Brownie Fractions I (pink)

Thursday/Friday: Note on Adding and Subtracting Fractions / Brownie Fractions II
Homework: 222/4-9,15-28  -  finish Brownie Fractions II if you didn't finish in class