7th Grade – Shana Tova

It was great to start the school year in person. 

This year we are going to develop our maths skills, learning strategies, and creative thinking. We will learn together in a collaborative and experimental environment in order to achieve our goals.

In the last two weeks, we have started our first unit- number sense which includes classifying numbers, finding the greatest common factors and least common multiple. In addition, we worked on some basic algebra skills, such as simplify algebraic expressions using the distributive property and combining like terms. This year we will be focusing on geometry, negative numbers, similarity, proportional reasoning, linear modeling, and more. It was great to work with the students, hear their mathematical thinking and ideas.

I am looking forward to a great year ahead.

Enjoy the pictures.

Shana Tova!

 

8th Grade – Shana Tova

It was great to start the school year in person. 

This year we are going to develop our maths skills, learning strategies, and creative thinking. We will learn together in a collaborative and experimental environment in order to achieve our goals.

In the last two weeks, we have started our first unit- number sense which includes classifying numbers, finding the greatest common factors and least common multiple. In addition, we worked on algebra skills including solving linear equations. This year we will be focusing on algebra and challenge ourselves with real-life problems, different kinds of equations, linear and quadratic functions, factoring on polynomials, and much more. 

I am looking forward to a great year ahead.

Enjoy the pictures.

Shana Tova!

 

 

 

6th Grade – Shana Tova

It was great to start the school year in person. 

This year we are going to develop our maths skills, learning strategies, and creative thinking. We will learn together in a collaborative and experimental environment in order to achieve our goals.

In the last two weeks, we reviewed last year’s concepts such as operations with fractions, decimal numbers, and word problems. In addition, we worked on divisibility rules and verbal expressions. This year we will develop our skills and will be focusing on comparing and measuring quantities, use estimates, write equations to represent relationships among real-world and abstract values, geometry, 3D shapes, and more.

We had a great time working together and I am looking forward to a great year ahead.

Enjoy the pictures.

Shana Tova!

 

 

Making Sense of Graph That Tell a Story – 8th Grade

During the unit of Linear Functions, one of  the representation of an equation is a graph. Graph could be a just mathematical picture of the relationship between quantities. We are trying to look at the graph and understand the story behind it– What can we tell about the numbers its represent. In addition, when analyzing a linear graph , for instance, finding the slope as a rate of change and presenting a number is not enough. We will describe in words, the meaning of the number.

 

Adding & Subtracting Rational Numbers – 7th Grade

In this Investigation, the students experienced adding and subtracting positive and negative rational numbers, by modeling real-world situations using different models. The most non-intuitive computation was subtracting negative numbers. For  examples : why  4 – (-2) = 6  ?

Ask your child to use the chip board model ( red & black chips ) explaining why it does make sense.

We also strength our skills using our class favorite activity – Kahoot.