MSA - Study Guide for Unit Assessment - 2016

Preparation Guide for

Moving Straight Ahead Unit Test

Essential Learnings - students should know how to:

• Translate information about linear relationships given a table, a graph, or an equation to one of the other forms.

• Solve problems and make decisions about linear relationships using information given in tables, graphs, and equations.

Additionally students should be able to:

• Construct tables, graphs and symbolic equations.
• Recognize linear relationships
• Solve an equation for an unknown.
• Find x or y when you substitute in the other value in an equation.
• Find the slope of a line given two points on a line or given an equation.
• Find point of intersection of two lines given a graph, a table or two equations.
• Find y-intercept when given an equation.
• Be able to use and understand the vocabulary terms we have learned in class such as linear relationship, point of intersection, y-intercept, slope, coefficient, rise, run, horizontal, vertical, coordinate pair, etc.

Focus questions/ problems - students should study by reviewing & redoing the following:

• The packet with 20 practice problems solving for x.
• These specific sections from the Moving Straight Ahead book; Problem 1.2, Problem 1.3, Problem 3.4, Problem 3.5 & Problem 4.2.

The test prep practice sheets from class, Click here to access

Review Packet Answer Key

Study Guide for Stretching & Shrinking Unit Test

Study Guide for Stretching & Shrinking Unit Test

Assessment will be on Wednesday, March 2nd

Essential Learnings:

• Apply coordinate rules to stretch or shrink shapes and then plot them.
• Understand ways that stretching or shrinking a figure affects lengths, angle measures, perimeter and area.

Specific Skills:

• Draw shapes on coordinate grids and use coordinate rules to stretch (x, y), shrink and move the shapes.
• Determine the way that stretching and shrinking a figure affects lengths, angle measures, perimeters, and areas.

• Identify similar polygons and use scale factor and side length ratios to prove similarity between polygons.

• Calculate scale factor of two similar shapes and find measures of angles in similar polygons.
• Apply relationship of scale factor to perimeter and area.
• Use the properties of similarity to find distances and heights that you can’t measure.
• Use specific vocabulary appropriately, use the terms we have learned and discussed in class - specific vocabulary is posted in the classrooms as well as on the Math Blog.

Material to Review:

1. Review and redo problems from the unit Check-ins, Checks for Understanding, warm up problems, in-class practice sheets.
2. Problems from the text: Problem 2.2 (pages 30 & 31), page 32 the definition of similar (the two bullet points under the bold word), Problem 2.3 (pages 34 & 35), Problem 3.1 (page 52), Problem 41. B (page 83), Problem 4.2 (page 84), Problem 4.4 D (page 89).  
3. Unit Review in your book (pgs. 108-110) specifically #s 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6.

Study Sessions:

Study sessions will be held on Monday, February 29th in room 210, Tuesday, March 1st in room 207 and Wednesday, March 2nd in room 214, all starting at 7:10 a.m.  Come with questions or to work through some final problems that will solidify your knowledge and increase your confidence. Teachers will also be available during study halls each day and after school by appointment.

Answer Key for Today's Review Packet

Study for ATN Unit Test by trying problems from the packet you got in class today. You are not expected to complete the whole packet. Try some of the problems, check them using the key posted on the Math Blog. If you're getting them right, move on to another type of problem, otherwise, try to find your mistake and try again. 

Click here to access the key

ATN Practice Test,Investigation Reflection and Looking Back

Practice Test - Click here to Access

Click here to access the Question Document.

Unit Assessment Study Guide and Packet.

Your Unit Assessment will be on Friday 8th.

Here is the Study Guide

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Here is the Study Packet

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Here are the answers to the study packet.

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Have fun reviewing!

Shapes and Designs Unit Test

We are finishing up our first math unit, Shapes and Designs. 

The Unit Test is scheduled for Thursday 10/29.

Start studying now to make sure you're ready!

Final Study Guide - Shapes and Designs

1. Draw, construct and describe geometrical figures and describe relationships between 
2. Solve real-life and mathematical problems involving angle measure, area, surface area, and volume.

Review - Investigation 1 

    1. Sorting and sketching of regular polygon (specific to parallelogram and triangle)
    2. Benchmark angles
    3. Measuring angles

Review - Investigation 2

    1. Formulas - sum of angles in a regular polygon (n = the number of sides in polygon)
        • S (sum of angles) = 180 (n-2)
        • A (individual angle in a polygon) = 180 (n-2) / n
    2. Finding exterior angles in a polygon.

Review - Investigation 3

    1. Sides lengths and forming triangles:
        • The sum of the two shorter sides must be greater then the longer side in a triangle
    2. How to create a unique triangle:
        • SAS (side-angle-side),
        • AAS (angle-angle-side),
        • SSS (side-side-side),
        • ASA (angle- side-angle)
    3. Finding angle measures when given parallel lines and transversals.
        • supplementary angles
        • complementary angles
        • isosceles/equilateral triangle properties
        • parallelogram/square/rectangle properties
        • angle sums for regular polygons

Specific work to review:

    • Warm-up problems (Do Nows)
    • Specific ACE Problems or Investigation Problems to review to review:
    •Inv 1 ACE: #10 page. 27, Check-in Quiz, Problem 1.4 C and D page .21
    •Inv 2 ACE: #1 page. 52, #12 page. 54,
    •Inv 3 Problem 3.2 A, ACE #9 page. 77, Problem 3.4 B and C page. 70
    • Check-in 1 and Partner Quiz Inv 2

Review Practice Sheet

Review Practice Sheet Answer Key

Skills #1-4 Review and Extra Practice Sheets

Click here to access the Skills #1-4 Review Worksheet

Here are the answers:

1) 89 is median and mean is 88

2) 9

3) 13

4) 2 & 8/15

5) 2

6) 25%

7) 25 & 6/7

8) 9/81, 2/14, 1/6, 3/7, 5/6, 7/8

9) 92

10) 45

Bonus: radius = 6

MORE PRACTICE NEEDED?

Here is a link to scanned practice sheets with answers.  

The practice sheets cover the following skills:

• order of operations
• division of fractions
• order of operations with fractions
• percent of a number problems
• decimal division