Thursday, April 28, 2016

Online Set Game

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Rules

The object of the game is to identify a 'Set' of three cards from 12 cards laid out on the table. Each card has a variation of the following four features:

1) COLOR: Each card is red, green, or blue.
2) SYMBOL: Each card contains ovals, squiggles, or diamonds.
3) NUMBER: Each card has one, two, or three symbols.
4) SHADING: Each card is solid, open, or striped.

A 'Set' consists of three cards in which each feature is EITHER the same on each card OR is different on each card. That is to say, any feature in the 'Set' of three cards is either common to all three cards or is different on each card.

Examples of sets:

1) color: different on each card, symbol: the same on each card (oval), number: the same on each (two),shading: the same on each card (solid)

2) color: different on each card, symbol: different on each card, number: different on each card, shading: different on each card

3) color: the same on each card (green), symbol: the same on each card (diamond), number: different on each card, shading: different on each card

New Unit - Moving Straight Ahead

The primary goal of this Unit is for students to develop an understanding of linear relationships. Students recognize linear relationships by the constant rate of change between two variables in a contextual situation, a table, a graph, or an equation.

Skills #1-20 Review Answers

Here is the Practice #1-20 Skills Answer Key

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Monday, April 4, 2016

Study Guide for Comparing and Scaling

Prepare for the Comparing and Scaling

Unit Test on 4/12!

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Click here to access the study packet - Answer Key

Tuesday, March 15, 2016

New Unit - Comparing and Scaling

Welcome to our new unit focusing on ratios, rates, percents and proportions.

Investigation 1: Ways of Comparing: Ratios and Proportions

Investigation 1 focuses on different strategies for comparing quantities—using ratios, fractions, percents. Students learn what different types of comparative statements say about data given. They are asked to write comparative statements using ratios and differences that describe data.

We have completed Investigation 1.1 -1.2 in the new Comparing and Scaling Book.
We focused on the ability to make comparisons of quantitative data.
We focused on making comparisons through:
1. ratios
2. differences
3. percents
4. simplified ratios

Further we stressed the importance of making comparisons between part-to-part or part-to-whole.