Important Info!

Both grades: 
A bonus assignment will be given out this week. This is OPTIONAL and due by Wed. 3/13.

6th grade: Thursday's test covers 6.7 & 6.8.

6.7- Students must use distributive property to rewrite expressions.
6.8- Students must label a blank coordinate plane (matching)- Quadrants I - IV, origin, x-axis, y-axis. -Label points when given coordinates, when points are graphed, give coordinates, describe location of points (Ex: QI or x-axis)

7th grade: Mistake on the spiral! Change #7) 15y to -14y. 
#9 and #10 are the same- work them twice :) 

Test Friday- use review sheet to prepare!

Date Change!

7th grade test has been moved, new test date is Friday, March 8th. Review sheet below, will be passed out next week.

Have a wonderful weekend.

7^th grade Math Test- Mrs. Serpas

Ch. 7 Sections 1-4

Test is Friday, March 8^th, 2013

I. 7.1 Ratios & Rates (pg. 317)

A. Know definition of ratio, equivalent ratios, rate and unit rate (matching with all definitions).

          B. Write a ratio (see Ex. 1 pg. 317)

C. Find an equivalent rate (see Ex. 2 pg. 318 though you may use another method)

          D. Find unit rates (Ex. 3 pg. 317)

          E. Tell whether rates are equivalent (#5-7 pg. 319)

II. 7.2 – Writing and Solving Proportions (pg. 322)

A.   Know definition of proportion (matching with all definitions)

B.   Write and solve a proportion (Ex. 1 pg. 322)

C.    Solve proportions (#1-3 pg. 322)

D.   Use cross-products property to solve proportions (Ex. 2 pg. 322)

E. Use scale to find actual or scale measurements (Ex. 3 pg. 324)

III. 7.3 Solving Percent Problems (pg. 327)

A.   Know definition of percent (matching with all other definitions)

B.   Find percent of a number using percent proportion  (Ex. 1 pg. 327)

C.    Find part of a number using percent proportion (Ex. 2 pg. 328)

D.   Find the base using percent proportion (Ex. 3 pg. 328)

IV. 7.4 Fractions, Decimals, and Percents (pg. 331)

          A. Write fractions as percents using percent proportion (Ex. 1 pg. 331)

          B. Write decimals as percents (ex. 2 pg. 332)

          C. Write percents as decimals and fractions (ex. 3 pg. 332)

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Week of February 25th

Hi everyone,

Hope you are having a great weekend!

6th grade: We are still in Chapter 6! We will move on this week, but need to finish up this very important chapter first. Test Wednesday 2/27 on Ch. 6 sections 6 & 7- Properties. Test review sheets will go home Monday. You will need to identify the properties that are illustrated (Ex. 5 + 0 = 5; Identity Property of Addition), and use the properties to simplify expressions. This does include Distributive Property as well. We will start 6.8, Coordinate Plane, on Thursday, with a quiz the following week on it.

As always, keep practicing those integer problems! They will pop up on quizzes and tests from now through the end of the year! 

Spiral 6  due Tuesday 2/26.

7th grade: GREAT JOB on working these multi-step equations! We will spend another day or two on these, and then begin Chapter 7- Ratios and Rates. You will be able to use your calculators for this chapter, please bring calculators to class daily. 

Remember, I am not going to test on multi-step equations, though you will have an upcoming spiral covering these.

Spiral 6 due Tuesday 2/26, 7th grade Retreat Wednesday.

Test on Ch. 7, Sec. TBA on Thursday, March 7th 

Have a wonderful week everyone!

Mrs. Serpas

Week of February 3rd

Hi everyone,

I hope you had a great weekend! 

As I told the students, 3rd nine weeks is the toughest of all. The curriculum has picked up, and we are all tired :) It is crucial that they earn every possible point, and many are missing the easier points such as spirals. 

I am now requiring that parents sign spirals of 4 or less. If your child has a spiral with a blue pencil/parent signature stamp, he or she must return that signed spiral the next day. Students have spirals for one week, and I encourage parents, older siblings, tutors, etc. to check them. Students may also ask me for help if they are stuck. 

Spirals can be grade "boosters" or grade "busters," I hope that students will put forth their best effort in working these problems and in getting these checked. 

6th grade: Integers!!!! Once again, I can't stress how important it is for students to memorize these rules. We went to the media center/computer lab today for them to navigate my website and textbook/help links, they should be proficient in finding practice problems and exercises. Test this Thursday on integers- all operations. Pop quiz at any point on integer rules.

7th grade: Parents, please check over spirals or have someone else look them over. These last few spiral grades have been very low. :( 

No quizzes or tests this week. We are continuing in Chapter 5- rational numbers, sections 5 - 8. We will then move on to Chapter 6 to cover multi-step equations and inequalities before moving on to Chapter 7- Rates, Ratios and Percent.

Have a great week and a wonderful Mardi Gras holiday!

Mrs. Serpas 

correction to one review problem

Answer to # 47 is 1/3w^8

(one over 3w, with w raised to the 8th power)

Answers to 7th grade Review!

Reminder- optional review for test !
TB pg. 212 # 18 - 38 even, # 41-48 all