Math Fact Practice

If you want to improve your fluency, try these sites:

math fact game
That's a Fact
Fun Brain
Math Playground

Post your claims and evidence here....

Example:

My Role: Bottlenose dolphin
My Claim: More dolphins have died this year than last year because of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Evidence: The bodies of 74 bottlenose dolphins have been recovered since the Deepwater Horizon spill began. That is more than the usual number of dolphin deaths. Since dolphins normally have a life span of 45 years and only have one calf per birth, this may have an impact on the population of dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico in years to come. Dolphins are especially at risk from the oil spill due to the fact that they must come to the surface to breathe and are prone to inhaling and ingesting oil floating on the surface.

COW #3 and Oil Spill Project

This week we will be beginning our Deepwater Horizon research.  Each student will take on a role and will take a claim based on the perspective of that role.  Then you will have to find, collect, analyze and construct evidence to support your claim.  This project will be completed in class.  If you are focused in class,  I expect you to create a project that meets or exceeds the standards laid out in the rubric.   See below.

Oil Spill Project Overview and Rubric

This week I will be officially assessing your COWS for the first time.  Make sure to make revisions throughout the week and to communicate clearly and justify your reasoning.  Show me all of your thoughts and work.  Do not ASSUME that I know what you are thinking!

COW #3 Rate

Help with rate problems.  What is a unit rate?

Negative Number Practice!!!

We will have a short assessment on negative numbers on Friday.  This is a great site to practice on. 

Practice with Negative Numbers

Ben Carson Science Academy

Exciting Opportunity:

The Morehouse School of Medicine’s Ben Carson Saturday Science Academy has extended an invitation to the students at our school to participate in our science enrichment program from October 9-November 20 (Saturdays ONLY).  The program runs from 9am-1:30 pm offering extensive hand-on science experiments which include dissections and also a robotics component.  We also include parental workshops on various issues pertaining to children. The purpose of our program is to introduce students to the health sciences field. Students in 4th-8th grade can participate.  Registration dates are from August 2-August 31 so please act fast!
Ben Carson Science Academy Link:

http://www.msm.edu/community_health/commhealth_trainingprograms/commhealth_trainingprograms_ben.aspx

Slope and Rate Continued

We will continue to explore and practice with slope and rate this week. You have been assigned either COW#2E or COW#2R to complete this week. The sites below should help you with this work:

Finding the Slope of a Line using 2 Points
Rate and Slope
Solving Rate Word Problems
Online Practice on BOTH Ways to Find Slope
Working with Negative Numbers

Video Showing How to Find the Slope of Line

Video Plotting Ordered Pairs on a Coordinate Plane

THE IMPORTANT THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT SLOPE ARE....

IN ORDER TO DEMONSTRATE YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SLOPE, PLEASE POST A COMMENT TO THIS POST THAT TELLS THREE THINGS THAT YOU THINK ARE IMPORTANT TO KNOW OR DO WHEN WORKING WITH SLOPE.

Assessment Tomorrow

You will be assessed tomorrow on the skills from the COW this week and some of last week's as well :)
So be prepared to:
- distinguish between qualitative and quantitative data
- identify whether a line has a negative, positive, undefined or zero slope
- calculate the slope of a line from a graph AND from two points
- identify claims that support evidence

COWs are here!

Today you were introduced to the COW.  This week's COW is right here.  You will be graded on COWS over the course of the term using the RUBRIC we discussed in class today.

Here are some links to get you started:
Math Warehouse(slope)
Purple Math(slope)
Slope Slider(slope)
Finding Slope from a Graph- negative slope
Ordered Pairs
Rate of Change
Slope Powerpoint

Arguments!!!

We had spirited discussions today around the best musical artist EVER.
Argument Graphic Organizer
Tonight, find additional information about your personal favorite artist, so that you can revamp the argument you wrote for warm-up today.
Remember that you will be assessed tomorrow on the following:
- quantitative vs. qualitative
- arguments, claims, and evidence
- using graphs to present information

Quantitative vs. Qualitative Data

Today we explored the difference between qualitative and quantitative data.
To review the differences click here .  To practice distinguishing between the two click here .
Remember, if you haven't showed me your signed syllabus, please have it ready for me tomorrow.
There is no formal HW this week to allow you to adjust to returning to the responsibilities of school, please use this extra time to make sure that your Summer Journal Activities are complete and are of good quality.  If you are unsure as to whether an assignment is acceptable, please ask!

Welcome to 8th Grade MST

It was great to meet and/or get reacquainted with you all today.  I look forward to working with you throughout this school year.  Make sure that you read and highlight/underline the main points of the
syllabus tonight.  Also, please bring any questions that you may have about it to class tomorrow.