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Math 7/Math Flex - Students in Math 7 and Math 7 Flex have been working hard finishing up on working with integers. Students learned how to add, subtract, multiply and divide negative and positive integers. Students also learned the concepts behind these operations and various real-life application problems that can be solved using integers. Presently, students are working with rational numbers, also known as fractions and decimals. This unit corresponds to Big Ideas! Math Chapter 2. In class, students will engage in some hands-on discovery learning, balanced with some directly taught teacher instruction and practice. Next up, all students will work on some algebra standards in a unit on algebraic expressions and equations.

Math 8 - In Math 8, we are just completing our second unit of the year, which revolved around the
language of algebra and telling stories through expressions and equations. In the process, we reviewed two of the most important concepts for simplifying and solving, the distributive property and CLT (no, it’s not a sandwich!) Coming up next, students will be working with solving more complex equations using algebraic steps.

Algebra – Algebra students are also finishing up work in our second unit of the year. They have been solving literal equations and working with a great variety of rate problems (fondly known as D=rt problems). They are being challenged to communicate very clearly as they do their work about the meaning of their variables, as well as making the correct interpretation of their results and being able to check their own answers. On the horizon is Unit #3 which is all about functions.