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For Friday:

1.) Set II on Page 49
2.) POW

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Homework:

1.) Finish last night's assignment (if you have not already)

2.) Read pages 46-47

3.) Do set I on page 48

Remember homework should not take you more than 45 minutes to complete. If it does, reduce the assignment by only doing a, c, e, etc.

I will do a homework check tomorrow!

Several Operations

Review PEMDAS.

Do Set II on pages 42 and 43.

Zero and One

Weekend Homework:
Set II on page 35

Order of Operations

Due Friday:

1.) Read pages 33-34
2.) Do Set I on page 35
3.) Revise your math autobiography (respond specifically to my questions)
4.) POW (use rubric)

Raising to a Power

Due tomorrow:

• Finish set I (p. 29)
• Do Set II - ALL

Due Friday:

• POW
• Respond to my notes about your autobiography!

Review, Correct and Organize

Tonight's homework is to go over Set I's and make sure you've shown your work. From now on, show your work on all written assignments. Remember to split your paper in half and use one column to show work and the other column to show the answer.

I highly recommend buying a binder and looseleaf for class. I do not want any more spiral notebook paper handed in.

This week's POW:
A palindrome is a number that is written the same forward and backward. Some examples include 11, 242, and 909. How many whole-number palindromes exist between 10 and 1,000?

Remember to show your thinking.

Division

9/14/07

Division - pg 24-27

• Set I - Odds
• Set II - 11, 14, 15
• Set III- 3, 19, 20, 23
• Math Autobiography
• Parent Responses to Blog

Multiplication

9/12/07

Homework: Due Friday
Set I - All
Set II - 12, 13, 17
Set III - 21, 24
Set IV - Extra Credit

Problem of the Week (also due Friday)

Due Monday:
Autobiography
Blog Questions (for parents)

Addition and Subtraction Homework

9/11/07

Tonight's Homework:
Addition – p. 8 -11
Set I – All
Set II – 11, 13, 16
Set III – 21
Set IV – Finish Number puzzle

Subtraction – p 13 -16
Set I – All
Set II – 15, 17
Set III- 19, 24

Continue:
POW (problem of the week)
Autobiography
Blog questions (for parents). Email them to Skanchwala@bmsonline.org

First Week Assignments

Your homework for this week is as follows:

1. Visit the blogspot with a parent and have them read the introduction and answer the questions about you. They can email me the answers at Skanchwala@bmsonline.org or you can print out a copy and turn it in to me.

2. Write your math autobiography (Due Sept. 17). Including your goals for the year. Here are some guiding questions:
How do you feel about math, and why?
What topics come easy to you and what do you find difficult?
What do you want others to learn about you as a learner of mathematics?
What supports your math learning?
What gets in the way of learning math?

3. Number Tricks

Getting to know your student

Dear Parent,

I’d like to get to know your student as quickly as possible this year. Would you please answer the following questions and send them back to school with your child tomorrow?

Thank you.
Sheila Kanchwala



About My Student



My child’s name (please print) _____________________________



My name ________________________________________________



1.) What is important for me to know about your child?









2.) How does your child feel about math?










3.) What do you feel is the most important aspect about teaching and/or learning math?

Introduction

Dear 8th grade families,

I would like to introduce myself to you as your child’s math teacher this year and tell you a little bit about how math will be structured this year. First, a bit about me: I have taught Spanish and Math Seminar for three years at the Little Red Schoolhouse in New York City. I have also taught math-reasoning course at the Center for Talented Youth through Johns Hopkins University and at the National Young Scholars Program. I am looking forward being at Berkeley Montessori School and getting to know all of you in the near future!

This will be an exciting class, and your child will be engaging in math in a variety of ways. I have the highest of expectations of each student, because I believe that all students are capable of learning math. The curriculum I will mostly draw from is called Elementary Algebra by Harold Jacobs. This curriculum is very rich in teaching skills for abstract thinking.

We will begin with an intensive review of fundamental operations that will lead to our study of functions and graphs. Through the course of the year, we will study integers, rational numbers, equations in one and two variables, simultaneous equations, exponents, polynomials, factoring, fractions, square roots, quadratic equations, real numbers and fractional equations.

Please refer to the blog www. http://bmsmath8.blogspot.com/ for any ongoing announcements and for daily assignments. Should you have any questions feel free to email me at Skanchwala@bmsonline.org or call me at BMS, extension 257.



I look forward to a great year!

Sincerely,
Sheila Kanchwala
BMS Middle School Math Teacher