<p align="center">Room 307 Math Weekly Overview for the week of January 11, 2010</p>

 

This week students will continue studying inequalities.  Specifically, students will practice reversing the inequality sign when multiplying and dividing with negative integers.  In addition, students will begin working with inequalities.  There will be a quiz on Thursday reviewing what we have covered this week and last week.

 

Our math textbook has a wonderful free website.  It contains tutorials, as well as math review games.  I think everyone will enjoy it, the website is  <a href="http://www.classzone.com/cz/books/pre_alg/book_home.htm?state=IL">http://www.classzone.com/cz/books/pre_alg/book_home.htm?state=IL</a> please visit it.

 

If you have any questions or concerns please e-mail me at:  <a href="mailto:mmwebb@cps.edu">mmwebb@cps.edu</a> or call me at (773)535-0970.

 

Sincerely,

Ms. Webb

 

 
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<p align="center">Room 307 Math Weekly Overview for the week of January 4, 2010</p>

 

Happy New Year!!

 

This week students will continue working in Unit 3, and focus on solving equations with variables on both sides of the equation.  In addition, students will begin working with inequalities.  There will NOT be a quiz this week.

 

Our math textbook has a wonderful free website.  It contains tutorials, as well as math review games.  I think everyone will enjoy it, the website is  <a href="http://www.classzone.com/cz/books/pre_alg/book_home.htm?state=IL">http://www.classzone.com/cz/books/pre_alg/book_home.htm?state=IL</a> please visit it.

 

If you have any questions or concerns please e-mail me at:  <a href="mailto:mmwebb@cps.edu">mmwebb@cps.edu</a> or call me at (773)535-0970.

 

Sincerely,

Ms. Webb
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<p align="center">Room 307 Math Weekly Overview for the week of December 14, 2009</p>

 

This week students will continue working in Unit 3, and focus on solving equations with variables on both sides of the equation.  In addition, students will finish reviewing their learning first tests from this fall.  There will be no quiz or test this week.  I wish everyone a safe and wonderful holiday season!

 Our math textbook has a wonderful free website.  It contains tutorials, as well as math review games.  I think everyone will enjoy it, the website is  <a href="http://www.classzone.com/cz/books/pre_alg/book_home.htm?state=IL">http://www.classzone.com/cz/books/pre_alg/book_home.htm?state=IL</a> please visit it.

 If you have any questions or concerns please e-mail me at:  <a href="mailto:mmwebb@cps.edu">mmwebb@cps.edu</a> or call me at (773)535-0970.

 Sincerely,

Ms. Webb
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<p align="center">Room 307 Math Weekly Overview for the week of December 7, 2009</p>

 This week students will continue working in Unit 3, and focus on solving equations with multiple steps.  This week, students will focus on completing the steps of the distributive property prior to combining like terms to solve equations.  As usual there will be a brief quiz on Thursday reviewing what we cover this week.

 Our math textbook has a wonderful free website.  It contains tutorials, as well as math review games.  I think everyone will enjoy it, the website is  <a href="http://www.classzone.com/cz/books/pre_alg/book_home.htm?state=IL">http://www.classzone.com/cz/books/pre_alg/book_home.htm?state=IL</a> please visit it.

 If you have any questions or concerns please e-mail me at:  <a href="mailto:mmwebb@cps.edu">mmwebb@cps.edu</a> or call me at (773)535-0970.

 Sincerely,

Ms. Webb
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<p align="center">Room 307 Math Weekly Overview for the week of November 30, 2009</p>

 

I am asking for donations of boxes of Kleenex.  Any donations will be greatly appreciated!

This week students will begin Unit 3, and focus on solving equations with multiple steps.  This will include solving equations with variables on both sides of the equation.  As usual there will be a brief quiz on Friday reviewing what we cover this week.

 Our math textbook has a wonderful free website.  It contains tutorials, as well as math review games.  I think everyone will enjoy it, the website is  <a href="http://www.classzone.com/cz/books/pre_alg/book_home.htm?state=IL">http://www.classzone.com/cz/books/pre_alg/book_home.htm?state=IL</a> please visit it.

 If you have any questions or concerns please e-mail me at:  <a href="mailto:mmwebb@cps.edu">mmwebb@cps.edu</a> or call me at (773)535-0970.

 Sincerely,

Ms. Webb
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<p align="center">Room 307 Math Weekly Overview for the week of November 23, 2009</p>

 

As we begin our second quarter of the school year, our classroom is running low on Kleenex and Paper towels.  If you have already sent a box of kleenex and roll of paper towels to school – Thank You!  If you have not yet sent in these supplies, please send them in when you get a chance.

Due to the short nature of this week, students will review their Learning First test booklets from earlier this fall.  Students will review concepts which will return this March on the ISAT.  In addition, students will review last week’s unit 2 math test.  There will NOT be a math quiz this week.

 Our math textbook has a wonderful free website.  It contains tutorials, as well as math review games.  I think everyone will enjoy it, the website is  <a href="http://www.classzone.com/cz/books/pre_alg/book_home.htm?state=IL">http://www.classzone.com/cz/books/pre_alg/book_home.htm?state=IL</a> please visit it.

 If you have any questions or concerns please e-mail me at:  <a href="mailto:mmwebb@cps.edu">mmwebb@cps.edu</a> or call me at (773)535-0970.

 Sincerely,

Ms. Webb
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<p align="center">Room 307 Math Weekly Overview for the week of November 16, 2009</p>

 

As we begin our second quarter of the school year, our classroom is running low on Kleenex and Paper towels.  If you have already sent a box of kleenex and roll of paper towels to school – Thank You!  If you have not yet sent in these supplies, please send them in when you get a chance.

This week students will review Unit 2 in preparation for the Unit 2 test on Friday.  In preparation for the test students should review the distributive property, terms and combining like terms, simplifying expressions, and using inverse operations to solve equations.  Students should also make sure they use the online resource classzone to help prepare for Fridays exam. 

 Our math textbook has a wonderful free website.  It contains tutorials, as well as math review games.  I think everyone will enjoy it, the website is  <a href="http://www.classzone.com/cz/books/pre_alg/book_home.htm?state=IL">http://www.classzone.com/cz/books/pre_alg/book_home.htm?state=IL</a> please visit it.

 If you have any questions or concerns please e-mail me at:  <a href="mailto:mmwebb@cps.edu">mmwebb@cps.edu</a> or call me at (773)535-0970.

 Sincerely,

Ms. Webb
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<p align="center">Room 307 Math Weekly Overview for the week of November 9, 2009</p>

 

As we begin our second quarter of the school year, our classroom is running low on Kleenex and Paper towels.  If you have already sent a box of kleenex and roll of paper towels to school - Thank You!  If you have not yet sent in these supplies, please send them in when you get a chance.

This week students will begin solving more complex equations.  Specifically, students will begin solving equations with decimals.  Students will take a quiz on Friday covering what we have studied in Unit 2 thus far.

Our math textbook has a wonderful free website.  It contains tutorials, as well as math review games.  I think everyone will enjoy it, the website is  <a href="http://www.classzone.com/cz/books/pre_alg/book_home.htm?state=IL">http://www.classzone.com/cz/books/pre_alg/book_home.htm?state=IL</a> please visit it.

 

If you have any questions or concerns please e-mail me at:  <a href="mailto:mmwebb@cps.edu">mmwebb@cps.edu</a> or call me at (773)535-0970.

 

Sincerely,

Ms. Webb
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<p align="center">Room 307 Math Weekly Overview for the week of November 2, 2009</p>

This week students will begin using inverse operations to solve equations.  In addition, students will continue to practice creating verbal sentences out of everyday math situations, and then writing equations from their verbal sentences.  There will NOT be a quiz this week.

 Our math textbook has a wonderful free website.  It contains tutorials, as well as math review games.  I think everyone will enjoy it, the website is  <a href="http://www.classzone.com/cz/books/pre_alg/book_home.htm?state=IL">http://www.classzone.com/cz/books/pre_alg/book_home.htm?state=IL</a> please visit it.

 If you have any questions or concerns please e-mail me at:  <a href="mailto:mmwebb@cps.edu">mmwebb@cps.edu</a> or call me at (773)535-0970.

 

Sincerely,

Ms. Webb
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<p align="center">Room 307 Math Weekly Overview for the week of October 26, 2009</p>

 

This week students will continue simplifying equations, and begin solving equations.  In addition, students will continue to practice creating verbal sentences out of everyday math situations, and then writing equations from their verbal sentences.  There will NOT be a quiz this week.

 Our math textbook has a wonderful free website.  It contains tutorials, as well as math review games.  I think everyone will enjoy it, the website is  <a href="http://www.classzone.com/cz/books/pre_alg/book_home.htm?state=IL">http://www.classzone.com/cz/books/pre_alg/book_home.htm?state=IL</a> please visit it.

 If you have any questions or concerns please e-mail me at:  <a href="mailto:mmwebb@cps.edu">mmwebb@cps.edu</a> or call me at (773)535-0970.

 

Sincerely,

Ms. Webb
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<p align="center">Math Weekly Overview for the week of October 19, 2009</p>

 This week students will continue simplifying equations.  In addition, students will practice creating verbal sentences out of everyday math situations, and then writing equations from their verbal sentences.  There will be a brief quiz on Thursday covering what we practice this week.

 Our math textbook has a wonderful free website.  It contains tutorials, as well as math review games.  I think everyone will enjoy it, the website is  <a href="http://www.classzone.com/cz/books/pre_alg/book_home.htm?state=IL">http://www.classzone.com/cz/books/pre_alg/book_home.htm?state=IL</a> please visit it.

 If you have any questions or concerns please e-mail me at:  <a href="mailto:mmwebb@cps.edu">mmwebb@cps.edu</a> or call me at (773)535-0970.

 Sincerely,

Ms. Webb
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<p align="center">Room 307 Math Weekly Overview for the week of October 12, 2009</p>

 

This week students will begin studying Unit 2, which introduces the commutative, associative, and distributive properties.  In addition, Unit 2 focuses on Simplifying equations.  This week, students will learn the commutative, associative and distributive properties.  There will NOT be a quiz this week.

 Our math textbook has a wonderful free website.  It contains tutorials, as well as math review games.  I think everyone will enjoy it, the website is  <a href="http://www.classzone.com/cz/books/pre_alg/book_home.htm?state=IL">http://www.classzone.com/cz/books/pre_alg/book_home.htm?state=IL</a> please visit it.

 If you have any questions or concerns please e-mail me at:  <a href="mailto:mmwebb@cps.edu">mmwebb@cps.edu</a> or call me at (773)535-0970.

 Sincerely,

Ms. Webb
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<p align="center">Room 307 Math Weekly Overview for the week of October 5, 2009</p>

 This week students will finish studying our first unit of the year, and prepare for Thursday’s math test.  Specifically students will review plotting coordinate points on all four quadrants of the coordinate plane.  In addition, students will review all of Unit 1.  We will take the Unit 1 math test on Thursday.  Please encourage your student to study the review pages and practice test on pp. 52 -57 of our math books.

 Our math textbook has a wonderful free website.  It contains tutorials, as well as math review games.  I think everyone will enjoy it, the website is  <a href="http://www.classzone.com/cz/books/pre_alg/book_home.htm?state=IL">http://www.classzone.com/cz/books/pre_alg/book_home.htm?state=IL</a> please visit it.

 If you have any questions or concerns please e-mail me at:  <a href="mailto:mmwebb@cps.edu">mmwebb@cps.edu</a> or call me at (773)535-0970.

 Sincerely,

Ms. Webb

 
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<p align="center">Room 307 Math Weekly Overview for the week of September 28, 2009</p>
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This week in math students will review Statistical Landmarks, and adding and subtracting positive and negative integers.  In addition, students will learn how to multiply and divide positive and negative integers while remembering to follow the order of operatios.  As usual there will be a brief quiz reviewing what we covered this week on Thursday.

 Our math textbook has a wonderful website I would like to introduce you to.  It contains tutorials, as well as math review games.  I think everyone will enjoy it, the website is  <a href="http://www.classzone.com/cz/books/pre_alg/book_home.htm?state=IL">http://www.classzone.com/cz/books/pre_alg/book_home.htm?state=IL</a> please visit it.

 If you have any questions or concerns please e-mail me at:  <a href="mailto:mmwebb@cps.edu">mmwebb@cps.edu</a> or call me at (773)535-0970.

Sincerely,

Ms. Webb

 
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<p align="center">Room 307 Math Weekly Overview for the week of September 21, 2009</p>

To: Sixth Grade Students and Parents

From:  Ms. Webb 

This week in math students will complete lessons 1.5 and 1.6 which will review adding and subtracting negative and positive integers.  Students will also continue to incorporate the order of operations into all of our math work.  There will be a brief math quiz on Thursday, covering what we study this week.  I am looking forward to meeting all of you this Wednesday at Open House, see you there!

 Our math textbook has a wonderful website I would like to introduce you to.  It contains tutorials, as well as math review games.  I think everyone will enjoy it, the website is  <a href="http://www.classzone.com/cz/books/pre_alg/book_home.htm?state=IL">http://www.classzone.com/cz/books/pre_alg/book_home.htm?state=IL</a> please visit it.

 If you have any questions or concerns please e-mail me at:  <a href="mailto:mmwebb@cps.edu">mmwebb@cps.edu</a> or call me at (773)535-0970.

 Sincerely,

Ms. Webb