<p style="text-align: center">Room 307 Math Weekly Overview for the week of June 7, 2010</p>
 

This week students will finish Unit 7 and begin Unit 8 which focuses on linear equations and converting equations into slope intercept form.  This week we plan to cover lessons 7.7 – 8.2, and students will learn how to calculate simple and compound interest as well as begin graphing linear equations and learn what the slope of a line is.  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 style="text-align: center">Room 307 Math Weekly Overview for the week of June 1, 2010</p>
 

This week students will continue studying Unit 7.  Specifically, we plan to cover lessons 8.4 – 8.7 which focus on using the percent equation to solve percent problems and how to apply percent applications to determine mark ups, discounts, sales tax and tips, and begin calculating simple and compound interest.  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 style="text-align: center">Room 307 Math Weekly Overview for the week of May 24, 2010</p>
 

<strong>Upcoming Dates:</strong>  There are a lot of important dates coming up for our sixth graders so I thought I would add them to our weekly overview for your convenience 6<sup>th</sup> Grade Olympics - Thursday May 27<sup>th</sup>, 6<sup>th</sup> Grade Dance  - Friday June 11<sup>th</sup>, 6<sup>th</sup> Grade Picnic -Tuesday June 15<sup>th</sup>, and the all school picnic - Wednesday June 16<sup>th</sup>.

This week students will continue studying Unit 7.  This week students will review converting percents to fractions and decimals, calculating proportions, and using the percent equation to solve percent problems.  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 style="text-align: center">Room 307 Math Weekly Overview for the week of May 17, 2010</p>
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This week students will review Unit 6, and take the Unit exam on Tuesday.  Unit 6 has focused on ratios, proportions, and probability.  Please make sure that students complete the practice test, before Tuesday’s exam.  After our test, students will begin studying Unit 7.  Specifically students will review percents, decimals and fractions.  In addition,  students will learn the Percent equation and begin using it to determine missing percents and wholes.  The Unit 6 test will be given this Tuesday.

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 class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><span>This week students will finish studying Unit 6.<span>  </span>Specifically students will cover lessons 6.7 and 6.8 which focus on probability and the counting principle of probability.<span>  </span>In addition, students will review all of Unit 6 in preparation for Friday’s math test.<span>  </span>Please assist your student in preparing for Friday’s exam.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><span>Our math textbook has a wonderful free website.<span>  </span>It contains tutorials, as well as math review games.<span>  </span>I think everyone will enjoy it, the website is<span>  </span><a href="http://www.classzone.com/cz/books/pre_alg/book_home.htm?state=IL"><span style="color: #800080">http://www.classzone.com/cz/books/pre_alg/book_home.htm?state=IL</span></a> please visit it.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><span>If you have any questions or concerns please e-mail me at:<span>  </span></span><a href="mailto:mmwebb@cps.edu"><span>mmwebb@cps.edu</span></a><span> or call me at (773)535-0970.</span></p>
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<span>Ms. Webb</span>
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<p style="text-align: center">Room 307 Math Weekly Overview for the week of May 3, 2010</p>
 

This week students will continue studying – Unit 6.  Students will take a brief quiz on Thursday which will cover what we’ve studied so far about ratios, rates, and proportions.  This week we plan to cover lessons 6.4– 6.7 which focus on calculating probability based on the number of events and favorable outcomes.  There will be a brief quiz on Thursday.

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<span> </span>
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<span>For your convenience, I publish the weekly overviews on the Ray School Website at </span><a href="http://www.ray.cps.k12.il.us/"><span><span style="color: #800080">www.ray.cps.k12.il.us</span></span></a><span><span>   </span>Once there, please click on classrooms, then fifth and sixth grade, followed by Room 307: Ms. Webb.<span>  </span>On the headings page, please click on sixth grade McDougal Littell, and you will see our weekly overviews.</span>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><span>Our math textbook has a wonderful free website.<span>  </span>It contains tutorials, as well as math review games.<span>  </span>I think everyone will enjoy it, the website is<span>  </span><a href="http://www.classzone.com/cz/books/pre_alg/book_home.htm?state=IL"><span style="color: #800080">http://www.classzone.com/cz/books/pre_alg/book_home.htm?state=IL</span></a> please visit it.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><span>If you have any questions or concerns please e-mail me at:<span>  </span></span><a href="mailto:mmwebb@cps.edu"><span>mmwebb@cps.edu</span></a><span> or call me at (773)535-0970.</span></p>
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<span>Ms. Webb </span>
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<p style="text-align: center">Room 307 Math Weekly Overview for the week of April 26, 2010</p>
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This week students will begin our new unit – Unit 6.  This unit focuses on ratios, rates and proportions.  This week specifically we plan to cover lessons 6.1 – 6.4. which focuses on simplifying ratios, finding equivalent ratios, identifying the unit rate, and solving proportions.

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

Room 307 Math Weekly Overview for the week of April 19, 2010

This week students finish reviewing all of unit 5 in preparation for Tuesdays test.  Unit 5 focused on adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing fractions.  In addition students learned how to use multiplicative inverses to solve equations.  After Tuesdays exam students will begin Unit 6 and learn how to set up ratios and find the unit rate.  The Unit 5 test will be given on Tuesday.

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 and Ms. Denson

Room 307 Math Weekly Overview for the week of April 12, 2010

This week students will continue studying Unit 5.  Specifically students will have a review day that covers the first four sections of unit 5 due to low scores on last weeks quiz. We will continue the unit and cover using multiplicative inverses to solve algebraic equations as well as solving equations and inequalities with rational numbers.

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 and Ms. Denson

Room 307 Math Weekly Overview for the week of April 5, 2010

This week students will continue studying Unit 5.  Specifically students will practice multiplying and dividing monomial fractions.  Through that work students will also be reviewing how to simplify fractions. 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 and Ms. Denson

Room 307 Math Weekly Overview for the week of March 22, 2010

This week students will begin studying Unit 5.  Specifically students will learn about rational numbers and how to determine if a number is rational.  In addition, students will begin adding and subtracting monomial fractions.  There will be no quiz this week.

In celebration of the end of ISAT testing and the upcoming spring break, students will have a pizza party on Friday.  Students will be asked to bring in soda or chips for the party.

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 and Ms. Denson

Room 307 Math Weekly Overview for the week of March 15, 2010

This week students will finish studying Unit 4.  Specifically students will review Scientific notation, and practice multiplying numbers in Scientific Notation.  We will also review all of Unit 4 - which focuses on Least Common Multiples, Greatest Common Factors, Prime Factorization, Rules of Exponents, Negative and Zero properties of Exponents, and multiplying numbers in Scientific Notation.  Students will take the Unit 4 test on Thursday of 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 and Ms. Denson

Room 307 Math Weekly Overview for the week of March 8, 2010

ISAT Testing:  This week students will finish ISAT testing.  Please make sure that your student has at least two number 2 pencils, and a hand held sharpener for testing.  In addition, if your student needs Kleenex please provide them with a hand held package for their desk.  Proper rest and a good breakfast will be very important as well.  Please schedule this week’s activities to guarantee that your student goes to bed early each night, and eats a good breakfast each morning.  Finally, please make sure that your student comes to school on time each day during testing.

ISAT Snacks:  In order to keep students refreshed and motivated throughout the testing period I would like to give students a snack after testing each day.  As a result, I am asking for snack donations.  I am listing some possible suggestions below, but all donations will be greatly appreciated.  You may send snacks to school anytime between now and the end of the testing period.

Snack Suggestions:  Juice boxes or Caprisuns, Raisins or dried cranberries, Chex Mix, Goldfish or other crackers, Pretzels, and Baby carrots, Doublemint chewing Gum.  When you buy snacks or drinks, please remember that there are 33 students in our class. 

This week due to our testing schedule no new material will be taught until testing is over on Wednesday.  On Wednesday we will resume our normal schedule and students will continue studying Unit 4.  This week we plan to cover lesson 4.6 which focuses on negative and zero exponents.  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 and Ms. Denson

Room 307 Math Weekly Overview for the week of March 2, 2010

ISAT Testing:  This week students will begin testing.  Testing is expected to last from March 2<sup>nd</sup> – March 10<sup>th</sup>.  Please make sure that your student has at least two number 2 pencils, and a hand held sharpener for testing.  In addition, if your student needs Kleenex please provide them with a hand held package for their desk.  Proper rest and a good breakfast will be very important as well.  Please schedule this week’s activities to guarantee that your student goes to bed early each night, and eats a good breakfast each morning.  Finally, please make sure that your student comes to school on time each day during testing.

ISAT Snacks:  In order to keep students refreshed and motivated throughout the testing period I would like to give students a snack after testing each day.  As a result, I am asking for snack donations.  I am listing some possible suggestions below, but all donations will be greatly appreciated.  You may send snacks to school anytime between now and the end of the testing period.

Snack Suggestions:  Juice boxes or Caprisuns, Raisins or dried cranberries, Chex Mix, Goldfish or other crackers, Pretzels, and Baby carrots, Doublemint chewing Gum.  When you buy snacks or drinks, please remember that there are 33 students in our class. 

This week due to our testing schedule no new material will be taught.  If students like they may still visit classzone. 

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 and Ms. Denson

Room 307 Math Weekly Overview for the week of February 22, 2010

ISAT Testing:  Next week students will begin testing.  Testing is expected to last from March 2<sup>nd</sup> – March 10<sup>th</sup>.  Please make sure that your student has at least two number 2 pencils, and a hand held sharpener for testing.  In addition, if your student needs Kleenex please provide them with a hand held package for their desk.  Proper rest and a good breakfast will be very important as well.  Please begin scheduling next week’s activities to guarantee that your student goes to bed early each night, and eats breakfast each morning.  Finally, please make sure that your student comes to school on time each day during testing.

ISAT Snacks:  In order to keep students refreshed and motivated throughout the testing period I would like to give students a snack after testing each day.  As a result, I am asking for snack donations.  I am listing some possible suggestions below, but all donations will be greatly appreciated.  You may send snacks to school anytime between now and the end of the testing period.

Snack Suggestions:  Juice boxes or Caprisuns, Raisins or dried cranberries, Chex Mix, Goldfish or other crackers, Pretzels, and Baby carrots, Doublemint chewing Gum.  When you buy snacks or drinks, please remember that there are 33 students in our class. 

This week students will continue working in Unit 4, which focuses on Greatest Common Factors, Least Common Multiples, and working with Negative and Zero Exponents.  Specifically, students will continue working with the Least Common Multiple, and Greatest Common Factors.  Students will also begin simplifying monomial fractions following the rules of exponents.  There will be a quiz this Thursday reviewing what we have covered this week and last.

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 and Ms. Denson

Room 307 Math Weekly Overview for the week of February 16, 2010

This week students will continue working in Unit 4, which focuses on Greatest Common Factors, Least Common Multiples, and working with Negative and Zero Exponents.  Specifically, students will practice finding the Greatest Common Factor along with the Least Common Multiple.  Students will also begin simplifying monomial fractions following the rules of exponents.  There will be no 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

Room 307 Math Weekly Overview for the week of February 8, 2010

This week students will continue working in Unit 4, which focuses on Greatest Common Factors, Least Common Multiples, and working with Negative and Zero Exponents.  This week, students will continue simplifying monomial fractions using the Greatest Common Factor.  In addition, students will learn how to find the Least Common Multiple.  There will be a quiz on Wednesday reviewing what we’ve covered this week and last.  

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

Room 307 Math Weekly Overview for the week of February 1, 2010

This week students will continue working in Unit 4, which focuses on Greatest Common Factors, Least Common Multiples, and working with Negative and Zero Exponents.  This week, students will begin finding the prime factorization, and greatest common factors of monomials.  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

Room 307 Math Weekly Overview for the week of January 25, 2010

This week students will begin working in Unit 4, which focuses on Greatest Common Factors, Least Common Multiples, and working with Negative and Zero Exponents.  This week, students will begin finding the prime factorization, and greatest common factors of monomials.  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

Room 307 Math Weekly Overview for the week of January 18, 2010

This week students will finish studying inequalities, and review all of Unit 3.  Students will take the Unit 3 test on Friday, which will cover solving multi-step equations, and inequalities.  Students should complete the Unit 3 practice test in the book, and visit classzone in preparation for Friday’s test. 

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

Room 307 Math Weekly Overview for the week of January 11, 2010

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

Room 307 Math Weekly Overview for the week of January 4, 2010

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

Room 307 Math Weekly Overview for the week of December 14, 2009

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

Room 307 Math Weekly Overview for the week of December 7, 2009

 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

Room 307 Math Weekly Overview for the week of November 30, 2009

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

Room 307 Math Weekly Overview for the week of November 23, 2009

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

Room 307 Math Weekly Overview for the week of November 16, 2009

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

Room 307 Math Weekly Overview for the week of November 9, 2009

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

Room 307 Math Weekly Overview for the week of November 2, 2009

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

Room 307 Math Weekly Overview for the week of October 26, 2009

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

Math Weekly Overview for the week of October 19, 2009

 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

Room 307 Math Weekly Overview for the week of October 12, 2009

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

Room 307 Math Weekly Overview for the week of October 5, 2009

 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

Room 307 Math Weekly Overview for the week of September 28, 2009

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

Room 307 Math Weekly Overview for the week of September 21, 2009

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