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Révision pour le test demain

Today we said goodbye to all the dried up bean plants…. We have a few that are still growing, but many are dead.

We opened up the beans to reveal the seeds….here are lots of tiny seeds.

Here’s a big kidney bean.  It’s not red yet, just a bit pinkish.

It’s amazing what has grown between the first day of school and now.  

We are getting pretty good at simplifying expressions and adding polynomials.  

We are using algetiles to help us visualize algebra.  The most important idea we have used is that a positive something and negative something cancel each other out to create zero.  So a small red square and small blue square cancel each other out.  A red rectangle and blue rectangle make 0. A big red square and big blue square cancel each other out as well.  

We made some pictures today and then took turns cancelling out red and blue tiles and then telling what the finished polynomial is.  This face is 2x^2 +3x-2

Some of the pictures were pretty cool!

Here ya go!

Everyone wrote some motivating and inspiring words on the blackboard before our quiz today.  We are going to see if this can help reduce some anxiety around assessment.

Here’s a blooming black eyed pea.  Usually we dont have such luck!

We put painters tape on the wall to make an X.  

We looked at the opposite angles and measured them.  We noticed that they are the same!

We then drew lines that were parallel.  They needed the same angles!  The obtuse angles were the same and the acute angles were all the same.  Also the acute angle plus the obtuse angle was 180 degrees.

We are working hard to prepare for tests tomorrow.

We are making sure we can do all types of problems, and asking for help from our peers when we’re stuck.

We kicked off our angle week festivities with a reading of “Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland”.  Many thanks to our enthusiastic student readers.  

We learned and practiced how to use a protractor to measure angles in a triangle.  We also discovered that the sum of the angles in a triangle is 180 degrees.

We have some tests and tasks coming up soon.  We are working on different ways to review.  Sometimes when you don’t have a lot of time, this method can help you target your review to the areas you need the most help in.

We made lists of “I can” statements, left one column for a check mark (which you check off when you can prove that you can do whatever is in the statement) and a third column for the proof.  In this case we are going to do 3 questions and verify answers in the back of the book.  Students get to choose their own questions, do at least 3 of each type of question, and then check off their skills.  If some areas are tricky, they should get help on those topics early.

All review packages are due on test day (Friday this week)