Monthly Archives: September 2006

Oops, I forgot until Monday, kinda busy getting ready to move someone to UCSC … Pre-Algebra: Chapters 1-9 and 1-10 On Tuesday (day 10) and Wednesday (day 11), we spread out Lesson 9 over 2 days. The quiz on Tuesday … Continue reading →

Pre-Algebra: Chapter 1-8 We finished our discussion about the x and y axes, plotting (x, y)coordinates, remember x is ALWAYS first and the four quadrants: I (x and y coordinates are positive), II (x is negative and y is positive), … Continue reading →

Pre-Algebra: Chapter 1-7 We went over Quiz A for Chapter 1 in class. We will all slow down and check our work next time. We made simple mistakes! Ordered pairs was our lesson today. We talked about the x and … Continue reading →

Pre-Algebra: Chapter 1-6 Notebook check on Friday! Our first quiz was today and it covered Chapter 1, Lessons 1 through 3. We need practice in order of operations, PEMDAS. Students forgot what order to do things in. We talked about … Continue reading →

Pre-Algebra: Chapter 1-5 We worked on the distributive property and the related factoring process for expressions. Tomorrow we have our first quiz. We should have our notes and we can use a calculator. Remember to distribute the term outside of … Continue reading →

Pre-Algebra: Chapter 1-4 Thursday we have our first quiz and we can use our notes and a calculator. Today we covered the commutative and associative and identity properties. Commutative can be thought of as flip-flopping terms for addition and multiplication. … Continue reading →

Today we had an assembly during peroid 7 to discuss the school rules and expected student behaviors. Remember, there is NO harassement and NO bullying tolerated at MPH. The consequences CAN be severe. Pre-Algebra: Chapter 1-3 Expressions containing 1 and … Continue reading →