Posted in Announcements, Class notes, Homework, Kid's view on Jun 14th, 2008 No Comments »
1. The best assignment of the year was the summer travel project because it let us use our creativity and choose where we wanted to go.
2. The worst assignment of the year was the Inca , Maya, and Aztec project because i really had no idea what i was doing and i didn’t have enough time [...]
Posted in Class notes, Homework on May 1st, 2008 No Comments »
Finish the classwork (R & P 8-4)
Using the LCD to add and subtract fractions
1/4 + 2/5 =
1.) What is the LCD? (Multiples of 4: 4, 8,12,16,20,24. Multiples of 5: 5,10,15,20. Common multiples: 20. LCD: 20) 20
2.) Make equivalent fractions using the LCD as the denominator.
1/4 = ?/20 (5/20)
2/5 = ?/20 (8/20)
3.) Use the new, equivalent [...]
Posted in Class notes on May 1st, 2008 No Comments »
Least common denominator (LCD)
This is the same concept as Least common multiple (LCM). You count up from the numbers you are trying to find the LCM or LCD for. Go a few multiples at a time for each number, or count up to the product of those two numbers. Circle multiples the two have in [...]
Posted in Class notes, Homework on Apr 15th, 2008 No Comments »
Chapter 7 for most students, Chapter 5 for th “blue group”.
Last-minute Boston discussions.
Meeting tomorrow at 7:45 in the Teen Center parking lot. (Kids taking the bus should meet at the glass entrance of the school, and we will walk across the street together.)
Remember those cell phone agreements if you want to bring a phone!
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