This week students will begin studying and reviewing properties in math: commutative, associative, distributive, and identity. We will focus on the first two of these on Monday, and the night's homework will be a worksheet. Students must remember to also name the property in each example. Do Side A only, "What did the girl say to the empty refridgerator?" Warm-ups today were on page 33 (28-32).

Tuesday, we will do our warm-ups on page 43 (15, 16, 17). We will learn to use the distributive property (see textbook, page 25). For homework we will do page 26 (5-12 and 17-20). This is not just an exercise in multiplication. Students must follow the steps in showing the distributive property, using the examples shown in class.

On Wednesday, we will do a riddle with exponents (overhead transparency), then continue to work on the distributive property, and review the identity property as well. The homework for Wednesday will be in the workbook, lesson 1-5, Advanced math classes will receive their workbooks in class. Do only problems 10-21 on that page.

Thursday's warm-ups will be on the same workbook page as Wednesday, on problems 1-4. We will then take our properties quiz. All classes will do Side B of Monday's worksheet, "Secret Code."

There will not be a math class on Friday due to our Early Release schedule and the Freedom Shrine dedication assembly. Have a great weekend!