Today we began a study of divisibility rules. The rules are listed on pages 152-153 of the textbook. Students need to memorize these rules, as they will need to use them several times in future units. The homework tonight is on page 154 in the book, problems 1-32. Seventh period should remember to get their quizzes signed.

On Tuesday, we will do warm-ups in our workbook, Lesson 1-5 (1-4). Students should identify the property that is useful in making the equation easier to solve. Then we will review writing prime factorizations of composite numbers, with homework on page 158-159. Regular math classes should do problems 1-24, while advanced math students should work numbers 9-24 and 33-40. Second and third period should get their quizzes signed tonight.

On Wednesday, warm-ups are on page 26 (21-24), using the 3-step method demonstrating the distributive property. We will learn to find the greatest common factor of a set of numbers, using 2 different methods. Regular classes should do their homework on page 162, problems 8-18, while advanced math should do numbers 17-34. Sixth period should get quizzes signed tonight.

Thursday's warm-up is on page 27 (37-420), again following the 3-step distributive property. We will then do a review for our Friday quiz on divisibility, factors, prime factorization, and greatest common factors. The review is on page 164 (1-41, evens). Seventh period should get their quizzes signed tonight.

Friday, we will take our quiz of factorization. Good luck!