Today, we practiced some sample problems for the EOG's. If you are absent today, be sure to get a copy of these problems from the board. They are very important! After checking homework on page 582 (1-11), we will do a review on page 586 (1-3), page 587 (1-4) and page 592 (16-19). Finish this review at home tonight. This will help to prepare us for our quiz on Friday on permutations and combinations. Also, students received back their probability quizzes from page 593 and we discussed them. They should be signed tonight.

No math class on Thursday due to the Field Trip to the planetarium in Chapel Hill!

On Friday, we will check the reviews listed above, then take our quiz. For homework, do Workbook 11-6.

1. Today, we did some warm-ups with probability, on page 569 (1-4). Then we checked our homework from last Thursday night, to see how well we understood using tree diagrams Tree diagrams are used to make a list of all possible combinations of outcomes of a compound event. Today's lesson involved learning how to find the theoretical probability of a compound event. Students should read page 574-575, then do page 576 (1-20).


2. Students in 2nd, 3rd, and 6th period math classes received their first probability quizzes back today to get signed. Please ask for these tonight, parents. 7th period math class will have theirs returned tomorrow. This class has 2 letters to give to parents tonight from the school.


3. All students need to make sure they have turned in their field trip permission forms, report cards signed, and yellow registration cards.


4. On Tuesday afternoon, we will offer tutoring for students who had difficulty on the probability quiz. We will reteach and review those concepts to help students prepare for the upcoming test on Thursday. If you have not already filled out a permission form to stay on Tuesday afternoons for HW club, be sure to have a parent sign permission in your planner for you to stay tomorrow. Indicate what time the parent would like for the student to be picked up, where, and by whom. We are available to help until 5:00 tomorrow.


5. On Tuesday, we will do warm-ups in our workbook, Lesson 11-4. #1 and 2. Then we will learn 2 new vocabulary words, permutations and combinations, and find out the difference between the two. Read page 578-579, then do problems 1-4 in the first set on page 579, and 1 and 2 in the last set. Homework tonight is in the Workbook, Lesson 11-3 for 2nd period, Lesson 11-5 for all other classes.


6. On Wednesday, we will continue to practice probability problems, learning to compute factorials. Homework for Wednesday is page 590-591 (1-15), which is the chapter review. This is a good review for our test tomorrow.


7. On Thursday, we will continue warm-ups in Lesson 11-4 in the workbook, problems 3 and 4. Then we will practice finding out the number of possible outcomes for compound events, both permutations and combinations. Then we will have a take-home test on probability. This test will include material from Lessons 11-1 through 11-5 in the textbook, but not the material on permutations and combinations. We will practice those concepts more before taking a test on them after spring break. (The test will be near the end of the week we come back.)


8. On Friday, we will continue to practice permutations and combinations. The homework over the break will be quick and easy: an Easter Egg worksheet in which the students hunt for eggs with equivalent fractions, decimals and percents. This should be fun, and they may decorate their eggs if they'd like!


9. Have a terrific spring break. We all deserve it. We've worked hard!


10. Remember, when we return, we will be ready for our field trip to Chapel Hill on Thursday of that week.

Happy Monday! Today we reviewed finding the area of a circle, with practice on page 520 (18, 19, and 20). We then made test corrections to last week's test on area and circumference. Students should get these tests signed tonight. In class, we learned to find the experimental probability of an event. Study the vocabulary on page 558-559 tonight, especially experiment, outcome, and sample space. Second period math should do Workbook Lesson 11-2, while other classes should do page 560-561 (1-14). On Tuesday, our warm-ups are on page 509 (#2). Then we will learn the difference between experimental and theoretical probability. We will read and discuss page 564-565, then do page 566-567 (1-33). Wednesday's warm-ups will be on page 509 (#3). We will check homework, then practice finding the theoretical probability of an event, using W0rkbook Lesson 11-3. The Mid-Chapter quiz on page 568 will be assigned and taken up for a grade on Thursday. On Thursday, we will continue to work on page 509, doing problem #4. We will collect the homework quiz on page 568. Then we will learn to make an organized list of all possible outcomes of an event. Study the examples on page 570 and the list on page 571. Then do page 572 (1-5, making tree diagrams or lists, and then #6-10, with answers only.) You do not need to make a list or tree for 6-10 if you feel you can do them using numbers only. Our math lesson on Friday, the Early Release day, will be a special lesson involving the viewing of the film, The Devil's Arithmetic. Students will work together in groups in homerooms to produce a graph. Talk with your group about this project if you are absent from school on that day. Have a great weekend!