Work for October 29

Hi Everyone.  I am sick today.  I have no voice and find it depressing when I try to talk and sound like a snapping turtle.  Hrumph.  Here is the work you need to accomplish today.

Homework Book 20, 21

Show you Know on Page 82
Show you Know on Page 83
Show you Know on Page 84

Copy down any Key Ideas you do not have onto your Foldable from Page 84
Page 85 Do questions 1-13
Page 86 Do Questions 14-18

DO NOT DO THE QUESTION PAST QUESTION 18. THESE ARE FOR TOMORROW.

For all questions SHOW ALL YOUR WORK. It is not good enough to just put 3 as the answer to, What is the Square Root of 9? You have to prove your understanding. 

If you get stuck use the back of the book for the answer, copy out the question and fill in the middle or the WORK.


DO NOT GET STUCK ON ONE QUESTION.  DO ALL THE ONES YOU KNOW THEN GO BACK TO THE ONES YOU STRUGGLED ON.

Each room needs three scribes today. 

• Scribe 1 Show You Know Page 82, Page 85 Questions 1,5,10,16
  
• Scribe 2 Show You Know Page 83  Page 85 Questions 2,6,11,15
  
• Scribe 3 Show You Know Page 84  Page 85 Questions 3,7,12,14

Each scribe must explain how to solve the questions mentioned. These are very important scribes. (New kids only.  no repeat scribes.) Labels are scribepost, Name, squareroots. Remember these scribes are important.  

I will be in the Math Help Chat Box periodically during the day.  Leave a message if you need help.

Posting your Video FAQ

There will be many questions about posting your video.  Here are a few hints in getting the job done.

If you are using Windows Movie Maker you need to export it as a different file type.  This link will help you out.

Signing in

use your spmathgr8 email and password to get to the Sargent Park Youtube account.

Once there click upload and find the file on your computer or drive.  While the file is uploading please take time and fill out some information at youtube.

Please do not include your last names.  Use your display names from blogger (Biff817).

Now back to your post.

To embed from youtube you need to get the embed code.  It can be found here

Copy it to your clipboard and return to your blog post.

It is important that you are not in composer at blogger.  TO paste the code in properly you need to be in edit html.

Enjoy your post.  Remember to comment on others work either at youtube or at the blog.  This assignment is due on Monday at 9:00.

Sesame Street Video Post

So the time has come to prepare a post to capture the math in your Sesame Street Video.  The post will need three parts to be complete;


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Title Biff's Sesame Street Video Post (please substitute your name for Biff)
Labels Biff817, ratiorateproportion, "Sesame Street Video" (substitute your name for Biff)
Body of Post

Who was in your group then...

1. Part 1 Definition or Ratio, Rate and Proportion with an example showing how to use it.  Use your pink paper to help you.  These definition and examples will be part of your video.  Remember when you rewrite the script to the video or song please add the definition of Ratio Rate and Proportional Reasoning.
2. Part 2 You need to embed the video from Sesame Street into your post.  To do that you need to go to youtube, search for the title of your Sesame Street video found at sesamestreet.org. If you cannot find it at youtube please leave the link to the video at sesamestreet.org and a brief description.  i.e. The Count is counting different speeds on the speedometer etc
3. Part 3 Embed your video in your post.  Upload your video to youtube.  We have a youtube channel.  To upload go to youtube and sign in a spmathgr8@gmail.com. Your password is the same one we always use for math projects. There will be a second post on what to do at youtube.

As always when you have finished your post please publish.  Over the weekend watch other videos and comment.   You can comment on other rooms too.

Sesame Street Rocks

Yesterday someone sent me a Sesame Street video. It wasn't this video but I saw but it peaked my interest...



How can we use videos found at Sesame Street to show our learning.  Simple we are going to rewrite them!!!

Yes I said rewrite.


Your assignment is to choose a video from Sesame Street and rewrite to have a theme of either Ratio, Rate or Proportional Reasoning.  In the video above imagine Ernie is being hussled to buy a ratio.  You could show lots of different examples of ratio and explain what it is.  When Ernie is broke at the end and tells the hussler he bought 9's you could have bought rates. Ernie would then give multiple examples of rates.

The possibilities are endless.

Homework for Tuesday

1.  Choose a group (up to 3 people and one person should have access to a camera)
2. Choose a video from Sesame Street. Any video will do BUT you must rewrite it using Ratio Rate and Proportional Reasoning.
3. Study for your Proportion Quiz on Tuesday.

This assignment will be due on Monday October 18th at 9:00.  More information will follow.  Remember.....
Choose a Video
Choose a group
HAVE FUN IN MATH

Your First Post Math Profile

Your Math Profile

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Welcome to blogging.  Today I am going to explain a few things about using Blogger.  You will learn as you create a post for me:)

The first thing you do when you blog is to create a title.
Your title will be ####'s Math Profile. (please change the #### to your name)

The next thing you do is to add your labels.  Separate all labels with a comma.

Your labels will be your user name Biff817, Math Profile

Now you can type into the body of your text.  Here you will create posts that talk about what

• we did in class, 
• assignments like this
• add videos that enhance your post
• add links that make you post better.

Here is your assignment:

Math Profile

In the body of your post you will have to tell me a few things about you and your math learning. Please write in paragraph form and do not just answer the questions.  More than one sentence is better than just one sentence.

1. What do you tell people if they ask you "Do you like math?" What is the best thing that you ever did in a math class.  Why did you like this event?
2. Last year was Grade 7. What was your best unit you studied? Why did you do well in this unit? What unit made you struggle? What could you do this year to not struggle so much?
3. This is Grade 8.  What will you do this year to be a successful math student?  What do you want to learn this year?
4. If you blogged last year, what was your favorite post that you created (add a link). How did blogging help you become a better student? What do you want to do this year on the computer in math class?

This would be my Math Profile.

Hi there my name is Chris.  I am a math student in Grade 8. If someone asked me if I liked math I would say yes it is a subject I like to take.  I am not the strongest student but I love figuring out puzzles and playing with numbers.   I remember a time in Grade 4 when we got to talk about fractions and submarine sandwiches.  This was an activity that really was fun to do.  When we were finished we got to eat the sandwiches.  That is math that I really like.  Yumm

In Grade 7 I really liked the unit on Integers.  I remember all about positive and negative numbers.  We were using bingo chips to talk about zero pairs.  I also remember struggling with fractions.  Trying to figure out the difference between improper fractions and mixed numbers really frustrated me.  Last year I did not do all of my homework. This year to be successful I will use the blog and complete all of my homework.  

This is now Grade 8.  I know that finishing all of my homework and using the blog and my friends to help me finish my questions will make me a better student.  I am looking forward to learning Algebra and want to be ready for grade 9.

I was a blogger last year.  One post I did was all about getting ready for the final exam.  I am really proud of this post because I included a video, had images  and explained the topic well.  Many of my classmates commented on my post.  I feel great when I receive many comments.  This year I am looking forward to making my own math movies and working on 2 Minutes to Make a Difference.

Due Date October 5

Trail Mix

Here is your homework today.  Please answer it in your notebook.  When you have completed this question create your own Trail Mix ingredients and ratios.  I love the Costco Trail Mix:) Cashews to peanuts to M&M's. Yumm.


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Cutlery Drawer Homework

Todays ratio homework is to create 10 ratios that can be found in your families cutlery drawer.  Remember to use all of the different types of ratios in your homework

• part to part
• part to whole
• part to part to part
• part to part to whole
• 2 term ratio
• 3 term ratio

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Leave comments and use the help box for assistance.