Tuesday's Teaser; Christmas Edition

*As Santa prepared to deliver the last of his packages down under in Sydney, Australia, he noticed two small boxes at the bottom addressed to: "Bambino, Rome Italy". Realizing that the boxes had been misplaced and that he only had 4 hours before the Bambino would wake up, Santa strapped a pair of Nike Air Max Hyper Aggressor's on each reindeer and sped towards Rome. Exactly 4 hrs. later, Santa delivered the boxes and headed home to Mrs. C.
  
Find the distance (in miles, rounded to the nearest hundred) between Sydney and Rome, then calculate Santa's average speed during his trip. Round Santa's speed to the nearest whole number.

First five correct emails share 50 extra credit points. One correct answer gets them all, two correct get 25 points each,  etc....

* Information from the 2010 bestseller, "I Want to be an Algebra Teacher," by S. Claus

Class Summary: December 17, 2013

Test day, today: Percent proportions, percent change and the mark up/down formulas will be in play.  Before that, however, we'll continue with yesterday's class work on the R's. Ratios & Rates.

See the slideshow for additional review or if you were absent.

December 17, 2013  

 

 

Class Summary: December 16, 2013

We prepare for our percent test tomorrow and continue with Rates, Ratios, and Unit Rates.  A lot of information is covered today. Be sure to view the slideshow and take notes if you are absent.  Our class work for the day is here.

December 16, 2013

Khan Academy Topics For December 20, 2013

Here they are: Get them done early so you can bring any questions you have to class.

Class Summary: December 10, 2013

Formulas and more formulas today.  Be sure to view the slideshow if you were absent or would like to review the material.  Class work is here.

December 10, 2013

Class Sumary: December 5, 2013

Applying the percent proportion: Our focus for today. The percent proportion can be applied to all percent problems. We reviewed and practiced a variety of word problems, applying the proportion each time. 

Today's class work is here and here.

Class Summary: December 3, 2013

Our focus today is converting fractions to decimals and finding percents of numbers mentally. Important concepts covered here, so check the slide show if you were absent or would like additional help.

Dec. 3, 2013

Our class work is a continuation of Monday's handout.

Teeeeaaasssser Time!

Today's teaser tests your knowledge of ratios. As is the norm, first five finishing (correctly) and emailing the answer receive 10 bonus points, or, suggest something else, and we'll see if we can work it out.

Here's the teaser:

 If $15.20 is divided among Andrew, Joseph, and Samantha so that Joseph has one more dollar than Andrew and Samantha has $2.70 more than Joseph, how much does each individual receive?

Good Luck!

Class Summary: December 2, 2013

Mostly fractions was the theme today as we covered a lot of important information involving fractions and converting fractions to decimals and percents.

 

Dec. 2nd, 2013 

Be sure to go through the slideshow if you were absent; especially the table of common fraction conversions.  Our class work for the day is here.

Khan Academy Topics for December 8

If you want to get started early, here are the topics due by 7:00 pm on December 8, 2013
 

* Writing Proportions

*  Proportions 2

* Constructing Proportions to Solve Application Problems

 

Results From Our Last Test (Simplifying)

If you're not sure of your score from our last test, you can see it here.

Class Summary: November 26, 2013

Twas the day before the day before Thanksgiving. We feasted on Fractions, Decimals, and Percent before devouring a simplification and GCF test.  Get all the details below.

 

November 26 2013

Khan Academy Topics for November 24, 2013

Here's this week's winning topics.  As usual, the deadline is 7:00 pm on Sunday, the 24th.

1.  Division with Fractions and Whole Numbers Word Problems

2.  Prime Factorization

3.  Greatest Common Divisor

Tuesday's Teaser

A true teaser this week.  No tricks, gimmicks, or gotchas. Email your answer by Sunday evening. Here you go:

             Using any or all of the four operations ( +, - x, /) as many times as you like, this week's winners will make the numbers on the left of the equal 36.

Class Summary: November 13, 2013

From yesterday's properties, we made a smooth transition into algebraic proofs.  Please see the slideshow for more information.  Class work for today is here and here.

November 13, 2013

Class Summary, November 12, 2013

Today we began our unit on number properties and proofs.  Please view the slideshow for more detailed information.  The class work can be found here and here.

November 12, 2013  

Weekend Super Bonus Teaser!

Alright, so it's not really a teaser this week.  It's more like the bully down the block taunting you with cries of "Ha Ha, you can't solve me"

But, I think you can.  You are not going to do anything different from what we've been practicing in class.  Give yourself lots of scratchpaper space, keep your head about you, and take it one step at a time.

Correct solutions, emailed before Monday, will receive 10 bonus points. But wait, there's more! For this weekend only, we'll double the bonus points. That's right, you get 20 bonus points, a spot on the new v6math teaser hall of fame page, and my upmost respect.*

*Only one entry per person. (Make it count). Correct answer cannot be divulged until contest ends.

Khan Academy for November 10, 2013

After a week off, we're back to the Academy. As always, the topics are to be mastered (5 correct in a row) before 7:00 pm Sunday, November 10th. Drum roll please.....


* Compound Inequalities

* Linear Equations & Inequalities

* Solving Rational Equations 1

1st Quarter Final Exam Review

We'll be having our final exam on Thursday, November 7. The test will focus on equations and inequalities. If you can solve these, then you know the order of operations, can work with positive and negative numbers and fractions. As a result, there won't be any questions specifically on these topics.

You can download the review here without the solutions, or with solutions provided if you'd like to get started early.

Long Weekend Bonus Teaser

A bonus teaser to help pass some of the time. Here we go:

You have a 16 oz. glass of water (lemon optional). Every time you drink, you consume half of the remaining water in the glass.  At this rate, how many times can you drink before the water is gone?

Email your answer by 7:00 pm Monday for your extra credit.