Welcome to Back to School Night

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Welcome to Back to School Night!!!

• Miss Granville
• 6th Grade Homeroom
• 6th Grade Math
• 6th 7th Pre-Algebra

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Goals/Objectives for the Year

• Following the CA. State Standards, we will
• Prepare all students for SUCCESS in Algebra
• Algebra is the foundation for all greater
  mathkey to later success is grasping concepts
  early on as each course is the building block for
  the next level.

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Motivating Students Through

• Active Classroom
• Promethean Board
• Manipulatives
• Individual White Boards
• Monthly Math Missions (school-wide)

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School-Wide Math Enhancement

• Activity-Based Learning
• --short activities
• --2-3 times/week to reinforce skills
• Active Classroom
• --using manipulatives
• Weekly Presentations at Assemblies
• --fosters community learning and excitement

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Continued

• Real-Life Applications
• --Percent project dealing with discount, profit,
  tipping
• Joint project with Religion Class dealing with
  Proportions

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Monthly Math Missions

• September Solvers
• October Operations
• November Number Sense
• December Decimals
• Geometry January
• February Fractions
• March Measurements
• Algebra April
• Multiplication May
• Jackpot June

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Expectations of Students-- H.E.A.R.

• Honesty
• Effort
• Attitude
• Respect
• --self
• --others
• --teacher

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Materials

• Lined Paper (Graph later on)
• Pencils and Erasers
• --No PENS!!
• Highlighter for notes
• NO calculators!!

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Grading Policy

• Homework 20
• Classwork 20
• --Notebook 10
• --Activities 10
• Exams 60
• --Quizzes 15
• --Chapter Tests 25
• --Final 20
• Total 100

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Homework

• --Assigned daily
• --Essential to success in Math
• --Due next day unless otherwise noted
• --No late work is accepted
• Side note I strongly believe that kids need
  their weekends, so I try to not overload them on
  weekends and never on holidays ?

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Fast Paced Math

• Who
• 6th graders in Pre-Algebra
• 7th graders in Algebra
• Must maintain at least a B average
• 82.5 or above
• Demonstrate understanding and proficiency
• Advance to subsequent math course

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If Average Falls

• Contact parents
• Develop plan for remediation and improvement
• Contract Due
• Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008

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Thats it!! Questions?

• I am looking forward to a great year!!
• Extra credit ?

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