Today we started looking at special pairs of angles, such as supplementary and complementary. The students went to the following Geogebra Activity and made observations about what happened as they moved the angles around
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This week we've been working a little bit each day on our Problem of the Month. Today, students had their last chance to solve problems and then they created a poster showing either their explanation for the last problem they solved or their status for the problem they are currently working on. Today we started our first Problem of the Month (POM). A POM is a set of 5 problems that are related and increasing in difficulty. Students work for 15-20 minutes a day on the problems for 5 days. On the last day, we share our thinking on the problems as well as view how other students solved them.
The rest of the class, students worked more on building and unbuilding equations in order to solve for x. This first week back after winter break, we've been working on our expressions and equations unit. On our block day we discussed equations and how they are built. We started with the simplest of equations; for example: x=5. Then we performed operations to the x until we created a more complex equation. In 7th grade students aren't expected to be able to solve equations this complex, but if they have a good understanding of how the equations were built using the order of operations, they would be able to solve even more complex equations! Here is an example of how students were able to work backwards to solve an equation: Step 1: Start with an equation: Step 2: Figure out the steps it took to build the equation: Step 3: Undo the equation by working backwards: Step 4: Substitute the solution in for x and check to make sure it works! |
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