Friday 1/30/09

For all periods
Finish page E-29. Find the percents any way you can. I showed you how to find 10% and 5% and use those in different ways to find the given percent.

Thursday 1/29/09

Homework for periods 4,6,7
Find 5%, 15%, and 25% of 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, and 70

Find 10% first, then you can find 5%, and use that to find 15%, and 25%.

Homework for period 1,

Finish the page E-29, finding the discounts.

Wednesday 1/28/09

Homework for Period 6,7
No homework because we were doing the benchmark.

Homework for Periods 1,2,3
On page 258 #8-17. Find 15%. You can do this by finding 10%, then taking half of that for 5%, then adding them together.

Final grades will be the grades reflected in ParentConnect as of tonight.

Tuesday 1/27/09

There is NO HOMEWORK for periods 1-4, because we were doing benchmark testing. Thanks you to all classes for trying your hardest on the problems.

I will try to go over some of the problems tomorrow or the day after in class.

Thursday and Friday we will be auditing our folders and making sure all the appropriate grades are in each of our reports. I will print progress reports and you will check them with work you have in your folders to make sure I have put the correct grade in. With 6 classes, and 40 assignments, and 180 students, I probably made SOME mistake in those 5000 grades. So we will check to find them.

Monday 1/26/09

Hello to all. Just a reminder, the grades will be done by the end of WEDNESDAY. Please have any late work or extra credit done by that time.

Homework for Periods 1,2,3
Page 198 #6-9
Page 192 #2-5
Page 114 #1-4
Page 109 #1-6


Homework for Periods 4,6,7
Page 200 #3-13
Page 206 #1-9

We are doing review for the benchmark tomorrow (or Wednesday for some of you).

Grade changes

The grades are posted and are current for 1/23/09. The format is different. I was unable to put up the full spreadsheets because each class was approaching 1MB and that was too much for people to have to download. So now there is just your ID number, your grade, and how many points you have in the class.

If you want more detailed info, come see me after school and I can print out your entire grade.

The grading scale is as follows.

A > 90%
B > 80%
C > 70%
D > 60%
F < 60%

citizenship varies, but A/E, B/G, C/S, D/N, F/U. This can go higher for extra effort, or lower for excessive tardies (see tardy policy).

Friday 1/23/09

Homework for periods 1,2,3
Finish the page E-33, changing fractions to percents, and percents back into fractions

For periods 4,6,7
Finish the T-charts.
To find 10%, move the decimal 1 place to the left. Then use that 10% to find 20%, 30%... and so on

For 80
10% = 8
so
20% = 16
30% = 24
40% = 32......

Wednesday 1/21/09

Homework for periods 1,2,3
Finish page E-20 on changing decimals to percents. Some students finished in class, so they will have a stamp showing that they finished.

Homework for Periods 6,7
Finish page E-33, finding the percent of numbers.

Use "IS"/"OF" = %/100

Sorry for lagging behind in the posts and grades and the calendar but my son has been sick at home and my wife has been working more, so I am swamped when I get home. Hopefully this week I can catch up and make everything up to date.

Mr. B

Tuesday 1/20/09

Homework for periods 1,2
There was none. We watched the inaguration of Obama and there was no homework for those two classes.

Homework for period 3
Page 247 #1-15. Do not write the questions but show your work.

For periods 1 and 2
There will only be 2 days of homework this week for those classes.

Friday 1/16/09

Homework for periods 2,3
Finish page E-10, make sure you do your work on a separate sheet of paper. I want to see how you set up your proportions.

Homework for periods 4,6,7
Finish page E-33. Do your work on the back or a separate sheet of paper. The proportion to use is

"IS/OF = %/100" Which number is next to "IS", which is next to "OF".

If that doesn't work, decide which one is closest to each word.