Week at a Glance: August 5, 2013

Generally, I try to publish the "Week at a Glance" at the beginning of each week to let you know what we will study in math for the week.  Each Monday (or first school day of the week), students are instructed to copy down the weekly agenda into their notebooks. Please check your child's agenda on Monday evenings and review the weekly math game plan with them.

This week in math, we will begin the week with a Unit Pre-test on Monday. Following the brief pretest, students will create a picture by plotting ordered pairs on the coordinate plane. This task will reinforce some of the prerequisite skills for the first unit, including plotting and reading ordered pairs and working with a coordinate grid.

For the remainder of the week, we will work on Unit 1a: Geometric Transformations. The unit will be introduced with a hands exploration of rigid transformations: translation, rotation, reflection.

Thereafter, we will study each of the transformations in isolation. Later this week, we will begin a focus on translations. Students will perform and interpret translations. They will need to know how to read and write translations verbally as well in the general form (algebraically). They will also need to be able to identify translations from pictures as well as sets of ordered pairs.

Students will need to know the following terms:

• Transformation
• Translate
• Rotate
• Reflect
• Clockwise
• Counterclockwise
• Original
• Image
• Vertical
• Horizontal

***HOMEWORK:  Students will have math homework every night except Friday. 

They may have a quiz on Friday depending on how far we get this week.