Monday - Wednesday: Yikes, busy week = 3 posts at once!

Wednesday - October 15


1) Class Discussion about homework: 

• In groups, students shared correct response to PT: Rational or Irrational?
• student presentation using document camera

2) Card Sort - done in teams, numbers as "rational" or "irrational (see picture below)

• I was surprised at the results, especially the teams that had trouble with the meaning of "repeating"
• promoted a lot of discussion and competition with teams (esp. 1st hour)

3) PBIS lesson - bullying

Tuesday - October 14

• Words Worth Knowing (WWK) : Rational Number, Irrational Number
  
• Tests Returned
• PT - Rational or Irrational?

Part 1: Students had to analyze misconception a student had about rational and irrational numbers. Discussion included ideas about even numbers, odd numbers, what exactly a "repeating" number is.
Part 2: Answer Robin's problem about finding the square root of 131 correctly (Assigned as homework).

Monday - October 13

• Unit 1 Test, Part 2
• No homework!!!