Today we distributed pages 1-28 of the 8th grade Math textbook, and the entire student answer section, along with glossary, and index. Parents, students may write on the text pages. We will be distributing small chunks of the text to correspond with our current coursework as we progress through the year. Students need to bring that small chunk (in this case, pages 1-28), back and forth from school and home each day. The selected answer section, glossary, and index may be kept at home. Ideally, the chunk (pages 1-28 presently) stays in a 3-ring binder. Today we encountered problems with the holes being punched too close to the perforations. While the 3-ring binder is preferable, "Plan B" is to keep the current chunk clipped in a manila file folder. At the end of each of the major five units, we will empty the binder of all work. I will file that for you, and students will receive all of their work back shortly before the standardized testing.
This weekend's homework is a vocabulary preview lesson. Students are to look up the definition for each of the following, and give three examples for each. They may use the Internet (just Google the term), or search within Youtube, or use the paper glossary they took home with them today. The definitions and examples should be written on a separate piece of notebook paper. Here are the terms:
Rational number
Irrational number
Square root
Cube root
Perfect square
Perfect cube
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