MATH NEWSLETTER

Beginning next week, we will be starting a new unit on Measurement and your child will be learning about calculating the area of various regular and irregular shapes using formulas. We will also be learning about surface area a volume of rectangular prisms.

To reinforce the concepts your child is learning at school, you and your child can work on some at-home activities such as these:

1. Look for examples of parallelograms, triangles, and trapezoids around your home and in the community.

2. Discuss situations in which it would be necessary to calculate the area of a room, garden, patio, or park.

3. Ask your child to explain how he or she would find the surface area and volume of a rectangular prism. Ask what information they would need and what they would do with the measurements.

4. Compare the volume of various boxes around the house, such as the volume of cereal in different shaped boxes. Have your child measure the dimensions of a box, calculate its volume, and compare it to the volume printed on the outside of the box.

5. Ask your child to explain how the dimensions of a rectangular prism affect its surface area and volume.

NEWS

Photo Retakes will be on Fri, Oct 20. Only students who previously purchased a package can get retakes. Please send your child to school with the old package.

Entertainment Books will continue to be on sale until Fri, Oct 20. Please try to sell at least one book to a friend or relative as this is an important fundraiser for the school. If you are not able to sell a book, you must return it , with the discount card, by Fri, Oct 20.

Thanks very much.

HWK Thurs, Oct 12

MATH 7-03
1. Workbook p.6 on Square Roots
2. Text p. 24 #4-12, 15, 16,18, 19
3. NSN Assignment (Car dealership) due Mon, Oct 16

MATH 7-08, 7-04
1. Get Quiz #3 signed
2. Workbook p. 7 on Order of Operations (BEDMAS)
3. Text p. 28 # 5-7, 8ace, 11b, 12a, 13bd, 15, 17, 18, 20
4. QUIZ Mon, Oct 16 on Powers, Square Roots, BEDMAS
5. UNIT TEST Fri, Oct 20

ENGLISH
1. Finish worksheet on "Nouns" both sides
2. Go back and redo "Nouns Pretest" in a different colour

NSN UNIT TEST

The Number Sense and Numeration Unit Test will be written on:
Fri, Oct 20 for 7-08 and 7-04
Mon, Oct 23 for 7-06
Tues, Oct 24 for 7-03

The Unit Test will cover the following topics:
- place value and rounding
- multiplying/dividing with decimals
- multiplying/dividing with powers of 10
- divisibility rules
- Lowest Common Multiples (LCM)
- Greatest Common Factors (GCF)
- powers
- square roots

The test will be multiple choice but may have a short written (problem solving) component as well.

Students should do the required review questions to prepare for the test. Also, students should review and do practice questions on the material that they did not get correct on the quizzes/assignments. There are plenty of mid-chapter review questions and a practice test in the textbook.

Students who are having trouble with any of the material so far should come and see me for extra help BEFORE the day of the test. I can make arrangements to provide them some support during lunch.