Week 1
Monday:
In class-The area of a rectangular piece of wood is 3/8 square meters. How long is the wood if the width is ¾ of a meter?
HW- NO CALCULATOR!
1) The area of a painting is 3/8 square yd. How wide is the painting, if its length is 3/5 yd?
2) A rectangular parking lot has an area of 2/3 of a square kilometer. The width is 1/2 of a kilometer. What is the length, in kilometers, of the parking lot?
Tuesday:
In class- At a sporting event, all tickets were on sale for $45. The total ticket sales for the event was $1,928,070. How many tickets were sold for the sporting event?
HW- NO CALCULATOR!
1) A group of seven girls sold 604 boxes of cookies. One girl sold 100 boxes. If the other girls each sold the same number of boxes, how many boxes did each girl sell?
2) A home loan, including interest, is $166,430. To pay off the loan, equal payments need to be made over the next 180 months. About how much will each payment be per month?
Wednesday:
In class- Joe will go to the swimming pool on 20 different days this month. A one-day pass to the pool is $2.25.
A monthly pass to the pool is $30.00.
How much money will Joe save by buying a monthly pass?
HW- NO CALCULATOR!
2) Al earns $9.25 per hour. He works 8 hours per day. He works 5 days per week. How much does Al makes in one week?
3) A Lego block has a height of 0.25 meter. If the combined Lego blocks form a tower of height 5.5 meters, how many Lego blocks are needed to build the tower?
Thursday:
In class-There are 90 peaches and 75 apricots. What is the greatest number of identical packs of peaches and apricots with no fruit left over?
HW- NO CALCULATOR!
1) The apple trees in the orchard are arranged in 8 rows, the pear trees are arranged in 12 rows. The total number of apple trees in the orchard is the same as the total number of pear trees. What is the least possible number of apple trees in the orchard?
2) A van has 10 seats and a mini bus has 18 seats. The number of passengers transported by vans and min buses each day is identical. What is the least number of passengers transported by vans each day?
Friday:
In class- A building stands 20 ft above the sea level, and a valley’s base is 15 feet below sea level. What is the vertical distance between the building and the bottom of the valley?
HW- (NO CALCULATOR!)1) Mrs. Tinker is standing on a rock 25 feet above sea level and there is a stingray swimming 25 below sea level. What number represents the middle of the vertical distance between Mrs. Tinker and the stingray?2) A plane is flying at the altitude of 8000 feet. If the plane changes its altitude to 6000 feet, what is the change in altitude?
Week 2
Monday:
HW-
1. In which quadrant is the point (-2, 3)? What would be the coordinates of that point if it were reflected over the x- axis? What quadrant the reflected point be in?
2. Plot the following points on the coordinate grid A (2,-3), B (-4, -6). Reflect each of them over the y axis. What are the coordinates of the A’ and B’? How far apart are A and A’?
Friday:
1) Look at the table… which city is the warmest? Write an inequality to compare Sydney and Tokyo.
City NY Tokyo Paris Sydney
Temperature -4 ° C -6°C -2°C -7°C
2) Which of the following numbers has the greatest absolute value?
a) -2/3
b) -3/2
c) 4/3
d) 3/4
Week 3
Monday: NO CALCULATOR!
In class-
- What is the value of (1/7)^3?
- What is the value of (0.5)^3?
- (0.8)^3
- (0.02)^2
- (1/2)^3
- (2/3)^0
In class- (7/5)^2 divided by (4/5)^3
HW-
1. (0.8)^2
2. (0.09)^2
3. (1/3)^3
4. (3/4)^3
Wednesday:
HW-
(1/4)x^3 - 9 when x = 64
4x^2, when x =5
Thursday:
In class-
1)Write the expression from the phrases given
a)subtract w from 10
b) Twice the difference between a number and 5
c) 7 less than the product of 2 and a number
HW-
1) 4 less than 3 times a number
2) 5 more than double a number
3) a number decreased by 6
4) the sum of a number and 9 doubled
Friday
In class-
HW-
Find the value of the expression:
1) k divided by 8 for k = 8 4/5
2) h x 2 4/5 for h = 2 3/4
Week 4
Monday:
HW: The area of a square is 25 square inches. What is the perimeter of this square?
Tuesday:
In class-
HW-