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Monday, May 30, 2011

EXAM Calculators & Exam review weekend at Acadia - FREE tutors & Teacher help!

News From the Acadia Mathematics Department:


Reminder to all parents: your child must have a non-programmable scientific calculator for Exam day in June. Acadia teachers will not be providing calculators for student use on the exam. Students will not be allowed to use iPods, iPads, or iPhones as calculators during the exam. The ability to use a non-programmable, scientific calculator is a curricular outcome in all 3 grades at Acadia. Showing up on exam day without a calculator is not an option.

Exam Math Help Sessions!
On Saturday, June 4th and Sunday June 5th the Acadia math department will be offering drop-in student help sessions for anyone who wants some math help before exam day.

Help is available from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM.

Students will have to enter through the parking lot doors.

Contact your child's math teacher at Acadia if you have any questions! 
Check for their email on the Homework online page.

Friday, May 27, 2011

Grade 9 Homework - May 27, 28, 29 weekend

* study for linear relations test next week 

Wednesday, June 1st - multiple choice test
Thursday, June 2nd - part B short answer   & part C long answer



* complete the text assignments 4.1 to 4.5 including the review and practice test  (see your blog post further down for details)

*work through problems on the yellow study sheets for the test

*work on exam review booklet (DO NOT DO the circle geometry section)

*Have any graphing worksheets to hand in to Mrs. Snyder on MONDAY

Grade 8 Homework - May 27, 28, 29 weekend

Work on your exam reviews for math and science.  See the EXAM REVIEW post to download them if you've forgotten or lost them.  I will be checking where you are at next week if I missed you this week.

MATH - FINISH FOR HOMEWORK CHECK   

4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, and 4.7    NETS & SURFACE AREA - see your math blog post below for questions assigned

SCIENCE - Ask your friends, families or neighbours about the 1997 flood.  Find out more about it online if you are able to.  Write down some flood vocabulary!

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Grade 8 Science - WATER SYSTEMS

FLOOD RECIPIES are due Tuesday, June 6th in class.  The assignment is available here.  It is our last assignment for marks in science this year before our exam!!  Make sure you hand it in on time.



We had a field trip to Fort Whyte on Thursday and Friday, May 19th, and 20th.  We learned about: ground water, marshes, swamps, duck weed, flooding, pollution, fresh water, salt water and watersheds.

We are demonstrating our knowledge about the Hydrologic (water) cycle using Voicethreads.  Be prepared for a possible final exam question on it and where pollution can occur in it!

The picture we can use is here!

The vocabulary is:

evaporation          condensation       run-off         transpiration          precipitation        infiltration (percolation)

absorption     aquifer (groundwater)          surface water (oceans, lakes, rivers, puddles)


If you have submitted your VOICE THREADS or SMARTBOARD recorded file explaining the water cycle to Mrs. Snyder here,

Try this water webquest first!!!!

Then you can log into Discovery Education to check out what you know about water by watching some videos!  Check out the student TAB to see the videos assigned.

Friday, May 20, 2011

Grade 8 Mathematics Geometry Chapter 4 in text May 1 - 31

Assignments for the whole unit include:

SECTION 4.1 – assignment page 173 #1 – 11, 13


              Check your answers are on page 510-511

SECTION 4.2 – assignment page 180-182 #1, 3-9,11,13
              Check your answers are on page 511

SURFACE AREA

SECTION 4.3 – assignment pages 186 – 187 #1, 4 - 14

              Check your answers are on page 511-512

SECTION 4.4 – assignment pages 191-193 #1-12, 16

              Check your answers are on page 512

SECTION 4.7 – assignment pages 212-214 #1-12

              Check your answers are on page 513

VOLUME

SECTION 4.5 – assignment pages 198 – 200 #1-10

             Check your answers are on page 512

SECTION 4.6 – assignment pages 205 – 208 #1 - 6

             Check your answers are on page 512-513

SECTION 4.8 – assignment pages 217 – 219 #1, 4 - 11

             Check your answers are on page 513

9-1 Math Linear relations Unit Chapter 4 (in text) May 1 - 27

HOMEWORK for 9-1 MATH Thursday May 26th to Friday May 27th and over the weekend!!!
* study for linear relations test next week


* complete the text assignments 4.1 to 4.5 including the review and practice test

*work through problems on the yellow extra practice sheets for outcomes E-1 and E-2

*work on exam review

*Complete any graphing worksheets to hand in to Mrs. Snyder on MONDAY to be corrected

BORED WITH STRAIGHT LINES???  Download this to learn about parabolas and hyperbolas!!!  Just for fun.



For a review of graphing linear relations on Friday, May 20th, the students did an activity in the computer lab with the website:

                             y = mx + b  graphing with the slope and intercept in mind!!!!

Please use the handout (thanks Mr. C's student teacher!!) Graphing Lines to accompany this website to explore slope and intercepts and how they affect an equation of a line.



Assigned questions for the whole unit are:

4.1 assignment: page 159 # 4 – 12


4.2 assignment: page 170 #1-14

4.3 assignment: pages 178-180# 1 - 10    And then #11 - 15

4.4 assignment: pages 188 – 190 #1-12

4.5 assignment:pages 196–198 #1-11,14

REVIEW page 201-203 #1 – 17

Practice Test page 204 #1 – 5

Thursday, May 19, 2011

EXAM REVIEW for Grade 8 math & science and Grade 9 Math!!!

EMAIL ME AT my school email ssnyder@pembinatrails.ca  if you have any last minute studying questions!
It is the student's responsibility to work on them independently at home and answer keys will be provided in the first week of June.  They are welcome to ask any teacher for assistance on concepts that are not clear.


Grade 8

Please do not reprint your math review at school, we already gave you one copy!

Same goes as above for your science exam review.

Grade 9

You should also be working through the reccomended review questions in your textbook
as noted on the 1 page handout here.