The last two classes have seen students admitting prior use of set notation which essentially means looking through a list of items and seeing whether they fit a given condition. We were able to acquire a good deal of terminology along the way including words like replacement and solution sets, elements of a set and open sentences.
Students also investigated the concept of needing to be comfortable with a significant number of prerequisite skills if they are to be successful with our math inquiries. Some of these prerequisites include fraction and integer operations. The textbook students have access to contains a fair amount of prerequisite study material at the tail end of the book and students are strongly encouraged to pursue these topics if need be.
Tonight's home nugget will be spot-checked in class tomorrow and is graded according to a different scale than those lessons that are collected. They are as follows:
Home Nugget #4
Assigned on Wednesday September 10, 2008
Due on Thursday September 11, 2008
From Algebra 1 textbook
Page 717
Lesson 1-1 # 1 - 18
Lesson 1-2 # 7 - 12 and 19 - 21
Lesson 1-3 # 5, 10 - 12, 18
FCAs
2 pts: all problems are attempted accompanied by evidence of work
1 pt: at least 70% of problems are attempted accompanied by evidence of work
0 pts: less than 70% of problems are attempted accompanied by evidence of work
