Problem Of The Day 11/17

Tickets to a baseball game cost $12 each, plus $2 each for transportation. Use an equation for the cost c of going to the game in terms of the number of people p. Find an ordered pair (p, c) to show the cost for 6 people? Show and explain your work.

Skill Practice: Procedural Fluency p21 Maintaining Skills

Objective: Investigate solutions of equations in two variables and write them as ordered pairs. Identify the solutions to a two variable equation; create a table of the solutions and graph

Homework: Procedural Fluency p21 Building Fluency

Problem Of The Day 11/18

The late fee at a video store is $1 for the first day and $2.50 for each day after that. There is also a $1.00 fee if the movie is not rewound. What is the total fine if the movie is 4 days late and not rewound? Show and explain your work.

Skill Practice: Worksheet

Objective: Investigate solutions of equations in two variables and write them as ordered pairs. Identify the solutions to a two variable equation; create a table of the solutions and graph

Homework: Procedural Fluency p22 Building Fluency

PSSA Wednesday
Problem of The Day 11/19

Brad and Molly decorated their classroom walls with paper polygons. Molly made a regular 6-sided polygon. (A) What is the total number of degrees in the interior angles of a regular 6-sided polygon? Show or explain all your work. (B) Brad chose another shape. It was a polygon with interior angle measures totaling 540°. Describe a polygon that Brad could have chosen. Show or explain all your work. 2006

Skills Practice: PSSA Prep angle relationship worksheet

Homework:Algebra 8 workbook p10 Practice section #1-8

Problem Of The Day 11/20

Sandra, Greg, and Joshua team up for a competitive eating contest. If Sandra can eat 3 hot dogs per minute, Greg can eat 4 hot dogs per minute, and Joshua can eat 51/2 hot dogs per minute, how long will it take them to eat a combined total of 100 hotdogs? Show and explain your work.

Skills Practice: Procedural Fluency p22 Maintaining skills

Objective: Interpret information given in a graph or table and make a graph to solve problems

Homework:Procedural Fluency p23 Building Fluency

Problem Of The Day 11/21

Maria uses snap cubes to make a series of cubes. She makes the first cube by showing 1 snap cube. She makes the second cube by connecting 8 snap cubes, and the third cube by arranging 27 snap cubes. Write a function that describes this sequence. Then use the sequence to predict the number of snap cubes Maria will use to make the sixth cube.

Skills Practice: Procedural Fluency p23 Maintaining skills

Objective: Benchmark Review

Homework: Procedural Fluency p24 Building Fluency

Problem of the Day 11/10

At 1:00pm, Dara began riding her bike at a steady pace. By 3:30 pm she had pedaled exactly 20 miles. How many miles had Dara pedaled by 3:00 pm? Show and explain your work

Homework: Angle Relationship worksheet (3-2)

No School 11/11 Veterans Day

PSSA Wednesday
Problem of the Day 11/12

A baseball coach compiled statistics of the number of games his team won during each of the last 20 seasons. A. During each season, the team played 16 games. The range for the number of wins for the last 20 seasons is 16. Based on this statistic, explain how you know that the team won all of its games in at least one season. The mean number of wins for the last 20 seasons is 10.4. In the 21st season, the team won 14 games. What will be the new mean? Show all of your work. Explain why you did each step. C. The median for the last 20 seasons was 7 wins. Arranged in order from least to greatest, the middle two seasons had wins of 6 games and 8 games. In the 21st season, the team won 14 games. What will be the new median?

Homework: Procedural Fluency p17 Whole Page

Problem of the Day 11/13

Richard has difficulty saving money. As soon as he was a few dollars ahead, he would spend it. Recently, he had a tidy sum in the bank and then made three withdrawals. The first withdrawal cut his savings in half. The second withdrawal removed 1/4 of what was left. The third withdrawal cut the remainder of his savings in half again and left him with just $15 in the bank. How much did Richard have in his savings before he made the three withdrawals? Show and explain your work.

Homework:Procedural Fluency P18 Whole page

Problem of the Day 11/14

The company that makes team uniforms for a soccer league charges $20 fee for team artwork and $10 for each jersey. Dominic’s team has 14 players, and Alyssa’s team has 12 players. Find the cost for a set of jerseys for each team. Show and explain your work.

Homework:Procedural Fluency P20 Whole page

Problem of the Day 11/7

Laura writes this equation 4b-3=5. (A) What is the value of b? (B) Use what you know about solving equations to explain why your answer is correct. Use words and/or numbers in your explanation.

This was collected in class.

Homework: Angle Relationship worksheet (8-3)

No Problem of the Day

Homework: Angle Relationship PSSA Worksheet and Study notes from class

PSSA Wednesday
Problem of the day 11/5

1.Raul is 6 feet tall, and he notices that he casts a shadow that’s 5 feet long. He then measures that the shadow cast by his school building is 30 feet long. (A) How tall is the building? Show and explain your work.(B) Write a proportion to represent the relationship between Raul and the school building

This was completed in class and turned in.

Homework:Similar Triangle Worksheet