We distributed our textbooks today. They are consumable, meaning that the text fully belongs to your student. He or she may write in it and highlight the material. I will be asking students to rip out small portions of the text (presently pages 25-46, Lessons 2.1 and 2.2), and carry those small sections back and forth from school and home each day. The overall textbook may be kept at home. It is important that students not lose the text, and that they reliably bring our current working section back and forth each day! To a large extent, that is what we will be working off of. Ideally, those small working sections are stored in a 3-ring binder, along with loose leaf work. (Some students, however, like to use spiral-bound notebooks for homework. I'm okay with that.) Today, we discovered that the punched holes of the textbook pages are really close to the perforations. While ideally we want those working sections of the text in a 3-ring binder, "Plan B" is to clip them in a manila file folder.
At the end of each of the five major units this year, we will empty the unit's contents into a manila file folder, which your student may take home, or I will store for him or her (as we are doing with our regular 8th math students). Shortly before our standardized testing, we will return all of the folders back to students for study purposes.
This weekend's homework is a vocabulary preview lesson. Students are to look up the definition for each of the following, and give an example for each. They may use the Internet (just Google the term), or search within Youtube, or use the paper glossary they took home with them today. The definitions and examples should be written on a separate piece of notebook paper. Note: I told them that one of the terms I checked today, "radicand index" was not in the text glossary or index. (We teach to the standards, not the text. So hopefully in that case the student can find the information online, or if necessary, leave it blank. This is a "flipped classroom" assignment; we will be discussing these in class next week.) Here are the terms:
Exponent
Rational numbers
Irrational numbers
Radical expressions
Radicand index
Real numbers
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