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Math league team places 7th
Sixth-grade math: Sixth graders have worked with rates, including rate situations involving tables, graphs and equations. They have also identified, solved, and wrote proportion situations, including real world situations. The students also used formulas to find area of polygons. We also continue to work on fractions and decimals. We recently completed our unit on surface area of prisms and pyramids. Currently we are writing, interpreting, and analyzing expressions and equations, and solving equations and inequalities.
Seventh-grade math: Seventh graders have been working on their understanding of math by recognizing and understanding proportional relationships in tables, graphs and drawings. They have also worked with percents by using everyday-type situations. They also dove into rational numbers through addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, and applied properties to compute multi-step problems using rational numbers. Students have had to use estimation to check for reasonableness. We are currently concluding a unit involving solving problems using linear expressions and equations, which included adding, subtracting, factoring and writing, and applying two-step equations.
Eighth-grade students just finished work with scatterplots and two-way tables. Students determined if the two variables had positive, negative or no correlation. They also graphed the line of best fits to help make extrapolations from the data given.
Geometry students have been working with triangles and the many properties triangles have. Students’ previous unit dealt with the angle relationships that triangles have and the final unit of the trimester is working with the triangle inequality theorem and the hinge theorem. Students are able to quickly determine if three given sides will form a triangle, find the range of the third missing side, and be able to quickly order the sides and angles of triangles in order based on minimal information given.
The Algebra I students are working on transformation of functions. Also, the students are finding the inverse of functions algebraically and grasping the characteristics of inverses graphically. Next up for the students will be graphing piece-wise functions, solving absolute value equations and absolute value inequalities.
The Algebra II students are wrapping up the course preparing for the dual credit exam. We are reviewing the year of instruction with various packets.
The Pre-calc students are working with trigonometry functions. The students are using the trig functions to solve numerous different math equations. The students graph all six trig functions, determining the characteristics of the graphs. In the future, we will work with solving triangles using the Law of Sine and Law of Cosine.
Finally, the Loyal Math Team has completed the second test of three for the Central Wisconsin Math League. The results for the second test have not been received, but the team was in seventh place out of 16 teams after the first test. The team will take the third test in the future.
