Math for Thursday, January 19, 2012

Please continue your work from yesterday.  Finish questions 1 – 7 on pages 188 and 189.  If you finish, please go to the Show What You Know on Pages 200-201 and work on questions 1 – 6.  If, by some chance, you manage to finish all of this, then you can play some of the games below.

We will have a data management test next week on Wednesday.

1. Yesterday’s Lesson: Chapter 5, Lesson 5 – Graphing on a Coordinate Grid(Pages 186-189)


2. Learning Goals:
   
   
   
   • Ordered pairs are used to plot or locate points on  a coordinate grid.
   
   
   • In an ordered pair, the first number tells the horizontal distance from the origin; the second number tells the vertical distance from the origin.
   
   
   
   


3. Additional Resources:
   
   
   
   • Remember this phrase:  Crawl before you climb.
   
   
   • Billy Bug – Coordinate Game:  http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/BillyBug/bugcoord.html
     
     
     
     • http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/BillyBug2/bug2.html
     
     
     
     
   
   
   • Locate the Aliens:  http://www.mathplayground.com/locate_aliens.html
   
   
   • Looking for the Top Quark:  http://education.jlab.org/topquarkgame/setup.php?11363526
   
   
   
   


4. Classwork:  Practice Questions 1-3


5. Homework Book:  Pages 74-75