Boggess’ Wonders

Today we went through the Thick workbook and worked on problems that will be similar to those on the unit test on Monday.  Each student marked pages in their Worktext with sticky notes and circled problems on those pages to indicate the type of problems that should be practiced. 
Problems involving sales tax, discounts, tips, and [...]

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Today in class we completed the Study Guide and worked with tips, sales, tax and discounts.
Homework tonight in is the thick workbook, page 245.  Do all the problems.  It is acceptable to use a calculator.

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Today in class we worked on our Study Guide, filling in the chart that converts decimals to percents and fractions.  We also worked on finding the percent of a number. 
Homework tonight is in the Thick workbook page 240 ODDs only.  Students can use a calculator for these problems.  I want to see that they know [...]

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Today we continued to work on converting between fractions,  percents, and decimals.  We used our study guides to help us solve problems on the homework from last night.  Several students were confused on how to solve fractions to percents so we worked those problems, in depth, using our study guide.
Tonight’s homework is more practice on the [...]

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Today in class we worked on converting percents, decimals, and fractions.   Every student received a Study Guide that gives detailed instructions on how to convert.  The study guide also included a chart of the most popular fractions and percents and number lines showing where they stand between zero and one.
We will work on this for [...]

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Today in class we learned how to use the “Box” to set up and help us solve word problems using proportions.  The “Box” helps us to compare apple to apples and oranges to oranges.  See notes for further explanation. 
The homework tonight is a handout worksheet.  Do all the problems on Page 60.  Use page 59 [...]

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