2018-10-11

Discuss, Practice, or Test

Starter: Work for 10 minutes to use properties of operations to simplify the expressions in this practice set:

From reviewing 4th period's responses to the CFA yesterday, I learned that students are doing really well with:

  • Recognizing that coefficients cannot be added to constants.
  • Using the Distributive Property to expand expressions.
  • Combining like terms.
I've also learned that we need more practice with:
  • Using the Multiplicative Identity to make sure we don't lose a negative symbol.
  • Using the Multiplicative Identity in conjunction with the Additive Inverse.
1st, 2nd, 5th, and 7th periods will take the CFA today after correcting last night's homework.

4th period will participate in several Discussion Board conversations on Canvas to see what errors were made on the CFA and how to fix them on the retake.

6th period will spend an extra day practicing before taking the CFA on Friday.