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=Welcome to Pre-Algebra!=

This will be a fun and exciting course this year for 7th graders. Let's get started! Get those planners ready to go. Get your math binder together. || Classroom Procedures Distribute Books || Read and Review Course Syllabus Return signed copy to class Tuesday, August 24th || Are You Ready? ||  || ||  || ||   || Project: Research data about another country that can be shown in a line graph (e.g., changes in population, rainfall, or average income over several years). Construct a graph from the data and then share your research and graph with the class. || Scatter Plots || || || ||  || Puzzle Time ||  || || Complete Study Guide. Refer to Chapter 8. || ||  || || || Bring Calculator || || || ||  || ||  ||
 * =Date= || =Topic= || =Assignment= ||
 * 08.18.10 || Welcome || Positive Attitude! ||
 * 08.19.10 || Middle School Organizational Skills || Get those lockers organized.
 * 08.20.10 || Course Syllabus
 * 08.23.10 || [[file:Frequency Tables, Stem-and-Leaf Plots, and Line Plots Family Letter.doc]]
 * 08.24.10 || Frequency Tables, Stem-and-Leaf Plots, and Line Plots || Signed course syllabus due. ||
 * 08.25.10 || Accelerated Math Skills Test ||  ||
 * 08.26.10 || Frequency Tables, Stem-and-Leaf Plots, and Line Plots
 * 08.27.10 || Mean, Median, Mode, and Range ||  ||
 * 08.30.10 || Mean, Median, Mode, and Range || [[file:Mean, Median, Mode, and Range Homework Pre Algebra.pdf]] ||
 * 08.31.10 || Bar Graphs and Histograms || [[file:Bar Graphs and Histograms Homework C.pdf]] ||
 * 09.01.10 || Reading and Interpreting Circle Graphs || [[file:Reading and Interpreting Circle Graphs Homework.pdf]] ||
 * 09.02.10 || Box-and-Whisker Plots || [[file:7-5 Box-and-Whisker Plots Homework.doc]] ||
 * 09.03.10 || Ready To Go On? Quiz
 * 09.07.10 || Line Graphs || [[file:Line Graphs Homework C.pdf]]
 * 09.08.10 || Populations and Samples ||  ||
 * 09.09.10 || Populations and Samples
 * 09.10.10 || Scatter Plots || Line Graph Project Due
 * 09.13.10 || Scatter Plots
 * 09.14.10 || Misleading Graphs || Study for Quiz ||
 * 09.15.10 || Ready To Go On? Quiz
 * 09.16.10 || Study Guide Review
 * 09.17.10 || Accelerated Math ||  ||
 * 09.20.10 || Collecting, Displaying, and Analyzing Data Test ||  ||
 * 09.21.10 || Samples and Lines of Best Fit Technology Lab || Bring Calculator ||
 * 09.22.10 || Numbers and Patterns
 * 09.23.10 || Exponents || [[file:Exponents Challenge.doc]] ||
 * 09.24.10 || Accelerated Math ||  ||
 * 09.27.10 || Order of Operations || PEMDAS Group Project Assigned
 * 09.28.10 || Technology Lab: Explore Order of Operations
 * 09.29.10 || Properties of Numbers
 * 09.30.10 || Ready To Go On? Quiz ||  ||
 * 10.01.10 || Accelerated Math ||  ||
 * 10.04.10 || Variables and Algebraic Expressions
 * 10.05.10 || Simplifying Algebraic Expressions
 * 10.06.10 || Equations and Their Solutions

Hands-On Lab: Model Solving Equations || || PEMDAS Group Project Presentations || PEMDAS Group Project || ||  || ||   || ||   || ||  || ||   || ||  || ||  || ||   || ||   || ||  || ||  || ||  || ||  || ||  || Accelerated Math ||   || || || ||  || ||  || ||  || ||  ||  Project Due Date - December 2, 2010
 * 10.07.10 || Solving Equations by Adding or Subtracting || [[file:1-11 Solving Equations by Multiplying or Dividing Problem Solving Homework.pdf]] ||
 * 10.08.10 || Accelerated Math
 * 10.12.10 || Solving Equations by Multiplying or Dividing || [[file:1-11 Shape Up Challenge.pdf]] ||
 * 10.13.10 || Ready To Go On? Quiz
 * 10.14.10 || Study Guide: Review
 * 10.15.10 || Accelerated Math ||  ||
 * 10.18.10 || Algebraic Reasoning Test
 * 10.19.10 || Integers
 * 10.20.10 || Adding Integers
 * 10.21.10 || Adding Integers || [[file:2-2 Adding Integers Challenge.pdf]] ||
 * 10.22.10 || Accelerated Math ||  ||
 * 10.25.10 || Subtracting Integers
 * 10.26.10 || Multiplying and Dividing Integers
 * 10.27.10 || Solving Equations Containing Integers || [[file:2-5 Solving Equations Containing Integers c.pdf]] ||
 * 10.28.10 || Problem Solving
 * 10.29.10 || Ready To Go On? Quiz ||  ||
 * 11.01.10 || Equivalent Fractions and Mixed Numbers
 * 11.02.10 || Equivalent Fractions and Decimals ||  ||
 * 11.03.10 || Ready To Go On Quiz ||  ||
 * 11.04.10 || Study Guide Review ||  ||
 * 11.05.10 || Accelerated Math ||  ||
 * 11.08.10 || Integers and Rational Numbers Test ||  ||
 * 11.09.10 || Estimating with Decimals
 * 11.10.10 || Adding and Subtracting Decimals
 * 11.12.10 || Accelerated Math ||  ||
 * 11.15.10 || Multiplying Decimals
 * 11.16.10 || Dividing Decimals
 * 11.17.10 || Dividing Decimals ||  ||
 * 11.18.10 || Solving Equations Containing Decimals
 * 11.19.10 || Ready To Go On Quiz
 * 11.22.10 || Estimating with Fractions
 * 11.23.10 || Adding and Subtracting Fractions
 * 11.29.10 || Adding and Subtracting Mixed Numbers
 * 11.30.10 || Multiplying Fractions and Mixed Numbers
 * 12.01.10 || Dividing Fractions and Mixed Numbers
 * 12.02.10 || Solving Equations Containing Fractions || Waffle Festival - Applying Rational Numbers

Background: Students will add, subtract, multiply, and divide mixed numbers in order to solve problems.

Waffle-like breads have existed for many centuries. The English word dates from the 1700s and comes from the Dutch wafel or wafer. Waffles were originally baked on top of the stove. The waffle iron had to be turned over to cook both sides of the waffle. The first patent for a waffle iron was awarded on August 24, 1869, to Cornelius Swarthout of Troy, New York.

About the Project In the Chapter Project, students will look for a waffle recipe and toppings. Using that recipe they will multiply the ingredients by the number of batches they need to make everyone in the class one waffle. They learn to use fractions and mixed numbers to calculate how much of each ingredient is needed and use graphs to show results of a poll posed to the class. Students will present their waffle recipe and the amounts of ingredients necessary to make waffles for the entire class, and display the results of their poll in a circle graph.

Answers to Research Questions Cookbooks, reference books, the Internet, or family members can help students identify the symbols and quantities of common cooking measurements.

Recording Sheet Make a table with ingredients 1) What are the amounts of the ingredients you would need to make just one waffle?   2) Suppose you wanted to make one waffle each for you and your three friends. What quantities of ingredients would you need? 3) You are the chef that is organizing the food for the annual Waffle Fest. You have to prepare enough waffles so that 250 people can each have one. What amounts of ingredients will you need?   4) If it takes two minutes to cook a waffle, how many waffle irons will you need to make all the waffles in one hour? 5) Each server can deliver eight waffles at a time. It takes each server 10 minutes per trip. How many servers will you need to deliver all the waffles in one hour? How many trips will they have to make all together?

Assessment Rubric 100 pts => Answered all questions correctly. Created a complete Waffle Fest plan. Presented the plan and supported the approach with accurate data. Successfully conducted the research and analyzed the recipes. 75 pts => Answered most questions correctly. Created a complete Waffle Fest plan. Presented the plan and supported the approach with accurate data. 50 pts => Answered some questions correctly. Created a complete Waffle Fest plan. Presented a partial plan or the plan contained partial or incorrect data. 25 pts => Did not answer questions correctly. Presented an incomplete Waffle Fest plan with partial or incorrect data. || Waffle Fest Accelerated Math ||  || ||  || ||  || ||  || ||   || (1st Period) ||   || (3rd Period) ||  || ||  || ||   || Accelerated Math ||   || || || Accelerated Math ||   || || || ||  || ||  || Accelerated Math ||   || ||  || 01.24.11 || Proportional Relationships Test Accelerated Math ||  || || || ||  || Accelerated Math ||   || || || ||  || ||  || ||  || Accelerated Math || Accelerated Math || ||  || ||  || ||  || ||  || Accelerated Math || Accelerated Math || || || ||  || Accelerated Math || Accelerated Math || ||  || ||   || Accelerated Math ||   ||
 * 12.03.10 || Ready To Go On? Quiz
 * 12.06.10 || Study Guide Review
 * 12.07.10 || Applying Rational Numbers Test ||  ||
 * 12.08.10 || Ratios
 * 12.09.10 || Rates
 * 12.10.10 || Identifying and Writing Proportions
 * 12.13.10 || Study Guide Review ||  ||
 * 12.14.10 || Study Guide Review ||  ||
 * 12.15.10 || Mid Term Exam
 * 12.16.10 || Mid Term Exam
 * 01.03.11 || Accelerated Math ||  ||
 * 01.04.11 || Accelerated Math ||  ||
 * 01.05.11 || Identifying and Writing Proportions
 * 01.06.11 || Solving Proportions
 * 01.07.11 || Ready To Go On? Quiz
 * 01.10.11 || Dimensional Analysis
 * 01.11.11 || Snow Day ||  ||
 * 01.12.11 || Ready To Go On?
 * 01.13.11 || Similar Figures and Proportions
 * 01.14.11 || Using Similar Figures
 * 01.18.11 || Scale Drawings and Scale Models
 * 01.19.11 || Ready To Go On? Quiz
 * 01.20.11 || Study Guide Review
 * 01.21.11
 * 01.25.11 || Functions, Tables, and Graphs
 * 01.26.11 || Sequences
 * 01.27.11 || Ready To Go On? Quiz
 * 01.28.11 || Graphing Linear Functions
 * 01.31.11 || Nonlinear Functions ||  ||
 * 02.01.11 || Problem Solving ||  ||
 * 02.02.11 || Slope and Rates of Change
 * 02.03.11 || Slope and Rates of Change ||  ||
 * 02.04.11 || Slope and Rates of Change ||  ||
 * 02.07.11 || Slope Intercept Form
 * 02.08.11 || Slope Intercept Form ||  ||
 * 02.09.11 || Direct Variation
 * 02.10.11 || Direct Variation ||  ||
 * 02.11.11 || Ready To Go On? Quiz
 * 02.14.11 || Study Guide Review
 * 02.15.11 || Test: Graphs and Functions ||  ||
 * 02.16.11 || Estimating with Percents
 * 02.17.11 || Percent of a Number
 * 02.18.11 || Solving Percent Problems
 * 02.22.11 || Ready To Go On? Quiz
 * 02.23.11 || Percent of Change
 * 02.24.11 || Simple Interest
 * 02.25.11 || Percent of Change ||  ||
 * 02.28.11 || Ready To Go On? Quiz
 * 03.01.11 || Study Guide Review
 * 03.02.11 || Test: Percents ||  ||
 * 03.03.11 || Construct Circle Graphs ||  ||
 * 03.04.11 || Congruent Figures
 * 03.07.11 || Dilations ||  ||
 * 03.08.11 || Ready To Go On? Quiz