Mr. Salem's MATH Blog

Below is the Math agenda for the week of Monday January 25 - Friday January 29 for my Grade 8 & 9 classes:  Grade 8 Monday January 25  -  Hey everyone, today we working on the Chapter 9 Practice Test:  Today's activity is on Pg 362 (#1- 10) *Moreover, there were 2 extra-practice worksheet that you could do for extra practice.  Tuesday January 26  - Hey everyone, today we are writing the Chapter 9 UNIT TEST . All the best! Wednesday January 27 -  Hey guys, today we are staring Chapter 10 (Solving Linear Relations). Today we are looking at modelling one-step equations.  Please refer to the section 10.1 NOTES in the gr. 8 notes tab on my Blog for details and for review.  Today's activity is on Pg 376 (#1-10) Thursday January 28 -  Hey everyone, today we are wrapping up section 10.1. We are looking at solving one-step equations by using Algebra. Remember, in order to isolate the variable you need to perform the opposite (inverse) operati...

  Below is the Math agenda for the week of Monday January 18 - Friday January 22 for my Grade 8 & 9 classes:  Grade 8 Monday January 18  - Hey everyone, today we are starting section 9.3 and we'll be looking at using a formula to graph the relationship. In order to do this, you take the formula and build a table and choose some numbers to put in the table of values. Then you will use the ordered pairs as your coordinates on the graph.  Please refer to the section 9.3 NOTES in the gr. 8 notes tab on my Blog for details.  Today's activity is on Pg 356 (#1-6) Tuesday January 19  - Hey everyone, today we continuing to work in section 9.3 and we are looking at taking an equation and graphing it. Please remember that you need to build a table , pick some values to put into the table and then use the ordered pairs to plot the points on the graph.  Please refer to the section 9.3 NOTES in the gr. 8 notes tab on my Blog for details.  Today's activity ...

  Below is the Math agenda for the week of Monday January 11 - Friday January 15 for my Grade 8 & 9 classes:  Grade 8 Monday January 11  - Hey everyone, today we are starting our work with Algebra and we're starting Chapter 9 (LINEAR RELATIONS). Today we defined the vocabulary needed for this section, and we looked at making a table of values from a graph and looking at the ordered pairs.  Please refer to the section 9.1 NOTES in the gr. 8 notes tab on my Blog for details.  For additional support please read and review pages 332-334 in your textbooks. Today's activity is on Pg 337 (#1, 4-7) Tuesday January 12  - Hey everyone, today we will look at analyzing linear graphs and answering questions from the graph referring to the x and y axis. Moreover, we will look at making a table of value from the points on the graph.  Please refer to the section 9.1 NOTES in the gr. 8 notes tab on my Blog for details.  Today's activity is on Pg 338 (#8-18) We...

  Below is the Math agenda for the week of Monday January 4 - Friday January 8 for my Grade 8 & 9 classes:  Grade 8 Monday January 4  - Hey everyone, welcome back! I hope that you all had an excellent winter break. Today we are starting section 11.3, and we are looking at a new strategy that involves fractions when calculating the probability of independent events. The strategy is to: (Multiply the probabilities of the single events together to find the probability of the two independent events.) Please refer to the section 11.3 NOTES in the gr. 8 notes tab on my Blog for details.  Today's activity is on Pg 432 (#1-7) Tuesday January 5  - Hey everyone, today we are wrapping up section 11.3, and we looked at simulating experimental probabilities. Moreover, we read example #3 (on Page 430) and we completed the show you know on Page 431.  Please refer to the section 11.3 NOTES in the gr. 8 notes tab on my Blog for details.  Today's activity is on Pg 4...

Below is the Math agenda for the week of Monday December 14 - Friday December 18 for my Grade 8 & 9 classes:  Grade 8 Monday December 14  - Hey everyone, today we are looking at organizing our sample space with a TABLE. We will also look at calculating the Probability from the table. Moreover, we will discuss what are the benefits of using tree diagram and a table. Please refer to the section 11.1 NOTES in the gr. 8 notes tab on my Blog for details.  Today's activity is on Pg 417 (#5-12) Tuesday December 15  - Hey everyone, today we are starting section 11.2, and we'll be using class time today in exploring outcomes of the independent events.  Today's activity is on Pg 419 (#1-6) Wednesday December 16 -  Hey guys, today we started section 11.2 and looked at a third strategy when finding the number of possible outcomes. We learned that we can multiply the number of outcomes per independent event to find out the total number of possible outcomes.  Pl...

Below is the Math agenda for the week of Monday December 7 - Friday December 11 for my Grade 8 & 9 classes:  Grade 8 Monday December 7  - Hey everyone, today we wrapped up the notes on Section 8.5. Moreover, we looked at an application question that involves multiple integer operations. We also looked at the Mean (Average) and how to calculate the MEAN.  Please refer to the section 8.5 NOTES in the gr. 8 notes tab on my Blog for details.  Today's activity is on Pg 315 (#8, 10-17,20,21) Tuesday December 8  - Hey everyone, today we are reviewing the unit, and we are working on:  The Chapter 8 REVIEW on Pg 318 (#1-11) Furthermore, the Chapter 8 QUIZ #2 will be available for you to write today (Dec 8) at 5pm, and you will have until Thursday (Dec 10) until 8pm to write the quiz. Moreover, all of the details about the quiz and how to access the quiz can be found in D2L. Please READ the announcement in D2L before you start your quiz.  Wednesday December ...

  Below is the Math agenda for the week of Monday November 30 - Friday December 4 for my Grade 8 & 9 classes:  Grade 8 Monday November 30  - Hey everyone, today we started learning online. Moreover, we started section 8.4 and looked at how to divide integers using the number line. Moreover, we learned what the sign rule is when dividing integers.  Please refer to the section 8.4 NOTES in the gr. 8 notes tab on my Blog for details.  Today's activity is on Pg 306 (#1-6) Tuesday December 1  - Hey everyone, today we wrapped up the section 8.4 notes. We looked at solving an application problem that involved the division of Integers.  Please refer to the section 8.4 NOTES in the gr. 8 notes tab on my Blog for details.  Today's activity is on Pg 310 (#2, 5-10) Wednesday December 2 - Hey guys, today we are using class time to wrap up the questions in section 8.4.  Today's activity is on Pg 310 (#11-19,22) Furthermore, the Chapter 8 QUIZ will be a...