Mrs. McDonough

Summer Math Skills

I highly suggest that your child keep up with his/her math skills throughout the summer by purchasing a "Summer Math Skills Sharpener" book.  It is designed to be used 3 days per week for 10 weeks.  Solution pages are provided at the back of the book.  Mixed concepts are presented on each page, ensuring that all skills are reinforced.  Students can order the book for the math course that they just completed or work ahead for the following school year.  Registration is taken by phone at (800) 411-8186. 

7th Grade Math Test

The 7th grade will be taking their Chapter 7 math test on Monday, April 23.  The test will cover everything in Chapter 7 which includes the following: converting fractions to decimals to percents; using a proportion to calculate percent story problems; find the percent of change; calculating the price of a meal after sales tax and tip; finding the new amount after a markup or a discount; and working with simple and compound interest to find the account balance.  We will go over a practice test tomorrow in class.  Students are able to use their note cards with the formulas for the actual test.  Students may also use their calculators. 

7th Grade Geometry Exam

The 7th grade will be starting their geometry exam on Friday, March 9.  The students are responsible for everything from this unit.  It's very extensive, therefore they are able to use their notecards and calculator during the exam.  We have completed our studies on the surface area and volume of prisms, cylinders, pyramids, and cones.  The Pythagorean Theorem will also be included on this exam, in order to solve for the slant height of a pyramid or cone.  Students will have two days to complete this test.

7th Grade Math Quiz

The 7th grade will take a Geometry quiz on Wednesday, February 15.  This quiz will cover Chapter 10, lessons 1-5.  Students will be able to use their ring of note cards for this quiz.  We have now completed our studies of classifying polygons, solving for the missing angle and side lengths, calculating the area of circles, parallelograms and trapezoids, and finding the surface area of prisms and cylinders.  We will conclude our Geometry unit with the surface area of pyramids and cones, and the volume of pyramids and prisms. 

7th Grade Math

The 7th grade is working on a geometry unit.  They have started making notecards for each shape that we discuss and each formula that we learn for solving area, volume, and surface area.  There are a lot!  Therefore, it's very important that they keep up with their notecards.   They will be using these notecards on quizzes/tests.  Each student has been given a metal ring to help them keep their notecards organized and from getting lost.

7th Grade Math Test

The 7th graders are taking their Chapter 3 math test tomorrow.  We have already gone over in class the Chapter Review.  Students are required to do the Chapter Test in their textbook on page 158 tonight.  Students should also be studying their class notes/examples found in their math spiral, by practicing actual class problems again on a separate sheet of paper and seeing if it matches up with the answers from their notes.  We have now completed solving and graphing multi-step equations and inequalities.  Nice Work!

7th Grade Math

The 7th graders have a math quiz on Monday, December 5.  The quiz will cover Chapter 3, lessons 1 & 2.  Students will be expected to solve multi-step variable equations by showing their work.  These equations will involve the use of the distributive property and working with decimals.  Every step will have to be shown, including a check step, in order to receive full credit.  Solving for the variable on geometric figures will also be included on the quiz.  The 7th grade has worked really hard on this chapter so far.  Keep up the good work.

7th Grade Math Quiz

The 7th graders have been working hard on solving one step variable equations.  We will begin solving variable equations with decimals next week.  It's crucial that they continue to show their work to each side of the equation, by using one of the properties of equality.  They are also required to do a check step.  The high school math teachers require the students to show their work a specific way; therefore, we are practicing for this transition. A quiz will be given over this process on Wednesday, Nov 9.  Students will only receive credit for an answer if the work is shown correctly.

7th Grade Math Quiz

The 7th graders will be taking a quiz on Wednesday, Oct. 19.  The quiz will cover Chapter 2, lessons 2 and 3.  Students will be expected to identify the terms, like terms, coefficients, and constants.  They will use the distributive property in simplifying variable expressions.  One story problem will be included on this quiz and it's similar to the problems we practiced in class today.

7th Grade Math Test

The seventh graders will be taking their Chapter 1 math test on Friday, September 30.  They've had several timed quizzes over adding/subtracting negative and positive integers in order to assist them in getting better prepared for the material later to come.  The test will cover the following: absolute value, opposites, graphing, variable expressions, exponents, order of operations, and multiplying/dividing integers. They are to complete the practice test found on page 56 and study the notetaking/example section of their spiral notebook.  Classzone.com always has additional practice problems as well.