math tasks

All Grades
Be sure all of your work is complete and have a wonderful break.

Science and Engineering Fair Finalists

Congratulations to all students who participated in this year's science and engineering fair!  Thank you to all families for supporting your student!  It was awesome seeing the ingenuity and creativity of our students.

This year's science fair finalists are:
1) Miranda Hamlett-Root Growth and Gravitropism
2) Blake Pinello-Mechanical Arm
3) Kaitlyn Tice-Plants and Fish Water
4) Caden Button- Magnets and Temperature
5) Kathryn Schmidt- Temperature and Phytoremediation
6) George Banacos- Can Magnets Prevent a Car Crash?
7) Mallorie Chalmers- Dyeing Flowers

Finalists will have the chance to participate in the Vermont State Math and Science Fair at Norwich University on March 19th.  We wish you the best and are proud of this achievement!

Honorable mention projects are:
1) Gabby Wooten- Lying Eyes
2) Riley Hammond- How Much Weight Can Different Trusses Hold?
3) Megan Humphrey- Solar Panel USB Charger
4) Michael McNeil- Journey to a Healthy Heart
5) Ryan Cannon-Nuclear Energy Power Plant
6) Bailey Lafromboise-Stealthy Shapes

math tasks

Grade 6
Packets 4.4 and 4.5 complete, handouts for multiplying and dividing decimals,
Percents on a Number line
Grade 7
Packets 5.3 and 5.5 complete, Notes for Combining Signed Numbers and Percents on a Numberline
Grade 8
hand out A for exponential rules

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Grade 6
6.1 (packet) Percents Can Make or Break You
Grade 7
5.3 Skill Practice
Grade 8
handout A Exponential Rules

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Grade 6
Packet 4.5 Decimal Multiplication
(add the fraction equivalents to each decimal when doing the multiplications)
Grade 7
5.3 Simplifying Arithmetic Expression with Rational Numbers completed
(Properties)
Grade 8
Lessons 8&9 for Exponential should be complete

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We are working through units and will be having assessments prior to break.
Grade 6
Packet 4.5 Multiplying Decimals
Grade7
Packet 5.3 Properties
Grade 8
Lesson 9 Scientific Notation

Science Fair News

The MMS Science and Engineering Fair is happening this Thursday, February 11th, from 5:30-7:30pm.  We are asking for students to be there for at least a half hour to have their project judged.

Today, most students were handed a timeslip indicating the half hour window of time when a judge will stop by their project and evaluate it.  Students are expected to stand near their poster during this timeframe until judged.  If this time works for you and your family, great!  If not, please return the bottom portion of the slip with the student's name and 30 minute time interval that you'd like.  There is no guarantee that you'll get this exact time.  The faster you can return the form the better.

If students can stay for the full two hours that is even better!  We hope that students take advantage of this opportunity and look at other student's work.  If you have any questions, please email me at rdecicco@mymtsd-vt.org or call 893-5511.

math tasks

Grade 6
Complete packet 4.4 Adding and Subtracting Decimals (with estimates based on rounding)
Grade 7
Packet 5.3 Multiplication and Division of Mixed Numbers with signs (Rational Numbers)
Skill: Order of Operations (P E MD AS) with Rational Numbers
Grade 8
Complete Lesson 7
Magnitude (very big and very small numbers written as powers of 10)

math tasks

Grade 6
Packet 4.4 (addition and subrtaction of decimals) complete
Grade 7
Complete : Packet 5.2 Multiplication and Division of Rational Number
                   Skill: Order of Operations (handout)
Grade 8
corrections for assessment
Lesson 7: Magnitude  Exercise #1
Frayer Model for scientific notation

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Grade 6
4.4 Packet When Less is Better
Adding and Subtracting Decimals
Grade 7
5.2 Packet: What's My Product or Quotient?
Multiplying and Dividing Rational Numbers
Grade 8
corrections on mid module assessment for exponentials

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Grade 6
Review 4.3 Packet, Skills Practice, new 010116 Assignment
Grade 7
new 020116 handout Skill: Order of Operations
Review 5.1 Packet, Skills Practice
Grade 8
Graphic Organizer Exponential Rules
Exponential Rules (sheet B)