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Welcome to Room 13

PHILOSOPHY STATEMENT

I love math and I honestly believe that everyone is capable of being successful in math. Math should never be something to be afraid of or feel unsuccessful doing. I will try my hardest to help every student who works hard and is motivated to do well and succeed. My personal goal is to provide every student with the skills and knowledge to make math their favorite subject.

INSTRUCTIONAL GOALS FOR ALGEBRA and PRE-ALGEBRA

Each topic will be explored with in-class activities, in-class problem solving, homework, and vocabulary words. There will be review sheets given before each quiz and test. In addition there will be group activities and group review of notes. Notes will be graded for completeness and content. The students will have the opportunity to write problems that will be included on the review sheets. It is the goal of the instructor that all of these components will provide the students with a thorough understanding of the concepts being taught. I feel that math is a subject that needs to be practiced everyday. It is important that the concepts that are taught in class be practiced, this is why there is greater weight for class work and homework then there is to quizzes and exams.

GRADE BREAKDOWN

Review: Simple solutions workbook and quizzes 15%

Homework: Work assigned to be done at home 35%

Homework, review worksheets etc..

Exams and Quizzes: Chapter and Unit tests and quizzes 45%

Class participation: HW brought to class, group activities, 5%

Fun Links

First Friday Music Link

1^st song

2^nd song

Science Olympiad Compute This Links

http://www.nasa.gov/worldbook

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planetfact.html

http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/index.cfm

http://www.nasa.gov/

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html

http://www.nasa.gov/returntoflight/system/system_STS.html

http://www.nasa.gov/returntoflight/main/index.html