1. Welcome to Math 112 Class #2 – 9/10/14

2. Warm-up for today: Rachel fenced off an area in the shape of a rectangle for her dog. She used 48 feet of fencing material, and the rectangle is 6 feet longer than it is wide. What are the dimensions (length and width) of the rectangle?
Please put HW #1 on my desk in a neat pile! Be sure your name is printed neatly on front and all pages are stapled!

3. Tonight’s Agenda Turn in HW #1 and do warmup Class norms
Return diagnostic test
Multiplication practice!
“Guess & Check” strategy
Fraction topics:
Equivalent fractions
Simplifying fractions
Addition and subtraction of fractions
Multiplying fractions

4. Tonight’s positive quote!

5. Tonight’s focus: Math practice #1 Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.

6. Persevere Continue in a course of action even in the face of difficulty or with little or no prospect of success

7. Persevere - Continue in a course of action even in the face of difficulty or with little or no prospect of success

8. Class norms Everyone participates Be patient with one another
Respect opinions without judgment
Pay attention
Ask peers for help
Be courteous
Speak loudly
Use technology appropriately

9. Diagnostic test
Keep a copy of the test, the answer key, and your test in your notebook.
The goal is for you to see improvement by the end of the semester!

10. Reminders! Complete Student Survey (if you didn’t do this last week)
Test #1 is next week! If you do not take the test you will be dropped from the course!

11. Have you added your email address to the website? www.teacherweb.com
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Los Angeles Pierce
McCarthy
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12. : Did you get these supplies yet? Textbook
Notebook (including graph paper)
SMALL STAPLER!
Ruler (optional)
TI 84 graphing calculator (OPTIONAL!!)

13. Math Multiplication Table – you need to KNOW this!

14. Apartment Problem P. 22 (1-40)

15. Problem 1-40 The Apartment
Your task: Find the possible dimensions for every room in the apartment.

18. Section 1.2.1 (P. 22) How can I solve it?
Solving Problems with Guess and Check

19. Objectives:
To solve a complex problem and develop a new problem-solving strategy called “Guess and Check”

20. How can we organize our work for the apartment problem using a table
How can we organize our work for the apartment problem using a table? Here’s an example:

21. More examples of “guess and check” tables
Text p. 27 #51b

22. Rachel fenced off an area in the shape of a rectangle for her dog
Rachel fenced off an area in the shape of a rectangle for her dog. She used 48 feet of fencing material, and the rectangle is 6 feet longer than it is wide. What are the dimensions (length and width) of the rectangle?

23. Fractions

24. Modeling Fractions Numerator = ___ Denominator = ___
Is there a way we can draw a model to understand equivalent fractions, such as 2/3?
Numerator = ___
Denominator = ___

25. You try! Draw a model of 3/5 What is the numerator? ____
What is the denominator? ____

26. Equivalent Fractions
Is there another way to represent 2/3?

27. Adding and Subtracting Fractions

36. Multiplying Fractions

41. Homework #2 Finish Sample test #1
Worksheet: Adding and Subtracting fractions (23 problems)
Worksheet: Multiplying fractions (20 problems)