Thursday, March 18, 2010

General Announcements:

• You must have an independent reading book every day. If you are getting close to the end of one, have the next one at school and ready to go.

Math:

• 7th Grade:
  • Due Fri., 3/19: Complete 7.4 part A and for your assigned circle only on p. 74 of CMP book.
• 8th Grade:
  • Due Fri., 3/19: Complete the even numbered problems on t-145 (handed out today). Show all your work. Use the Pythagorean theorem and the symbolic method as appropriate. If using properties of a particular kind of triangle, please reference that. Here's some quick, handy references:
    • Pythagorean Theorem:
    • Proportional sides of 30°-60°-90° triangle:
    • Proportional sides of 45°-45°-90° triangle (isosceles right triangle):

Social Studies:

• Due Fri., 3/19: Read Ch. 22 & 32 in handout today. Underline/highlight important information. There will be a quiz Fri./Mon.

Science:

• Due :

Language Arts:

• Due Fri., 3/19: Read Ch. 9 in Children of Willesden Lane.

Spanish:

• 7th Grade: Find 3 regular -AR verbs in Spanish and conjugate them for each pronoun.

• 8th Grade: No hay tarea

Moment of Zen: My calculus teacher in high school, a fascinating character unto himself, once had us calculate how many times you would theoretically have to fold a piece of newspaper to get it to reach to the moon, based on the following information:

1. The moon is an average distance of about 384 403 km from the Earth.
2. The average sheet of newsprint is about 0.1 mm thick.

You can amuse yourself by trying to riddle this one through, or you can click the picture above and read more geekery at Toothpaste for Dinner comics. Then again, why choose?