Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Math Test Hints, progress reports, and homework

Progress reports will go out tomorrow. Please sign and return these to my box by Friday.

Homework due tomorrow was "More work with a compass" page. Be sure to bring your compass, protractor, and ruler to class. We will be constructing circles, measuring angles, finding circumference and area of a circle. It is very important you bring all your math supplies!

Tomorrow we are having a math test covering the following:

1. calculating total cost with sales tax
2. area of a rectangle
3. adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing decimals
4. finding a percentage of a number
5. adding and subtracting mixed number fractions
6. multliplying and dividing mixed number fractions
7. exponents
8. conversions
9. formulas for area of a square, rectangle, and triangle
10. formulas for perimeter of a square and parallelogram
11. finding perimeter of a rectangle, square, and parallelogram
12. finding area of a rectangle, square, parallelogram, and triangle
13. finding percents for a circle graph
14. writing percents as a decimal
15. finding a fraction of a number (like 6/7 of 14)
16. finding a percentage of a number (like what percent is 12 of 36)
17. finding the percent of increase

For 5th grade math, your quiz will consist of:

1. roman numberals
2. conversions of time
3. mixed numbers
4. division
5. finding the average of 3 numbers
6. what is a denominator
7. finding the sum of two numbers
8. writing numbers using digits from words (ie. write ten thousand numerically)
9. conversions of capacity
10. adding fractions with like denominators
11. subtracting fractions with like denominators
12. writing remainders as a fraction
Happy studying!!!

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