Retest Policy

REMEMBER

Students who score below 80% on any summative assessment (major test) will have at least one opportunity to retest for a maximum grade of 80%. The higher of the two grades shall be recorded for the student. The student must come in during tutorials for tutoring over the material before retaking the test.

Thursday, August 29, 2013

Welcome back !!



Upcoming Events

Open House
September 5 
6:30 - 8 p.m.


The 8th Grade Math Team looks forward to meeting all the new 8th grade parents !!!

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Week of May 20- 24

Week of May 20-24

Monday
  • Solving Equations
Tuesday
  • Solving Equations
Wednesday
  • Solving Equations
Thursday/Friday
  • Quiz 
No "mandatory"  math tutoring

 

Week of May 13 - 17

Week of May 13-17


Monday
  • Review - Commission & Interest
Tuesday
  • Test- Commission & Interest
Wednesday
  • Test Corrections
Thursday/Friday
  • Activity- Working with Percents 
No "mandatory"  math tutoring

STAAR  RE- TESTING
8th Grade

Math-  May 16
Reading- May 17

Thursday, May 2, 2013

Week of April 29 & May 5

MATH & RELA   Remediation Camp

Regular Class- Equations  & Percent Review

Monday, April 22, 2013

Week of April 22 - 26

Week of April 22 - 26

Monday
  • Life - Financial Literacy Assignment
Tuesday
  • Science STAAR Remediation  camp
Wednesday
  • Science STAAR Test  
Thursday
  • Social Studies STAAR Test
Friday
  • Life - Financial Literacy Assignment

No "mandatory"  math tutoring

 
STAAR  TESTING
8th Grade

Science - April 24
Social Studies - April 25

Week of April 15-19

Week of April 15-19

Monday
  • Group Project
Tuesday
  • Group Project
Wednesday
  • Group Project Presentations
Thursday/Friday
  • Quiz- Scale Factor & Proportions
No "mandatory"  math tutoring

 
STAAR  TESTING
8th Grade

Science - April 24
Social Studies - April 25

Monday, April 8, 2013

Week of April 8-12

Monday- Friday

  • Build you Town Math  Project - Group Activity
    • Nets
    • Conversions
    • Surface Area


No "mandatory"  math tutoring

 
STAAR  TESTING
8th Grade

Science - April 24
Social Studies - April 25

Thursday, April 4, 2013

Week of April 1-5

STAAR Test
Monday, April 1
Monday-
  • MATH STAAR TEST
Tuesday-
  • Activity
Wednesday -
  • READING STAAR TEST
Thursday/Friday-
  • Build your town - Group Activity 
No "mandatory"  math tutoring


STAAR  TESTING
8th Grade

Science - April 24
Social Studies - April 25


 

Sunday, March 24, 2013

March 25 - 29

STAAR Test
Monday, April 1
Monday-
  • Review- Graphs, Measures of Central Tendency, Probability
Tuesday-
  • Test
Wednesday -
  • Test
 *** Holiday - March 29-30 ***

No "mandatory" tutoring
McMinn / Taylor
 tutoring M,T,W  4-5

 

Weekf of March 18 - 22


Monday-
  • Misleading Graphs
Tuesday-
  • Finding the missing value using MEAN
Wednesday -
  • Probability
Thursday/Friday-
  • Probability
  • Quiz

**** Mandatory Tutorials ****
 
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
4-5
 
*** Next TEST *** 
Tuesday  March 26

Thursday, March 7, 2013

*** SPRING BREAK ***
March  11-15     


Assignment-
Mastering TAKS (red)
Pages 1-13
copy attached for those students who lost thier book..

Monday, March 4, 2013

Week of March 4 - 8

Monday-
  • Displaying Data
  • Finding Measures of Central Tendency
Tuesday
  • Graph- Box and Whiskers
  • Finding Measures of Central Tendency
Wednesday
  • Graph- Scatter plots
  • Finding Measures of Central Tendency
Thursday/ Friday
  • Finding Measures of Central Tendency

*** SPRING BREAK ***
March  11-15     

Students will receive a STUDY packet


*** Mandatory Tutoring ***

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
4-5

Monday, February 25, 2013

Week of February 25 - March 1

Monday- 
  •  TELPAS Writing
Tuesday-
  •  Activity- Collecting Data
Wednesday-
  •  Activity- Graphing Data
  • Selecting best representation of data
Thursday
  • Selecting best representation of data
Friday
  • MOCK STAAR - Math   
******* Tutoring ********

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
4-5

Friday, February 15, 2013

Week of February 18 - 22

Monday- 
  •  Dimensional Change - Surface Area
Tuesday-
  •  Dimensional Change - Surface Area
Wednesday-
  •  Dimensional Change - Volume
Thursday/Friday
  •  Dimensional Change - Review
  • Quiz 
  
******* Tutoring ********

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
4-5

Week of February 11 - 15

Monday- 
  •  Dimensional Change - Perimeter and Area
Tuesday-
  •  Dimensional Change - Perimeter and Area
Wednesday-
  •  Dimensional Change - Perimeter and Area
Thursday
  •  Dimensional Change - Perimeter and Area
  • Quiz 
Friday-
  • RELA Benchmark  TEST !!!!!     
******* Tutoring ********

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
4-5

Friday, February 1, 2013

Week of February 4 - 8

Monday- 
  •  Volume - Cylinders & Pyramids
Tuesday-
  • Volume - Cylinders & Pyramids
Wednesday-
  • Volume - Application Word Problems
  • Test Review- Pythagorean Theorem, Surface Area, Volume
Thursday/Friday-
  • TEST !!!!!     
******* Tutoring ********

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
4-5

UPCOMING TEST!!!

Feb. 7 & 8th

Friday, January 25, 2013

Week of Jan. 28, 2013

Week of  January 28- Feb. 1
Monday- 
  •  Surface Area - Cylinders & Pyramids
Tuesday-
  • Surface Area - Cylinders & Pyramids
Wednesday-
  • Surface Area - Application Word Problems
Thursday/Friday-
  • Quiz- Surface Area
******* Tutoring ********

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
4-5

UPCOMING TEST!!!

Feb. 7 & 8th

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Week of  January 21-24 

Monday- HOLIDAY

Tuesday-
  • Identifyimg 3-d Figures ( using nets)
Wednesday-
  • Finding Area of 3-d figures
Thursday/Friday-
  • Findng Area of  composite figures

******* Tutoring ********

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
4-5

Friday, January 11, 2013

Week of January 14-18

Week of  January 7-11
Monday - 
  •  Pythagorean Theorem Formula / Application Practice
  •   (Finding c )
Tuesday-
  • Pythagorean Theorem Formula / Application Practice 
  • ( finding a & b)
 Wednesday-
  •  Pythagorean Theorem Formula / Application Practice
  •  (working backwards)
Thursday/Friday-
  • Pythagorean Theorem Formula / Application Practice
  •  (working backwards)
  • Quiz
********* Tutoring **********

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
4-5

Week of January 7-11


HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!!!
Week of  January 7-11
Monday - Holiday
Tuesday-
  •  Squares & Square Roots  Review
 Wednesday  
  • Pythagorean Theorem Models
Thursday/Friday
  • Pythagorean Theorem Models/Formula