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The school year has now started up and here at eMATHinstuction, we are working away at new resources and new courses. (Please note the new Geometry course and new Spanish language versions of some of our middle school materials, indicated by *** below). Have at ’em!
Unit 2 (Fractions) – Practice with Fraction Word Problems. This is an awesome set of problems that requires students to use all major operations to solve word problems involving fractional quantities.
Unit 3 (Decimals) – Mid-Unit Quiz – Form B
***Spanish Language Versions of the Unit 3 Mid-Unit Quiz (Form A only) and Exit Tickets
Unit 2 (Operations with Signed Numbers) – Practice with Adding and Subtracting Graphically and Finding Distance. This worksheet gives students more practice with the concept of adding and subtracting signed numbers using a number line. It also reinforces the concept of finding the distance between two signed numbers.
Unit 3 (Proportional Relationships) – Practice with Graphs and Equations of Proportional Relationships. This is a great extra set of problems to allow students to work on the fundamentals of graphing proportional relationships and come up with equations that describe them.
Unit 3 (Proportional Relationships) – Mid-Unit Quiz – Form B
***Spanish Language Versions of the Unit 3 Mid-Unit Quiz (Form A only) and Exit Tickets
Unit 2 (Tools of Geometry) – Mid-Unit Quiz – Form B
Unit 2 (Tools of Geometry) – Practice with Parallel Lines. This worksheet is a nice collection of problems that reinforces the terminology and relationships associated with parallel line work.
***Spanish Language Versions of the Unit 2 Mid-Unit Quiz (Form A only) and Exit Tickets.
Unit 2 (Rigid Motions and Congruence) – Unit Assessment – Form A
Unit 2 (Rigid Motions and Congruence) – Exit Tickets
Unit 2 (Rigid Motions and Congruence) – Couch Moving Challenge. In this extended exploratory activity, students experiment moving a couch on a coordinate grid using translations and rotations.
Unit 3 (Linear Functions, Equations, and Their Algebra) – Practice with Linear Modeling. This worksheet gives students practice with the valuable skill of determining and using linear models in a variety of contexts.
You should have received your new eMATH sign-up codes for the new school year. When we receive purchase orders from your school business offices, we email them your eMATH membership with new a sign-up code (and, in many cases, your eMATH workbooks). You need to apply the new sign-up code(s) to your accountto gain access. If you still have questions about sign-up codes, you’ll get all the answers HERE.
Happy August!!! As the summer sun starts to set, a new school year is on the horizon for many (it’s even started for some!). While we’ve had a great summer (and hope you have too), we are genuinely excited for school to begin and have been creating new materials for all of our teacher members to use, including a new Geometry course and new Spanish language versions of some of our middle school materials (see the ***items below).
NEW MATERIALS FOR TEACHERS
Here are the new teacher tools to use in the classroom for each of our courses:
Unit 1 (The Whole Numbers) – Mid-Unit Quiz – Form B
Unit 1 (The Whole Numbers) – Practice with Multidigit Multiplication and Division. This is a great practice sheet for students to work on their fundamental ability to multiply and divide numbers that have multiple digits.
Unit 2 (Fractions) – Mid-Unit Quiz – Form B
***Spanish Language Versions of the Unit 1 and Unit 2 Mid-Unit Quiz (Form A only) and Exit Tickets
Unit 1 (Essential Review) – Mid-Unit Quiz – Form B
Unit 1 (Essential Review) – Practice Converting Between Fractions and Decimals. This worksheet gives students extra practice moving from fractions to decimals and from decimals to fractions. It is intended to be for non-calculator use.
Unit 2 (Operations with Signed Numbers) – Mid-Unit Quiz – Form B
***Spanish Language Versions of the Unit1 and Unit 2 Mid-Unit Quiz (Form A only) and Exit Tickets
Unit 1 (The Algebra of One Variable) – Mid-Unit Quiz – Form B
Unit 1 (The Algebra of One Variable) – Practice with Combining Like Terms. This worksheet is a collection of good problems that challenge students to combine expressions by combining like terms.
***Spanish Language Versions of the Unit 1 Mid-Unit Quiz (Form A only) and Exit Tickets.
Unit 1 (Beginning Concepts) – Unit Assessment – Form A
Unit 1 (Beginning Concepts) – Exit Tickets
Unit 1 (Beginning Concepts) – Sides Versus Angles in a Triangle. In this extended exploratory activity, students make and test conjectures about the relationships between the side lengths of a triangle and the angle measures.
Unit 1 (Algebraic Essentials Review) – Practice Multiplying Polynomials. This worksheet gives students practice in this essential skill.
Unit 2 (Functions as the Cornerstones of Algebra II) – Practice with Domain and Range. This worksheet gives students practice with identifying the domain and range of a function using various function representations. Limitations on the domain, such as division by zero, are also stressed.
NYC MATH TEACHERS & ADMINISTRATORS! You can now get our Next-Gen Algebra I Workbooks, along with all our other workbooks, on SHOPDOE.COM — just log in and search for “eMATH”. Our workbooks are NYS-NGMLS-aligned and available in English AND Spanish! We are super excited: This is the first year Algebra I will be on the new standards — time to celebrate at ShopDOE.com
The end of the school year is near and so is end-of-the-year testing. Here at eMATHinstruction, we are wrapping up our new additions for the year and getting into test prep mode. Without further delay, let’s get into our final new resources for the year.
NEW MATERIALS FOR TEACHERS
Here are the new teacher tools to use in the classroom for each of our courses:
Unit 11cc (Common Core Statistics) – Form B Unit Assessment.
Unit 11cc (Common Core Statistics) – Practice with Mean, Median, and Mode. This is a great worksheet to give your students some extra practice with these measures of center.
Unit 12 (Probability) – Form B Unit Assessment
Unit 12 (Probability) – Practice with Probability and Expected Outcomes. This is a good sheet of practice problems on both finding simple probabilities and calculating expected outcomes given probabilities.
Unit 11 (Systems of Equations) – Form B Unit Assessment.
Unit 12cc (Common Core Statistics of Two Variables) – Form B Unit Assessment.
Unit 12cc (Common Core Statistics of Two Variables) – Practice with Two-Way Frequency Charts. In this practice sheet, students work with two-way frequency charts and look at associations that can be inferred from these charts.
Unit 11 (Statistics) – Family Size – Extended Statistical Modeling Problem. This is a great problem where students look at whether people had more siblings in the past. Students analyze two data sets and try to determine if the variations they see are due to the groups or just due to chance.
Unit 10 (Measurement and Modeling) – Form D Mid-Unit Quiz.
Unit 10 (Measurement and Modeling) – Practice with Sectors of Circles. In this practice sheet, students work with finding the arc length, area, or central angle of a sector of a circle given other quantities.
Unit 12 (Probability) – Practice Using Products to Calculate Probabilities. This worksheet gives students lots of practice with probability problems that involve products (AND probability problems). Some of these are quite challenging.
Unit 13 (Statistics) – Form D Mid-Unit Quiz.
Unit 13 (Statistics) – Practice with Margin of Error. In this practice set of problems, students work with margin of error both for means and proportions.
Thanks for checking out our May 2023 Newsletter! We hope you had a lovely Mother’s Day (if you celebrated), are honoring Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month in some way, and are looking forward to a nice long Memorial Day weekend.
Spring has fully sprung here in upstate New York as we head into the last part of the school year: the trees are bursting with color, the daffodils have already had their heyday, and the ticks are out in full force! We here at eMATH are fighting allergies to finish up the newest edition to our catalogue, our N-Gen Math Geometry videos and workbooks. And we’re always creating new materials for all of our existing courses — April’s new teacher tools to use in the classroom for each of our courses linked to below are below. But first! An important request…
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NEW MATERIALS FOR TEACHERS
Here are the new teacher tools to use in the classroom for each of our courses:
Unit 11 (Statistics) – Practice with the Mean, Median, and Mode. This great little worksheet gives your sixth grader some additional work with the three major measures of central tendency.
Unit 10 (Geometric Measurement) – Practice with the Circumference and Area Formulas of a Circle. This worksheet has students work with both fundamental formulas and express their answers both in terms of pi and in decimal form.
Unit 10 (Geometric Measurement) – Form B Unit Assessment
***Note: These are the final add-ons for Math 7 for the school year!***
Unit 10 (Scientific Notation) – Practice with Scientific Notation. In this worksheet, students gain additional practice with converting between the standard representation of a number and expressing the number in scientific notation.
Unit 10 (Scientific Notation) – Form B Unit Assessment
Unit 11 (Systems of Equations) – Practice with Solving Systems Using Substitution. This worksheet gives students lots of extra problems where they solve simple linear systems using the method of substitution. Some word problems are included.
Unit 10 (Functions and Their Transformations) – Form A Unit Assessment
Unit 10 (Functions and Their Transformations) – Exit Tickets
Unit 10 (Functions and Their Transformations) – The Gateway Arch Extended Modeling Problem. In this extended problem, students have a chance to model the shape of the Gateway (St. Louis) Arch using the vertex form of a parabola.
Unit 9 (Circle Geometry) – Practice with the Equation of a Circle. This worksheet gives students opportunities to practice identifying the center and radius of a circle given the circle in center-radius form. It also has problems that force students to complete the square to place the circle in center-radius form.
Unit 11 (The Circular Functions) – Practice Calculating the Values of the Trigonometric Functions. In this practice set of problems, students calculate the value of each of the six trigonometric functions if given the value of the sine or cosine function and the quadrant of the angle.
Unit 12 (Probability) – Form D Mid-Unit Quiz
GET KIRK’S VIDS IN ANY LANGUAGE!
DID YOU KNOW that all of eMATHinstruction’s YouTube videos led by Kirk Weiler are available in multiple languages? Math may be a universal language, but if any students don’t speak Kirk’s native tongue (English) or don’t speak it fluently, they can get automatically generated closed captions of the lessons in their own mother tongue. You can watch this tutorial or follow these instructions:
While watching an eMATH YouTube video, hit the pause button.
Click on the [CC] icon to turn Closed Captioning ON.
If the settings aren’t already set to your preferred language, click the gear icon to access Settings.
Click on the “[CC] Subtitles” link in the pop-up list.
In the next pop-up that appears, click on “Auto-translate.”
Then select your preferred language!
Voila! Listo! Där!
GET READY FOR JUNE!
Regents Exams are just under two months away! As usual, Kirk will be hosting live review sessions before each math exam. Stay tuned for exact dates and times!
We hope you got a refund on Tax Day, took eco-action on Earth Day, and enjoyed Math & Statistics Awareness Month this April! Thanks for reading our April 2023 Newsletter. 🙂
Spring has finally arrived, at least on the calendar. Of course, we hope you all had a great Pi Day on March 14th (check out these fun pi facts that may just blow your mind). We’re excited to be moving through the second half of the school year and can see the end approaching. We’ve got a few more new resources to post before the year is over, so let’s get right into our new additions.
NEW MATERIALS FOR TEACHERS
Here are the new teacher tools to use in the classroom for each of our courses:
Unit 10 (Solids) – Practice with Surface Area. This is a great set of problems to give students practice on drawing surface area nets and calculating the surface area of prisms.
Unit 9 (The Geometry of Angles and Triangles) – Form B Unit Assessment
Unit 9 (The Geometry of Angles and Triangles) – Practice with Supplementary and Complementary Angle Pairs. In this worksheet, students get a chance to reinforce their understanding of supplementary and complementary angle pairs through both numerical work and some algebraic work.
Unit 7 (Exponents and Roots) – Solving Equations Using Square Roots and Cube Roots (Enrichment). This worksheets gives your students who need more of a challenge a chance to solve multistep equations where they must take either a square root or cube root to solve.
Unit 8 (The Pythagorean Theorem) – Form B Unit Assessment
Unit 9 (Volume and Surface Area of Solids) – Form B Unit Assessment
Unit 9 (Volume and Surface Area of Solids) – Basic Volume Practice. In this worksheet, students get practice calculating the volume of all of the solids they saw in Unit 9, including leaving some answers in terms of pi.
Unit 9 (Roots and Irrational Numbers) – Form A Unit Assessment
Unit 9 (Roots and Irrational Numbers) – Exit Tickets
Unit 9 (Roots and Irrational Number) – Designing a Fenced in Area – Modeling Problem. In this extended modeling problem, students determine the dimensions of a fenced in area based on the amount of fencing and the area enclosed. Solutions are irrational and force the students to use the quadratic formula or completing the square.
Unit 8 (Right Triangle Trigonometry) – Form D Mid-Unit Quiz
Unit 8 (Right Triangle Trigonometry) – Multistep Right Triangle Trigonometry Practice. In this worksheet, students are given the chance to solve trigonometry problems that require more than one trigonometric ratio.
Unit 10 (Polynomial and Rational Functions) – Practice Finding the Zeros of a Polynomial Algebraically. In this lesson, students find the zeros of quadratic, cubic, and quartic polynomials by factoring, including factoring by grouping.
Unit 11 (The Circular Functions) – Form D Mid-Unit Quiz
THE PEN(CIL) IS MIGHTIER THAN THE SCREEN
In case you missed our latest blog post, read HERE about why it’s so important for math to be written out. Hint: it’s not just because Good Will Hunting wouldn’t have won an Oscar if Matt Damon had done his calculations on a smartphone.
Have You Heard of Any of These Mathematicians?
Well, you should have! They’re some of the most important mathematicians in the history of math, and not just because they’re women. Learn more about Hypatia, Ada Lovelace, Mary Cartwright, Katherine Johnson, and more HERE. Happy Women’s History Month, y’all!
Oh, and by the way, Regents Reviews are coming in June!
– A 2020 study by the Reboot Foundation found that of students using an online math tool, those who were encouraged to do their calculations using pencil and paper did an average of 13 points better than those who weren’t.
– A 2014 series of studies published in Psychological Science found that those students who take notes by hand (which allows them to summarize, paraphrase, and concept map) perform better than students who type notes quickly verbatim on a laptop.
– A 2017 review of research done since 1992 found that students were able to better comprehend information in print for texts that were more than a page in length, which is apparently related to the disruptive effect that scrolling has on comprehension.
– The same authors as the 2017 review conducted their own three studies on college students and found that comprehension was better for print reading than it was for digital reading.
– A 2021 Tokyo study shows stronger brain activity after writing on paper than on a tablet or smartphone, suggesting that unique, complex information in analog methods likely gives the brain more details to trigger memory.
And let’s not forget the importance of “showing your work” to help students grasp concepts and avoid guessing while allowing teachers to troubleshoot incomprehension and pinpoint mistakes in calculatory processes.
All of the above is why eMATHinstruction sells workbooks to school districts and offers free print-outs to teachers — so that students can work out problems on paper.
All this is not to say that there aren’t effective uses for digital technology when it comes to teaching and learning math. For example, the interactivity and dynamics of digital tools can be particularly helpful in geometry education, where comprehending visual and dynamic geometrical objects and relations is necessary. And tech certainly has its benefits: with more and more communities gaining access to internet infrastructure, kids can use and reuse infinite online learning tools, making learning more equitable; education can happen across borders; online files can’t be damaged the way physical textbooks can; and relying on less paper is more sustainable. The digital tools currently available haven’t yet reached their full potential: the features of digital resources — e.g. dynamics, feedback, personalization, and cooperation — can and should be improved upon. The sky’s the limit! Or should we say, the potential is unbounded by any finite number.
As with most things in life, a balanced approach is best: use and improve upon technology to aid in the teaching and learning of math, but don’t give up on the tried-and-true method of pencil on paper. Good Will Hunting would not have won an Oscar had Matt Damon done his calculations on a computer instead of a chalkboard. Plus, pencil sharpeners are just plain fun!
Matt Damon proves math must be written out in “Good Will Hunting“
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