Sunday, March 7, 2010

Homework for the week of March 8-12:

STANDARDS:
AF 2.1: Demonstrate an understanding that rate is a meaure of one quantity per unit value of another quantity.
NS 1.2: Interpret and use ratios in different contexts to show the relative sizes of two quantities, using appropriate notation.
NS 1.3: Use proportions to solve problems. Use crossmultiplication as a method for solving such problems, understanding it as the multiplication of both sides of an equation by a multiplicative inverse.

HOMEWORK:
Monday, March 8: Topic: Cummulative Assessment of Chapters 1 through 4
Homework: text book pages 226-227 #1-17 all

Tuesday, March 9: Topic: Ratios (text pp 232-233)
Homework: text book page 234 #2-10 even

Wednesday, March 10: Topic: Rates (text pp 236-237)
Homework: text book page 238 #6-20 even

Thursday, March 11: Topic: Identifying and Writing Proportions (text pp 240-241)
Homework: text book page 242 #14-20 even

WEB QUESTION: Be the first one in your class to solve this problem and show Ms. Trask your answer and your work and you could win a prize. The answer to last week's question was 2394.25 feet.

QUESTION: As you all know, spring training has begun. The Giants fans are all excited as they get to watch the Giants during spring training. Well, Bud, the hot dog vendor, sells 2 sizes of hot dogs. At Friday's game, he sold 14 junior dogs at $1.50 each and 56 jumbo dogs at $2.00 each. How much money did Bud bring in?

Good Luck!

2 comments:

Abhishek said...

1.50 multiplied by 14 that gets me $21 and then multiply 56 by $2.00 =$112 and add them up $21.00 + $112.00 = $133.00 bud makes $133.00 by selling the hotdogs.

STEM Academy Grade 6 Math said...

Good Job! You did some good work.
Ms. Trask