Thursday, February 18, 2016

Chapter 6 Practice Test Solutions

For quicker load times, I have embedded the videos in the links below. Chapter 6 Group Practice Test
Please go to that page to watch the video solutions to the practice test

Or if you prefer one video at a time:

Chapter 6 Practice Test

Today you have been asked to log into Chapter 6 Group Practice Test  to take the practice test for chapter 6.  When you get to this blog using Chrome, one of the members of your group will need to please log in using their username@deportola.org as their username and your password should be the same one they used to log into the Netbook.  Student 123456 would log in under the username 123456@deportola.org 

Working as a team, please solve each problem into your toolkit, discuss your solutions with your partners, then pick an agreed upon answer.  Take notes into your toolkit as you can then use your answers today to help you on the real test on Friday.

Working with your partners, you will be answering 25 questions.  You must all agree upon a solution before picking the answer.  Once you pick the answer, please keep track of any problems that you do not understand and will need to study further before taking the real test.

If for some reason the log in does not work, 
the test is available here as a PDF. Please ignore the part that says you are logged in as Mr. J - it is PDF, you are not actually logged in as Mr. J.


Mr. J

Tonight's Homework:
TB p 264 #3, 5, 10, 12, and 13


Tuesday, February 16, 2016

6.7 Simple Interest

Extra Credit Opportunity - De Portola Foundation's Cake Auction
Wednesday February 17th  5:30 - 7:00pm
See you there!!!

Today’s Lesson: How can you find the amount of simple interest earned on a savings account? How can you find the amount of interest owed on a loan?


From the Textbook pages #254-255
Example 1 – On Your Own #1
Example 2 – On Your Own #2
Example 3 – On Your Own #3
Example 4 – On Your Own #4

Please study the examples shown in the videos above before attempting the homework – I would recommend writing down any important notes into your toolkit. The answers are given in the videos, so all work must be shown in order to receive credit.

Homework Tuesday: Textbook 
pages #254-255
Study Examples #1-4,
then do: On Your Own #1-4
For video hints and multiple choice answers to the homework, please click on the link below:
Homework Wednesday: Textbook pages #256-257
#8, 13, 17, 25 and 32

Please check your answers at home so you either know you did everything correctly, or so you know to ask questions about it in class the next day.


Wednesday, February 10, 2016

6.6 Discounts and Mark-ups

Today’s Lesson: How can you use what you know about percents to find discounts and mark-ups?

In class we will be taking a district benchmark


From the Textbook pages #246-248
Example 1 – On Your Own #1
Example 2 – On Your Own #2
Example 3 – On Your Own #3

Please study the examples shown in the videos above before attempting the homework – I would recommend writing down any important notes into your toolkit. The answers are given in the videos, so all work must be shown in order to receive credit.

Homework Wednesday: Textbook 
pages #246-248
Study Examples #1-3,
then do: On Your Own #1-3

For video hints and multiple choice answers to the homework, please click on the link below:
Homework Thursday: Textbook pages #250-251
#5, 11, 15 and 17


Please check your answers at home so you either know you did everything correctly, or so you know to ask questions about it in class the next day.

Monday, February 8, 2016

6.5 Percent Change

Today’s Lesson: What is a percent of decrease? What is a percent of increase?




From the Textbook pages #242-243
Example 1 – On Your Own #1 and 2
Example 2 – On Your Own #3
Example 3 – On Your Own #4

Please study the examples shown in the videos above before attempting the homework – I would recommend writing down any important notes into your toolkit. The answers are given in the videos, so all work must be shown in order to receive credit.

Homework Monday: Textbook 
pages #242-243
Study Examples #1-3,
then do: On Your Own #1-4

For video hints and multiple choice answers to the homework, please click on the link below:
HomeworkTuesday: Textbook pages #244-245
#10, 12, 18, 21 and 25


Please check your answers at home so you either know you did everything correctly, or so you know to ask questions about it in class the next day.

Wednesday, February 3, 2016

6.4 The Percent Equation

Today’s Lesson: How can you use an equivalent form of the percent proportion to solve a percent problem?


From the Textbook pages #234-235
Example 1 – On Your Own #1
Example 2 – On Your Own #3
Example 3 – On Your Own #5
Example 4 – On Your Own #7

Please study the examples shown in the videos above before attempting the homework – I would recommend writing down any important notes into your toolkit. The answers are given in the videos, so all work must be shown in order to receive credit.

Homework Wednesday: Textbook 
pages #234-235
Study Examples #1-4,
then do: On Your Own #1-7 odds only

For video hints and multiple choice answers to the homework, please click on the links below:
Homework Thursday: Textbook pages #236-237
#11, 15, 23, and 28

Please check your answers at home so you either know you did everything correctly, or so you know to ask questions about it in class the next day.

Week 19 Quiz – Proportions and Percents at the start of class - you will need to log in to your deportola.org account to open all tests and quizzes

Friday in Class: Textbook page 238 #1-4

Monday, February 1, 2016

6.3 The Percent Proportion

Today’s Lesson: How can you use models to estimate percent questions?


From the Textbook pages#226-231
Example 1 – On Your Own #1 and 2
Example 2 – On Your Own #3 and 4
Example 3 – On Your Own #5 and 6

Please study the examples shown in the videos above before attempting the homework – I would recommend writing down any important notes into your toolkit. The answers are given in the videos, so all work must be shown in order to receive credit.

Homework Monday: Textbook 
pages #228-229
Study Examples #1-3,
then do: On Your Own #1-6

For video hints and multiple choice answers to the homework, please click on the link below:
HomeworkTuesday: Textbook pages#230-231
#11, 13, 15 and 26


Please check your answers at home so you either know you did everything correctly, or so you know to ask questions about it in class the next day.