8th Math/Computers S1 2011
April 5 and April 9, 2012:
4. Continue with Brain Genie. Complete the assingned goal and get your name on the Leader Board (not the "seconds watching videos" but one the Real leaderboards)
5. Help Zoid grow.
March 28 and April 1, 2012:
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3. Try these Monty Hall problems.
4. Continue with Brain Genie. Complete the assingned goal and get your name on the Leader Board (not the "seconds watching videos" but one the Real leaderboards)
March 22 and 26, 2012:
1. Learn about Probability of Events with Tim and Moby. Be sure to take the quiz.
2. Learn about the Probability of Compound Events with Tim and Moby. Be sure to take the quiz.
3. Test your understanding of the Elements of Sample Space. Show a teacher before moving on.
4. Try this Quiz. Show a teacher before moving on.
5. If time, Continue with Brain Genie. Complete the assingned goal and get your name on the Leader Board (not the "seconds watching videos" but one the Real leaderboards)
March 15 and 19, 2012:
1. Try this quiz.
3. Finally, this quiz.
4. Try The Wreck Factor Game (You may want to create an account)
5. If time, Continue with Brain Genie and get your name on the Leader Board.
6. Official Final Stock Tally.
March 8 and 12, 2012:
1. Today's the day to "sell" your stocks. Create one more stock record labeled "Final". Print and submit your Final sheet.
2. Watch this FOIL rap.
3. Complete this Rags-to-Riches.
4. Go to BrainGenie. Check with Mr. Thomas if you forgot your Login information. Try the assigned goals and get your name on the Leader Board.
March 1 and 5, 2012:
1. Check your stocks. Follow the same steps as the previous weeks. (You must "sell" on March 8 and 12)
2. Try this Rags-to-Riches.
3. Try this Slider Math
4. Go to BrainGenie. Check with Mr. Thomas for your Login information. If you have an account, add yourself to Ms. Schermerhorn's class with this code-8qtj4dah
Try the assigned goal and get your name on the Leader Board.
February 16 and 27, 2012:
1. Learn more about Stocks with Common Craft.
2. Check your stocks. Follow the video below.
3. Maybe you're worth a Million Dollar$.
4. Try this quiz.
5. And then this quiz.
6. Try this Battleship Game.
6. If time, continue with BrainGenie. Complete Polynomials and Factoring I.1-I.2
February 9 and 13, 2012:
1. Learn more about stocks with Tim and Moby. Use the Username: brooklinek8 and Password: brainykids2012
2. Check your stocks. Follow the steps in the video below.
3. Maybe you're worth a Million Dollar$.
4. Try this quiz.
5. And then this quiz.
6. If time, continue with BrainGenie
February 2 2012:
1. Watch this:
2. Make sure that you have completed and submitted your Stock Choice Sheet. You can check your stock for today's prices.
3. If time, work on BrainGenie : Anything in G. Systems of Equations and Inequalities
January 19:
1. Begin Stock Track Project. Learn about stocks and make your selections.
2. If time, try this practice with equations.
January 12:
1. Go to Brain Genie. Many of you have set an account [ "FirstletterFirstnamelastname12" (i.e. mjones12) for Username and "driscoll100" for password]. Create an account if you don't have one.
Work through these sections:
3. Complete all three levels of these True Makers. (Works best in FireFox).
4. If time, play this game of Inequality Wars.
December 22 :
1. Make sure that you've finished the Penny Spreadsheet below and have shown it to a teacher.
2. Gain fame and fortune with this Rags-to-Riches.
3. . Practice your Perfect Squares with this or this quizlet.
4. Simlifying Radicals (Optional). Try this quiz.
5. Sign-up for BrainGenie [Use your "FirstletterFirstnamelastname12" (i.e. mjones) for Username and "driscoll100" for password] Algebra I Complerte Section H-Exponents and Exponential Functions. Or B.7 Find Square Roots and Compare Real Numbers
December 5 and 8:
1. You're sitting in math class, minding your own business, when in walks a Bill Gates kind of guy - the real success story of your school. He's made it big, and now he has a job offer for you.
He doesn't give too many details, mumbles something about the possibility of danger. He's going to need you for 30 days, and you'll have to miss school. (Won't that just be too awful?) And you've got to make sure your passport's current. (Get real, Bill, this ain't Paris). But do you ever sit up at the next thing he says.
2. Take a look at one million dollars in pennies.
3. Complete H.5 and H.6 of this section of BrainGenie. Show a teacher.
4. Finally, try these problems on growth and decay.
November 28 and December 1:
1. Watch this short Film:
2. Explore this Interactive based on the Genesis Mission. You can read about Genesis 
Here.
3. Complete this grid. Show a teacher before moving on.
4. Watch Exponential Growth in Real Time.
5. Explore this demo.
6. Try this Exponent game.
November 7/10 and 14/17:
1. Finish and turn in your CoolStuff Spreadsheet.
2. Watch Tim and Moby explain interest.
3. Create a spreadsheet. Follow the model shown. Use the video in the handout folder to help. (Note The $ sign in an Excel formula insures that your formula refers to a specific cell. =$B$7 will always refer to cell B7).
4. Write an exponential equation for the interest rate you created in the compound Interest Spreadsheet. Write your name in Cell D3, save your spreadsheet, close it and drag it to the Drop Folder.
5. Try the Credit Card Simulator Game.
4. Watch Tim and Moby explain Credit Cards. The video is in your Handout folder.
5. Complete and submit this form:
6. Register for the game: JohnnyMoney. After you create an account, use the class code: 2B7CGD6B
October 31 and November 4, 2011:
1. Complete the Plan Your Sale activity from your textbook.
Here are the products the Cool Stuff Company sells. The current Price of each product is 100% more than its production cost.
Decide what the discount will be on each item. Company policy is that you must make at least $5 profit on any item that costs less than $20 per unit to manufacture. You must make at least a $20 profit on any item that costs $20 or more per unit to manufacture. 1. Determine the production cost of each item.
Decide on three types of discounts for each item. Set up a spreadsheet like the one shown below.
Copy the Spreadsheet from Excel and Paste it into a Word Document.
2. Find examples of online advertisements that use these sale formats. Take a screen shot (Command+Shift+4) and drag the images into your Word Document. Be sure to show all "before and after" prices. Submit the Word document to Edmodo.
- The discount is given as a percent off the original item (Percent Off)
- The discount is given as a dollar amount off the original price (Dollar discount)
- The item's price after the discount is given. (Now-Was)
Write at least two sentences to explain which type of discount you think is most attractive to customers.
Use these websites:
3. If all above is complete, Play Save Our Dumb Planet.
October 20 and 24, 2011:
1. Investigate the correlation between Major League Baseball Team Payrolls and games won. Complete the spreadsheet (MLB_Payroll) in your handout folder with regular season wins. You'll find the regular season data here.
2. Use the completed spreadsheet to create an Excel chart. Print your chart and hand draw a Line of Best Fit with a ruler.
3. In Excel add a "Trend Line" to your graph. (Click on a data point, and then go to the top menu "CHART"-->"ADD A TREND LINE". How does trend line compare with your hand drawn Line of Best Fit? Print the graph with the Excel Trend Line, Staple it to the other graph and turn them both in.
4. Use the applet at the bottom of this page and try to match your Line of Best Fit. What kind of correlation is there between MLB Team Payrolls and Season Wins?
5. If time, investigate the correlation between the Average Salaries of NFL teams in 2010 and regular season wins.
October 13 and 17, 2011:
1. Make sure that you've submitted "It Depends" Graphs to Edmodo.
2.Use the Grapher Tool in your Applications/Utilities folder to create these images:
3. Make these designs with Grapher:
4. Use Grapher to create a design different from the one above. Use at least 8 different lines in your creation. Show a teacher before moving on.
5. Play Save Our Dumb Planet.
October 3 and 7, 2011:
1. Complete the "It Depends" Graph Assignment and turn it in to Edmodo.
2. Complete this quiz.
3. Try this Rags-to-Riches.
September 22 and 26 2011:
1. Complete this quiz.
2. Sign on to ExploreLearning. Create a new account if you need to. Use this Class Code for 8S: AMUAGEVJBQ and this Code for 8D: ZG7UCYZEBP
3. Launch the Direct Variation Gizmo. After you're familiar with it, take the assessment.
4. Try the Equation Buster and show a teacher that you can easily solve an equation at Level 4.
5. Play the Like Terms Game.
6. Play Algebra Jeopardy with a partner or on your own.
7. Try this Challenge from the Kahn Academy.
September 15 and 19, 2011:
1. Get 15 correct on this Order of Operations.
2. Gain fame and fortune with this Rags-to-Riches.
3. Practice all levels of this Equation Buster and show a teacher that you can easily solve an equation at Level 4.
4. Complete this Simplifying Equations quiz.
5. See how many of these True-Makers you can solve.
6. Watch these BrainPop videos: