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Welcome to our math class blog. You will find a mixture of student and teacher explanations of different concepts we had in class.

Monday, November 23, 2009

Cooking with proportions

Proportions, or equal ratios come up when we deal with food.

The following video demonstrates that.




If you would like more information about when you should set up a proportion please look here.
The homework tonight is to read pages 198 to 200 and do numbers 6 -25, 33-35.



The following poster describes when it would be appropriate to set up a proportion to solve a word problem.




Also, the following pdf was originally published by the Texas Education Agency. It is the April 2009 released TAKS test:



You may find more information about the TAKS test here: http://eigthgrademathmocity.wikispaces.com/TAKS+information

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