...Math 7/Math 7 Honors Winter Break Homework Practice ! December 23, 2015 – January 1, 2016 PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS Office of Academic Programs Department of Curriculum and Instruction Name: _______________________________________ Mod: _____________ NOTE TO STUDENT This Winter Break Packet has been compiled to complement middle school mathematics classroom instruction aligned to Maryland College and CareerReady Standards (MCCRS). It is intended to be used for review and practice of previously taught and new concepts. We strongly encourage you to work diligently to complete the activities in this packet. You may experience some difficulty with some problems in this packet, but we encourage you to explore and attempt to find a solution to the best of your ability. Upon returning to school, your teacher will explore and discuss with you various solutions to solving each problem. ! ! ! ! MATH 7/Math 7 Honors Winter Break Homework Packet 2015–2016! ! Name: _______________________________________ Mod: _____________ ! ! City Centers Scale drawings and maps of cities can be very helpful for determining distances between important landmarks. With the right map and a little planning, a vacation to a place like Washington, D.C., can be both fun and informative. PART A Using your ruler and graph paper provided in this packet, create a scale drawing of a city center. Use the information below to create your drawing. The scale...
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...School Should Start Later I think that kids need a break from school, because this generation is full of stress and I think that one of the main reasons is because of school. At least once a week like Fridays we should have a shorter day in school. I have a couple of reasons why we should have a shorter day on Friday and some expert opinion on why we should start later. What CNC says about stress in school. CNC says that Young people experience stress at a high rate, and females more than males, an extensive Associated Press/MTV survey shows. A similar divide exists in terms of fears and safety: Girls and young women are less likely to feel safe in their neighborhoods and in school. The source of stress changes as we get older, the survey...
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...45-60 minutes in length. I became a part of band and choir when I was in middle school and was the first chair flute player through all three middle school years, despite challenges from all the other players. I received an award from my band director for my musical talents. I became a part of a middle school show choir in my eighth-grade year called “Cougar First Edition.” We sang and danced for different events around town and rehearsed for three hours once a week. I auditioned for the Varsity Singers as an incoming freshman and made it in with only five other freshmen. Varsity Singers is a competitive show choir that puts in a minimum two three-hour rehearsals weekly. Practices on the weekends could be anywhere from 6-12 hours straight. Weeks right before competitions or performances were often filled with five rehearsals per week for two weeks, taking place every day after school...
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...First of all, research shows that taking a nap in the middle of the day will improve your mood and your well being therefore schools should allow time into the school day for napping. Imagine being able and recommended to take a nap in the middle or your school day and getting to relax and refocus. For example, University of Michigan doctoral student Jennifer Goldschmied and colleagues conducted a study on how a midday nap affected students. The authors discovered that “After waking from a 60-minute midday nap, people were less impulsive and had greater tolerance for frustration” (Weir). It appears that students were able to collaborate better after a midday nap due to less frustration and better focus. Also, students want naps so that...
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...Critical Article Review Penelope Baxter Adely, Fida, J. (2007). Is Music Haram? Jordanian Girls Educating Each Other About Nation, Faith, and Gender in School. Introduction Fida Adely was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of International and Transcultural Studies at Teachers College but as of August 2007, she has been the Hala Salaam Clovis Maksoud Assistant Professory of Arab Studies at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. Dr. Adely received her Ph.D. in Comparative Education and Anthropology from Columbia University. She is interested in education in the Middle East and Africa, especially areas that pertain to women, gender and culture. In this paper, Adely furthers her research on Jordanian schoolgirls. The abstract clearly states the purpose, the setting, the research design as well as the study’s conclusions and recommendations. The abstract outlines Dr. Adely’s intent to explore the importance of extracurricular activities, more specifically music, in the education of patriotism, faith and femininity in a female high school in Jordan Her qualitative study based on first-hand experience as well as conversation analysis is aimed at both the academic community and the general population interested in socio-cultural perspectives on education in the Middle East. Analysis Throughout her study, Adely builds primarily on her previous work from 2004, however she does cite literature from Kandiyoti (1991) and Ahmed (1992) among others....
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...Do You Need Recess? America is falling behind the rest of the world in education. To try and fix this problem school districts have been eliminating recess for class time. Recess has been reduced or taken out of 40% of school districts in the U.S. This solution, instead of fixing the problem, has made it even worse. Recess needs to be put back in schools to help improve educational outcomes. Recess is important and needs to be put in middle and high schools because, the U.S is falling behind other countries in standardized tests and recess give the students a brain break to refocus for the next subject. Students can take all their energy out during recess so they aren’t overactive in class. Other countries have been scoring higher than the...
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...From middle school to high school a lot of people experience immense changes in themselves. For me transitioning into high school was one of the biggest changes I have ever experienced. At first, this change was scary but once I realized the positive impact it would have on me personally, I was more open to the ideas. This change gave me many new skills and experiences that I could never have experienced in middle school. My move from middle school to high school has changed my personality, interests, and standards for academics. P1: Being placed in a new unfamiliar environment has made me more social and has improved my attitude towards life. My middle school years were the worst years of my life. This had to do with the fact that I switched...
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...In Ripley, Tennessee, one can find Heather Gitchell, a 6th grade science teacher, teaching her students how to grow their own food. According to FeedingAmerica.org, over 30,000 kids are suffering from hunger, and 1 in 7 people in the state are also fighting this same issue. Every spring, Gitchell lets her students grow vegetables. Gitchell said, “This is not only hands on, but it teaches a lesson that can provide for themselves or for a family.” There is a vast amount of students that attend Ripley Middle School who are suffering from hunger. By knowing this, Gitchell makes sure she teaches about plants in hopes the students will try and grow a small garden at their home. Ripley is a small, rural city in the state of Tennessee. DataUSA shared that 39.2% of...
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...Would you mind going to school all year round? When I was in elementary school and middle school in my native country Taiwan, our school systems were based on a schedule that has school throughout most of the calendar year as opposed to having no school in the summer. Most of the time when I began talking to my friends in America about the school system, expressions such as “This is ridiculous!” often came out. However, the term “Year-round schooling” is a misnomer. In fact, we do not attend school “year-round”, we attend approximately the same number of school days per year as traditional schools. Under year-round education programs we attend school for ninety days and go on vacation for thirty days; these vacations usually take places in spring, summer and winter. In this article, I will describe my experiences of attending both year round schools and traditional schools and explore the potential problems associate with both schooling systems as well as the benefits they bring. I received most of my primary and secondary education in Taiwan where we had to go to school year round. When I moved to Maryland in tenth grade, I was surprised that we had almost two and half months of summer vacation every year. During my first year of studying in the United States, I felt exhausted since I was not used to have little or no breaks throughout an academic year. Finally when my first summer vacation in the U.S. came, which I yearned for, I went back to my country for July and...
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...also if you want them to encode the information you're giving them in their memory, you've got to give them regular breaks,’” (“Turns out…” Connelly) Recess helps the brain during class. The free time makes kids more likely to be focused...
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...12, 2009 “Each fall, teachers regularly spend up to six weeks going over the same lessons their students had been taught the precious school year because of a phenomenon known as the “summer slide.” How kids spend their time outside of school is critically important to their success. It is a societal issue and something that is important to address, community-to-community and parent-to-parent,” said Ron Fairchlid, (2006). Executive Director of the Center for Learning at John Hopkins University). Summer Slide is a name given to the face that student who does not keep up with their level of academic skills over the summer loses them. This situation is usually found in low-income areas. This loss of memory is usually done to the lack of mental stimulation. Since this is a known problem, there are various ways to limit of even preventing this from happening to the students. Summer slide occurs for more than one reason, but the main one is lack of access to books, magazines, or newspapers in the home. In some cases there are no libraries or clubs in the immediate community. Then, there is the lack of education the parents have, most have no higher education themselves and therefore, are unable to persuade the children they need education, so there is a lack of motivation. There is a way of preventing this and for the middle or higher classes it is already being done, but for the lower class help is needed to defeat the problem. It is going to take more than just...
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...Should You Give Up Summer Break? Many people ask, if your children should have year round school. I chose yes, because summer vacation is outdated. If you stop having school break you could take forever to get back to what you were learning before. Keeping schools open all year round could take pressure off of children to catch up. The first reason why we shouldn’t have summer break is because it would take forever to catch up. According to Sindhu Nair, it would avoid teachers and students getting burnt out with more frequent breaks. In addition, Students think of year-round schools to be no summer traditions, but you still get summer camps and beach vacations. As well as, Year- round schools allow you to have communication with your family and friends. Nair says, you get the same calendar and you also get the same holidays off. (Nair) However, students are being required for academic support to get more immediate...
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...At this point, the schools’ intersession breaks, which have previously been mentioned, may come in handy because each intersession can act as a short summer school. Students could use these intercessions as a tutoring period as well. Particularly if the school operates a multitrack schedule because a portion of teacher would always be around to assist students. A portion of teacher would be on school grounds because some if not all of the school's facilities are used on an offset year-round schedule. Aside from allowing for an extra tutor/learning period, shorter breaks can benefit a student in terms that it cuts down on summertime boredom that most students would experience during summer vacation. An increase in shorter breaks also brings...
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...direct in the cockpit rather than suggestive. Another legacy that Gladwell brings to focus is the link between China and math. In China, rice farming is a crucial part of society.. After describing China’s importance on rice farming, Gladwell gives a brief explanation of the number system in China. Statistically, Chinese children can count up to 40 two years sooner than American children. Rice farming involves perfectionism, long, rigorous days and no days off. The more work you put into a rice paddy, the more benefit you will reap. According to the book, it is estimated that the average rice farmer will put in 3,000 of work a year. Rice farming in China has led to a cultural belief that hard work can be equated to success, a key factor in school according to...
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...In middle school you see bullies, jock, nerds, and wanna-be’s but not a hippie usually, but in the book, Schooled, by Gordan Korman, the main character, Capricorn Anderson, is a hippie that changes many times during the book. Capricorn (Cap) is a thirteen year old who lives on an alternative farm commune with his grandmother, Rain. Rain falls out of a plum tree, breaks her hip and has to go to hospital rehab. Cap is forced to go live in foster care at Mrs. Donnelly’s house, which means he has to go to Claverage Middle School (called C Average by its students.) He was homeschooled by Rain and that makes him different from most other children. He doesn't understand middle school life because he’s never lived anywhere else except Garland Farms. As a result, Cap is clueless about the world outside of Garland Farms. When he arrives at C Average Middle School, Cap is uncomfortable. He is confused about class periods and doesn’t know what lockers are used for. Cap tells Rain, “It’s too crowded. People dress funny; they talk too fast.” He tells her he’s kind of scared and he’s horrified at seeing physical violence. Students at...
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