Thursday, April 26, 2018

Dean's Transcript ~ Math I -- 9th grade

Dean spent his 9th grade year making many math concepts concrete and expanding his knowledge Algebraic expression. He used a large variety of resources. He achieved an 89% as his final grade. He completed 144 hours of study.

Books and websites he completed ~
  • Life of Fred Fractions
  • Life of Fred Zillions of Practice Problems Fractions
  • A Gebra Named Al
  • Math Lessons from the website, Thinking Like an Engineer
  • Scholastic Math Magazines
  • About 15 lessons from Khan Academy
  • Spectrum Word Problems
  • Hands-On Math Projects with Real Life Applications (3 lessons)
Games used to support lessons and increase logic skills ~
  • Stratego
  • Quizmo Geometry
  • Equate
  • Chess
  • Cash Flow for Kids
  • Mastermind
  • Sequence
  • Monopoly Deal
  • Q-Bitz Exteme
  • Take Out
Projects ~
  • Built a 1:50 scale of a park
  • Measuring and building a desk with Grandpa
  • Working out all tips in restaurants during several trips
  • Making a wooden axe, which required lots of math conversions
  • Project on saving the math behind saving endangered species
Topics covered ~
  • Ratios
  • Fractions
  • Probability
  • Statistics
  • Percents
  • Decimals
  • Metric system
  • Converting metric system
  • Measuring 
  • Area
  • Simple interest
  • Units of length
  • Graphing
  • Intro to stocks
Blessings, Dawn

1 comment:

  1. You are really a wonderful manager of your kids' educations, Dawn. These records are treasures.

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