Yr+7+Maths

**Year 7 Maths Homework 2013** //Click on the Maths Books to go to Yr 7 Maths ResourcePage. // This page is a homework diary in case you are not sure what homework you have for Maths. The most recent work is at the top of the page.

More importantly, it tells you what has been covered in class so you can catch up if you are absent from school for some reason. You need to be responsible for organising to photocopy notes you miss, as well as spending time to complete the work you have missed in order to make sure you are familiar with all the material covered in class.


 * Friday 2 August **
 * Classwork: **Today we learnt how to add and subtract fractions
 * Homework: **Finish by Monday the worksheet Fractions chap 3 ws 1 given out after Decimals re-test yesterday.


 * Tuesday 30 July **
 * Classwork: **Today we continued working on equivalent fractions. Those people who worked really quickly had some time to study for their Decimals re-test.
 * Homework: **Finish equivalent fractions worksheet if not done in class.


 * Monday 29 July **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Today we had a problem solving session that linked science and maths. We were given a bag of materials and asked to build a device that could throw a marshmallow across the room.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Be prepared for Decimals re-test on Thursday 1 August. Look over your old test and practise some questions.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Friday 26 July **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Today we learnt about equivalent fractions and how to find equivalent fractions easily. We realised that when we were simplifying fractions yesterday, we were actually finding equivalent fractions.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">No new homework


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Thursday 25 July **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Today we learnt how to simplify fractions. We started by finding the highest common factor of two numbers then applied these skills to fractions.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">No new homework


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Tuesday 23 July **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Today we started our new topic which is fractions. We talked about the difference between proper, improper and mixed fractions and made sure everyone knew how to convert between mixed and improper fractions by working on some worksheets supplied by Dr BB.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">No new homework.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Monday 22 July **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Today we did not do maths. We continued with the career planning and subject selection discussion we had started in Personal Development earlier in the day.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Students are to complete the Year 7 Career Action plan by Friday.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Friday 19 July **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Used Decimals topic test to review areas that students had difficulty with. Today worked on adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing decimals. Worked on worksheet 6.1 and 6.2 for second half of double period, with students focussing on those types of questions they got wrong on topic test.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Students are to to continue working on decimals problems in preparation for a decimals retest. No new homework will be set before Friday.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Tuesday 16 July **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Did pre-test for new topic - Fractions.Used Decimals topic test to review areas that students had difficulty with. Today worked on place value, finite and recurring decimals and rounding of decimals.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">No new homework.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Monday 15 July **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Revision of prime and composite numbers as well as factors and factor trees. Started Prime Number Investigation assignment which is due on Friday 19 July.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Finish Prime Number Investigation by Friday 19 July.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Friday 28 June **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Maths is normally period 5 today but because we are finishing early we did our Maths test in Science period 2 today.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">None. Have a nice holiday.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Thursday 27 June **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Today we did Science instead of Maths since we did Maths instead of Science on Tuesday.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">None.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Wednesday 26 June **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Today we did questions to revise for our test on Friday. We were allowed to pick and choose from all of Chap 3 Review and questions 17 - 20 of Fluency and 3, 4 and 5 of problem solving in the Chap 2 Review. Dr BB told us to focus on the parts we found hardest after trying one of each type of question. Some people were a little behind and needed some of this time to finish their revision fish.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Study for topic test on Multiples, Primes and Indices which will be on Friday 28 June.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Tuesday 24 June **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Today we had two periods of Maths instead of doing one period of Maths and one of Science. We learnt about cubing numbers and finding the cube root of numbers and did questions from our textbook to make sure we knew how to use our calculators to work with squares and cubes. We did q1, 3, 4, 5 and 7 from Ex 3C followed by q1, 2, 4 and 5 from Ex 3D. In the second lesson we started drawing up a revision fish to summarise all the new things we had learnt for this topic in preparation for our Maths test on Friday.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Finish revision fish before topic test on Friday 28 June.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Monday 24 June **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">We did Maths today instead of IT. We spent the lesson learning about square numbers and how to calculate squares and square roots.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">None.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Friday 21 June **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">No class due to report writing day.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">None.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Thursday 20 June **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Today we worked on questions from Ex 3A to make sure we had the hang of Index Notation. We did questions 2, 4, 7 and 8.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Finish up to and including question 7 if not finished in class.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Wednesday 19 June **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Today we starting learning about Index Notation and how it can be used to as a short-cut instead of writing repeated multiplications.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">None.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Monday 17 June **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Today we completed questions from Ex 3B of our textbook to practise identifying prime numbers and using factor trees to find the prime factors of a number. The questions we completed were the LHS of q2, 3, 4 and 5 with those of us who finished early going on to questions 9 - 12.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Finish up to and including question 4 if not finished in class.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Friday 14 June **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Today we completed questions 1, 10, 15 and 16 from Ex 2F of our textbook to apply the information we learnt in our last maths lesson. We then went on to learn about prime numbers and composite numbers and how to use factor trees to find prime factors.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Finish questions 1 and 10 from Ex 2F if not done in class.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Thursday 13 June **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Today we started our new topic which is Multiples and Factors. We learnt was was meant by the term multiple and highest common multiple. We then learnt about factors, factor pairs and what is meant by the term highest common factor. We played a few games with the whiteboards to get us thinking quickly about multiples and also played the lowest common multiple clapping game. The boys beat the girls at this!!!
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">No new homework.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Wednesday 12 June **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Today we completed our topic test for Decimals.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">No new homework.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Tuesday 11 June **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Decimals test was postponed until tomorrow as Dr BB was absent. Today we spent a second lesson on our Engagement with Asia Currency assignment. It is due on Friday 14 June.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Complete currency powerpoint and upload to SIMON if not finished in class time.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Friday 7 June **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Today we started our Engagement with Asia Currency assignment. Each student was given a different country to research and compile information about its currency as well as doing some calculations involving decimals. We will have two lessons of class on this and it is due on Friday 14 June..
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">No new homework.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Thursday 6 June **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Today we did Science instead of Maths because it was the only time we could get a computer room. We worked on our assignment on Introduced and Endangered Species.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">None.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Wednesday 5 June **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Today we organised a surprise party for Dr BB so we didn't get a lot of work done. We watched a short documentary on Endangered Species as a lead in to the assignment we are starting in Science.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Make sure you have revision fish ready for test.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Monday 3 June **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Today we started drawing up our revision summary for the decimals topic which will be tested on Tuesday 11 June. We were also given a decimals revision booklet with some practise questions in it.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Finish revision summary (revision FISH) by June 11 and make sure you have had a go at some of the questions in the Decimals revision booklet.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Friday 31 May **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Today we learnt how to convert fractions to decimals. We practised our skills by completing a colour by numbers activity where we had to convert the fractions in order to know what colours to use.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Finish decimals homework sheet 4.2 (multiply & divide) by Wednesday 5 June.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Thursday 30 May **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Today we learnt how convert decimals to fractions. We played a quiz game with the whiteboards to check that everyone was starting to get the hang of how to convert decimals to fractions then we did questions 1 and 3 from Exercise 6B.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Finish questions 1 and 3 from Ex 6B if not done in class.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Wednesday 29 May **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Today we spent more time practising how to divide decimals. We worked on questions 4 to 7 from Ex 6F. People who finished really early went on to try questions 8 to 14 from 6F.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Finish questions 4 to 6 from Ex 6F if not done in class.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Tuesday 28 May **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Only 6 students were present in class today so we watched "The secret of life on Earth" to get a better understanding of how organisms interact and rely on each other within ecosystems..
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">No homework.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Friday 24 May **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Today we learnt how to divide decimals by single digits and by other decimals. We worked on questions 1and 3 from Ex 6F.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Finish questions 1 and 3 from Ex 6F if not done in class.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Thursday 23 May **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Today we spent more time practising how to multiply decimals. We worked on questions from Ex 6E. We did the LHS column of q1, 2, 3, 4 and 7.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">No new homework.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Wednesday 22 May **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Today we looked at multiplying decimals. First we learnt a handy shortcut when multiplying decimals by 10, 100, 1000 etc then we learnt how to multiply decimals by other decimals.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Complete Chapter Review worksheet on addition and subtraction by tomorrow.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Monday 20 May **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Today we looked at how to add and subtract decimals. Dr BB let us choose the addition and subtraction worksheets that best suited our ability. Most of us were able to do the sheet with the most difficult problems.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">No homework.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Friday 17 May **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Today we looked at how to round decimals to a required number of decimal places. We then did some questions from Ex 6A and 6C of our Jacaranda text book to reinforce decimal place value, rounding decimals and the difference between recurring and finite decimals.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">No new homework.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Thursday 16 May **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Because we had already done two periods of Maths today with the NAPLAN, Dr BB and Mr Coffey booked a computer room so we could play games on MangaHigh to help us revise decimal place value as well as BIDMAS.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">No new homework.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Wednesday 15 May **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Today Dr BB spend more time going through questions from our Integers test which lots of people had difficulty with. In the second half of the lesson our student teacher Mr Coffey reminded us about place value in decimals (tenths, hundredths, thousandths) and we played some games using the whiteboards to check that everyone had the hang of decimal place value. We also learnt about the difference between finite and recurring (infinite) decimals.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">No new homework.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Tuesday 14 May **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Today Dr BB spend some time going through questions from our Integers test which lots of people had difficulty with.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">No new homework.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Friday 10 May **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Today we went through a practice NAPLAN test and made sure everyone knew how to use their calculator.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">No new homework.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Thursday 9 May **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Today we a did a pre-test for our new topic which is Decimals.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">No new homework.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Wednesday 8 May **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Today we completed our Integers topic test.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">No new homework.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Monday 6 May **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Today we revised for our test on Integers on Wednesday 8 May. Some people were still finishing their revision fish but most people worked through the practise test. Answers to the practise test were also given out for those students who were being responsible and doing more revision at home.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Make sure you are ready for Integers topic test on Wednesday 8 Mary.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Friday 3 May **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">No classes due to Staff Development day.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">No new homework.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Thursday 2 May **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">No classes due to May Races carnival holiday.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">No new homework.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Wednesday 1 May **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">No classes due to Personal Development day.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">No new homework.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Tuesday 30 April **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Quick game with whiteboards to revise adding and subtracting positive and negative numbers then we started a revision fish for the Integers topic in preparation for a topic test on Wednesday 8 May.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Finish Integers revision fish by Monday 6 May if not done in class.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Friday 26 April **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Quick game with whiteboards to revise adding and subtracting positive and negative numbers then we did all odd numbered questions from Ex 12C. Some students went on to attempt Yr 8 work involving multiplication and division of negative and positive numbers.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Finish up to and including q7 from Ex 12C by Monday if not done in class.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Thursday 25 April **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">No class due to ANZAC Day holiday.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">None.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Wednesday 24 April **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Spent time learning about negative numbers and using number lines to help us visualize problems that involved negative and positive numbers. Played a quick game with whiteboards to ensure everyone could use greater and less than signs correctly and knew that negative numbers were smaller than positive numbers.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">None.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Monday 22 April **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Learnt about how rounding and estimation can help us make an educated guess when doing maths so we have some idea of the ball park figure we are expecting. This is important if you are using a calculator so you can recognise an error if you press the wrong button. We did problems 3-8 of Ex 2H.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Finish problems from Ex 2H if not completed in class.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Friday 19 April **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Due to some technical difficulties with the lesson Dr BB left for the substitute teacher earlier in the day, we ended up watching the first half of the DVD we were meant to watch in Science this morning. The DVD was "Over the Hedge" as an introduction to our Ecosystems topic.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">None.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Thursday 18 April **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Worked in LRC. Watched a great song to remind us of the order of operations (BIDMAS) then worked on different worksheets either by ourselves or with Dr BB. Those people who were feeling confident could complete the two harder sheets then use Manga High on the computer while those people who were having trouble worked with Dr BB on the easier worksheet.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">BIDMAS code puzzle by Monday 22 April.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Wednesday 17 April **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Starting learning about BIDMAS which is very similar to BODMAS which many of us learnt in primary school. Worked on problems from Ex 2E.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Finish all of question 1 from Ex 2E by tomorrow if not done in class.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Tuesday 16 April **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Today we revised division again. We used a long division app on the iPad and viewed it on the Smartboard to help us with out setting out of division problems. Worked on worksheets handed out by Dr BB.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">None.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Friday 29 March **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">No class due to Good Friday.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">None. Have a great Easter holiday.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Thursday 28 March **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Today we did our Science test for the topic "Introduction to Science" instead of doing Maths.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">None.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Wednesday 27 March **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Today we started division. Most of us had the hang of short division but we need a little more work on long division. We will continue on with the worksheets we were doing in class after the holidays.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">None.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Tuesday 26 March **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Today we did Maths instead of Science. We spent some more time on multiplication. We did a few worksheets to help us practise different methods for multiplication so we could work out which one we found easiest.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Finish Worded Multiplication Problems by Thursday 28 March.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Monday 25 March **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Today we started multiplication. We looked at three different ways of doing long multiplication (lattice, grid and magic zero or traditional long multiplication). We spent some time practising the grid method.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">None.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Friday 22 March **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Today most of us spent the lesson practising our addition and subtraction skills by completing all even numbered questions from Ex 2B in Maths textbook. Some students worked with Dr BB to get more help with subtraction.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Everyone is to complete Worded Subtraction Problems by Monday.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Thursday 21 March **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Today we spent a little time as whole group reviewing addition of subtraction with more than two digits. We then worked on individual addition worksheets depending on our pre-test result.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">None.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Wednesday 20 March **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">No class due to Athletic Sports.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">None.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Tuesday 19 March **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Today we spent a little time as whole group reviewing addition of numbers with more than two digits. We then worked on individual addition worksheets depending on our pre-test result.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Everyone is to complete Worded Addition Problem sheet by Friday 22 March.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Friday 15 March **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Today we revised place value and worked on how to write numbers in expanded notation. We also checked that everyone could order whole numbers in ascending and descending order.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">NumPics 1 sheet from Target Maths to be completed by Tuesday 19 March.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Thursday 14 March **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Today we completed a pre-test for our next topic which is Integers.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">None.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Wednesday 13 March **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Today we completed our topic test on Co-ordinates and the Cartesian Plane.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">None.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Friday 8 March **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Student choice - continue work on Chap 15 Chapter Review questions to test knowledge of Co-ordinates and the Cartesian Plane or work on practise test and use answers to help us revise.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Read over revision summary. Can look over practise test and answers and ask questions in homeroom on Tuesday.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Thursday 7 March **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Worked on Chap 15 Chapter Review questions to test our knowledge of Co-ordinates and the Cartesian Plane.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">None set.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Wednesday 6 March **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Began revising for topic test on Co-ordinates and the Cartesian Plane. Looked over learning goals and used the revision fish template (christened "Ferdinand the Maths Fish") to summarise key information learnt. Test is on Wednesday 13 March.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Finish revision fish if not completed in class.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Tuesday 5 March **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Looked at interpreting graphs. Started Exercise 15D q1 - 11.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">No homework set.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Friday 1 March **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Continued working on Ex 15C q3 and q5 - 9.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Finish q5 and q8 by Monday to check you know how to do them. Ask Dr BB for help Monday in homeroom if you get stuck.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Thursday 28 Feb **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Talked about the term "linear relationship" and learnt that if the Cartesian points we plot can be joined to form a straight line that this means there is a linear relationship. Talked about what different linear relationships would tell us e.g. if line was going up across the plane it would mean that as the x value is increasing the y value is also. An example of this would be if we graphed the number of people invited to dinner against the number of chairs needed. As we invite more people we will need more chairs. Started working on Ex 15C
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Finish q1 from 15C by tomorrow if not done in class today.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Wed 27 Feb **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Spent time revising what we have learnt so far about Cartesian co-ordinates and practised plotting points on the Cartesian plane.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Cartesian Co-ordinates WS 1 from JacPlus must be completed by 6 March.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Monday 25 Feb **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">No class today due to Yr 7 Athletic Trials.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">None.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Friday 22 Feb **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">No school this week due to Yr 7 Camp.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">None.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Thursday 21 Feb **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">No school this week due to Yr 7 Camp.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">None.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Wednesday 20 Feb **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">No school this week due to Yr 7 Camp.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">None.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Tuesday 19 Feb **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">No school this week due to Yr 7 Camp.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">None.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Friday 15 Feb **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Continued working on Ex 15B from Maths Quest 7.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">None.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Thursday 14 Feb **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Quick discussion to revise what we learned earlier in the week about the Cartesian Plane. Started Ex 15B from Maths Quest 7.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">None.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Wednesday 13 Feb **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Had a catch-up lesson Maths/IT to make sure everyone knew how to use SIMON. Those of us who had worked fast got to use MangaHigh for revision of positive and negative numbers.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">None.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Mon 11 Feb **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Looked at learning goals for our first topic and talked about how alphanumeric grid references work. Did q1 from Ex 15A in Maths Quest 7 to make sure we understood alphanumeric grids. Talked about the Cartesian plane and how co-ordinates can be used to locate a point on the plane. Wrote down plenty of notes to remind us of what we had talked about.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">None.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Friday 8 Feb **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Went back to computer lab to finish setting up JacPlus account. Got passwords for MangaHigh so we can log on and play lots of cool maths games to help us learn!!!)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">None but MangaHigh can be used at any time from home.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Thursday 7 Feb **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">No class due to school swimming sports.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">None.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Wednesday 6 Feb **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Played Battleships as an introduction to our first topic which is Co-ordinates and the Cartesian Plane. Went to computer lab to start setting up our JacPlus accounts so that we can access our Maths book online when we are at home (saves us carrying it!!!)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">None.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Tuesday 5 Feb **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Finished setting up our Maths folder. Learnt a really neat way to work out our 6 to 9 times tables using our hands. Completed a times tables test (150 questions in 20 minutes or less!!!)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">None.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Friday 1 Feb **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">This day ran as a Personal Development day rather than timetabled classes, so we spent time setting our learning goals for the semester and learning more about how the school works.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">None.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Thursday 31 Jan **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Classwork: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">First day of Year 7!!! We spent this period settling in to our homeroom and getting our timetables, diaries and lockers.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">None.