Middle School

Middle School: Week of Mar 25

Math: Everyone had Stock Market Game time on Tuesday since it had been two weeks without checking their portfolios. On Wednesday, Da Sprouts were introduced to inequalities and how to graph solution sets. Thursday they learned how to solve one step inequalities. Evershrooms jumped back into surface area by completing a lesson on finding the surface area of pyramids on Wednesday. Thursday they worked on surface area application problems. Polar Bears completed lessons over identifying transformations and working with dilations. Mountain Lizards worked on finding roots (or zeros or solutions or x-intercepts) of quadratics. Next they learned how to simplify […]

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Middle school student stands in front of renaissance drawing on board at microschool.

Middle School: Week of Feb 26

Math: Da Sprouts took a check in on Monday over expression and then moved on to the equations unit. Tuesday they learned how to solve one-step addition and subtraction equations using inverse operations and Wednesday they solved puzzles to practice setting up inverse operations. Evershrooms reviewed Monday for their check in on Tuesday. Wednesday they began learning about 3D shapes and nets. Polar Bears took their check in over pythagorean theorem Monday and began exploring transformations on Tuesday and Wednesday. Mountain Lizards worked hard to review Monday, but no one else managed to escape to room. All were prepared, however,

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Seventh grader at progressive middle school works on English assignment.

Middle School: Week of Feb 19

Math: Da Sprouts spent Tuesday and Wednesday reviewing their short unit over expressions. Evershrooms completed a performance task this week. They were tasked to design a scale model blueprint of two rooms in a home. Each room had special area requirements and the area of all furniture, round and rectangular, were measured. Polar Bears finished their last lesson on Pythagorean Theorem solving 3D application problems. Mountain Lizards spent the week trying to escape! Only one student has escaped so far. The rest will have one more day next week to try. Thursday “math block” was spent working in Stock Market

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Student at private middle school holds key to escape room.

Middle School: Week of Feb 12th

Math: Da Sprouts jumped back into their expression unit. Monday they practiced finding the exponent form, expanded form, and standard form of numbers with a cut and paste matching activity. Tuesday they had a lesson over the distribution property and Wednesday they had a lesson over changing verbal descriptions into expression and equations. Thursday the group worked at stations to review the unit. Evershrooms continued with area this week. They learned how to find the area of parallelograms, triangles, trapezoids, and composite shapes. Thursday they started a performance task where each student has to design two rooms and make a

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Middle school student raises finger during theater performance at project based school.