Last week I attended a meeting on the new Common Core standards and implementation into our school district. Lots of work to do, but exciting time I believe for mathematics in general.
Chapter 7 exam coming up next Monday and Tuesday. Hard stuff, area of shapes, special right triangles, arcs of circles, areas of sectors and segments. I am not sure how my students will do. Each year I go through this, is seems to get harder and harder to teach. Now the new CC standards are pushing a lot of this material into the 7th and 8th grades. I am glad, but wonder how hard it may be there.
I do think that students caught on to special triangles this year, better than years past. Maybe I finally did a decent job of teaching that. The last two days have been awesome review, students really helping each other and asking great questions. Make me nervous for exam day, but maybe they will rise to the occasion.
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