Grade 8:
The Grade 8s spent the week reviewing concepts required to perform operations with fractions, specifically around finding factors and multiples of a number. They also were asked to find the Greatest Common Factor between two numbers, and the Lowest Common Multiple between two numbers. Students also explored why the GCF and LCM are particularly useful when we are working with fractions. Next week, the Grade 8s will begin to work on performing basic operations with fractions.
Grade 9:
The Grade 9s wrote their Rational Numbers Unit Test this week. Marks will be updated on PowerSchool and the unit test will be returned to them next week. With the unit test completed, students next went into working with Square Roots. Students discovered ways to estimate the square root of a non-perfect square whole number, as well as a non-perfect square fraction. Next week, the grade 9s will continue to work with Square Roots, and apply what we now know about Square Roots in order to be able to compare and order square roots among other rational numbers.
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