8TH GRADE CONNECTED mA THEMATICS PROJECT CALENDAR
September 2003
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
1
Labor Day
2
3
Data Around Us
Interpret Disaster
Reports
4
5
Measuring Oil Spills
8
9
10
Comparing Large
Numbers
11
12
Check-up
(TG-p.73)
15
How Many is a Million
16
17
18
Every Litter Bit Hurts
19
22
23
24
Quiz
(TG-p.74)
25
On an Average Day
26
29
Self-Assess Take
Home
(TG-p.81)
30
Unit Test
(TG-p.78-79)
October 2003
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
1
Moving Straight
Ahead
Predicting from Pat-
terns
2
3
6
Walking Rates
7
8
9
10
Non Instructional
Work Day
13
14
15
Check-up
(TG-p.95-96)
16
Exploring Lines w/a
Graphing Calculator
17
Early Release Prepara-
20
Early Release � Parent Conferences
21
22
23
Quiz A
(TG-p.97-99)
24
Solving Equations
27
28
29
30
31
Exploring Slope
8TH GRADE CONNECTED mA THEMATICS PROJECT CALENDAR
November 2003
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
3
4
5
Quiz B
(TG-p.100-101)
6
Writing an Equation
for a Line
7
10
11
Veteran�s Day
12
Self-Assess Take Home
(TG-p.110)
Unit Test
(TG-p.105-108)
13
14
17
Thinking w/
Mathematical
Models
Linear Models
18
19
20
21
24
25
Check-up
(TG-p.63-64)
26
Early Release
27
Thanksgiving
28
Vacation
8TH GRADE CONNECTED mA THEMATICS PROJECT CALENDAR
December 2003
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
1
Non-Linear Models
First Trimester Concludes
2
3
4
A World of Patterns
5
8
9
10
Self-Assess Take Home
(TG-p.73)
11
Unit Test
(TG-p.69-71)
12
15
Looking for
Pythagoras
Locating Points
16
17
18
19
22
Winter Break
23
24
25
26
29
30
31
8TH GRADE CONNECTED mA THEMATICS PROJECT CALENDAR
January 2004
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
1
2
5
Finding Areas &
Lengths
6
7
8
9
Check-up
(TG-p.76-77)
12
The Pythagorean
Theorem
13
14
15
16
19
Martin Luther King
Day
20
Using the Pythagorean
Theorem
21
22
23
26
Non Instructional
Work Day
27
Quiz
(TG-p.78-79)
28
Irrational Numbers
29
30
8TH GRADE CONNECTED mA THEMATICS PROJECT CALENDAR
February 2004
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
2
3
Rational & Irrational
Slopes
4
5
6
Self-Assess Take Home
(TG-p.88)
9
Unit Test
(TG-p.85-86)
10
Say it w/Symbols
Order of Operations
11
12
Check-up 1
(TG-p.75)
13
Mid-Winter
Break
16
17
18
Equivalent Expressions
19
20
23
24
Some Important
Properties
25
26
27
8TH GRADE CONNECTED mA THEMATICS PROJECT CALENDAR
Marc h 2004
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
1
2
Quiz
(TG-p.76-77)
3
Solving Equations
4
5
8
9
10
Check-up 2
(TG-p.78)
11
Writing Expressions
for Surface Area
12
Self-Assess Take Home
(TG-p.87)
15
Unit Test
(TG-p.82-85)
Unit Project (optional)
16
Samples &
Populations
Comparing Data Sets
17
18
19
22
23
Check-up
(TG-p.69-70)
1/2 day
24
Conducting Surveys
25
26
29
Random Samples
30
31
8TH GRADE CONNECTED mA THEMATICS PROJECT CALENDAR
April 2004
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
1
2
5
Spring Break
6
7
8
9
12
Quiz
(TG-p.71-72)
13
Solving Real World
Problems
14
15
16
Self-Assess Take Home
(TG-p.80)
19
Unit Test
(TG-p.76-78)
Unit Project (optional)
20
Kaleidoscopes,
Hubcaps & Mirrors
Three Types of
Symmetry
21
22
23
26
Check-up
(TG-p.79)
1/2 day
27
Symmetry
Transformations
28
29
30
8TH GRADE CONNECTED mA THEMATICS PROJECT CALENDAR
May 2004
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
3
4
5
Quiz
(TG-p.80-83)
6
Transform Coordinates
7
10
11
12
13
14
Non Instructional
Work Day
17
Check-up
(TG-p.84-85)
1/2 day
18
Symmetry & Algebra
19
20
21
24
Self-Assess Take Home
(TG-p.90-93)
25
Unit Test
(TG-p.90-93)
Unit Project (optional)
26
27
28
31
Memorial Day
8TH GRADE CONNECTED mA THEMATICS PROJECT CALENDAR
June 2004
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
1
2
3
4
Non Instructional
Work Day
7
8
9
10
11
14
15
16
Last Day of School
17
18
21
22
23
24
25
28
29
30
8TH GRADE CONNECTED mA THEMATICS PROJECT CALENDAR