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toc Welcome to Mr Blaisdell's MFM1P homepage. Here you will find useful links and a weekly agenda for our Grade 9 Math class. I update the agenda daily, but topics and test dates may be shifted depending on class progress, schedule, school-wide presentations, assemblies, etc. My prep room is #219 inside the Student Services area. Please feel free to reach me by email at mark.blaisdell@ocdsb.ca


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Feb 4-8

 * Mon - Unit 1: Numeracy
 * Adding and subtracting integers
 * Tue - Working with fractions
 * Finding the LCD (least common denominator)
 * Adding fractions
 * Wed - Adding fractions continued
 * Thu - Multiplying and dividing fractions
 * Fractions review
 * Fri - Finishing up Numeracy (Snow Day)
 * BEDMAS
 * Due to the snow day we've moved the Test for Numeracy to Tuesday ||
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Feb 11-15

 * Mon - Finishing up with Numeracy
 * Distributive property
 * Multiplying and dividing integers
 * Equivalent Fractions
 * Study handouts 1-11 for
 * Tue -Test Numeracy (Test Postponed ! - Due to the Anti-bullying Assembly)
 * Let's review our numeracy sheets
 * Second half 11:20-11:45 Presentation
 * Wed - Course Option Presentations
 * Thu - Test on Numeracy
 * Fri - Professional Development Day ||
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Feb 18-22

 * Mon - Family Day
 * Tue - Begin Unit 2 - Proportional Reasoning
 * Working with Ratios
 * Wed - Ratio and Proportion
 * Making Orange Juice
 * Thu - Who Eats the Most? Activity
 * Fri - Proportions
 * Remember signed and corrected test for U1 due today!
 * Middle mania - working with triangles and proportions
 * Worksheet - simplifying ratios ||
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Feb 25-Mar 1

 * Mon - Growing Dilemna Investigation
 * Workbook p 91-95
 * Tue - Quiz __Proportions__
 * Finish the Growing Dilemna exercise - We'll take up at the end of class
 * Wed - Scaling problems p98-99
 * Television viewing dimensions Activity
 * Workbook p 96-97
 * Working with Ratio Word problems
 * Thu - Scale Ratios
 * Fri - Mini Me Activity
 * Mini Me Activity - Skateboards
 * Mini-me is due Monday Mar 4 ||
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Mar 4-8

 * Mon - Estimating Crowd size activity
 * p100-104 in Workbook
 * Mini-me is due Today Mar 4
 * Tue - Unit Rates
 * Math Handbook P 21 (Worksheets)
 * Workbook P 105-106
 * Wed - Working with Per cent
 * Math Handbook (worksheet) MHR 24
 * Workbook p 019-110
 * Thu - Fractions, decimals and per cents - Conversions
 * Worksheets
 * Fri - Word problems using ratio, proportion, per cents
 * Proportional thinking
 * Practice tests - worksheets ||
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Mar 18-22

 * Mon - Review for U2 Test - Proportional thinking
 * Practice test (p142-handout) and ...
 * Practice test (p42-handout)
 * Tue - TEST Unit 2
 * Wed - Begin U3 Algebraic Models
 * Linear and non-linear investigations
 * Thu - Linear or Non-linear
 * Fri - Distributive property
 * workbook p211-212 ||
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Mar 25-29

 * Mon - Solving algebraic expressions
 * workbook p 213-214 + worksheets
 * Tue - More solving equations
 * workbook p 215-217
 * Wed - Putting Equations into words
 * workbook P 214
 * Providing the "words" given the equation
 * Thu - Quiz - simplifying expressions
 * More solving linear equations
 * The Equation Game worksheet
 * One step equations with integers worksheet
 * Pizzazz Worksheet Package
 * ** Our test for Unit 3 - Algebraic Models - Is next Friday! **
 * Fri - Good Friday - Off ||
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Apr 1-5

 * Mon - Easter Monday
 * Tue - Working with equations with more than one variable
 * Powers with variable bases (wkbook P220)
 * Solving measurement problems wkbook p221-223
 * Wed - Pizzazz Worksheet package
 * Thu - Review -
 * Fri - ** Test Unit 3 - Algebraic Models ** ||
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Apr 8-12

 * Mon - Begin U4 - Exploring Relationships
 * Introduction p57-61
 * vocabulary
 * Tue - Lines of best fit
 * p 62-64 in workbook
 * Wed - Creating Scatter plots and lines of best fit
 * Thu - Investigations
 * Fri - Investigations
 * "inclement weather" activities ||
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Apr 15-19

 * Mon - Finish up Investigations (P. 76) and First Differences
 * Tue - First Differences
 * Using what we've learned
 * Wed - Sunflower Performance Task p 83
 * Thu - Review of the Unit
 * Fri - Test! ||
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Apr 22-26

 * Mon - Begin Unit 5 - Linear Relations
 * 5.1 Walk this way - distance x time graphs
 * Tue - 5.2 Describing distance x time graphs
 * Worksheets (bathtub water height, reservoir, etc)
 * Wed - 5.3 Rates of Change
 * Slope, Rise\Run, % grade
 * Thu - 5.4 Calculating Rates of change
 * Worksheet DD-58 What did one ear say to the other
 * Fri - 5.6 Direct and Partial Variation
 * Equation of a line Y = mx + b
 * Initital value, rate of change
 * using Graphs, equations and table of values ||
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Apr 29 - May 3

 * Mon - 5.8 Modelling Linear Relations with Equations
 * Tue - 5.9 Graphing and word problems
 * Wed - Board Wide survey takes place in class
 * Review concepts U5
 * Thu - Review sheet work period
 * Fri - ** Unit 5 Test ** ||
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May 6-10

 * Mon - Unit 6 Begin - This is an extremely short unit! Test Next Wednesday (May 15th)
 * return U5 test - take up
 * Solving equations 6.1
 * Tue - Quiz - Solving equations
 * Wed - Working with equations 6.3
 * Thu - Planning a Special event
 * 6.3.1. p 177 in workbook Mathematical Models
 * Start to solve word problems
 * Fri - Solving Word problems
 * Worksheet (read, plan, solve and answer) ||
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May 13-17

 * Mon - Begin U7 - Plane Geometry
 * Parallel Lines, Transversals and Triangles - Definitions
 * TextBook p 87 Looking at relationships for parallel lines
 * Tue - Ubuntu cancelled\postponed
 * Sum of the Interior Angles
 * Wed - Mini-Test U6 - Multiple representations
 * Thu -Interior and Exterior Angles
 * textbook page 95
 * Angle algebra
 * Fri - Angle Algebra and Review for Test Tuesday ||
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May 20-24

 * Mon - Victoria day
 * Tue - Test U7
 * Wed - Summative Lead up task
 * Thu - Summative
 * Fri -Summative ||
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May 27-31

 * Mon - Begin 3D Geometry Unit 8
 * Volumes - Calculating volumes of solids
 * Tue - Applications of Volumes
 * Using the formulas for real world shapes
 * Wed - Area and Perimeter - Calculating area and perimeter for 2D shapes
 * Thu - Composite shapes
 * Finding area and perimeter of more complex, actual shapes
 * Fri - Pythagorean Theorem
 * Using the pythagorean theorem on triangular shapes ||
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Jun 3 -7

 * Mon - Applications of 3D Geometry
 * Tue - Applications and Review
 * Wed - Test Measurement Geometry
 * Thu - EQAO review
 * Unit 1 - Numeracy
 * Unit 2 - Proportional reasoning
 * Fri - EQAO review
 * Unit 3 - Algebraic Models
 * Unit 4 - Exploring Relationships ||
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Jun 10-14

 * Mon - EQAO review
 * Unit 5 - Linear Relations
 * Unit 6 - Multiple Representations
 * Tue - EQAO review
 * Unit 7/8 Plane and 3D Geometry
 * Optimization
 * EQAO worksheet
 * Wed - ** EQAO Day 1 **
 * Thu - ** EQAO Day 2 **
 * Fri - Math Activity Day ||
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Jun 17-21

 * Mon - Summative addendum activity
 * Tue - Course Evaluation and wrap-up
 * Wed - Final Exam Day 1
 * Thu - Final EXam Day 2
 * Fri - Final EXam Day 3 ||