Integrated Mathematics 1

 

Instructor:  Mr. Noteboom Room 228

Email:  pnoteboom@kunaschools.org

Phone:  955-0200 ext 2081

 

Year (9)

Prerequisite:  Teacher Approval

Integrated Mathematics 1 Year 1 is the first year of a two year course. Topics covered include number sense and operations, equations and inequalities, ratios and proportions, and integrate geometry concepts of angles, segments, area, and volumes.

 

Materials needed for class:

Notebook with paper- preferably a three-ringed binder (These are graded every quarter)

Pencil

Online Textbook at http://www.kunaschools.org/schools/khs/departments/math/math.php

 

Learning in the class is not done solely by doing the assignments.

-Other learning activities in class are partner and groups explorations, worksheets, games, practice on dry erase boards, and the making of mathematical models.

-Good note taking skills are needed.

 

I do not know you know it Until:

I see you hear it.

I see you read it.

I see you write it.

and, I hear you say it.

 

Any absence or tardy, school excused or otherwise, is detrimental to your learning process.

 

Assignment Heading:

Name

Period

Page number and Problems

 

Homework or Class Work:

-Due at the beginning of the next class after it is assigned. (Unless asked by teacher to turn in at the end of class)

-All work should be done legibly, with pertinent steps shown. This pertains to homework, board work, and tests. Set-ups should be written out (even if the final value of the answer will be obtained from a calculator).

-Assignments are graded in many ways. (All the assignments are graded every day in class for immediate feedback.)

 

Possible Grading Methods:

-5 pts for assignments that have all the problems completed or attempted at the beginning of class. (Since all the problems are worked out in class or gone over in some way you will get 10 points for having it done and completed on time, no matter how many you miss. % points for having it done by the time we turn it in as a class. 0 points for an incomplete assignments.)

-5 pts for assignments that have all the problems completed or attempted at the beginning of class. Then another 5 points for five to six warm- up problems graded by the teacher.

-5 pts for assignments that have all the problems completed or attempted at the beginning of class. 1-4 points for attempted problems, assignments not completed. 1-5 pts for selected problems the teacher or his student TA grade. ( Since all the problems are worked out in class or gone over in some way you will get 5 points for having it done and completed on time, no matter how many you miss. The other 5 points come from the work you show on the 5 problems picked to grade by the teacher or TA)

-10 pts for completed assignments.

-The teacher collects them and grades them individually. ( You get 1 point for every problem correct or a range from 1-10 points.)

-Points will be deducted on assignments as follows:

                  3 points off for not showing work on problems that need work.

                  10 points off for coping another students work.

                  10 points off for allowing another student to copy your work.

-Excused absences will get full credit for completed work only.

-0 points for all work with unexcused absences, truancies, or school suspensions. (The work missed must be completed as part of the learning process. The 0 is a consequence for your misbehavior.)

-0 points for all assignments that are turned in incomplete. (Since all the assignments are gone over in class there should be no incomplete assignments. Therefore you will get a zero for incomplete work. Since we have tutorial every day those students absent also have no excuse for incomplete assignments.)  

 

Make-Up Work: Work missed due to excused absences should be made up within one class of the student’s return. After this period of time, the teacher will deduct five points. In cases of extenuating circumstances, student and teacher may agree to other arrangements.

 

Late Work: Homework and worksheets are accepted late for half credit, which is 5 points. Students who are absent on the day when a worksheet is due will be penalized as outlined unless the work is turned in when the student returns, the absence has been officially excused and the excuse is submitted when the student returns to class. 

 

Any absence or tardy, school excused or otherwise, is detrimental to your learning process.

 

 

Learning in the class is not done solely by doing the assignments.

-Other learning activities in class are partner and groups explorations, worksheets, games, practice on dry erase boards, and the making of mathematical models.

-Good note taking skills are needed.

 

Chapter Quizzes and Tests:

These are to evaluate if any learning and retention of the material covered is taking place.

 

Chapter Quizzes:

These are taken in the middle of every chapter.

 

Chapter Tests:

These are taken at the end of every chapter.

They are not returned for students to keep.

They are gone over in class and students can look at them in class for studying purposes. (This is done so tests can be reused. Subject area teachers are also using the same exams so data can be collected and used to make sure all teachers are teaching the same material and students are learning the same material. Students in the past have shared exams with other students resulting in cheating. Tests are not part of the learning process, they are the tool teachers use to see exactly what the students have retained and can apply in different situations. Hopefully all the work leading up to the test is the learning process.)

 

Semester Exams:

Cover’s the material learned that semester or the entire year. They are given school wide. All the same subject math classes will take the same semester exam.

 

Grading Policy: Grades are determined by percentage average computed by dividing the number of points a student has earned during the grading period by the number of points that were possible. Incomplete work counts as a zero for that assignment. Work is not “curved” and no grades are “dropped”. Points students will earn come from the daily assignments 10 points each, chapter tests 100 points each, and other work—quizzes, worksheets, reading, internet, and journals.

Extra credit problems are given occasionally, but they are generally more challenging work and should not be depended on to replace required work. Extra credit is never accepted late.

 

Grading Scale:

100-200 pts.   Tests

50-100 pts.     Quizzes

10-100 pts.     Projects-Notebooks

0-10 pts.    Assignments

 

A   90-100%

B   80-89 %

C   70-79 %

D   60-69 %

F    0-59 %

 

 

*The instructor reserves the right to make any necessary changes.

 

 

Any absence or tardy, school excused or otherwise, is detrimental to your learning process.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rules-Rewards-Consequences

These rules are in effect at all times in the classroom.

Rules:

1. Follow Directions

2. Be in the classroom when the tardy bell rings

3. Bring Materials (Pencil, Paper, and Textbook)

4. Raise your hand to ask to leave your seat

5. Keep hands, feet, and objects to yourself

Rewards:

1. Break in the middle of class for math games

2. Listen to radio

3. Letters to students or parents

4. No homework

Consequences:

1. Name is recorded (verbal warning)

2. Last one to leave class

3. One minute after class

4. Ten minute detention and call parents

5. Send to Vice Principal

6. Severe Clause: Fighting, vandalism, and outright teacher defiance. (Send to Vice Principal)

 

Specific rules for specific things are on overheads and used only when needed by the teacher.

example:

Scissor Rules

1. They are to stay at your desk.

2. Use them only to cut assigned material.

3. They are to make no noise.

 

 

 

Academic Dishonesty

Cheating is taking someone else’s work as your own.  This is not acceptable.  The following are examples of cheating:

• Copying or letting someone else copy an assignment, test, or other work.
• Collaboration on tests and other work when forbidden.
• Using unauthorized information stored in a computer, calculator, or other electronic equipment.

 

 

Learning in the class is not done solely by doing the assignments.

-Other learning activities in class are partner and groups explorations, worksheets, games, practice on dry erase boards, and the making of mathematical models.

-Good note taking skills are needed.

 

 

*The instructor reserves the right to make any necessary changes.

 

 

Any absence or tardy, school excused or otherwise, is detrimental to your learning process.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rules-Rewards-Consequences

These rules are in effect at all times in the classroom.

Rules:

1. Follow Directions

2. Be in the classroom when the tardy bell rings

3. Bring Materials (Pencil, Paper, and Textbook)

4. Raise your hand to ask to leave your seat

5. Keep hands, feet, and objects to yourself

Rewards:

1. Break in the middle of class for math games

2. Listen to radio

3. Letters to students or parents

4. No homework

Consequences:

1. Name is recorded (verbal warning)

2. Last one to leave class

3. One minute after class

4. Ten minute detention and call parents

5. Send to Vice Principal

6. Severe Clause: Fighting, vandalism, and outright teacher defiance. (Send to Vice Principal)

 

Specific rules for specific things are on overheads and used only when needed by the teacher.

example:

Scissor Rules

1. They are to stay at your desk.

2. Use them only to cut assigned material.

3. They are to make no noise.

 

 

 

Academic Dishonesty

Cheating is taking someone else’s work as your own.  This is not acceptable.  The following are examples of cheating:

• Copying or letting someone else copy an assignment, test, or other work.
• Collaboration on tests and other work when forbidden.
• Using unauthorized information stored in a computer, calculator, or other electronic equipment.

 

 

Learning in the class is not done solely by doing the assignments.

-Other learning activities in class are partner and groups explorations, worksheets, games, practice on dry erase boards, and the making of mathematical models.

-Good note taking skills are needed.

 

Any absence or tardy, school excused or otherwise, is detrimental to your learning process.