Mar. 16th

This day, I decided to give a pop-quiz to all of my classes

Pre-Algebra:
Their quiz was on the area of shapes and the volume of prisms. Honestly, they did pretty well, considering most points missed were on the lack of correct units. I had it set up to where they could use their reference sheets, and I had them name the objects. This would give them points if they didn't know how to find the actual volume. I thought this was a good idea because many of the students don't know which formula to use if they are trying to find the area of volume of an object. There wasn't a whole lot of time left in either class so I quickly reviewed what questions could have come up on surface area, and I gave them an extra day to finish their surface area activity I assigned the day before.

Algebra Classes:
Their quiz was on graphing and solving quadratic equations by graphing. Of the three problems that had students find the square roots of the problem, almost every student forgot to put both the positive and negative solutions of the square root. They took surprisingly long to finish this quiz though, especially since I allowed them to use their notes. There wasn't a whole lot of time, so I assigned 3 problems from a worksheet I made on Infinite Algebra where the coefficient is not equal to 1.



I was called a vacuum in my 5th period class because I "suck the fun out of the class." I had a slight little lecture with this class because I have to spend most of my time getting them to stop talking. Hopefully this attitude changes for them.

Goal:
I need to get better at classroom authority. I need to write referrals if I have to, and I have to try not to be their friends.