SOLOMON SHORT STYLE QUOTES:
“The only thing missing was a rack and a
black-hooded torturer,
one with big, beefy arms and a tattoo that
said 'I love Mom.'
Yeah, that would have made it perfect.”
-A.
Blake
Welcome to the 2008-2009
School Year!
It really won’t be as bad
as you fear…those “trees” don’t start until second semester.
HELP!
Where
do I go and how can I get help?
Need a book?
Online text book: http://www.mhln.com Class code is Terrace for 8th grade. Class code is hillsms for 6th and 7th
Bring in a blank CD ROM with your name on it and we will burn you a book to use.
Streaming video from the new textbook (mostly the same as ours!) can be found from the website: http://www.glencoe.com and click on State (FL), click on Teacher, Mathematics, and then the Algebra I (2008) book.
Need help?
Every odd answer to the book is done step by step at http://www.hotmath.com
•
Password is sdhc123
How about every
Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 5:30 to 7:00 pm on the Math Homework
Hotline? Call (183) 254 – 2253 to talk
to a live teacher. TV episodes also have
FCAT practice lessons to help keep those skills sharp They are shown on Brighthouse Channel 18 and
Verizon Channel 32! Check them out on
the web at http://www.educationchannel.org
Not a good time to
call? How about from 2 pm to midnight 7
days a week? Go to the Library’s website
to access online tutorial help (with a valid Hillsborough County Public Library
Card). http://www.hcplc.org/
and click on live homework help. Good
for math, science, language arts, and social studies!
Low Tech
Old fashioned: Get the phone numbers of 3 reliable
students. They are study buddies!
Old fashioned: Come to Monday mornings at 7:45 am in math
teacher’s room for help
Math Contests
http://www.mathmovesu.com
is a website that, if you register and take their questions, you are in the
drawing for some pretty cool prizes. They
have awarded iPod nano, portable DVD players, signed sports equipment, gift
cards to Best Buy, Target, iTunes, and the list goes on! Check it out! (Let’s see some FL winners on
that list!)
Math help!
http://www.mhln.com to obtain
the Glencoe online textbooks: Click on class code and use Terrace
as the password for 8th grade book.
http://www.hotmath.com and
use sdhc123 as the log-in. Click on the textbook used and find the
odd problems explained page by page! These work for the Glencoe math textbook series.
SSS
6-8 SSS
8
PROBLEM OF
THE WEEK
Here’s
where you get the chance to get some extra credit! Please email your answers to the following
questions to Mr. Conover
before Monday (and I mean 12:00:01 am!!!!!).
Any emails that are posted after that time will not qualify for credit.
No more bonus questions until the 2008-2009
school year. Enjoy your summer.
…shutting down…
Answers
are due via email to Mr. Conover no later than Sunday, June
1, 2008
Last
week’s
Answers
(and they make it look so easy)