GP 2 Week 1

What is your goal for the second grading period?  What is something that you need to change in order to be more successful in math OR What is something that you need to keep your grade up in math?

GP 2 Week 2

A train leaves Chicago traveling to LA and is traveling at 40 mph.  2 hours later another train leaves heading in the same direction. The second train is traveling at 60 mph.  How long until the second train passes the first train?

GP 2 Week 3

A sixth-grade class sells Yankees pennants and American Flags.  They earn $1 profit for each pennant sold and $6 for each flag sold.  They sell items at a total of $92. 

 1) How many flags did they sell if they sold 20 pennants?  

2) Create a different scenario of the amount of each item they could sell to equal $92.00  An example would be 1 flag and 86 pennants. 

GP 2 Week 4

The Booster Club hired a hip hop group for a fund-raiser.  The club guaranteed the group a fee of $1500 plus $4.50 for each ticket sold.  There are 1,132 seats in the auditorium.  What is the greatest possible amount of money the band can earn for a performance?  The least amount?

A booster club is an organization that is formed to support (e.g. coordinate events, raise money, etc.) an associated club, sports team, or organization.

GP 2 Week 5

This is a two part question
If you buy 5 candy bars and a bag of $4.00 gummy worms, the variable expression 5c + 4 represents the total cost of the purchase.

1) If your bill came to $21.00 how much did each candy bar cost?

Suppose the next day you went back to the store and bought 3 DVDs and a video game for $30.  2) Write a variable expression to represent this purchase

GP 2 Week 6

Mark Texiera of the New York Yankees makes 23,125,000 per year.  In 2012 Texiera at 451 at bats.  Alex Rodriguez makes $30,000,000 per year.  In 2012 Rodriguez had 463 at bats.  How much money did each player make per at bat?

You would be smiling if you made that much money too.

GP 2 Week 7

Ben was a salesman at a car dealership where he made $10 per hour and $50 for every sale he made.  David worked at the same job and got paid $20 per hour.  If Ben worked 10 hours and sold 2 cars in a week, how many hours would David have to work to make more money than Ben?

Would you rather have a contract like Ben's or like David's?  Why?

GP 2 Week 8

The middle school is going to have a walk-a-thon.  Justice and Joseph are arguing who made more money per lap. Justice raises $333 for walking 11 laps.  Joseph raises $400 for walking 8 laps.  How much did each person raise per lap?  Who was right?

GP 2 Week 9

Yam, Bam, Uam, Iam, and Gam are aliens on a space ship.
a) Yam is younger than Uam.
b) Yam is not the youngest in the group.
c) Only one alien is older than Gam.
d) Gam is younger than Bam.
Arrange Yam, Uam, Bam, Iam, and Gam in order of increasing
age.

GP 1 Week 3 (Due 9/12)

The sum of 3 consecutive even integers is 216.  What are the integers?

Explain how you found your answer.

• Consecutive means "one after another", or "in a row". So ...
  The first 4 consecutive numbers are 1,2,3, and 4.
  The first 4 consecutive odd numbers are 1,3,5, and 7.

GP 1 Week 4 (DUE 9/19)

Write a real world situation that could be modeled by this equation:

y= 7x +40

GP 1 Week 5 (DUE 9/26)

When a real estate agent sells a house, the agent receives 6% of the sale price as a commission.  The agent lists the sale price for a house as $208,000.

a.  How much of a commission should the agent expect to receive for selling this house at full price?

b.  The house actually sells for $205,000.  How much of a commission does the agent receive?

GP Week 6 (DUE 10/3)

Kim said her grocery items cost $25.86. Her mom said that twenty years ago the same items would have cost $20. At this rate, how much would it cost to purchase groceries now which would have cost $50 twenty years ago?

GP 1 Week 7 (DUE 10/10)

Kris lined cans in two rows on a shelf and had one left over; she tried again using three rows, and then four rows. Each time she had one can left over. Finally, she tried five rows, and had none left over! What possible numbers of cans could she have been working with?

This is you when you find out the answer

GP 1 Week 8 (DUE 10/17)

Wendy is starting a catering business and is attempting to figure out who she should be using to transport the food to different locations. She has found two trucking companies that are willing to make sure her food arrives intact. Peter’s Pick Up charges $0.40 per mile and charges a flat fee of $68. Helen’s Haulers charges $0.65 per mile and charges a flat fee of $23.

For what distance would the cost of transporting to the produce be the same for both companies? What is that equal cost?

GP 1 Week 9 (DUE 10/23)

Bin A and Bin B are cubes.  Bin A has an edge length of 6 in. Bin B has an edge length of 12 in. Hoe many times greater is the edge length of bin B that the edge length of Bin A?  How many times greater is the volume of bin B that the volume of bin A

GP 1 Week 2 (Due 9/5)

What is something that you need to improve on from last year.  What do you need to do to perform like a Honor's student?

Due 5/30 Week 7 and 8

Due 5/30

The sum of 3 consecutive even integers is 216.  What are the integers?

Week 5 and 6 DUE 5/16

Due 5/16

The sum of 3 consecutive integers is 300.  What are the integers?

WEEK 3 and 4 DUE 5/2

Due 5/2

Train A leaves the station heading west at 50mph.  3 hours later Train B starts heading west at 80mph.  They are both going to a destination that is 300 miles away.  Will Train B ever catch Train A?  If so, when?  If not, where will Train B be when Train A reaches the destination?

Week 2 Due 4/11

Due 4/11

Train A leaves the station heading west at 40mph.  3 hours later Train B starts heading west at 60mph.  They are both going to a destination that is 300 miles away.  Will Train B ever catch Train A?  If so, when?  If not, where will Train B be when Train A reaches the destination?

Week 10 Reflection

What three consecutive even integers have a sum of 36? EXPLAIN

Week 9 Reflection

Two consecutive even integers have a sum of 26. What are the two integers?

Week 8 Reflection

The Smith's are traveling to South Carolina with the Jones.  At one point the two families get seperated.  The Smith's were 20 miles ahead of the Jones.  If the Jones are traveling at 60 mph and the Smiths are traveling at 50 mph, how long will it take the Jones to catch up.  EXPLAIN

Week 7 Reflection

A train leaves Chicago traveling to LA and is traveling at 40 mph.  2 hours later another train leaves heading in the same direction. The second train is traveling at 60 mph.  How long until the second train passes the first train?

WEEK 6 REFLECTION

There are two numbers who's sum is 93.  One number is twice the others.  What are the numbers?

Week 5 Reflection

Two trains leave a train station at the same time. One train travels east at 50 mph. The other train travels west at

55mph. In how many hours will the two trains be 315 miles apart? EXPLAIN

Week 4 Reflection

A number is doubled and then increased by seven. The result is ninety-three. What is the original number? EXPLAIN

Reflection Week 3

Six less than five times a number is the same as seven times the number. What is the number?

Setup an equation!  Explain how you got your answer.

Reflection Week 1 and Week 2

You must have at least three sentences explaining

your answer. What is something that you need to

change from the first semester in order to help

you in your math class this semester?

Is (5,2) a solution for this linear system?

2x-3y=4
2x+8y=11