​Hello amazing students and parents,

Just an update on the week and some info on the January exam:

You have all written the square root test with M. Matte and it will be returned next week.  You may bring it home to show your folks but make sure to hang onto it or put it in your folder to prepare for your exam. 

For this exam, the topics are: 

• Mental Math-strategies and calculations (7s and 8s)
  
• Divisibility rules (7s and 8s)
• Square roots-vocabulary, identiying perfect and imperfect squares, estimating imperfect square roots to two places after the decimal (grade 8s only; 7s estimate to one place after the decimal)
• Area and Perimeter
• Pythagoras` Thereom-determine mesurement of hypotenuse (7s and 8s); determine mesurement of any missing side of a right angle triangle (8s); Word Problems (7s and 8s); Identifying triangles (7s and 8s)
• *Fractions-adding, subtracting,  (7s and 8s) multiplying and dividing. (8s) (will be taught and reviewed in January)
• *Conversion from fraction to decimal to percent (7s and 8s)-will be taught and reviewed in January.

• *Calculating a percentage of a number  (will be taught and reviewed in January)