Today I was a few minutes late for class. I had it in my head I had another student before lunch and Aiden after lunch. That student was absent and Aiden came peeking in and said, "Don't we have class right now?" I was like OMG I"M SO SORRY!
So we got to work right away. We have decided to move into Chapter 8 Geometry. The first section begins with a review of scale factor. Today's lesson brought up many previously used skills such as proportions, cross multiplication, etc. Aiden and I answered questions such as, "If the scale shows 1 in=1.5 feet on a draft of a kitchen and the island measures 4 inches on the draft, how long will the actual island be?" Aiden knew just what to do. He set up a proportion and cross multiplied. He asked some repetitive questions, and I assured Aiden he knew what he was doing and there wasn't more to it than he was seeking out. We had about 6 minutes left in class when we got to a good stopping point. I decided to throw a random statistic problem at Aiden. I drew a board with girls/boys and chocolate/vanilla and told him this was the data from a school survey of preferences. I asked him what is the probability a student surveyed would be a boy who likes chocolate? He added the total number of students, found the number of boys who chose chocolate, and divided them (as he should!). This is a problem from Chapter 6 which we are skipping (intentionally). So I want to give problems like this to Aiden from time to time to show him the 1) the content and 2) that he already has the skills to do these problems without me teaching him it.