1) Georgia and I review the poems "A Birthday Present" and "Daddy" for her final exam. We also review the essays "College is a Waste of Time and Money" and "College Pressures."
Begin project called "Reality Lab" Explain that this involves practical math and decision-making in the real world. 1) Get a job (with only a high school education - no special training) and pay is based on 40 hours per week - calculate take home pay after taxes (use 0.85 for withholding tax) This is the amount of money left to spend each month
2) Find an apartment (1, 2, or 3 bedroom)amount of rent plus costs for electricity, house phone, cable tv, and internet
Assignment
Work on project
Session Minutes
120
Minutes Student Attended
120
Lesson Comments
We were only able to get started and will continue with buying a car, etc. Georgia is really into this project. Yeh!!
Read pgs. 281-289 in Oscar Wao, Review for Final Exam
Lesson Outline
1) Review Oscar Wao (Georgia writes a summary of the events from our previous reading). Read pgs. 281-289 in Oscar Wao, summarize and discuss.
2) Review for final exam: "Snowing in Greenwich Village" and Vocabulary
Georgia will be able to: 1) Identify the degree of a polynomial; 2) Name a polynomial by its degree and its number of terms; 3) Add and subtract polynomials.
Learn to compute sales tax and to read sales tax table and find total costs.
Learn to give change to a customer using the fewest coins and bills (use the count down method)
Go over exercise A orally - answer questions
Complete exercises B and C - check for accuracy
Assignment
None
Session Minutes
45
Minutes Student Attended
45
Lesson Comments
Georgia understands the basic concept, but is making careless errors. For example, in counting change she may be short a penny or two. She needs to work on accuracy.
