Monday- Introduction to Project for the Week - "What's Math Got To Do With It?" 
 
Tuesday- Completion of the topic choice and brainstorm for activities. 
 
Wednesday-Rough outline due by the end of class. 
 
Thursday- First draft of presentation due by the end of class. 
 
Friday- Final Draft of Outline due, along with a responsibility list (who is bringing what item for the presentation),all due by the end of class.  

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What a great day. I wish that you could have seen the students. They worked so hard to complete our Pi Chain. What's a Pi Chain? It is a series of paper links in a paper chain. Each color link represents a corresponding number in the decimal number of Pi. So, how many links did we get this year? How about 13,000! Thanks to all 7th grade math classes for their participation.  

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Parents,  
Thank you for giving us prepared students for our week of the CRCT's. The week of intensive testing is over. And thankfully, so is the haircut that I received on Friday (Thanks to the student barbers who cut it - looked great). Now, we are getting back to work for the final weeks of school.  
 
Look for positive news on your students progress reports this week. In math class this week, we will complete work that was left unfinished prior to our CRCT review weeks.  
 
At the end of the week, we will have a late celebration of Pi Day. Just what does that symbol mean and why is it important to circles? Come by this week and find out. We, along with teams 7-2 and 7-3, are also trying to break a Pi Day record for the nation's longest "Pi Chain".  
Look for updates soon! 
 
 

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5 days....375 minutes.... That is all of the time that is left before the beginning of the CRCT on April 14. We have prepared as best as possible. This final week will include two days of Algebra review, as well as a focus on Test-taking strategy. It is very important that you be at school every single day in every single class from now until the end of CRCT testing next week. Every minute of class time is crucial and much more so during this next two weeks. It is time to show what you know.  
 
You cannot do your best if your body is not prepared. How? Make sure that you get plenty of sleep and healthy meals. We will provide snacks for you the morning of the tests, but you must make sure that you get plenty of sleep each night.  

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Parents,  
You would not believe the great projects that were submitted on Friday for our Team 7-1 Logo Project! What a fine collection of work.  
If you are interested in viewing all of our projects, we will have a showing on Thursday, March 13. The viewing will take place in the LMS Media Center. We invite you to come and view the great work of your students.  
23 school days until the CRCT.  

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Students and Parents,  
Our culminating activity for unit 5 was taken directly from the Georgia Performance Standards for this unit. The activity that ends unit 5 is listed below in its entirety: 
 
"A club at your school wants a new logo and is sponsoring a contest to get ideas from students. The winner of the contest  
will receive a $100.00 cash award. You could really use that money, so you have decided to enter the contest. Your task is  
to design a logo for the club that meets the following requirements:  
 
1. You must use constructions to create the logo.  
 
2. The design must include at least one translation, reflection, or rotation.  
 
3. Design your logo on an 8.5 inch by 11 inch coordinate plane so that it will fit on the front or back of a t-shirt.  
 
4. Dilate your design so that it will fit on a sign (no larger than 5 feet by 5 feet).  
 
Your design will compete against other designs to be the official logo for the club. Be prepared to present your design.  
 
Your presentation should include visuals of your logo for both the t-shirt and the sign, and a written explanation of the steps and procedures you followed in designing your logo.  
 
Use coordinates to describe the transformations you used.  
 
Give the scale factor used for the dilation and explain the similarities and differences in the t-shirt logo and the sign logo." 
 
*****Students may create a sign for any school club, activity, or sport that does NOT already have a nationally recognized logo. National organizations are not available for this activity.*****  
 
Timeline and Deadlines 
 
Feb. 13 - Basic concept and overview of proposal due at the end of class.  
 
Feb. 22 - Rough Draft of proposal due.  
 
Feb. 29 - Final draft of proposal due. Student presentations begin. 
 
 
 
 
 

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