When the bell rings, these two things need to happen for you to be considered on-time.
What are sitting in your assigned seat (silently) and having a Do Now in front of you?
100
This sheet is in the "Textbook" section of your binder and it "tells you where to go" to find more information about a topic.
What is the table of contents?
100
This is the name of the list that includes that statements, "I have the right to ask any question," and "I have the right to learn at my own pace."
What is the Math Anxiety Bill of Rights
100
Tests are this percentage of your total grade.
What is 30%?
100
These are the two main categories of "soft skills."
What are making sense of problems and persevering in solving them and building logical arguments?
200
These are the two times for Mr. Obaid's office hours.
What are Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning?
200
This is the name of the document that defines geometry vocabulary. (It's a bit like a dictionary.)
What is the glossary?
200
The grade for the mid-year PLAN is calculated by comparing performance on the mid-year PLAN to performance on this test.
What is the 9th grade end-of-year EXPLORE?
200
Classwork and Participation is this percentage of your total grade?
What is 25%?
200
These are two of the three elements of making sense of problems and persevering in solving them.
What are make a plan for solving the problem, look at a problem in different ways, and/or don't give up?
300
These are three elements that contribute to your Classwork and Participation grade.
What are attending class, always being on-task and working hard, and practicing good "soft" skills.
300
The table of contents has these three columns. (Name the three columns.)
What are page number(s), topic, and unit name/number?
300
This is how many points of growth you would need on your mid-year PLAN to get a grade of 108% on your mid-year PLAN grade.
What is 1.08 points of growth (compared to last year's end-of-year EXPLORE).
300
Exit Slips are part of this grade category.
What is the quiz category?
300
These are two of the three elements of building logical arguments.
What are explaining your thinking, asking useful questions, and/or being respectful?
400
If you miss geometry on a Wednesday but are back at school on Thursday and Friday, this is a detailed description of what you should do take care of your homework "situation."
What is: pick up the homework from the blue bin on Thursday, then on Friday have both the assigned homework you missed plus the homework that was due the day you missed out on your desk. (Do NOT put absent homework in the absent bin anymore.)
400
If you earned a 72% on a unit test, you could do a re-take and increase your score by a maximum of this many percentage points.
What is 14%, or 14 percentage points?
400
This is the sum of the percentages for Homework and Writing Assignments.
What is 20%?
400
In the article about employers and "soft" skills, this is a reason given by companies for placing greater importance on "soft" skills than job-specific skills.
What is (for example) employers' success "recruiting for attitude and training for skill"?
500
You have this amount of time to make up a quiz or test if you were absent for it, and this (other) amount of time to do a quiz or test re-take to improve your grade on it.
What are one week and two weeks, respectively?
500
These are four psychological symptoms of math anxiety discussed in the article, "What is math anxiety?"
What are memory loss, paralysis of thoughts, loss of self-confidence, negative self-talk, math avoidance, and/or feelings of isolation?
500
Final exams are worth this percentage of your final grade.
What is 10%?
500
In the survey of employers discussed in the "soft" skills article, these were three traits valued more than having technical knowledge.
What are being good at communication, a team player, confident, and/or analytical?