ELA and Math with Mrs. D

"For never was a story of more woe/ Than this of Juliet and her Romeo."

Summer Homework Incoming Grade 8

June 15, 2012 Dear Students and Parents, An early welcome to Grade 8. What an exciting year 8th grade will be for all of you. There is no better time to work on your math skills than the summer – before the busyness of 8th grade begins. I have assigned activities on Mathletics. This is a fun way for students to keep up with their math skills. Focus Activity and Topics Algebra: Expressions and Equations Topics: Writing Algebraic Expressions Recognizing Like Terms Like Terms: Add & Subtract Using the Distributive Property Algebra: Equations and Inequality Topics: Writing Equations Solving Simple Equations Solve Two Step Equations Solve Multi Step Equations Statistics Topics Line Graph Interpretation Bar Graphs 2 Students can access Mathletics directly at http://mathletics.com or from my blog at http://mathwithmrsd.blogspot.com or from our website which links to my blog (select blogs on left hand side of web page) http://www.visitationacademy.net Have a good summer. See you in September. Mrs. DeLorenzo

A 17 Million Digit Prime Number WOW

A new prime number, thought to be the largest ever identified, has been discovered by a professor at the university of Central Missouri. Curtis Cooper used a giant computer network to do the work to find the 17-million digit number - which is a number divisible only by itself and by one.

A 17 Million Digit Prime Number WOW