Welcome back!

I sure hope everyone had a faberooni winter break, and your Christmas or Hanukkah celebrations were awesome. We are now back right into the swing of things. Phew! That vacation sure wore off quickly!

So today we reviewed slope. It's really important that you don't let all that wonderful slope stuff flit out of your mind now that we've moved on. Probably 50% or more of the benchmark is slope and linear equations. Please study your notes on slope and linear equations and inequalities.

And now, the new stuff. Today we learned about negative exponents. We talked about things that are intuitive (creating your Mii) versus things that are counterintuitive (negative exponents.) Even though you really really want a negative exponent to be a negative number, it's not. A negative exponent is really another way to write a fraction. Figure out what the base is, move the base to the bottom of the fraction, change the negative exponent to a positive exponent and put a one on top. If you have a coefficient, put that on the top instead. Use your notes as you work through the homework. It will all make sense if you practice, I promise.

And get some sleep tonight!

:o)
Ms V