During the second quarter, students were given the charge of running their own cell phone company.  Their task was to compete with another company for customers within a specific age market.  Students’ advertising tactics were restricted to using those of a designated cell phone company such as Sprint, Verizon, AT&T, or T-Mobile.  Using their knowledge of their company and their competitors, students created a presentation for potential customers.  The mathematical skills associated with benchmark were solving and graphing linear equations.  Click here to view a group's sample presentation.  Also, attached is a copy of this same group's graph, graph analysis, brochure, and t

On the afternoon of April 29, the boys and girls track and field teams competed in their final track meet of the regular season.  The girls finished first overall in the team standings ahead of 8 other schools.  The boys’ team finished third in the standings.  

Girls' track and field highlights include two first place finishes by Alison Campbell in both the mile (6:19 Personal Best) and two mile run (13:42).  Aimee Leong won the girls 800m run with a personal best time of 3:15.  Ipiphani Battle anchored the girls 4 by 100m to a second place (54.5) and added second place finishes in both the 100 and 200m sprints.  Ashley Etheredge and Shareesa Bollers added 4th and 5th place finishes in the 200m sprints as well.  The meet was undecided until the conclusion of the triple jump.  Marina Stuart who already won the long jump (14’10”) in which her teammate Arthurline Bowen placed third (13’1”) proceeded to win the triple jump with a mark of 28’5”.  

On the boys’ side, the distance runners lead the way.  Highlights began with a first place finish in the 4 by 800m relay (10:08). Will McFarlane, who was a member of that relay team, added two-second place finished in both the mile (5:46) and two mile (12:18).  Jordan Young added a 4th place finish in the 3200 (13:27).   Junior Chris Cothran added a second place finished in the 800m (2:39).  In the sprints Marshall Johnston and Cody Nichols tied for 7th place in the 100m (12.4).  Jason Davis finished 8th in the 200m (25.5) and Blase Bielo finished 6th in the 400m.   Mike Miller finished 4th in the long jump with a personal best jump of 17’3”.  Kitab Moore led the throwers by placing 5th in the shot up with a personal best throw of 30’7”.  Many of these athletes will be competing in the District Track and Championship held next Wednesday and Thursday at Germantown and Northeast High School at 1pm.

During the fourth quarter, I taught a unit on Linear Inequalities and solving systems of equations. The benchmark for the fourth quarter tested students’ abilities to think critically and to make use of the skills that they have learned during this unit in order to solve a simple "Trail Mix" problem.
Reflecting back on this project, I feel that this project assessed students’ abilities to use linear inequalities and equations in order to solve the trail mix problem. I liked the framework of the project because it forced students to revisit and examine some of their previous work so that they could fully explain the meaning of their calculations and the graph that they constructed.

I have attached a copy of the project tasks and descriptions for the Trail Mix Project.

Here is a link to a example student work. A hard copy is also attached.

Here is a link to another example of student work . A hard copy is also attached.