It has been a very good start so far, and I have enjoyed getting to know your sons. So far we have really concentrated on order of operations and fractions. Although we will be learning new material, which does not involve fractions, fraction problems will not go away. They will continue to appear on future tests, so it would be wise for your sons to continue to review and study them. All of my tests in both the regular and the honors class will be cumulative this first semester.
Future topics coming up involve perimeter, area, volume, surface area and overall average problems.
Then we will start working with adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing integers. In the first semester there is not a tremendous amount of difference between the regular class and the honors class. The big difference comes in the second semester although the honors class does go a little bit faster in the fall. Thanks for your work on your end, and I ll keep working on this end. We will continue working problem after problem for mastery cannot be achieved without practice.