{"id":321498,"date":"2025-09-04T15:52:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T11:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/?p=321498"},"modified":"2025-09-04T15:52:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T11:52:13","slug":"week-2-g-9-working-with-exponents-and-significant-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/2025\/09\/04\/week-2-g-9-working-with-exponents-and-significant-figures\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 2: G 9: Working with Exponents and significant figures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Dear Parents,<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thank you once again to all who joined us at the Parent Information Evening. Your support and encouragement fuel the energy in our classroom\u2014it truly makes a difference as we walk this math journey together.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This Week in Our Learning:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>This Week in Our Learning<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> This week, our Grade 9 learners explored the <\/span><b>laws of exponents<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2014both with integers and fractional powers. They didn\u2019t just stop at applying the rules but also connected this understanding to <\/span><b>significant figures<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, seeing how precision and exponents go hand in hand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To deepen their learning, students reflected through an <\/span><b>informal formative assessment<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. It was encouraging to see them pause, think back, and recognize how much progress they\u2019ve made.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Student Spotlight:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We\u2019re especially proud of the way students approached the formative check-in. Even though it wasn\u2019t graded, they treated it with seriousness and preparation. Their dedication to learning, rather than just grades, truly stood out this week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0Looking Ahead:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Next week, we\u2019ll journey into the <\/span><b>world of surds and radicals<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2014a whole new way of looking at numbers beyond the familiar. Students will be challenged to think differently, spot patterns, and connect these abstract ideas to real mathematical applications.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Parents, Thank you once again to all who joined us at the Parent Information Evening. Your support and encouragement fuel the energy in our classroom\u2014it truly makes a difference as we walk this math journey together. This Week in Our Learning: This Week in Our Learning This week, our Grade 9 learners explored the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,32,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-myp","category-grade-9","category-secondary-maths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}