MATH CLASS RULES 

If you ever have a question or a problem, please ask for help. 

E-mail: SBaker@wallingford.k12.ct.us

Materials Needed For Class

• Covered textbooks at all times
• An assignment notebook or pad
• Notebook with any hand-outs, corrected assignments, tests, and quizzes neatly organized by date
• A sharpened number 2 pencil
• A pen
• Homework and/or any assignments due that day

General Rules

• All work must be shown to receive credit
• All work must be done in pencil
• Correct in pen, work in pencil
• Name, date, group, and assignment must be in the top left hand corner of all assignments
• Please have a positive attitude at all times
• Work needs to be neatly done to receive credit
• Please use proper language
• Please don't destroy anything that doesn't belong to you
• Please keep your hands to yourself
• Please don't write on the desks
• Please help keep the room clean
• Please throw out any garbage by/on your desk at the end of class
• No food, gum, drink or candy allowed in class
• Please get permission to use the bathroom, water fountain, or to go to your locker
• No Pass MEANS No Go
• Please raise your hand to be recognized before speaking
• No talking during fire drills
• Be considerate of others
• Please be quiet on the way to an assembly, specials, lunch, etc.
• Please act like mature eighth graders in and out of the classroom
• Please have a buddy system with at least two classmates so you can get missing assignments when you are absent from class (Note: All assignments are located on the web site and in the class notebooks in the back of the room.)
• Participate
• Encourage each other
• It's o.k. to laugh at Mr. Baker's artistic ability and at his bad jokes, but it is not o.k. to make fun of or laugh at anyone making a mistake
• Give 100% at all times

Classroom Procedures

• Please don't get lost on your way to class  
• Wait quietly in the hall until given permission to enter the room
• Make sure you have all materials needed for class
• Please sharpen your pencil in morning homeroom or as soon as you enter the room before you find your seat
• Please find and sit in your assigned seat
• Check the front board to know the lesson of the day
• Take out materials needed for class
• Once you are prepared for class you may talk quietly until class begins
• Lesson of the day
• Check the back board at the end of the period and write your homework in your assignment notebook
• Have a great day!

Extra Help 

• Available most days by 7:20 a.m. and after school
• Students riding any bus need to get a pass a day before to receive extra help in the morning
• Available during Flex Blocks
• On most test dates, a study group will be held on the morning of the test