Welcome! I’m Penney Ragin, and I have been educating students since 2006. My teaching journey began in Crawford County, where I spent six years teaching 6th and 7th grade mathematics at Crawford County Middle School. In 2013, I joined the Houston County family at Warner Robins Middle School. Over the years, I have taught 8th grade math, AC7 math, as well as business and computer science courses.
The 8th grade mathematics course content regularly incorporate the 8 Mathematical Practices, the Framework for Statistical Reasoning, and the Mathematical Modeling Framework through four big ideas of content: (1) numerical reasoning, (2) functional & graphical reasoning, (3) patterning and algebraic reasoning, and (4) geometric and spatial reasoning. Much of the Grade 8 mathematics curriculum focuses on functions and linear relationships as building blocks to algebra and geometry. In this course, students will create, interpret, solve, and graph linear equations and inequalities in one variable, analyze the connections between proportional and non-proportional lines and equations, extend their knowledge of numerical reasoning and real numbers to include irrational numbers, develop an understanding of the properties of exponents, perform operations with numbers expressed in scientific notation, apply their geometric and spatial reasoning to interpret and solve problems involving the Pythagorean Theorem.