Number Sequences

17.1 Set II #5, 8

17.2 Set II, #4, 11

17.3 #6, 12

Also, please bring $10 for textbook replacements tomorrow!

Fractional Equations HW

Due Tuesday:

15.1 - #5 e-h, 6 i and j, 7 ALL

15.2 - #4 a-e, and #6 g and h

15.3 - #4 and #5 ALL

15.4 - #4 and #7 ALL

15.5 - #4, #5 (b, d, f) and #8

Real Numbers

14.1 - #4, 9 and 12

14.2 #5, 6, and 9

14.3 #6, 9 and 10

14.4 #4 and 8

14.5 # 5 and 9

Memorial Day Assignment

7 P

1. Finish on page 2 of packet
2. Know and be able to give examples of the Properties we learned (Commutative, Associative, Identity, Zero and Distributive). There will be a short quiz next week

7 Q

Complete 2.3 (2.1 and 2.2 should have been finished in class!)

Enjoy the holiday!

Projects

End of year projects...

By Tuesday, you should have completed 5 problems from each lesson of your chapter. Also, I need lesson plans for your part of the presentation including MATERIALS.

Presentations start Wednesday!

End of Year Project

Finish the first 2 lessons of your assigned chapter. Continue researching and thinking about your presentation. Tomorrow will be spent working on your lesson plan within your group. Come prepared to discuss your chapter and work!

Work on End of Year Project

End of Year Algebra Project

Featuring:

• The Real Numbers

• Fractional Equations

• Number Sequences

Goals:
They say that to really learn something really well, you must be able to teach it. The plan for this project is for you to learn and master one of the three remaining chapters and then be able to provide appropriate lessons to teach your peers what you have learned. Included in this should be a lesson with visual aids, activities that extend the work, a real world application (ie a word problem that your students can solve) and finally, an assignment of 10 meaningful problems that you will give for homework.

What to do each day – all to be done as a group:

1) Read each lesson from the chapter and do at least 5 Set II problems from each lesson. Ask if something is unclear.
2) Research other books’ methods to teaching the same topic. Look for applications and extensions. (You may use the teachers’ editions of the different books for different ideas of how to teach the topic AND the Internet for real world application). You must have at least 3 different sources for this project (only one of which can be a website).
3) Design a lesson plan with activities, visual aids and a problem set as homework.

The Lesson Plan should include the following headings:
Title:
Objective:
Materials:
Step-by-Step Procedures:
Assignment:

Inequalities

16.1 and 16.2 - SET II for both.

Wrapping up Quadratics

Because of ERB week, we will not have an in-class chapter 13 test. Instead, you will be turning in your SET I review homework which will count in lieu of the chapter 13 test. You may skip #3. I expect to see all work shown on your paper.

Chapter 13, Set I Review is due on Wednesday at the beginning of class.

Quadratic Formula and the Discriminant

1.) 13.7 - #4-6 ALL and #7-10 last two (ie C and D if the problem has A-D)

2.) 13.8 - READ Pages 647 and 648 and do #4-10 - last three

3.) Memorize the Quadratic Formula

Completing the Square

Chapter 13, Lessons 1 - 6

Make sure you complete all set II. We will work on Quadratic Formula on Friday!

May 6 pow

May 6, 2008 POW Name __________________

Option 1: you are standing in line to see a movie. Five more people are ahead of you in line than are behind you. Four times as many people are in line as the number of people who are behind you. How many people are ahead of you in line?





Option 2: What is the mean (average) of the first 300 terms in the following sequence:

1, -2, 3, -4, 5, -6, 7, …





Option 3: Using all the digits 0 through 9 once and only once, create multiples of 4 that will sum to the smallest number possible. Example: 1472 + 956 + 308 = 2736 (This sum is not the smallest number that is possible).

Solving by completing the square

Finish all lessons until 13.6

Remember to solve quadratics, there are 5 methods:

1.) Graphing
2.) Square Roots
3.) Factoring
4.) Completing the square
5.) Quadratic Formula

You should know 4 out of the 5 by tomorrow!

Solving Quadratics by factoring and square root methods

1.) Chapter 13, lessons 4 and 5 - Complete Set II for each.

2.) Also, complete any test corrections!

3.) Pow

13.3

Set II

Graphing Quadratics

Chapter 13, lesson 2 Set II for tomorrow!

April 21 POW

POW – April 21, 2008 Name ________________________

Option 1: The numbers 1 and 9 are two of five counting numbers that produce a sum of 25. Those same five numbers, when multiplied, give a product of 945. What are the other three numbers?


Option 2: A new operation symbol has been created in mathematics. Your task is to determine how the @ operation works. Based on the equations below, what would 7 @ 8 equal?

1 @ 2 = 5
3 @ 4 = 25
4 @ 5 = 41
5 @ 6 = 61
7 @ 8 = ____

Option 3: In 1980, a typical telephone number in the United States contained seven digits. Several areas of the country now must use ten-digit telephone numbers. If the entire country follows, exactly how many different ten-digit telephone numbers are available such that the first digit cannot be a 0 or 1 and the fourth cannot be a 0?

Beginning Quadratics

Read Chapter 13, complete set II for Monday!

Radical Equations

Read 12.7 - Complete Set II for Wednesday

In class Wednesday, go over Set II from 12.7. Then, complete Set II review.

Your chapter test will be on Friday. POW is also due on Friday!

Dividing Square Roots

1.) 12.6 - Set II

2.) Catch up with all work. Test is Wednesday.

3.) POW this week - POW – April 14 Due Friday Name ________________________

Option 1: Arranging heights

Consider these three facts:
a) Jay is shorter than Carrie.
b) Ashley is taller than Duane.
c) If Jay is the tallest, then Ashley is shorter than Ben; otherwise, Jay is the second shortest and Ashley is not the tallest.

Using those three facts, list the four people (Ashley, Jay, Carrie, and Duane) in order from shortest to tallest.



Option 2: Taking Stock Problem

A farmer had 19 animals on his farm—some chickens and some cows. He also knew that there were a total of 62 legs on the animals on the farm. How many of each kind of animal did he have? Use a visual form of representation to solve this problem.

Multiplying Square Roots

Though I have not yet taught it, I would like you to complete 12.5 - Set II for Monday. It is self-explanatory. Read the lesson and look at the examples carefully.

12.5 Due Monday!

12.4

Set II

Chapter 12, Lesson 3

Read the lesson and Do set II.

Chapter 12, lesson 2

Set II

Intro to Square Roots

1.) Complete Chapter 12, Lesson 1 - Set I

2.) Read Chapter 12, Lesson 2

3.) Learn the first 15 Squares!

Review and Study

For the Chapter 11 test.

Review and Study

Find the concepts most difficult for you and study those areas. Re-work problems that were troubling for you. Set II Review is optional.

Test on Monday!
POW due Monday!

Complex Fractions

1. Finish Set II of 11.8.
2. Test next week.
3. POW due Monday

St. Patrick's Day POW

Name ___________________ Date _____________

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

Option 1: Riley sees a rainbow with ends that appear to touch the ground 1 mile apart and reaches a maximum height of 0.5 miles above the ground. If the rainbow is an arc of a circle, how many degrees is the arc that Riley sees?




Option 2: Patti writes Saint Patrick’s Day on a strip of paper and cuts it so that each letter is on its own piece of paper. If she puts all of the letters in a hat what is the probability that she draws all five letters of her name in exactly five draws (without replacement)?




Option 3: While Patrick is driving his car, he notices that the odometer reads 13931 miles. The mileage is a palindrome, a number that reads the same forward as it does backward. Exactly 2 hours later, Patrick notices that the odometer displays a different palindrome. What is the most likely average speed at which the car has been traveling?

11.6 and 11.7

Set II of both Lessons.

Pow - due on Friday!

Multiplying Fractions

11.5 - Set I and II

11.6 - Read and take notes. Do Set I.

11.4

Complete set I and II of 11.4

Pow due tomorrow

Algebraic Fractions

11.2 and 11.3 -- SET II only

Pow due on Friday

March 9 POW

Option 1: Carolyn, Julie and Roberta share $77 in a ratio of 4:2:1, respectively. How many dollars did Carolyn receive?





Option 2: The arithmetic mean (or average) of A, B and C is 10. The value of A is six less than the value of B, and the value of C is three more than the value of B. What is the value of C?





Option 3: A ball bounces back up 2/3 of the height from which it falls. If the ball is dropped from a height of 243 cm, after how many bounces does the ball first rise less than 30 cm?

Intro to Fractions

1.) Read Chapter 11.1 and take notes

2.) Do Set I and II

Study Factoring

1.) Take notes on chapter 10

2.) Complete Chapter 10 Review Set II

10.7

More Factoring!

10.7 Set I and II

AND

POW (All 3)

Due Friday!

Trinomials

Chapter 10, Lesson 6 - Set I and II ALL

Factoring 2nd degree polynomials

Chapter 10, lessons 4 and 5

Do only SET II (Last 4 in each problem - For example: e, f, g, h or i, j, k, l)
No Set I

Due tomorrow

POW due on Friday

Factoring Polynomials

10.3

Set I and II

More Factoring

1.) Read Chapter 10, lesson 2 and take notes.

2.) Complete Set I and II. I will do a homework check on Friday for both assignments.

3.) Bring textbook number if you have not already.

4.) See me if you need to retake the test. This must be done before Friday!

Study for test and begin factoring

1.) Bring textbook from home for inventory.

2.) Chapter 9 Review - SET II. Check answers and use this to study for your test, which is on Wednesday.

3.) Chapter 10, lesson 1 - Set I and II.

Dividing Polynomials

Chapter 9, Lesson 7
Set I and II

+

POW

=

Assignments to be completed by Friday!

Feb. 11 week's POW

See assignment for today below

Name ________________________ Date ____________

Option 1: Super Tuesday (February 5, 2008 ) has passed and there is still no clear democratic leader in the race for the nomination. The county’s Super Tuesday 2008 turnout set a record with 50 percent of the 362,376 registered voters participating. Prior to 2008, the highest Super Tuesday turnout was in 1988 when 35 percent participated. If the population increased by 5 percent from 1988 to 2008, how many more voters voted in 2008 than in 1988?



Option 2: Once the primary votes are tallied, the states’ delegates are divided up based on the proportion of votes each of the “top” candidates received compared to the other “top” candidates. (“Top” candidates refers to candidates receiving at least 15% of the vote in that state.) In Arizona, Clinton had 51% of the vote and Obama had 42% of the vote. If Arizona has 56 delegates that are tied to the results of the primary, how many delegates did each candidate receive? Disregard any digits after the decimal, and express your answer as a whole number.

Option 3: How many whole numbers less than 1000 contain no 3s but at least one 2?

Squaring binomials

Chapter 9, lesson 6 - Set I and II

Multiplying Polynomials

Chapter 9, Lesson 4 - Set I - #3 and Set II - #6-7

Chapter 9, Lesson 5 - Set I - #1 and #3 and Set II- ALL

adding and subtracting polynomials

Chapter 9, lesson 2 (set I and II) and lesson 3 (set II only)

POW

Polynomials

ch 9 lesson 1 set I and II

This week's POW

HAPPY GROUNDHOG'S DAY!

1. Every year on February 2nd in Punxsutawney, PA, Groundhog Phil is called upon to predict how much more winter there will be. If Phil sees his shadow there will be six more weeks of winter, but if he does not see his shadow spring is near. In 2006 Phil saw his shadow. If Phil’s shadow was 25 inches long (when he stands on his back legs) at the same time that a 12 foot tree cast a 15 foot shadow, how tall was Phil, in inches, in 2006?


2. Groundhog Phil’s cousin Henry lives in Moundsville with his family. At the beginning of 2006, Moundsville had a population of 2500 groundhogs but by the beginning of 2008 the population had grown to 3025 groundhogs. If the annual percentage of growth was the same in 2006 as it was in 2007, how many groundhogs lived in Moundsville at the beginning of 2007?


3. Groundhog Henry is digging a new tunnel in a flat field outside of his home. He starts by digging 3 ft straight down and then digs north 4 times the distance that he dug down. At this point Henry digs straight west for 17 ft before running into a boulder. Since he doesn’t know how big the boulder is, he backs up 1 ft and digs 3 ft straight up to the surface. How far is the end of Henry’s tunnel from the beginning of Henry’s tunnel?

Exponential Functions

Chapter 8, lesson 7 - Read the intro, and complete Set I and #4-7 in Set II.

Test is on MONDAY!

Properties of Exponents

Read Chapter 8, Lessons 3 AND 4.

DO:
8.3 - Set I and II
8.4 - Set II

Intro to Exponents

Chapter 8, Lesson 1

Read the lesson, Do Set I and Set II.

Mixture Problems and Review for Test

1.) Mixture Problems, chapter 7, lesson 7 - Set I and II

2.) Review for test - Set II

The Chapter 7 Test is on Tuesday

3.) POW - Pick one option

Option 1: Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929. His birthday is celebrated each year as a national holiday on the third Monday of January. What is the earliest date in January the nation can celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday? What is the latest date in January the nation can celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday? What is the probability Martin Luther King Jr.’s actual birth date falls on the third Monday in January? Express your answer as a common fraction.

Option 2: On August 28, 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. led a march of approximately 250,000 people from the nation’s Capitol to the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. His speech at the Lincoln Memorial included increasing the minimum wage from $1.15 per hour to $2.00 per hour. Congress increased the federal minimum wage from $1.15 to $1.25 per hour in 1963. The federal minimum wage did not reach $2.00 per hour until 1974. What is the positive difference between the percent increase in the minimum wage passed by congress in 1963 and the percent increase requested by Martin Luther King Jr. in his speech? Express your answer to the nearest tenth.

Option 3: Assume the federal minimum wage was $1.15 per hour on September 1, 1963 and $2.00 per hour on September 1, 1974. Assume the federal minimum wage increased annually on September 1 by r percent of the previous year’s wage for each of the years during this time period. What is the value of r? Express your answer as a decimal to the nearest tenth.

7.5 and 7.6

1. Inconsistent and Equivalent Equations - Set II

2. Solving by substitution - Set I and Set II (minus a few problems if you demonstrated understanding in class)

3. POW

All due Thursday! See me tomorrow if something is unclear

More Simultaneous Equations

Chapter 7, Lesson 3

1.) Set I - #1 A and C only; Set II - All

2.) Complete all missing homework by Thursday for credit this quarter

3.) Extra Credit assignment is due Thursday for credit this quarter OR in 2 weeks for credit next quarter.

January 7 Problems of the Week

Option 1: Tokyo is 9 hours ahead of London and London is 7 hours ahead of Denver. If Denver is 2 hours behind Washington DC, what time is it in Washington DC at the moment 2008 begins in Tokyo?


Option 2: During Jillian’s New Year’s Eve party she wants to have several candles lit. Each candle she plans to use burns at a rate of 5 mL of wax per 15 minutes. One of these candles has a diameter of 8 centimeters and a height of 15 cm. How long will it take the candle to burn down completely? Express your answer to the nearest whole number. (Note: 1 mL = 1 cm3)


Option 3: Mike and Barbara and going to a New Year’s Eve gala and Barbara needs a new dress. She found a dress that is perfect and it is on sale for 20% off. After the discount and a 5% sales tax, the total cost of the dress was $117.60. What was the original price of the dress?