Friday, May 30, 2008

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

Thursday, May 29, 2008

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

Thursday, May 22, 2008

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!

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

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!

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

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!

Monday, May 19, 2008

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:

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Inequalities

16.1 and 16.2 - SET II for both.

Monday, May 12, 2008

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.

Friday, May 9, 2008

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

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Completing the Square

Chapter 13, Lessons 1 - 6

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

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

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!