Review and the Final

We will spend five regular class periods reviewing for the final (3 days of skills, 2 days of concepts) and then one extra long class period doing a variety of review activities.  Here is the answer key for the large packet of review problems.

List of concepts.  List of skills.

A:  6/06     F:  6/06    Day 1 Review of Function and Statistics Skills
A:  6/10     F:  6/07    Day 2 Review of Coordinate & Deductive Geometry, Transformation Skills
A:  6/11     F:  6/10    Day 3 Review of Exponent Skills, Polynomials and Probability
A:  6/12     F:  6/12    Day 4 Review of Deductive Proof Writing (proof answer key)
A:  6/13     F:  6/13    Day 5 Review of Quadratics and Modeling (modeling answer key)

A:  6/17     F:  6/14    Day 6 Review Activities
6/19  Drop in for questions to room 816 between 12:00pm and 2:00pm.

6/20  Math Final 8:30am to 10:30am
Room numbers for   A-Block:  169       F-Block:  166

Make sure you bring pencils, an eraser, a calculator (with spare batteries?), a stomach full of a healthy breakfast and a brain refreshed by a good night's sleep.

You can get your score on the final from me on Monday, 6/24 between x and x in room y.

Right Triangle Trigonometry

Our last unit of the year is about using the similarity of right triangles to find information.  It is the beginning of all you can do with the topic of Trigonometry (you would be amazed at how useful this topic is in all branches of math and science).  We don't have a lot of time for this unit so we are only covering selected sections of chapter 9.

5/27  Memorial Day

A:  5/28    F:  5/24    9.06  Getting Started
                                 CW p.737-738/1-4   HW p.739-740/5, 7-11, 13
                                 (note: on problems 9 & 10, use the fact that you could do it if it was
                                           30 degrees but 27 degrees is less steep)
A:  5/29    F:  5/29    9.07  Special Right Triangles
                                 CW p.742-743/1-5   HW p.744-745/2-14
A:  5/30    F:  5/30    9.08  Sine, Cosine, Tangent (and their inverses)
                                 CW/HW p.749-751/2-18
A:  6/03    F:  5/31    9.09  Area of non-right triangles
                                 CW p.756/1-5   HW p.757-759/6-9, 12-19
A:  6/04    F:  6/03    Review (download worksheet with answers)
                                 CW p.759/21 and p.760/1-6

6/05  Trig Quiz

Similarity

We will study Similarity - a branch of mathematics dealing with scaling.  (If I get a photograph enlarged, it will be similar, just bigger.  A scale model of a building is similar, just smaller.)  Most of the material will come from chapter 7 with a few pieces from chapter 8.  Due to MCAS, the schedule is laid out explicitly for both sections

A: 5/09    F: 5/10    7.08  Ratio and Parallel
                               HW p.568-570/4, 6, 8-13
A: 5/14    F: 5/13    7.08 & 7.14  Ratio and Similarity
                               HW p.598-599/2-10
A: 5/15    F: 5/15    8.05, 8.07, 8.09, 8.10  Circle and Sector Area, Arc Length, Inscribed Angles
                               HW p.646-648/1-4, 6, 10  and  p.658-660/1, 2, 8-10, 12, 13  and
                                      p.669-672/1-5, 7, 8, 12, 14  and  p.677/1, 3-5
A: 5/16    F: 5/16    7.15  Similarity Shortcuts (AA, SSS, SAS)
                               HW p.606-607/7-13
A: 5/20    F: 5/17    7.15  More Practice using Proofs
                               HW p.605,607/1-3, 5, 6, 15
A: 5/21    F: 5/20    7.16  Similar Area and Volume
                               CW/HW p.611-612/1-12
A: 5/22    F: 5/22    Review (answer key)
A: 5/23    F: 5/23    Similarity Quiz

5/13  Math MCAS Day 1  (C E F D B)  <-- Lost an A-Block!
5/14  Math MCAS Day 2  (A G H B)

Probability

We will be doing a quick unit on probability - chapter 5 in the textbook.

Week of 4/22 - 4/26
Day 4  5.00  Introduction (and Pascal' Triangle)
                     CW p.372-374/1-12    HW p.376-377/1, 2, 4-6, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14

Week of 4/29 - 5/03
Day 1  5.01  Getting Started (and the Binomial Theorem)
                     CW p.376/3, 10   HW p.377/16 and p.379-380/1-9
Day 2  5.02  Probability (and some important vocabulary)
                     HW read p.385, do p.386-388/1-4, 8-10
Day 3  5.03  Conditional Probability
                     CW p.392/1, 2, 4, 5    HW p.393-394/6, 7, 8, 10
Day 4  5.04  Probability of Compound Events
                     CW p.398/1, 2    HW p.398-400/5-10

Week of 5/06 - 5/10
Day 1  5.06  Expected Value (handout of extra problems)
                     CW p.412/1-4     HW p.413-414/8-10, 12-16
Day 2  Review (download book version of Review Problems (with answers) and another review)
Day 3  Probability Test

Ch 3: More Quadratics

We finish up the Quadratic Unit with Chapter 3.  The test will be during the week after April Vacation.

3/25  3.01  do Getting Started p. 153-154/1-14
3/27  3.02  Deriving the Quadratic Formula HW p.160-161/1-5, 12-16, 18, 19, 21, 24, 25, 27
3/28  3.03  Building Quadratic Functions from Roots HW p.165-166/1, 3, 5-7
3/29  Good Friday - no school

4/01  Extra Practice  (the link contains the selected problems and the answers)
4/02  3.04  Factoring non-monics  HW p.170-171/1, 2, 4-6, 9, 11
4/03  3.05  HW Check Quiz  Getting Started with Graphing CW p.175-176/1-4 
                    HW p.176/6-12  and p.182/8, 10-13
4/04  Extra practice with factoring, completing the square and quadratic formula
          Note: There is a typo on the worksheet: #6 should have -20x, not +20x
          Answer Key

4/08  3.07  Graphing Quadratic Equations  HW p.189-191/1, 2, 4-6, 8-16
4/09  3.08  Jiffy Graphs of Parabolas 
          HW read Minds in Action on p.192 and p.194 plus p.197-200/1,3,8-14
4/10  Extra Graphing Practice
4/11  HW Check Quiz More Solving Practice (turned in)

4/22  Review (view Skills Notes)
4/23  Extra Topics and connections
4/24  Ch 3 Test of Quadratics

Chapter 2 is the beginning....

Quadratics is a big topic and we will need two chapters to cover it (just this year).  We start with the utility of factoring.  To make sure that you are keeping up with the ideas covered in the homework, there will be a homework quiz every week of this unit.  Keep up!

3/04  2.02  Showing expressions are equivalent
                  HW p.72-74/1-3, 6, 7, 9-13, 15, 16
3/05  2.03  Zero Product Property
                  CW p.79/1-4, 6   HW p.79-80/7-15
3/06  2.04  Transforming Expressions
                  CW/HW p.83-85/1-9
3/07  Half-Day C B H F
3/08  Extra practice (download it here)

3/11  2.06  Polynomial Vocabulary (Quick HW Quiz of 2A)
                  HW p.97-98/3-9, 11, 12 and p.102-104/1, 2, 4, 18, 19
3/12  2.07 & 2.08 Normal Form (also called Standard Form)
                  CW/HW p.103/5-11, 13  and  p.106-108/1, 2, 4-6, 11, 13, 18
3/13  2.10  Factoring Difference of Squares
                  CW/HW p.121-123/1,4,5,13,14,16,17,19,20,21,24,25  and  p.116/11
3/14  2.11  Factoring Sums and Products (Quick HW Quiz of 2B)
                  CW/HW p.130-132/1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 13

3/18  2.12  Factoring by Completing the Square (monic, even "b")
                  CW/HW p.138-142/1-3, 7, 8, 11, 12, 17, 20, 22 (I will collect 11 and 12)
3/19  SNOW DAY
3/20  2.12  More Practice with completing the square (non-monic, odd or irrational "b")
                  CW/HW p.139-142/5, 6, 9, 10, 13, 14, 18, 19, 21
3/21  MCAS (Homeroom G H A)  Review of Chapter (download here) (Quick HW Quiz of 2C)
3/22  MCAS (D E F B C)  Review of Chapter (download here) (Quick HW Quiz of 2C)

3/25  Test of Chapter 2

Important Dates
3/25  MCAS and the First night of Passover
3/26  second night of Passover
3/28  end of term 3
3/29  Good Friday - no school

Quadratics Begin!

After the quiz, please read and work through p.65-67 problems 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 14, 15.