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