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.

Exponents and Radicals

This is a quick review unit before we move into quadrilaterals.  Looking over the pre-tests leads me to believe that all of retained some portion of what you know about dealing with exponents and radicals - and all of you lost much of what you knew.  The review packet you started before vacation should be finished by the second class after vacation.  We will spend the week reviewing and finish with a quiz.

Day 1:  Review the exponent rules
                 when do you add, subtract, multiply?
                 what do you do with negative exponents?
             Extra Practice: p.39-41/1-24 and p.44-47/1-19, 22
Day 2:  Go over review packet
             Discuss radicals and fractional exponents
             Scientific Notation
             HW p.10/4-7,20  &  p.14/1,2,6,7,8-12  &  p.18/2,5-9  &  p.32/9,10  &  p.57/9-11,13,15
Day 3:  Practice, practice, practice (worksheets with answer keys)
             HW p.33/1-8  and  p.59/1-3,5,8  and  p.60/1-4,6
Day 4:  Quiz

Reviewing for the Ch 6 Test

We will be reviewing the entire chapter for a test before vacation (and the start of our next topic: Exponentials and Radicals).

2/07  Midpoint Quadrilateral Proofs for A-Block
2/08  Snow Day

2/11  Review with Extra Practice Sheets
2/12  A-Block Review Activity
2/13  A-Block Test of Ch 6, F-Block Review Activity
2/14  A-Block Exponential Activity, F-Block Test of Ch 6
2/15  F-Block Exponential Activity

2/16 - 2/24  February Break

Quadrilateral Properties

This unit kicks off with you turning in your project of quadrilateral conjectures.  Since you have already been thinking about quadrilaterals for a week - thinking about their properties - proving properties is only a step away. (Again, all dates are for A-Block. F-Block dates are a day later after Tuesday.)

Note that we will be using the books in class but most of the homework in this unit is worksheets of problems.  Please make sure to bring them with you since they contain notes on the material.

1/29  Definitions in general, quadrilateral definitions in particular (turn in Quad Conjecture Project)
         HW prove the properties of isosceles trapezoids and kites
1/30  CW p.512-513/1-8;  Prove the properties of parallelograms
         HW prove the properties of rectangles, rhombuses and squares
1/31  CW p.522/2-13;  Converses - how can I prove I have a special quadrilateral?
         HW finish handout

2/04  Extra Practice using Quad Properties
         HW finish handout
2/05  Review for quiz
         CW/HW p.518-520/1-7, 9-28 and p.524/1-8
2/06  Quick Quiz on Quadrilaterals (section 6D)
         HW p.520/32
2/07  Start reviewing for Ch 6 Test with Midpoint Quadrilateral Proofs

Invariance Project

To help you with your project:

The instructions (note F-Block does not have class on January 29 so their project is due on January 30)

The rubric (you may still email me or ask questions in class if you are not sure what I am looking for)

Writing Proofs

We will be working through 6C - writing proofs.  Make sure you keep up with the homework because the practice is very important.  Please remember that F-Block doesn't meet on Tuesdays so all assignments are one day later.

1/16  Formal introduction to Proof (6.08/6.09)
         CW p.479/1,3,5,6;  HW p.484/1-5, 8-11
1/17  Analysis and Proof (6.10/6.11)
         CW p.488/6-9 and p.490/1;  HW p.492-494/1, 4-7
1/18  End of Term 2

1/21  Martin Luther King Day - no school
1/22  More Practice (6.11)
         CW/HW p.492-494/2, 3, 8-11
1/23  More Practice (6.12)
         HW finish handout
1/24  And more practice (6.13)
         CW p.500-501/1, 2, 6;  HW p.502-503/8-15

1/28  Quick Quiz on Writing Proofs
1/29  Quadrilateral Exploration due

Continuing with Deductive Geometry

We will be working our way through Chapter 6, Congruence and Proof.  Please keep in mind that this list of assignments may change as we go through the unit so check back to get the most up-to-date info on assignments.

1/03  Recap of Computer Labs (if you did not finish them before vacation, finish them now)
         HW p.436/3, 5, 7  and (for A-Block) p.447-449/1-7
1/04  Finish discussing p.435/1, 2  (6.02, 6.03)
         HW (for F-Block) p.447-449/1-7

1/07  Investigating Triangle Congruence (6.0)
         CW/HW p.430-433/3-17
1/08  Investigating Lines and Transversals (6.04)
         CW/HW p.453-454/1, 2, 3, 5-8
1/09  Introduction to Proofs: Vertical Angles (6.05)
         CW p.454/4 and p.457 Experiment;  HW p.459-461/1-7
1/10  Parallel Lines (6.06)  [Half-Day B A G F]
         CW p.465/1,2;  HW 465-468/3-12

1/14  The Parallel Postulate (6.07)
         CW p.471/3-5;  HW p.472-476/1-9, 11-13, 15 (due the day after the quiz)
1/15  Quiz (A-Block)
1/16  Quiz (F-Block) 
1/17  Writing Proofs (6.08 and 6.09)
1/18  End of Term 2