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