Saturday, May 25, 2013

WEEK OF MAY 27 31

ALGEBRA 1 CP1
        This week we are beginning our review for your Final Exam. We will do worksheets on Chapters 1-3 with a review quiz Friday.

ALGEBRA 1 CP2
        We are beginning our Final Exam review this week.  We will do worksheets each day on various concepts covered this year and have a quiz Friday.

GEOMETRY HONORS
         This week we will begin our review for the Final Exam.  You will be working on Problem Solving Tuesday during the extended period .  A review quiz is scheduled for Friday.

ALGEBRA 2 HONORS
        We are reviewing for a quiz Wednesday on Sections 10-4 to 10-6 .  During Thursday's extended period we will work on Problem Solving and begin Chapter 7 on Polynomial Functions.  Once we have finished the chapter we will be able to review for the Final Exam.

Sunday, May 19, 2013

WEEK OF MAY 20 to MAY 24

ALGEBRA 1 CP1
        We continue our work with radicals this week.  We will concentrate on multiplication and division this week with a quiz scheduled for Friday.  A Problem Solving exercise is also planned for the end of the week.

ALGEBRA 1 CP2
        We continue our work with Factoring Trinomials this week with the introduction of the "Magic Number".  These involve trinomials with the first term having a coefficient other than one.  They are not hard to do if you follow a couple of rules.  Our quiz is still on Friday.

GEOMETRY HONORS
         This week we will work on a Review Unit in Factoring to prepare for next year's Algebra 2 class.  There will be a quiz at the end of the week as well as a Problem Solving exercise.

ALGEBRA 2 HONORS
          We continue our work in Chapter 10 on Logs with base e and Natural Logs (ln).  Then we will discuss exponential growth and decay before our next quiz.  From there we will venture into Chapter 7 to finish out the year.

Monday, May 13, 2013

WEEK OF MAY 13-17

ALGEBRA 1 CP1
         We begin the week with a quiz on Section 9-5, the Quadratic Formula and the Discriminant.  From there we will start a unit on Radicals.  We will learn how to simplify, add, subtract, multiply, and divide square roots over the course of this week and into next week.

ALGEBRA 1 CP2
         The week will be spent learning how to factor trinomials into products of binomials.  We have been working on the concept of what a factor is and this will be more detailed this week.  Our weekly quiz is still Friday.

GEOMETRY HONORS
          We have been working on Areas and Volumes of three-dimensional shapes and we will finish this up this week.  We will cover Cones and Spheres and a quiz is scheduled for Thursday, which will also include Pyramids.

ALGEBRA 2 HONORS
        We will finish off Section 10-3, Properties of Logarithms, for a quiz Wednesday.  The rest of the week will be spent covering Section 10-4 Common Logarithms in base 10.