Monday, December 16, 2013

WEEK OF DEC. 16-20

ALGEBRA 2 HONORS
         We continue our work on Radicals this week.  On Monday we will cover simplifying, adding, and subtracting radicals.  We will learn how to multiply and divide radicals Tuesday, practice and review Wednesday and Thursday, and have a quiz Friday before the holiday break.

ALGEBRA 1 CP1
         We continue our work factoring trinomials.  This week we will concentrate on trinomials with a coefficient other than one.  I will introduce something I call the "Magic Number" to solve these problems.  We will work on this concept all week and then have our weekly quiz Friday.

GEOMETRY  HONORS
          We will finish Chapter 6 this week.  Section 6-5 will be covered Monday, 6-6 Tuesday, review the chapter Wednesday, and have a Chapter 6 Test Thursday.

ALGEBRA 1 CP1
         We will finish up Chapter 8 Monday by covering Section 8-9, Perfect Squares and the Square Root Property.  Since this was such a long and important chapter, we will review for two days before taking the Chapter Test on Thursday.  


       I hope you all have a safe and restful holiday season.  When we return from break we will have only two weeks before your Mid-Term Exams and the the end of the first half of the school year.  Enjoy!!!

Monday, December 9, 2013

WEEK OF DEC. 9-13

ALGEBRA 2 HONORS
         We start the week in Section 9-6, Solving Rational Equations and Inequalities.  A quiz is scheduled for Thursday on 9-6.  From there we will return to Chapter 5 and finish it.  Most of the rest of the chapter deals with the concept of Radicals, Rational Exponents, and Complex Numbers.  It will be here where you will be able to find the square root of a negative number.

ALGEBRA 1 CP2
         We will spend the week factoring simple trinomials into a product of two binomials.  We already know how to multiply binomials but in this case we will be working backwards to get our answers.  Our weekly quiz will be Friday.


GEOMETRY HONORS
          We start in Chapter 6 this week.  It deals with Proportions and Similarity.  We will cover Sections 6-1 through 6-3 this week and a quiz is scheduled for Friday.


ALGEBRA 1 CP1
         We continue our work factoring trinomials.  This week the first term will have a coefficient that is not one.  You will learn a method that I call the "Magic Number", but there really isn't anything magic about it.  All you have to do is follow some simple rules and since most of you proved that you can factor simple trinomials, these should not be too bad for you.  A quiz is scheduled for Friday. 


     REMINDER;  PROGRESS REPORTS GO OUT FRIDAY.

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

WEEK OF DEC.2-5

ALGEBRA 2 HONORS
         We begin the week in Section 9-2, Adding and Subtracting  Rational Expressions.  We will spend two days on this concept and then review for a quiz on Sections 6-3, 9-1, and 9-2 that is scheduled for Thursday.  Then we will go to 9-6, solving Rational Equations and Inequalities.

ALGEBRA 1 CP2
         We have been multiplying binomials together for a couple of days and will continue this on Monday.  Then we will begin the concept of Factoring, one of the most important parts of any Algebra course.  We will start by looking for the GCF and Taking it out as a common monomial factor.  Our weekly quiz is Friday.

GEOMETRY HONORS
          We continue our work in Chapter 5 on Triangle Inequalities.  My plan is to finish the chapter this week and hopefully test on it by Friday.

ALGEBRA 1 CP1
         We begin the week by learning how to factor basic trinomials.  A quiz will be given Tuesday on Section 8-5 from before Thanksgiving, and then we continue factoring for the rest of the week.  There may be a second quiz either on Friday or Monday based on factoring simple trinomials.