Second Period
Algebra I
Second Period
Algebra I
Monday, May 6, 2002:
1. Warm up on factoring
2. Recorded homework (reviewed only
WB: pp. 2-5)
3. Class worked on WB: pp. 8-9,
14-15 (We stopped before class results)
4. No homework
Thursday, May 2, 2002:
1. Reviewed and recorded homework
2. Class worked on WB: 6-9 (did
not quite complete 8 and 9)
2. Homework: WB: pp. 2-5,
10-12
Tuesday, April 30, 2002:
1. Test on Radicals
2. Notes on how to use the distance
formula and the Pythagorean Thm to prove whether a triangle is right, isosceles,
right isosceles, or neither.
3. Homework: Complete the Distance
Formula worksheet 5-8
Monday, April 29, 2002:
1. Reviewed and recorded Quadratic
Formula worksheet, How Do You Write A Song..., and
Test Review sheet.
2. Notes on Distance Formula
3. Homework: Complete #1-4 on
Distance Formula Worksheet
Complete Part F on Test Review
Study all assignments and warm ups on radicals
Thursday, April 25, 2002:
1. Reviewed quiz
2. Students worked on Unit 9 Test Review
3. Homework: Complete Test Review
(omit parts F and G)
Test is on Tuesday, April 30
Tuesday, April 23, 2002:
1. Reviewed and collected Text:
p. 461, 9-20
2. Notes on the quadratic formula and
discriminates
3. Students started quadratic formula
worksheet
4. Notes on the Pythagorean Theorem
5. Homework: Complete quadratic
formula worksheet
Complete "How Do You Write a Song...?
Friday, April 19, 2002:
1. Reviewed answers to quiz review
sheet
2. Quiz on radicals
3. Notes on solving equations using
perfect squares
4. Homework: Complete Text:
p. 461, 9-20
Thursday, April 18, 2002:
1. Reviewed answers to Why is a Duplicate
Key..? and What Do You Get when You Cross...?
2. Students worked on review sheet
for tomorrow's quiz
3. Homework: study for tomorrow's
quiz (study all assignments and warm-ups)
Tuesday, April 16, 2002:
1. Warm up on adding and subtracting
radicals
2. Notes on binomials containing radicals
3. Students began working on What Do
You Get when You Cross...?
4. Notes on solving equations containing
radicals
5. Homework: What Do You Get
when You Cross...?
Why is a Duplicate Key...?
Friday, April 12, 2002:
1. Warm up on polynomials and radicals
2. Corrected and recorded homework
3. Notes on adding and subtracting
radicals
4. Students began Adding and Subtracting
Radicals worksheet
5. Homework: Did You Hear About...?
Adding and Subtracting Radicals
Wednesday, April 10, 2002:
1. Corrected and recorded homework
2. Notes on multiplying, dividing,
and simplifying radicals
3. Reviewed simplifying and multiplying radicals
4. Students worked on Red Book:
p. 518, 1-25 odd as a warm up
5. Homework: Red Book:
p. 528, 1-24
Tuesday, April 9, 2002:
1. Students corrected their "usefulness"
prompt.
2. Students took notes on simplifying
square roots
3. Students began working on "Do Elephants
Know How to Gamble?"
4. Students took notes on multiplying
square roots
5. Homework: Do Elephants Know
How to Gamble? worksheet
What Do You Call a Group...? worksheet
Wednesday, March 27, 2002:
1. Field Trip to Air and Space Museum
Monday, March 25, 2002:
1. Reviewed homework
2. Test on polynomials
3. Homework: none!
Thursday, March 21, 2002:
1. Quiz on Factoring
2. Reviewed homework
3. Notes on finding dimensions of rectangles
4. Homework: Complete Test review
Complete Area worksheet
Study for test - Monday
Wednesday, March 20, 2002:
1. Warm up on factoring
2. Corrected and recorded homework
3. Notes on solving equations using
factoring
4. Students worked on Solving Equations
Using factoring
5. Notes on finding area
6. Homework: study for factoring
quiz
Solving equations Using Factoring - Right Side of worksheet
#1-4 on Area worksheet
Monday, March 18, 2002:
1. Reviewed quiz
2. Warm up on factoring
3. Reviewed and recorded homework
4. Notes on factoring using more than
one method
5. Homework: Factoring Using
More than One Method - left side only
Quiz on factoring will be Thursday
Test on Monday on the second part of Unit 6
Thursday, March 14, 2002:
1. Warm up on division of polynomials
by a monomials
2. Corrected and recorded homework
3. Notes on factoring using the greatest
common factor
4. Students completed class work in
Red Book: p. 192, 27-41odd
5. Notes on factoring special cases
6. Students completed class work in
Red Book: p. 201, 17-27 odd and p. 205, 17-27 odd
7. Reviewed how to factor trinomials
without a leading coefficient
8. Notes on factoring trinomials with
a leading coefficient
9. Homework: "What Did Mrs. Zling....?"
worksheet
"Removing Monomial Factors" worksheet
Text: p. 531, 5-26
Tuesday, March 12, 2002:
1. Reviewed and recorded homework
2. Quiz on laws of exponents
3. Notes on dividing a polynomial by
a monomial
4. Homework: Dividing Polynomials
by Monomials worksheet
Monday, March 11, 2002:
1. Warm up on simplifying exponents
2. Reviewed and recorded homework
3. Students wrote a paragraph on the
usefulness of a text
4. Handed out and reviewed Unit 6 test
5. Handed out progress sheets
6. Notes on multiplying special cases
7. Homework: Quiz Review Sheet
Text: p. 525, 5-27 odd
Study for tomorrow's quiz
Get progress sheet signed by a parent
Thursday, March 7, 2002:
1. Warm up on the laws of exponents
2. Corrected and recorded homework
3. Notes on negative exponents
4. Homework: Negative Exponents
worksheet
Quiz on Tuesday - Laws of exponents
Tuesday, March 5, 2002:
1. Warm up on adding, subtracting and
multiplying polynomials
2. Reviewed and collected homework
3. Notes on powers of monomials
4. Students began working on Red Book:
p. 152-153, 9-20, 25-30
5. Notes on dividing monomials
6. Homework: Red Book:
pp. 152-153, 9-20, 25-30
Red Book: p. 189, 1-20
Quiz on next Tuesday
Friday, March 1, 2002:
1. Test on first part of Unit 6
2. Notes on multiplying monomials
3. Homework: Complete Adding
and Subtracting Polynomials worksheet
Red Book: p. 149, 1-33 odd, omit 25
Thursday, February 28, 2002:
1. Reviewed homework
2. Handed out vocabulary list on polynomials
3. Notes on adding and subtracting
polynomials
4. Homework: study for tomorrow's
test
Tuesday, February 26, 2002:
1. Warm up on solving quadratics using
factoring and factoring trinomials
2. Corrected and recorded homework
3. Class worked out #1 and #2 on Vertical
Motion Word Problems and Applications
4. Homework: Complete Vertical
Motion Word Problems
Complete test review
Test on Friday
Friday, February 22, 2002:
1. Warm up
2. Reviewed and recorded homework
3. Notes on solving quadratics using
factoring
4. Students began working on Solving
Quadratics Using Factoring worksheet
5. Notes on the Factor Theorem
6. Homework: Solving Quadratics
Using Factoring worksheet
The Factor Theorem worksheet
Wednesday, February 20, 2002:
1. Reviewed homework
2. Quiz
3. Notes on factoring trinomials of
the form x^2 + bx + c and x^2 + bx - c
4. Homework: Factoring Trinomials
worksheet
Tuesday, February 19, 2002:
1. Reviewed all homework
2. Notes on multiplying two binomials
3. Gave list of assignments on tomorrow's
quiz
4. Homework: study for quiz
p. 518, 5-23 odd
Function Properties/Translations and Dilations Warm up
Thursday, February 14, 2002:
1. Reviewed homework
2. Students began working on WB:
p. 31 in class
3. Homework: WB: pp. 30-34
Tuesday, February 12, 2002:
1. Notes on quadratics (standard form,
general shape, translations, dilations, properties)
2. Students worked on Quadratics of
the form F(x) = a(x - h)2 + k
3. Homework: WB: pp. 12-20;
pp. 24-29
Function Properties (zeros is another name for x-intercepts; be sure to
write the
equation of each graph also)
Thursday, January 17, 2002:
1. Reviewed homework
2. Continued working in the Unit 4
workbook: pp. 27-30 (the second page 30)
3. Started to review the semester exam
review sheet
4. Homework: begin studying for
the semester final (It's on Wed., Jan. 23, 2002)
Wednesday, January 16, 2002:
1. Students were given answers to semester
exam review
2. Class covered WB: pp. 16,
17 (# 2only), p. 18, (#5 only), p. 23, 24, 25
3. Homework: Complete and correct
the semester exam review
Compile a list of questions to ask about the exam review
WB: p. 17, #3-4, p. 18, #6
Monday, January 14, 2002:
1. Reviewed Unit 3 test
2. Reviewed and recorded homework
3. Class worked on WB: p. 16
4. Homework: Semester Exam Review:
pp. 5-9
Thursday, January 10, 2002:
1. Reviewed homework
2. Class continued notes on graphs
3. Class completed pp. 8 and 10 in
Unit 4 workbook
4. Homework: Get letter signed
WB (Unit 4) p 9, 14, 15
Tuesday, January 8, 2002:
1. Collected Word Problem packets
2. Test
3. Began giving notes on different
types of graphs
4. Homework: Semester Exam Review
pp. 1-3
Monday, January 7, 2002:
1. Reviewed homework
2. Students wrote down the assignments
they should study for tomorrow's test
3. Homework: Study for tomorrow's
test
Word problem packet due tomorrow
Thursday, January 3, 2002:
1. Handed out Semester Exam Review
2. Handed out Unit 3 Test Review
3. Warm up on Systems of Equations
4. Completed notes on Systems of Equations
Word Problems packet
5. Homework: Complete Test Review
for Unit 3 - test on Tuesday
Complete Homework Section of Word Problem packet - due Tuesday
Semester Exam on January 23, 2002
Friday, December 21, 2001:
1. Students wrote compare and contrast
2. Corrected homework
3. Students played math games for the
rest of the period
Thursday, December 20, 2001:
1. Corrected and collected homework
2. Students completed Word Problem
Notes 1-5 in class
3. Homework: Complete Word Problems
Homework 1-6
Tuesday, December 18, 2001:
1. Notes on graphing inequalilities
2. Students began working on Red Book:
p. 482, 5-23 odd
3. Notes on graphing systems of inequalities
4. Homework: Red Book:
p. 482, 5-23 odd
Red Book: p. 485, 1-17 odd
Final Exam: January 23, 2002
Monday, December 17, 2001:
1. Reviewed and collected homework
2. Quiz on systems of equations
3. Homework: get progress sheet
signed if needed
Thursday, December 13, 2001:
1. Warm up on solving systems, number
of solutions, and determining if a point is a solution
2. Reviewed homework
3. Students completed #1 on Solving
Systems of Equations using the Graphing Calculator
4. Homework: Complete review
sheet
Complete Solving Systems using a Graphing Calculator
Study for quiz
Tuesday, December 11, 2001:
1. Warm up on board on solving systems
2. Corrected and collected homework
3. Notes on solving systems of equations
using substitution
4. Homework: p 356, 9-12, 14-17,
19-20, 27, 28
Quiz on Monday, December 17, 2001
Friday, December 7, 2001:
1. Career Day
2. Homework: Complete
Thursday, December 6, 2001:
1. Notes on solving systems of equations
using graphing
2. Handed back tests - bring back on
Tuesday so we can review them
3. Students began working on Solving
Systems of Equations Graphing Method worksheet
4. Notes on solving systems of equations
using linear combinations
5. Homework: Solving
Systems of Equations Graphing Method
p. 363, 11-20, 23, 24
Tuesday, December 4, 2001:
1. Unit 2 Test
2. Homework: none
Friday, November 30, 2001:
1. Warm up: WB: pp. 36
2. Corrected and recorded homework
3. Reviewed Review sheet
4. Handed out a assignments to study
5. Homework: Study for test
Wednesday, November 28m 2001: Class was 10
minutes due to MWT
1. Notes on writing equations of lines
in point-slope form
2. Homework: p. 274, 9-18 (change
of directions from book: write each as an equation in
point-slope form)
Complete Unit 2 Review Sheet (omit 21)
Unit 2 test on December 4, 2001
Tuesday, November 27, 2001:
1. Warm up on graphing lines and writing
equations of lines
2. Corrected and recorded homework
3. Class completed WB: pp. 14-15,
16-17, 33-34
4. Homework: Unit 2 Test Review
- just 1-13
Test on Tuesday, December 4, 2001
Wednesday, November 21, 2001:
1. Warm up on writing equations of
best fit using the graphing calculator
2. Corrected homework
3. Notes on function properties
4. Class completed WB: p. 53
5. Notes on sequences
6. Homework: WB: p. 71,
1-4 at bottom of page
"Function Properties" worksheet
Monday, November 19, 2001:
1. Warm up on writing equations of
lines and graphing - xeroxed warm up
2. Handed back and reviewed quiz
3. Corrected and collected homework
4. Notes on writing equations of lines
when given two points
5. Demonstrated how to find the equation
of a line using the graphing calculator
6. Homework: "Writing Equations
of Lines" - 19-30
"Lines of Best Fit" - finish at home using WB: p. 54 as a reference
Thursday, November 15, 2001:
1. Notes on writing equations of lines
when given the slope and y-intercept and when given a point
and the slope.
2. Homework: "Writing Equations
of Lines" - only 1-18
Wednesday, November 14, 2001:
1. Quiz
2. Homework: none
Monday, November 12, 2001:
1. Warm up on graphing (good review
for quiz)
2. Gave students list of assignments
that are going to be covered on quiz
3. Homework: study
Friday, November 9, 2001:
1. Warm up on graphing lines
2. Corrected and collected homework
3. Notes on graphing a point and a
slope
4. Homework: begin studying for
Wednesday's quiz
Wedesday, November 7, 2001:
1. Warm up on graphing
2. Corrected and collected homework
3. Notes on graphing equations using
slope-intercept form
4. Homework: Puzzle on
graphing lines (Why did the Farmer...?)
Monday, November 5, 2001:
1. Warm up on graphing special lines
and graphing linear equations using a table of values
2. Corrected and collected homework
3. Notes on slope
4. Students worked o p. 201, 9-12,
17-28
5. Notes on graphing equations using
slope-intercept form
6. Homework: p. 201, 9-12, 17-28
(use slope formula)
p. 208, 5-16; 17-32 (just write in slope-intercept form)
Get quiz signed if I've asked
Friday, November 2, 2001
1. Warm up on literal equations
2. Reviewed quiz
3. Notes on special lines
4. Students began working on p. 180,
7-30
5. Notes on graphing lines using tables
of values
6. Homework: p. 180, 7-30
p. 186, 13-24
Wednesday, October 31, 2001: BOO! :)
1. Quiz on Functions, Range, and Domain
2. Completed Domain and Range Review
(continuous graphs)
3. Students wrote a summary of p. 467
in Red Book
4. Homework: None!
Monday, October 29, 2001:
1. Warm up - xeroxed copy
2. Corrected and recorded homework
3. Completed pp. 41-42 as a class
4. Material covered on quiz:
WB:
pp. 18-21, 27-31, 40-49
Literal
equations
5. Homework: WB p. 49, 1-7
Study for quiz
Thursday, October 25, 2001:
1. Students saw "Life by Numbers" -
The sports segment
2. Students wrote a summary of the
video
Tuesday, October 23, 2001:
1. Warm up on range, domain, and functions
(on board)
2. Completed Function, Domain, and
Range notes
3. Notes on literal equations
4. Homework: WB: pp. 41-42,
$1-6, More Literal equations
WB: pp. 45, 48
Review WB: 18-21, 27-31
Quiz on October 31, 2001
Monday, October 22, 2001:
1. Returned Unit I tests and handed
out progress sheets
2. Reviewed and recorded homework
3. Notes on finding range when given
the domain
4. Mrs. Fish came into class to discuss
character education
4. Homework: Review WB:
pp. 18-21, 27-31
Complete WB: pp. 45-46
Wedneday, October 17, 2001:
1. Warm up - WB: pp. 30-31
2. Reviewed and recorded homework
3. Notes on identifying functions and
range and domain
4. Homework: WB: pp. 43-44
Review WB: pp. 18-21, 27-31
Monday, October 15, 2001:
1. Class worked on WB: pp. 18-21
2. Homework: WB: pp. 27-29
Friday, October 12, 2001:
1. Students took Unit I test
2. Homework: none
Tuesday, October 9, 2001:
1. Corrected and recorded homework
2. Worked with the graphing calculator
3. Homework: study for Friday's
test
Friday, October 5, 2001:
1. Warm up on Matrices
2. Corrected just matrices homework
3. Handed out review and students worked
on review
4. Homework: Complete
review
Test on Unit 1 - Friday
Wednesday, October 3, 2001:
1. Corrected and collected homework
2. Notes on adding and subtracting
matrices and multiplying a matrix by a scalar
3. Discussed application of matrices
4. Completed two problems on "pattern"
worksheet for examples
5. Homework: Complete matrices
homework
Complete patterns worksheet
Tuesday, October 2, 2001:
1. Warm up on equations containing
absolute value (chart)
2. Reviewed and collected homework
3. Class began Minimum and Maximum
Standards worksheet
4. Notes on direct variation
4. Homework: Direct Variation
worksheet
Complete Minimum and Maximum Standards worksheet
Friday, September 28, 2001:
1. Warm up on solving equations
2. Reviewed and collected homework
3. Reviewed quiz
4. Notes on writing representations
of equations containing absolute value
5. Homework: "Why Do Girls ...."
puzzle
Complete chart in equations containing absolute value worksheet
Tuesday, September 25, 2001: (Shorten Period)
1. Warm up on equations
2. Reviewed and recorded homework
3. Completed p. 2 of word problem packet.
4. Homework: p. 4, #2 of word
problem packet
Would you like to order Algebra to Go?
Get graphing calculator serial number
Friday, September 21, 2001:
1. Quiz
2. Fire Drill
3. Worked on Word Problem packet:
babysitting problem and clean room problem
4. Homework: complete p. 5, #2
and p. 6, #3
Thursday, September 20, 2001:
1. Warm up on solving inequalities
2. Reviewed homework
3. Students copied down a list of assignments
that will be covered on quiz
4. Homework: study for quiz -
Friday
Monday, September 17, 2001:
1. Reviewed and collected homework
2. Notes on inequalities
3. Students began working on p. 296,
15-32
4. Homework: Complete p. 296,
15-32
Quiz on Friday
Thursday, September 13, 2001:
1. Warm up on solving equations
2. Corrected and collected homework
3. Notes on Order of Operations with
Rational Numbers
4. Students began working on Order
of Operations with Rational Numbers
5. Notes on Real World Problems - finding
the length of the side of a regular polygon
6. Notes on checking solutions to equations
7. Homework: Order
of Operations with Rational Numbers
Real World Problems
Checking Solutions
Quiz on Thursday or Friday of next week
Tuesday, September 11, 2001: no class due to the national tragedy
Monday, September 10, 2001:
1. Warm up on solving equations - workbook
page (indicator 3)
2. Corrected and collected homework
3. Notes on solving equations with
variables on both sides
4. Homework: p.
,
Thursday, September 6, 2001:
1. Warm up on simplifying expressions
2. Corrected and collected homework
3. Notes on solving equations using
the distributive property and combining like terms.
4. Students began to work on p. 132,
11-29
5. Homework: complete p. 132,
11-29
Wednesday, September 5, 2001:
1. Collected workbook money and recorded
signed discipline policies
2. Notes on solving equations
3. Students began working on homework
4. Homework: complete p. 126,
13-47 odd
Tuesday, September 4, 2001:
1. Assigned seats and took attendance
2. Reviewed class expectations
3. Assigned Algebra books
4. Homework: Cover
books
$3.00 workbook fee
Get expectations signed (Discipline Policy)
Look at website