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Week of May 4 - 8th

Honors Algebra II -

Monday - Continue contructing the unit circle with degrees and learning the ordered pairs associated with each angle measurement. We also learned what coterminal angles are. The assignment is  to complete the designated problems on worksheet #1 on the Unit circle and  all problems on W.S. #2 on the unit circle.

Tuesday - Angles of Rotation & Special Unit Circle Values. Page 841: 13 - 55 eoo, 57 - 61 odd. We will participate in a practice timed Unit circle test in preparation for the first of six timed Unit Circle Tests.

Wednesday - Trigonometric Functions of Any Angle Pg. 842: 64 - 67 all  Pg 848: 9 - 71 eoo, 93.

Thursday -  Radian Measure and Arc Length pg. 855: 7 - 63 eoo, 64 - 72 all Pg. 848: 71 - 93 odd.

Friday  - Inverses of Trigonometric Functions Pg. 871: 5 - 43 odd, 47 - 52 all

Accelerated Math I -

Monday - In (Book 2)  Section 6.6 p. 220 ( 1 - 28 all)

Tuesday  In (Book 2)  Section 6.7 p. 226 (1 - 24all)

Wednesday - In (Book 2) Section 6.8 P. 232 (1 - 29 odd)

Thursday - Part I - Practice EOCT Test

Friday - Part II - Practice EOCT Test  continued

The week of April 13th - 17th

Honors Algebra II - Assignments for this chapter is found here Download Chapter 11Assignments

Monday - 11.1 Sequences and Series Page 696: 17, 19, 23, 25, 29, 35, 37 - 41 all, 43, 49, 51, 55, 61, 71, 73, 75 - 80 all

Tuesday - 11.2 Arithmetic Sequences Page 703: 9 - 29 odd (write and explicit formula for terms), 31, 35, 37, 39, 47 - 55 odd, 59, 61, 67, 69, 73, 75, 77 - 80 all

Wednesday - 11.3 Arithmetic Series Page 710: 9, 13 - 19 odd, 23 - 35 odd, 37, 41, 46, 49, 51, 52

Thursday - 11.4 Geometric Sequences Page 717: 9-25 odd ( and write an explicit formula for terms), 21 - 61 odd, 65 - 74 all ( and find the first four terms for the odd problems)

Friday - 11.5 Geometric Series Page 724: 11 - 19 odd, 23 - 33 odd, 37, 39, 41, 47-57 odd, 65 - 69 all

Accelerated Math I

Monday - We reviewed graphing of quadratic inequalities and solving of quadratic inequalites. This was the topic the Friday before Spring Break. The assignment today is page 100: 1 - 3; 5, 7, 11, 13 - 18, 22, 27, 31, 35.

Tuesday - Section 3.5 in the Math 1 Book  students will solve equations containing radicals. The assignment is page 148: 1 - 31 odd.

Wednesday - Students will continue to solve equations containing radicals. Worksheet 1 - 15 odd.

Thursday - Section 2.5 in the Math 2 book. Students will investigate Piecewise Functions. Students will evaluate, graph, write and analyze them. The assignment is page 51: 1 - 15 all

Friday - Students will continue working with piece wise functions. Page 52: 1 - 12 all.

Quiz on Monday focusing on solving and graphing of quadratic inequalities, equations containing radicals,  and piecewise functions.

Attention Accelerated Math I

Here is a practice review for you to work to help you study for tomorrow's test. It is very similar to the test itself. Please work through the problems and call a study buddy to verify your answers. I will be at school around 7:45 to answer last minute questions.Download Quadratic Equations & Complex Numbers Test Review

The week of March 30th - April 3rd

Honors Algebra II-

Monday - 10-6:  Dependent Events and Conditional Proability is the section student investigated. The assignment is page 668: 9 - 29 odd, 30 - 38 all,  41

Tuesday - Midterm (over Chapters 8a, 8b, 6 and 9) No calculators!!!

Wednesday - Review for Test Page 680: 1 - 28 all.

Thursday - Chapter 10 Test (over sections 10.1 - 10.6)

Friday - Probability Simulation Lab

Accelerated Math I -

Monday - Students converted between standard form and vertex . The assignment was Section 3.7 (Math 2 Book) p.88 (26- 29) and Section 3.2 (Math2 Book) p. 66 (25 - 30)

Tuesday - Today we graphed quadratics when they were in vertex, intercept and standard form. Then we discuss intervals of increasing and decreasing along with identifying the vertex and equation of the axis of symmetery. The assignment is p. 65: 1 - 6 odd, 13 - 33 eoo; p. 72: 1 - 17 odd, p. 59: 35 -41 all.

Wednesday - Review for Thursday's Test. Students will work more of the equations from the solving quadratic equations worksheet (even problems) and page 61: 34 - 39 all, Page 66: 38 - 40 all, and page 68: 39 - 41 all.

Thursday - Test over Quadratic Equations and Complex Numbers

Friday -  Section 3.9 (Math Book 2) Students using the white boards investigated how to solve quadratic inequalities. The assignment was page 98: 1 - 16 all

Week of March 23rd - 27th

Honors Algebra II -

Monday - Section 10.3 Students  will discuss Combinations. The assignment is page 647: 1 -8 all, 9-17 eoo, 19 -33 odd, 34 - 42 all

Tuesday- Students will discuss probability and odds . Then student will work in groups to complete a worksheet that contains problems similar to the ones for the quiz on Wednesday over 10.1 - 10.3. The assignment is page 633: 30 - 33 all and Worksheet on Permutations and Combinations

Wednesday - Quiz over Sections 10.1 - 10.3 Permutations and Combinations

Thursday - Section 10.4 Using Addition with Probability. Page 656: 4-6 all, 7 - 27 odd, 28, 29, 31 - 39 odd, 40 - 49 all.

Friday - We will continue to discuss Section 10.5 Independent Events. The assignment will be page 662: 4, 5, 7-11 odd, 13 - 16 all, 17 - 21 odd, 22 - 26 all, 37

Accelerated Math I

Monday -   Review of Solving quadratics by using squareroots, and adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing of complex numbers. For extra practice students can work the practice quiz here.Download Complex%20Numbers%20Quiz%20for%20blog[1]

Tuesday - Quiz over concepts from the review.

Wednesday - Today we will study Section 3.8 (from Math 2 book) the Quadratic formula and the discriminant.  This is another method to use to solve quadratics. The assignment is page 93: 1 - 19 odd.

Thursday -  Section 3.7 Solving Quadratics by completing the square. The assignment is page 88: 1 - 25 odd.

Friday - Students reviewed all techniques of solving quadratics. The assignment was a worksheet all odd problems were assigned.

Week of March 16 - 20th

Honors Algebra II -

Monday - We reviewed for the chapter test over conics. Optional assignment was page 616: 1 - 36 all.

Tuesday - chapter 9 Test over Conics

Wednesday - We began Section 10.1 Introduction to Probability. The assignment was page 633: 4 - 8 all, 9 - 29 odd, 34 -37 all, 39 - 45 odd. The new calendar was given out today. Download Chapter 10 Assignments

Thursday - We will continue with Linear Permutations. Page 640: 9 - 47 odd, 50, 51, 55 - 61 all.

Friday - We will discuss Circular permutations. The assignment is a worksheet (from page 697): 13 - 21 all, 23, 24.

Accelerated Math I

Monday - We continued solving quadratic equations. The method used today is by factoring Section 2.6. The assignment was page 83: 10 - 29 all.

Tuesday - On today students discovered how to solve quadratic equations by finding square roots. The assignment was page121: 2 - 26 even. Students were encouraged to work the odd problems if they needed extra practice.

Wednesday - 2nd period most of the students participated in the school event so the Math 2 Books were issued to those students present in both 2nd and 3rd period and student were given time to catch up on assignments.

Thursday - Students will began to explore the world of complex numbers. We will began to  simplify, add, and subtract , complex numbers. The assignment is from Math 2 Book page 4: 1 - 15 odd, 17 - 39 odd. page 8: 1- 5all, 7, 13, 17, 21, 27.

Friday - Students will explore multiplying and dividing of complex numbers. Students will be introduced to the term "conjugate". They will be able to find conjugates of binomials and monomials and use them to simplify fractions with a complex number as the denominator. The assignment is page 13: 1 - 39 odd.  Next Tuesday, March 24th, students will take a quiz over complex numbers.

The week of March 9th - 13th

Honors Algebra II-                                                                  Monday - Today we discussed graphing Hyperbolas in standard form with their center at the origin and translated. The assignment was Pg. 602: 7-45 odd, 46 - 50 all. Students did not receive their quizzes back but they were given their grades. All quizzes that were taken haven been graded and entered in to Pinnacle.

Tuesday - We will continue working with  Hyperbolas. Students will received a worksheet for Parabolas and Ellipses and one on Hyperbolas.

Wednesday - Quiz over Ellipses and Hyperbolas (Section 9.4 - 9.5)

Thursday - 9.6: We will discuss the Intersections of Conic Sections. The assignment is page 611: 9 - 45 odd.

Friday - 9.6 Intersection of Conic Sections continued. Page 611: 47 - 65 odd, 66 - 77 all.

Accelerated Math I

Monday - Today students worked review worksheets in preparation for tomorrow's test over Rational equations. The answer key for the review is here:Download Review for Rational Expression Test

Tuesday - I decided to wait until Thursday to give the test so we worked on solving word problems and symplifying complex rational expressions in class. The assignment was a worksheet containing word problems that are solved by writing rational equations and symplifying complex fractions.

Wednesday - We continured to review the complex fractions and rational equations in preparation for the test tomorrow, Thursday March 12, 2009.

Thursday - Test over Rational equations.

Friday We began solving quadratics by graphing Section 2.12. The assignment was page 114: 1 - 37 odd. 

Week of March 2nd - 6th

Honors Algebra II - calendar for the Conics UnitDownload Chapter 9 Assignments

Monday -We investigated Section 9.2 on the parabola and its formulas in non and translated form. The assignment was page 576: 9 - 47 odd

Tuesday - We continued with the lesson on parabolas. Because it is a Early release day we continued to work the problems on page 576  now including  48 - 53 all.

Wednesday -  We will study Section 9.3 on Circles. Because this is a familiar topic from Geometry we should be able to cover this one in one day. The assignment is page 583: 9-51eoo, 53 - 75 odd, 76 -82 all.

Thursday - We will investigate the ellipse. Now that we have been working with the conics awhile the students should adapt easily to the structure of the lesson. The assignment is  page 592: 21 - 57 odd, 58 - 64 all.

Friday - Quiz over Distance, Midpoints, Parabolas, and Circles (Sections 9.1 - 9.3). Homework will be a worksheet on Parabolas and Ellipses.

Accelerated Math I

Monday- Section 3.9 Multiplying and Dividing of Rational expressions. The assignment was page 167: 1 - 19 all.

Tuesday - Section 3.10 We began investigating how to add and subtract rational expressions with like denominators. Students quickly adapted to this concept but as we continued to discuss how to handle unlike denominators we quickly saw that finding least common multiples (LCM) some problems surfaced. Because today is an Early Release Day we stopped with finding (LCM). The assignment is page 173: 1 - 12 all.

Wednesday - We continued investigating how to add and subtract rational expressions with unlike denominators. After working a few examples student then began to work on the homework. The assignment is page 173: 13 - 23 all.

Thursday - We learned how to solve rational equations. The assignment was page 178:1 - 17 odd.

Friday - Students thought that solving rational equations was easy. A few are still having trouble finding the lowest common denominator for the equation. In preparation for our test next Tuesday, March 10th, over 3.8 - 3.9, we spent the class time reviewing all concepts in 3.8 - 3.11 working in groups. The assignment is p. 164: 1, 3, 7, 12;  p. 168: 2, 5, 8, 10; p. 174: 3, 8, 12, 16; and p. 179: 2, 6, 9, 15.

Week of February 17 - 20th

Honors Algebra II -                                                                Tuesday 6.5: p.389: 11-59 odd,46 

Wednesday- Quiz 6.1- 6.4

Thursday 6.6:  p. 397: 13 - 59 odd, 60, 61 -79

Friday 6.7:  p. 407: 5 - 35 odd, 26

Accelerated Math I -                                                            Tuesday Factoring by grouping

Wednesday - Factoring completely p. 95: 2 - 12 even ; 13 - 24 all

Thursday - Quiz all factoring; Begin solving equations p.79 : 22 - 36 all

Friday - Continue solving equations

Homework for week of February 9th - 13th

Honors Algebra II - We will cover sections 6.1 - 6.4 during the week. This chapter is a study of exponential and logarithmic functions. The calendar is enclosed here Download Chapter 6 Assignments

Accelerate Math I -                                                               Monday - Quiz over basic polynomial operations was returned. Students then worked on a review of long division. Those who felt they had a good handle on long division, then worked on synthetic division problems.Download Long Divison W.S. Answers                                                               

  Tuesday - We will begin investigation the world of factoring by factoring the (GCF) Greatest Common Factor - homework is worksheet Download GCF Factoring W.S.                            Wednesday - Short quiz over long division and multiplication of polynomials will be given during the first 15 minutes of class.  Then we will discuss 2.8 Factor Special Products  assignment p. 91:1 - 15 all                                                                                     Thursday - Begin 2.6 Factoring trinomials p. 83: 1 - 9 all

Friday -  Factoring trinomials p. 87: 1 - 12 all