Class Notes 5/31

Today in class we continued our prep for the final exam, which will be held on Tuesday June 6th.

The final will be taken in two locations and times:

Freshman will take the exam in the morning from 8:30-10:30 in the library.

8th graders will take their exam from 12:30-2:30 in my class room.

Below you will find the study guide check list which was given out in class today.

Final Study Guide Check List

Class Notes 5/24

Today in class we covered more logic and worked in groups on trying to apply the laws and rules we learned in class.

Homework due Wednesday 5/31: Finish Handout.

Reminder I will not be in class on Friday. You must bring some school work to work on during class.

Logic Laws

Chains of Reasoning Class Notes

Class Notes 5/22

Today in class we went over some more logic notes. We focused on tautologies (a statement where all the outcomes are true), converse, inverse, and contrapositive statements. We then worked with our partners on constructing true tables based on more complex statements.

Homework Due Wednesday: Finish truth table construction handout 

Class Notes 5/22

Truth Table Homework

Class Notes 5/18

Today the class took their rational expressions quiz. We then started our coverage of logic and worked on finding truth value of statements but using truth tables.

Homework due Monday 5/22: Finish the conditional logic handout.

Class Notes 5/18

Class Notes 5/16

Today in class we got more practice on adding and subtracting rational expression in preparation for our quiz on Thursday.

Homework due Thursday 5/17: Handout #15-22. Choose any 4 problems.

Class Notes 5/10

Today in class we covered how to multiply and divide polynomials.


Homework due Friday 5/12: Handout

Homework (Multiplying and Dividing Polynomials)

Class Notes Section 11-5

Class Notes 5/8

Today in class we started coverage on how to simplify rational expressions.

Homework due Wednesday 5/10: Test Corrections
                                                      #13-20 of Simplifying rational expressions handout

Class Notes Section 11-4

Class Notes 4/28

Today in class we started our coverage of factoring and solving quadratics when the leading coefficient, a, is not 1. We learned two different typed of methods on how to approach these types of problems.

Section 10.6 Class Notes

No Homework over the weekend. Chapter 10 Test will be on Thursday.

Class Notes 4/26

I apologize for missing the update on Monday so I will post links to Monday's class notes along with today's notes.

The past two days we covered factoring quadratic equations.

Homework due Friday 4/28: Hand out Solve all problems.

Class Notes Section 10.5

Class Notes Section 10.4 (Monday)

Class Notes 4/5

Today in class we worked on Section 10.2 of the book. We started to figure out how to multiply polynomials. We learned about the FOIL method, plus how to multiply vertically or horizontally (distribution). We then worked in groups on multiplying polynomials.

Homework due Tuesday 4/11: Pg. 587 #36-47

Class Notes 4/3

Today in class we started our coverage of Chapter 10 (Polynomials and Factoring). We worked on section 10-1 which saw us learn how to combine (add or subtract polynomials).

Homework due Wed. 4/5: 580 #51-57, 60.

Class Notes Section 10-1

Class Notes 3/28

Today the students took their chapter 9 quiz.

There will be no homework while you are away. Enjoy your trip to DC.

Class Notes 3/24

Today in class we covered section 9-6, which talked about the discriminant. We learned today that the value of the discriminant can tell us a lot about the solutions of our quadratic. If the discriminant is positive then we have two solutions, if it is zero then we have one solution and if the discriminant is negative we have no real solutions.

We then worked with our partners practicing our understanding of discriminant.

Homework due Tuesday 3/28: Study for the Chapter 9 quiz.

Class Notes Section 9-6

Class Notes 3/22

Today in class we covered section 9.5 of our book, which covered the quadratic formula. What we learned today was that the roots of any quadratic equation can be found by using the quadratic formula. After going through a few examples together the class worked in their groups on a few problems.

Homework due Friday 3/24: Handout #13-17. Pg. 537 #77, 79, and 80.

There will be a quiz on Chapter 9 on Tuesday 3/28.

Class Notes Section 9.5

Class Notes 3/20

Today in class we covered section 9-4. In this section we started to learn how to solve (find the roots/points in which the graph crosses the x-axis) quadratic equations by graphing and then checking algebraically and vice versa.

We then worked in our groups for a while getting some practice from the unit.

Homework due 3/22: Pg. 529-530 #21, 24, 27, 30, 33, 36, 39, 42

Section 9-4 Class Notes

Class Notes 3/16

Today in class we dedicated our time to graphing quadratic equations by hand. While this method proved to be tedious it is extremely important to understand how to find the vertex of a quadratic equation along with finding points on both sides of the equations. Without this understanding it is really difficult to understand how quadratics act when the numbers in the equations change.

Homework due Monday 3/20: Pg. 522 #44, 47, 50, 53, 56, 59, 62, 65, 66.

Class Notes 3/9

Today in class the students worked with their groups on a packet investigating quadratic equations and how they act graphically when the values of a, b, and c are either positive or negative.

Homework due Tuesday 3/14: Finish in class packet.
                                                  Problems #5-8 of graphing quadratic handout

Class Notes 3/7

Today in class we took our quiz on simplifying radicals and then moved onto our coverage of section 9.3 which covered how to graph quadratic equations.

We learned the steps needed in order to graph a quadratic equation.

Homework due Thursday 3/9: Finish the front page of the graphing quadratic equations handout.

Section 9-3 Class Notes 

Class Notes 3/3

Today in class we worked more on simplifying radicals. We worked with our groups on a handout and got more practice at trying to simplify radicals. We also worked on how to simplify radicals that have variables under them.

Homework: Study for Tuesday's quiz covering (9-1 and 9-2).
                    Complete study guide

Class Notes 3/1

Today in class we worked more on solving square root equations. After we worked on some of these problems we moved onto the next section of the book which showed us how to simplify radicals. We worked on the concept of trying to find perfect squares underneath the radical and looking to find matching radicals in a quotient so that they will cancel out.


There will be a quiz next Tuesday covering the material we have covered in Chapter 9.

Homework due Friday 3/3: Pg. 514 #34-45

Class Notes Section 9-2

Class Notes 2/27

Today in class we started our coverage of Chapter 9, Quadratic Equations and Functions.
Today we focused on the square function (inverse operation of squaring) and saw some examples of how the square root works.

Homework due Wednesday 3/1: PG. 507 #23, 25, 31, 36, 39, 54-62 (all).

Section 9-1 Class Notes

Class Notes 2/16

Today in class we went over the exponent review packet from Tuesdays class, took our exponents quiz.

No Homework over break.

Class Notes 2/8

Today in class we covered section 8-3 which covered division of exponents. We looked at numerous examples of how dividing exponents works. After going over some examples as a class we then worked in smaller groups on some problems which were then presented on the board by each group.

Homework due Friday 2/10: Pg. 466 #36, 37, 38, 40, 41, 42, 53.
                                              Chapter 8 Quiz on Tuesday 2/14

Class Notes Section 8-3

Class Notes 2/3

Today in class we worked with our new groups covering more operations with exponents.

Homework due Wednesday 2/8: Page 459 #14, 19, 20, 32, 35, 36, 37, 40, 45, 61, 62, 65

Class Notes 2/1

Today we continued our coverage of exponents. We reviewed what we learned from last week. The multiplication properties of exponents and moved onto section 8-2 (zero and negative exponents).

In section 8-2, we learn that numbers raised to a negative exponent is actually the reciprocal.

Homework due Friday 2/3: Test Corrections

Section 8-1 and Section 8-2 Class Notes

Class Notes 1/30

Today in class we took our systems of equations test.

Homework due Wed 2/1: Read section 8.2 & 8.3

Class Notes 1/26

Today in class we started our coverage of exponents. We learned about the multiplication properties of exponents and spent some time working in groups on some problems from the text book.


Homework Due 1/30: Study for your Chapter 7 Exam (1/30)

Class Notes 1/24

Today in class we worked in our groups on solving systems of linear inequalities. For those who did not finish in class finish the worksheet for homework.

Homework due Thursday 1/26: Finish handout.
                                                   Chapter 7 Test Monday 1/31
                                                   Completed study guide due Monday 1/31

Class Notes 1/20

Today in class we covered section 7-6 of our book. This section showed us how we can solve systems of inequalities. We saw that when we graph a system of inequalities our solution is the entire area where our shaded areas overlap. After going over class notes we then worked on some examples from the book.

No Homework over the weekend. Enjoy.

Class Notes Section 7-6

Class Notes 1/18

Today in class we covered section 7.5, which covered special types of systems of linear equations. Up until today we have covered systems that had one solution (meaning that the two graphs intersected at a specific point). In today's lesson we learned that systems can also have no solution (linear graphs are parallel) or infinitely many solutions (linear graphs are the same line).

Homework due Friday 1/20: Pg. 429 #6, 8, 10, 20, 22, 25, 31-33

Class Notes Section 7-5

Class Notes 1/13

Today in class we worked in groups solving system of equation word problems.

Homework due Wednesday 1/18: Word Problem worksheet.

Class Notes 1/9

Today in class we covered sections 7-2 and 7-3. These units covered two different methods of solving systems of linear equations algebraically.

The first method was called Linear Substitution where we solve for a variable in one equation and substitute that back into the second equation and solve.

The next method is called Linear Combination (also called the Elimination Method). In this method we eliminate one of the two variables from both equations by combining the two equations and solving for the remaining variable after.

Notes from these two sections were uploaded to the site last class (check there if you need to revisit)

Homework due Thursday: 7-2 #14, 17-21, 42, 43
                                           7-3 # 25-30, 42-44

Class Notes 1/5

Today in class we started our coverage of Chapter 7 (Solving Systems of Linear Equations). Today we learned how to use a graph in order find a solution of a system of linear equations. When graphing a system of linear equations we find the intersect point of the two lines and use that point to see if the point satisfies both equations.

Homework due Monday 1/9: Pg. 401-403 #11, 13, 17, 21, 23, 29, 35, 36, 40.
                                                Read 7.2 & 7.3

Class Notes 1-5

**Note the class notes linked above contain the notes from our next lesson. Today in class we only covered the first 2 pages of the linked notes.**