All math classes: bring your textbook to class!

Classwork due Thursday: p493 (2-44eoe); p496 (2-40eoe); p501 (2-72eoe); p505 (2-42eoe); p521 (2-24 even)

Notes on Radicals due start of class on Wednesday.

Chapter 5 Assessment must be completed before Spring Break. (Thursday, end of class.)

Build Study Guide for all of Chapter 5.
Do "Reasoning Strategies" notes and work on p255 (1-5); Do Chapter Wrap Up
Work and notes need to be done by Wednesday. Test on Thursday 3.14.13.

Complete CAHSEE Practice tests and correct. Circle Standards that need work. Test can be found under the Math tab on academicdesignprogram.jimdo.com

Notes: 5-9 multiplication of monomials and binomials, 5-10 special products, 5-11 multiplying polynomials
Class work: p242 (1-62 even); p247 (1-43 odd); p251 (1-50 odd)

See attached flyer for ADP Family Night. This is an assignment for all students!

Notes on 5-6, 5-7, and 5-8
Classwork/homework: p229 (1-33 odd); p233 (1-23 odd); p238 (1-29 odd)

p224 (1-40odd) due Monday; work on study guide for monomials and polynomials (including definitions and examples); correct and return quizzes (if applicable)

Exercising SAFETY FIRST, count 20 cars and record their color. Can be from a parking lot, while a passenger, or observing cars go by. It MUST BE RANDOM. Do not choose cars to count. Should be recorded as a list (1 thru 20) with the color noted next to each number.

Notes on sections 5-5 and 5-6: define and identify polynomials; binomials; trinomials; coefficient ; degree of a term; degree of a polynomial; leading term; and leading coefficient

Finish p215 (25-36); Review 5-3 on p256 for quiz on Friday.

Log in to edmodo and reply to the question I posed to all of ADP. Please make your replies brief and feel free to do an additional reply to other people's comments.

Notes from Khanacademy.org (Basic Probability; Example: Marbles from a bag; Example: Picking a non-blue marble; Example: Picking a yellow marble)

Classwork: p215 (1-24)

Quiz on working with exponents. Notes on monomials (5-3).

Find one number that creates Kaprekar's constant and one number that does not. Repeating numbers not allowed--they have already been eliminated.

Make-up or Re-do opportunity on any POW. Use the link below and follow the instructions. POW's are worth up to 35 points and many of you are missing one or more.

p160 (2-36 eoe); p164 (1-8)

Stock purchases of 85% of account must be complete.

khanacademy.org "Absolute Value and Number Lines" and "Absolute Value Equations"--notes and "Practice this Concept" problems --OR-- notes from book, 3-8. Book notes should include "Objective" and worked out examples.
Tuesday/Wednesday Classwork: p146 (1-33 odd, 40-53 all)

Quiz on working with percentages.

POW: Election Results
In a class election with five candidates, the winner defeated the other four candidates by 17, 18, 25, and 31 votes respectively. If 99 votes were cast, how many votes did the winner receive?
Answer: 10 pts.
Showing work: 10 pts.
Explanation: 10 pts.
Extra Credit: put response in Word document, place it on Jimdo page and email link to Ms. La Certe--bonus 10 pts.

Complete initial selection of 10 companies, narrow to 5 and do all calculations and justifications. Complete the percent of change calculations. POW: Elections is also due.

POW: Quaking Hands. This one will only be online and must be submitted via your Jimdo page. See link below to get the problem.

Classwork: p140 (2-30e); p143 (2-20e)

Book notes or research on 3-6: Clearning an Equation of Fractions or Decimals and 3-7: Formulas

Classwork: p133 (2-26e); p137 (2-30e)

POW: Souvenir Shopping
Use link below to get Word doc. Be sure to include: the answer; your work; and a detailed explanation.

Notes on Problem-Solving Guidelines (p131)

Classwork: p116 (2-36 even, 44); p122 (2-32 even, 38 and 39); p127 (2-26 even, 43 and 45)

Book notes on 3-1: addition property of equality (see video link below); 3-2: multiplication property of equality (see second video link below); review of adding , subtracting, multiplying and dividing rational numbers (2-3 thru 2-6)
Khan videos--choose any videos from the following section as needed for review:
http://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/fractions
Working with positive and negative numbers:
http://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/addition-subtraction/v/adding-integers-with-different-signs

Either check in to academicdesignprogram.jimdo.com (math tab) to download a formatted Word document, or get a printed copy of the problem "Fish Tales"; complete response is due Friday, 9.28. Answer needs to be fully worked out and explained. Scoring is as follow: answer--up to 10 pts.; explanation--up to 20 pts. (graded as a project, not homework). Answers may be submitted to [email protected], or printed out and handed in, or handed in from the original printed copy. I will award 5 bonus points for posting it on your Jimdo math page. [Note: this will be a required step in the future.]

Watch the two Khan videos (links below) on Scientific Notation. Signing in (with me as coach) and doing the associated "Practice This Concept" work will earn bonus points. Notes are due Friday, 9.28.12. Alternative: Algebra 1 book 5-4 or independent research. Bonus points can be earned by doing 10 of the Practice Problems at the end of the section.

Test on expressions and equations Thursday, 9.27.12.

CLASSWORK: p30 (2-40); Algebra Practice Problems

Log in to your jimdo page—firstname+last initial.jimdo.com; copy the url
Send Ms. La Certe an email with the link

[email protected]
or
[email protected]

Notes on "Writing Expressions" and terms: expression, variable, power, and exponent. May use book (1-6 and the glossary), or the link below. [Note: there are two short videos on the link--not done by Khan, but the information is good.] Notes need to include the list of operations (+, -, x, /) and words or phrases that indicate when to use them.
Example:
Operation: Addition
Words or phrases: more than, sum, plus, increased by, added to

Finish Domain Evaluation. Complete notes from Monday's homework if not already done. 

Notes on the following: combining like terms and the distributive property; solving equations [may use textbook 1-5 and 1-7 or Khan “Combining Like Terms” (link below), “Combining Like Terms and the Distributive Property”, “Why we do the same thing to both sides: simple equations” (link below), and “Representing a relationship with a simple equation”]

All math levels: find how to calculate area, perimeter, and volume of rectangular prisms and other more complex geometric shapes.

Optional: the following videos are good reviews of bar graphs, line graphs, and pie charts. The links are for bar graphs and line graphs, to get to the one on pie charts just go to the next video.

Classwork/Homework: Skills and Cocepts p.2--need to check answers
Homework: use "Properties Book" to record the following information:

• order of operations
• commutative and identity properties of addition and multiplication
• associative property

May use textbook or Khan (or other reliable source) for notes. Link below is for the first of a series of videos from Khan on the above topics.

If you have not set up an edmodo account yet, please follow these instructions:

To Set Up edmodo:

1.     Go to edmodo.com and create an account by clicking on “I’m a Student”.

2.     Find the group you should belong to and enter the appropriate code:

a.    Period 1: 721vcs

b.    Period 2: hyggpr

c.     Period 3: 41j8g2

Study for Ratio and Proportion quiz; prepare "book" for notes--Geometry Theorems and Postulates; Algebra Properties.

Choose ONE of the following to gather notes from:

• watch khanacademy.org > "Finding an Unknown in a Proportion" (under Algebra: Ratios & Proportions)
  
• read and take notes from the Algebra 1 book: Proportions (starting on p148)
• do independent research on how to set up and use proportions--be careful to research "ratios and proportions" to see the relationship between the two

Note: there will be a quiz on Ratios and Proportions on Wednesday, 8/29.

Notes on Ratios--complete the notes from the video:
Khanacademy.org >>Algebra: Ratio & Proportions >>Introduction to Ratios

Notes need to be clear and show examples. Need to be prepared with questions and/or ready to work problems in class.