Thursday 11/20

Today we finished our look at the real number system with last portion of Lesson 5.2.

Your homework tonight is really important. Use your work from today to help you, think critically, and give me your best effort. We need you to become an expert on everyquestion.

Stuck on something? Ask The Community!

Homework: Real Numbers worksheet (side 2)

Wednesday HW Solutions: Real Numbers worksheet (side 1) answer key

DESMOS: Imperfect Squares

Wednesday 11/19

We continued our look at the real number system today by expanding our understanding to rational numbers, including repeating decimals in the first part of Lesson 5.2.

What are rational numbers? Anything that can be written in the form a/b where a and b are both integers and b is not equal to 0. Anything that can not be written in that form is an irrational number, which we'll talk more about tomorrow.

Homework: Real Numbers worksheet (side 1)

Tuesday 11/18

Today we began Chapter 5, taking a look at natural numbers, whole numbers, and integers, in Lesson 5.1. We'll take a look at the definition of rational numbers tomorrow in class.

Have questions or need help on your homework tonight? Ask The Community!


Homework: Textbook page 290

Monday 11/17

Today we continued our MATHia work. The next MATHia grading period closes this Friday.

Homework: MATHia practice (at least 30 minutes)

Friday 11/14

We've now reached the end of our unit on functions. Rational and irrational numbers await us next week!

Have a great weekend, everyone!

Homework: Chapter 5 Pre-Test

Thursday 11/13

We took the Chapter 4 test today. I hope you felt really good about your level of expertise going into the test, and satisfied with your success coming out of it. Results will be available early next week.

On to Chapter 5! 

Wednesday 11/12

Today we completed a piecewise function activity.

We'll be taking out Chapter 4 test tomorrow. The chapter 4 summary is a great place to begin your preparations. Afterwards, jump right into the Chapter 4 pretest that you got three weeks ago.

Make sure to study tonight on your own, and then bring your questions to the online study session in The Community from 7:30 to 8:30.

Homework: Finish the piecewise function activity and STUDY!

Monday 11/10

Today we spent the entire class period working in MATHia. Our grading cycle ends in a couple of weeks  Friday, November 21st. I expect to have many of you reach your goal.


We'll be taking our Chapter 4 Test on Thursday, and will be hosting another online study session on Wednesday evening (perhaps with some extra credit opportunities available too). Head to The Community for details.


Homework: MATHia practice (at least 30 minutes outside of class each week).

Friday 11/07

Congrats to all of those that have completed MATHia Island #1!

Here is this week's extra credit:

    

       Week 13 Extra Credit

Two friends decide to hike up and back down a local mountain.They
begin their hike at marker A, which is at the base of the mountain. It
takes them 2 hours to reach marker B, which is 2.5 miles from the base. They reach marker C, which is 4 miles from the base, after 4 hours of hiking. They reach marker D, which is 5.5 miles from the base and is at the top of the mountain, after 7 hours of hiking. Tired, they decide the rest at marker D for an hour. Afterwards they begin their trip back using a secondary "scenic" path and arrive at marker E, which is 4 miles from the base, 2 hours after they started their decent. The friends then arrive back at marker A 13 hours after they began their
hike.

Assume the friends hiked at a constant rate from each marker to the next. Carefully create a graph to represent the hike, then use it to answer the questions below.

How many pieces are needed to represent this scenario? *
Identify the intervals of increase, intervals of decrease, and the constant intervals for the scenario. *
What was their rate of change from marker A to B? *
What was their rate of change from marker B to C? *
What was their rate of change from marker C to D? *
What was their rate of change from marker D to E? *
What was their rate of change from marker E to A? *

Wednesday 11/05

We completed the second portion Lesson 4.4 today in class and will finish the rest tomorrow.

Be sure to correct any errors from last night's homework to ensure you've become an expert with each skill! 

Homework: Intervals of Change worksheet

Tuesday 11/14

Today we tackled the first half of Lesson 4.4 where we learned about increasing functions, constant functions, and decreasing functions.

Special announcement: We'll be holding our MATHia Island #1 celebration on Friday. If you've not yet finished island 1, you'll want to get that conquered before class on Friday to earn a reward.

Homework: Pg. 248-249 Problem 2. Questions 1-9.

Monday 11/03

Happy Monday!

We spent the class period working in MATHia. Our fourth grading cycle ends this Friday.

Have you met your MATHia goals yet? To check your progress, use the link on the toolbar at the top of this page. 


Homework: MATHia practice