August 25, 2010

Wednesday 8/25/10 A Day

Geometry/Honors Geometry Periods 1A and 4A
Objective: Students will use inductive reasoning to make conjectures in order to identify the type of reasoning used in a newspaper article.
Assignment: Text pp 4-9, Check for Understanding Questions #1 - 4. Practice 1-1 on the back of the warm up sheet. Students worked together in small groups, and wrote several observations, conjectures and counterexamples.
Homework: Complete Practice 1.1 Patterns and Inductive Reasoning.
Quiz is the next class.

Make sure you have followed the link from Aug. 19 entry. I will get a prinout of all students who have entered their information on Monday.

WORK HARD - GET SMART!

Math Studies Period 3
Objective: Students will complete the presuned knowledge habdout in order to calculate perimeter and area, and trigonometry ratios. Students compared their work within working groups. Mrs.Dennard answered questions regarding tangent ratios.
Quiz on Friday.

Homework:
#1 Sketch right triangle EFD such that FE=6, and FD=8. The measure of DE (the hypotenuse)is unknown. Find the following:
a) sin D
b) cos D
c) tan D
d) sin E
e) cos E
f) tan E

#2 Find each of the following correct to 4 decimal places:
a) sin(37) b) cos(85) c) tan(7)
d) sin(42.7) e) cos(60) f) tan(45)
g) sin(30) h) cos(53) i) tan(90)