Wednesday, October 13, 2010

B Day 10/13/10

Period 1 Honors Geometry Grade 9 (No 2nd period today due to PSAT testing)
Objective: Students will learn to recognize conditional statements and write converses of conditional statements in order to help them read critically certain statements in literature ie; Lewis Carrol's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland".
Following the warm up, Mrs.Dennard taught the lesson on Conditional statments, including identifying the hypothesis and conclusion; find a counterexample, using a Venn diagram and finding the truth-value of a converse. Students were assigned practice problems, and worked in small groups to complete the assignments.
Today Parkdale held the PSAT for 10th graders. So, we had 1st period from 7:45 to 11:30. After the first 90 minutes, students worked on their 1st quarter projects, which are due one week from today.
Assignments: Text pp 68-70, Check Understanding questions #1,2,3,4,5,6,7.
On pp 71-72,#1-22 odd, and #23-32. Also done in class today was the Pracice 2-1 on the back of WU #8. Any work not completed in class is to be finished for homework.


Period 3 Math Studies IB Grade 11
Objective:Students will practice basic concepts of symbolic logic;identify the definition of a proposition, and write synbolic notations. Following the warm up, Mrs Dennard taught the lesson, which included implication(if p,then q),its converse, equivalence, negation, conjunction, disjunction, and exclusive disjunction. Students began work on Ex. 3.5 in Oxford,and we will continue this group of questions tomorrow.
Assignment: Read and outline: pp 496-499, and do Ex 14A.1 and 14A.2.
Next quiz on Thursday.