Friday, February 18, 2011

Friday, Feb.18, 2011

B Day, 2/18/11

Periods 1B and 2B Honors Geometry, grade 9
Objective: Students will use the triangle congruence postulates,theorem and CPCTC to prove that parts of two triangles are congruent. Following the warm up, Mrs.Dennard answered questions on the homework, and assigned the practice problems. Period 2B had a brief quiz on Lesson 4-4.
Warm Up: Text p. 216 Mixed Review #50,51,52,53.
Assignment:Text pp 205-207,#1-14,and 15-20,22,23,24.

This is a half day schedule, so no Math Studies third period was held today.
IB students - PLEASE work on you IA math papers!
See you on Tuesday. We will complete Topic 2 next week.

Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011

A Day, 2/17/11

Periods 1A Geometry grade 10-12, and 4A Honors Geometry grade 9
Objective:Students will use triangle congruence and CPCTC to prove that two parts of a triangle are congruent. Following the warm up, Mrs.Dennard answered questions about the homework, and distributed the 4-1 through 4-3 quiz in Period 1A. Period 4A will have this quiz on Tuesday.
Assignment: Text pp.206-207, #1-14,15-21,22,23,24.
The weekly quiz was collected with worksheet 4-4.
Any work not completed in class is to be finished for homework.

Period 3 Math Studies IB grade 11
Objective: Students will solve quadratic equations in order to solve real-world problems. Following the warm up, Mrs. Dennard answered questions about the homework, and met with several students regarding their IA papers. Students worked in small groups on the practice problems, which are a review of Algebra 1 objectives.
Warm Up: Text Oxford p. 113,#2.
Assignment: Oxford pp. 103-110. Read examples and do Ex.2.7 #1-8.
Any work not completed in class must be completed for homework.
The weekly take-home quiz in due today.
There is no class on Friday as it is a half day and no school on Monday as it is a holiday - so you all have PLENTY of time to work on the IA papers due on Friday, 2/25/11.

Wednesday, Feb 16, 2100

B Day 2/16/11

Periods 1B and 2B Honors Geometry grade 9
Objective:Students will use triangle congruence postulates and CPCTC in order to prove that parts of two triangles are congruent. Following the warm up,Mrs.Dennard reviewed the previous lesson and answered questions on the homework. A quiz was distributed on Lessons 4-1 through 4-3. Following the quiz, students were assigned the Check for Understanding question on pp.203 and 204. Mrs. Dennard taught the lesson on CPCTC and assigned practice problems for homework.
Warm Up Text p.208,#34 & 35.
Assignment: Text pp.204 -205,#1-1-14.

Period 3 Math Studies IB grade 11
Objective: Students will solve compound interest problems in order to calculate the balance in a compounded account. Following the warm up, Mrs.Dennard discussed the homework problems, and the compound interest problems. Mrs. Dennard met with several students about the final drafts of their IA papers. Students worked in small groups to complete the assignment.
Warm Up: Oxford text, p.113,#1.
Assignment: Text H&H pp. 430-432,Ex. 13C.1 and 13C.2.

Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2011

A Day, 2/15/11

Periods 1A Geometry grades 10-12, and 4A Honors geometry grade 9
Objective: Students will prove two triangles congruent using the ASA Postulate and the AAS Theorem in order to prove that two sides of a lacrosse goal are congruent triangles. Following the warm up, Mrs. Dennard taught the lesson on ASA and AAS, and assigned the practice problems. Students worked in small groups to discuss problems as they worked, and Mrs. Dennard visited each group, observing their work and answerering questions. A change to the warm up grading was explained to each class: warm ups will come form the text, and be counted as classwork. There will be a weekly take-home quiz for 10 points and a homework assignment worksheet handout each week - distributed on the first day of the week, and collected on the last.
Warm Up: Text p. 200 # 42-45.
Classwork:Text pp.197-200;#1-21,23,24,27,28,29. A Bonus of 2 pts. was announced for completion on all problems and the challenge problems on p.200 #36-41 to be done in class.
Homework:P Checkpoint quiz p. 201 #1-10.
Quiz on 4-1 through 4-3 next class.

Period 3 Math Studies IB
Objective: Students will solve problems solving simple interest in order to calculate payments on a loan. Following the warm up, Mrs.Dennard explained the simple interest problems, and assigned the practice problems. Mrs.Dennard met with several students today to discuss their IA Papers. Final paper is due 2/25/11.
Warm Up: H&H text, p.419 Review SetB #8,and Review SetC #4&5.
Assignment: H&H text, pp.427-430, Ex. 13B1 and 13B2.
Any work not completed in class is to be finished for homework.