Friday, September 23, 2011

Thursday 9/22 and Friday, 9/23

To all of my students: Please check Schoolmax to see if you have any quizzes or tests to makeup!!!

Period 2 Geometry grades 9-12
Objective: Students will solve distance and midpoint problems in order to find the distance between two points on a map.
Following the warmup, Mrs. Dennard answered questions about the homework, and taught the new lesson. Students in period 2B took the Lesson 1-4 Quiz. Period 2A had an assignment of practice problems to work on in class.
Homework:
2A: Worksheet 1-6 on distance and midpoint; on the back of WU #5
2B: Text pp. 43-49, # 43-49, multiples of 3, and # 48.

Period 3 Math Studies IB grade 11
Thursday
Objective: Students will learn to graph cumulative frequency graphs, box and whisker plots, and frequency tables in order to calculate the mean, median, and quartiles in order to analyze the attendance at a national p[ark over one year. Following the warm up, Mrs. Dennard answered questions about the homework. Mrs. Dennard taught the new lesson , and students worked in small groups to practice problems in the Oxford text, pp. 297-298, # 1-5. Mrs. Dennard handed back the 2 quizzes taken to date, and discussed the error analysis procedure to improve the quiz scores. All EAs are due on Tuesday 9/27.

Friday
Objective: Students will demonstrate skill in solving problems in descriptive statistics in todays's quiz. Following the warm up, Mrs Dennard answered questions about the homework, and other questions from the H&H text. The quiz was then distributed to students, who worked on this for the remainder of the period.
Homework: Complete all error analyses!


Period 4 A and 4B Honors Geometry grade 9
Objective: Students will solve problems using the distance and midpoint formulas in order to find the distance between two points on a map. Following the warm up, Mrs. Dennard answered questions on the homework. Students in 4A were taught the lesson on distance and midpoint formulas, and assigned practice problems on pp 43-39 #3-30 multiples of 3, and # 48.
Period 4 B turned in their work on this assignment, and took a brief quiz on Lessons 1-4 and 1-6.
Homework: Text p. 55, #2-23 evens only.