Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Wednesday October 5, 2011

B Day 10/5/11

Periods 2B and 4B Geometry
Objectives: Students will review and practice all objectives in Unit 1 in order to best prepare for the Unit 1 Test on FRIDAY OCT 7.
Following the warm up, Mrs. Dennard answered questions on the homework, and retaught the class on how to use the compass to construct a perpendicular bisector, and an angle bisector. Students worked in small groups on the practice problems on P. 690 in the text.
Assignment: Text p. 690, Extra Practice for Unit 1 # 1- 38 (all).
Any student who has not completed the Chapter Review and Chapter test at the end of the Chapter, and the Unit i Study Guide are to complete these assignment by Friday - BEFORE you take the Unit 1 Test.

Period 3 Math Studies: IB
Objective: Students will construct parallel boxplots in order to compare data sets regarding the distribution of test scores form two different classes. Following the warm up, Mrs. Dennard went over the homework with the class, and answered a few questions on this assignment. Then, Mrs.Dennard taught the class how to construct the parallel boxplots, and assigned a few questions for guided practice.
Assignment: Text H&H pp 159 # 2 & 4.
Students are remided that the Quiz on Friday will cover all of Chapter 5 in H&H and any work we have completed thus far in the Statistics Chapter of the Oxford text. Be prepared for questions on standard deviation, variance, and parallel boxplots.
Mrs. Dennard will be out on Thursday, and you have been assigned work in the Oxford text, so please bring that to class on Thursday.

October 4, 2011

A Day

Periods 2 and 4 Geometry
Objective: Students will review and practice objectives in Unit 1 in order to best prepare for the Unit 1 test on Monday Oct 10.
Following the warm up, Mrs. Dennard took questions on the Chapter Review and went over the problems in the Unit 1 Study Guide, and the Chapter 1 Review.
Assignments: Complete Chapter Review and Chapter Test questions on pp 61-64 in the textbook, and on pp 71-75 online.

UNIT 1 TEST will be on MONDAY OCT 10.


Period 3 Math Studies IB
Objective: Students will learn to calculate variance and correlation coefficient in order to analyze two data sets on test scores.
Following the warm up, Mrs. Dennard answered questions on the homework, and taught the new lesson. She went over several questions in a guided practice session with the class, and then assigned the practice problems.
Assignment: Text H&H pp. 156-157; Ex. 5J.1 # 1; Ex 5J.2 #1& 2.

Next quiz Friday on Chapter 5 of H&H and Stat work to date in Oxford text.