Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Tuesday, February 7, 2012 A Day

Period 2 and Period 4 GEOMETRY
Objective: Students will learn to prove triangles congruent using the HL Theorem.
Following the warm up, Mrs.Dennard answered questions on the homework, and then taught the lesson on the HL Theorem. All "Green Sheets" were stamped for those who had completed the assignment due today.
Assignment: Text p. 219-221, # 1-17. and back of WU# 3-3, Practice sheet 4-6.
Please get at least 5 tasks completed in your Unit 4 Project this week. Remember this is an alternative assessment worth 100 points! Don't delay!!
There will be a quiz on Lesson 4-4 through 4-6 next class.

Period 3 IB MATH STUDIES
Objective: Students will do an experiment to learn about equally likely events in probability. Following the warm up, Mrs.Dennard distributed Quiz #3,including IB content objectives #3.1 through 3.7 in our current unit - Topic 3: Sets, Logic, and Probabability.
Assignment: Text H&H pp.456, Exercise 14A, #1-4.

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

B Day 10/26/11

Periods 2 and 4 Geometry
Objective: Students will demonstrate skills in deductive reasoning in order to think logically, and read advertisments critically. Following the warm up, Mrs. Dennard assigned a review lesson (p.88 #1-10)and went over each problem with the class. Then the scheduled quiz on Lessons 2-1 through 2-3 was distributed. After the quiz, Lesson 2-4 Reasoning in Algebra and Geometry, was assigned.
Assignment: Text pp.89-94, #1-15; 16-26 evens; 27,29,and 32-38. If you are looking for this assignment in the online text-go about 9-12 pages ahead untill you find Chapter 2-4.

Period 3 Math Studies IB
Objective: Students will practice calculating the chi-square test, and the correlation coefficient in oder to analyze date from two data sets. Following the warm up, Mrs. Dennard conducted a peer review of Statistics Quiz 2 with the class. All scores were entered into Schoolmax,and all quizzes were returned to students for Error Analyses.
Assignment: H&H text Chapter 18 Review SDets A and B.

Friday, October 14, 2011

Friday, October 14, 2011

A Day 10/14/11

Periods 2 and 4 Geometry
Objective: Students will recognize conditional statements and write the converse and the symbolic form for a conditional statement in order to read an advertisement critically. Following the warm Up, Mrs. Dennard taught the new lesson. Students worked on individual guided practice, and asked questions and they worked before receiving the assignment.
Assignment: Text pp 71-74: #2-32 evens; p. 73:#49,52 and 54-58; and p. 74: #64-67.
There was a brief exit quiz in Period 4.
Several people are missing their textbooks that they left in the classroom. If you took someone else's Geometry book out of the classroom and left it at home or in your locker, please bring these back to the classroom. These other students really need their books back! And PLEASE don't leave your textbook in the classroom! I cannot lock them up.

Period 3 IB Math Studies
Objective: Students will calculate X-squared test for independence in order to analyze two data sets business applications.
Following the warm up, there were many questions on the homework and warm up for Mrs. Dennard to answer. There was a brief presentation to the class by the senior IB students about homecoming. It is unfortunate that we could get to the objective today or the quiz that was scheduled due the long question and answer session - but also to many late and unprepared arrivals to this class. Late arrival will no longer be tolerated. Late students must get a pass before arriving late staring Monday.
Assignment: Oxford text: pp 327 and 328: Ex 6.8 # 1-5. Be prepared for a quiz on this weeks material on Monday.

Mrs. Dennard spoke firmly to this class about the consequences of socializing in this IB class. Please take my words seriously. I have warned you numerous times about this, and I will speak to Mrs. Terry about your continued candidacy in this program if certain individuals cannot practice better self-control during instruction!

Thursday, October 13, 2011

B Day

Periods 2 and 4 Geometry
Objective: Students will recognize conditional statements and write the converse of conditional statements in order to read an advertisement critically. Following the warm up, Mrs. Dennard taught the new lesson on conditional statements. Students worked on several guided practice problems with each part of the new lesson.
Assignment: Text pp 71-74: #2-32 evens;p. 73 #49,52,and 54-48; and on p. 74 # 64-67.

Be ready for a quiz on Monday!

Period 3 IB Math Studies
Objective: Students will calculate Pearson's product moment correlation coefficient (r) and r squared in order to analyze two data sets in an electronics factory. Following the warm UP, Mrs.Dennard answered questions on the homework, and explained the new lesson. Students worked on some guided practice problems before receiving the assignment.
Asssignment: H&H text pp. 590 Investigation.

Quiz tomorrow!

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

PSAT Testing day

No homework for Geometry classes. There was no 4th period class today.

3dr Period Math Studies IB
Objective: Students will calculate the Least Squares Regression equation in order to find the line of best fit for data sets of electronics sales over time. Following the warm up, Mrs. Dennard asked for, but did not receive any questions on the homework. The assignment from yesterday was reviewed; the need for context in statistics, and the difference between r and r-squared.
Assignment: Text H&H pp. 588-590, Ex. 18C, #1-8.

Mrs. Dennard promised students the if 2/3 of this class scored a 6 or 7 on Exam Paper 2, she would give the class a pizza party with soda and dessert - AND if the entire class scored an overall 6 or 7 on exams and research paper, she would perform a Irish jig on the stage in the multi-purpose room.

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

B Day

Periods One and Four Geometry
Objective: Students will recognize conditional statements and write these and the converse of the statements in order to read newspaper ads critically. Following the warmup, Mrs. Dennard taught the lesson. Students worked individually, taking notes and working through about a dozen problems Odd numbers 1-29, with guided practice.
Assignment: Text pp.71-72, #2-32 evens only.
Next class a brief quiz!!

Period 3 Math Studies IB
Objective: Students will calculate Pearson's correlation coefficient using manual and calculator methods in order to find the degree of linearity in two data sets from a chemical fertiliser company. Following the warm up, Mrs Dennard introduced the topic of limits to data analysis, the "Harshbager Mistake", and the need to be relevant to the situation of each work problem.
Assignment: H&H text pp.573-583, Ex. 18B.1 #1-3 and Ex. 18B.2. #1-7.

Monday, October 10, 2011

October 10, 2011

A Day

Periods 2 and 4 Geometry
Objective: Students will demonstrate mastery of all objectives in Unit 1 as they complete the Unit 1 PGCPS Test today. Following the warm up, Mrs.Dennard answered a few last minute questions before distributing the test and answer sheet. Period 2 finished the test i enough time to start the next lesson. Period 4 used the entire lesson for the test.
Assignment: Period 2;Text p.71 #1-14.


Period 3 Math Studies IB
Objective: Students will analyze interval data on home rental prices in order to calculate the standard deviation and mean price of the rents.Following the warm up, Mrs.Dennard discusses the limits of using statistics, citing several real world examples. The importance of putting any statistical model into a real-world context was discussed.
Read p. 574 on causation: do Ex 18A, #1-4 & 7. pp 575-576.