Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

B Day 10/20/10

Periods 1 and 2 Honors Geometry grade 9
Objective: Students will solve problems using biconditional statements in order to solve real world problems. Following the warm up Mrs. Dennard taught the lesson on biconditionals, and instructed the students to begine the practice assignment.
Classwork for Period 1 Text pp.79-80, #36-46.
Homework is Practice 2-2 back of the WU#9.
Classwork for period 2 Text pp. 1-12 pp78.

First Quarter projects were due today for B Day classes.

First Quarter projects are due for A Day classes on Thursday Oct, 20.


Period 3 Math Studies grade 11
Objective: Students will solve logic problems using logic symbols in order to solve problems of conjuntion, disjuction, and exclusive disjunction in truth talbes.
Following the warm up, Mrs. Dennard took questions about the homework, and explained the lesson on implication. Students were assigned practice in the H&H text Ex15D and 15E.

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Tuesday, Octpber 19, 2010

A Day

Periods 1A Geometry grades 10-12 and 4A Honors Geometry grade 9
Objective: Students will recognize conditional statements and write their converse in order to recogm=nize good definitions. Following the War up, Mrs.Dennard taught the lesson on conditional statements, the converse, the truth value, and the symbolic logic symbols for hpothesis and conclusion. Classwork practice was assigned, and students worked in small groups to complete the assignment. While students were wporking, Mrs.Dennard called each one to her desck to give them a grade report and discuss ways to improve their scores before the end of the quarter on Oct. 30.
Assignment: Text pp.68-71 #1-32. and complete Practice 2-1 on the back of the WU#8.
First quarter projects are due tomorrow! Make sure you have your rubric.

Period 3 Math Studies IB grade 11
Objective: Students will solve problems using truth tables and logical equivalence in order to identify a tautology and a logical contradiction.Following the warm up, Mrs. Dennard answered questions about the homework, and retaught the differences between the truth tables for conjunction (intersection), disjunction (union) and exclusive disjunction(disjoint)
Assignment: Text H&H pp 503-507,Ex.15C #1-8, and Ex.15D #1-8.
Group quiz on Chapter 15 on Friday!!

Monday, October 18, 2010

Monday, October 18, 2010

B Day 10/18/10

Periods 1 and 2 Honors Geometry grade 9
Objective: Students will recognize conditional statements and write their converses in order to construct good definitions. Following the warm up, Mrs.Dennard taught the lesson on conditional statements, and assigned the practice problems. As sttudents were working on the practice, Mrs.Dennard called each one to discuss their grade report to date, and what each one needed to do to improve their score.
Assignment: PP 68-71,#1-32, and Practice 2-1 on the back of WU#8.


Period 3 Math Studies IB garde 11
Objective: Students will solve problems using compound statements using knowledge of exclusive disjunction and its discinction from inclusive disjuction in order to solve real-world problems. Following the warm up, Mrs.Dennard explained the differences between conjunction, disjunction, and exclusive disjunction according to a truth table response. While students worked in small groups on the practice problems, Mrs.Dennard called each student to pick up the Unit Test, Quiz 5 and the latest grade report. She discussed with each student whataction is needed to improve their scores before the end of the grading period(2 more weeks in Quarter 1).
Assignment Text H&H pp.499-501 Ex.15B,#1-10.
The next quiz will be on Thursday this week.

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

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.

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

A Day 10/12/10

Period 1 Geometry grades 10-12, and Period 4 Honors Geometry grade 9
Objective: Students will demonstrate their level of mastery of all objective in Unit 1 "Tools of Geometry" in order to score well on today's Unit 1 Test.
Following the warm up, Mrs.Dennard answered a few questions from the test review pack distributed last week. Then the test was handed out to students.
There is no homework tonight.


Period 3 Math Studies IB grade 11
Objective: Students will identify sample space for events and understand basic concepts of symbolic logic in order to solve real-world problems. Following the warm up, student were given more time to complete the coin tossing experiment from yesterday. Then Mrs.Dennard taught the lesson for sample space, mutually exclusive outcomes, complemetary events,truth value of a statement, and how to identify a proposition statement from an opinion.
Assignment: Read pp 131 - 139, Complete exercises in 3.3 and 3.4.

Monday, October 11, 2010

Monday, October 11, 2010

B Day 10/11/10

Periods 1 and 2 Honors Geometry grade 9
Objective: Students will demonstrate mastery in all objective in Unit 1 in order to score will othe Unit 1 TEST today. Following the warm up, Mrs.Dennard took questions from the Test Review Pack, and then distributed the test. Student had until the end of the period to complete the test.
Students are reminded to complete error analyses of Quiz 4 by Tuesday.
No other homework tonite.

ERROR ANALYSIS PROCEDURE
If you are working on an Error Analyses - remember that you must complete all 3 parts to get any score at all:
1. Describe the error. What were you thinking that led you to this answer?
2. Solve the problems correctly, showing all work.
3. Write out, in English sentences, the desciption/ explanation of each step you made in the correct solution.


Period 3 Math Studies IB grade 11
Objective: Students will solve problems using experimental probability,and construct tree diagrams in order to solve real world problems. Following the warm up, students were asked to read pp 454-459 and were give pennies to conduct the coin tossing experiments. By the end of the class, a few pairs of students had completed the coin tosssing and recording, but more of the same remains form most other teams. We will continue this experiment tomorrow, and also move onto probability using a spinner on a disc, and probabilities estimated from data sets.
Assignment: p.456,Ex.14A #1-4.