Friday 3/27: Today the students did a scavenger hunt to find the missing term "c" in a quadratic, and then one where they solved quadratics by completing the square.
Thursday 3/26: Today the students learned how to solve quadratic equations by completing the square. They were to finish completing the square geometrically in their notebook with 3 problems for homework.
Wednesday 3/25: Today the students explored vertex form on the graphing calculator. There is no homework tonight
Thursday 3/18: Today the students took a quiz on solving quadratics by square roots. They continued their graphing work with Lesson 10-2. There is no homework.
Tuesday 3/17: Today the students worked on graphing quadratic equations. Tonight's homework is to review for tomorrow's quiz (worksheet) and to graph two quadratic equations and name important points about them.
Monday 3/16: Today the students did a task card activity to review solving quadratics by square roots. The quiz is on Wednesday.
Friday 3/13: Students took a quiz today. No homework.
Thursday 3/12: Today the students finished the best method worksheet annd then reviewed for factoring quiz. Quiz is tomorrow, Friday.
Wednesday 3/11: Today the students took a quiz on quadratic formula. They worked with a partner to determine the best method for solving quadratic equations with the different methods they have learned. There is no assigned homework.
Tuesday 3/10: Today the students learned about imaginary numbers. Tonight's homework is to review for the quadratics solving by quadratic formula quiz, and to finish homework worksheet C-20. 2 question quiz tomorrow.
Monday 3/09: Today the students reviewed solving in vertex form. They finished a scavenger hunt loop in class.
Friday 3/06: Today the students learned how to solve quadratics in vertex form. They did a partner worksheet to review solving by square roots It is duw Monday.
Thursday 3/05: Today the students learned how to solve quadratics using square roots. Tonight's homework is a solving by square roots worksheet.
Monday 3/02: Today the students worked more on solving quadratics. There is no assigned homework. We will not meet again in class until Thursday.
Friday 2/27: Today the kids did a scavenger hunt to review solving quadratics by factoring.
Thursday 2/26: Today we went over the results of yesterday's investigation, looking at patterns to develop how to solve equations by factoring. There is no homework.
Wednesday 2/25: Today the students did an investigation activity looking at different forms for quadratic equations. There is no homework.
Tuesday 2/24: Today the students worked on Solving Quadratic Equations using the quadratic formula. Tonight's homework was to be done on pages 20-22 of their notebook and they were to do problems 1,2,3,4,5,7,8,9 from the worksheet.
Monday 2/23: Cold Day
Friday 2/13: Unit 5 Quadratics Test (1st half of unit)
Wed and Thursday 2/11 and 2/12: The students reviewed for the Quadratics Test part 1. The test is Friday, that is when the review is due.
Tuesday 2/10: Today the students continued to work on their skills with factoring trinomials. They did a quadratic factoring match acitivity.
Monday 2/09: Today the students continued to work with factoring trinomials. Their assignment was to finish problems 1-10 of the following worksheet in their notebook.
Friday 2/06: Today the students worked on factoring trinomials using the diamond and box method. Tonight's hw was 3 problems given in their notebook. Below is a video tutorial on factoring using the diamond method.
Thursday 2/05: Today the students worked on Lesson 9-6 factoring polynomials using a greatest common factor. Tonight's Homework is HW #3 WS.
Wednesday 2/04: Today the students worked on card problems to day and saw special cases when multiplying binomials. There is no homework tonight.
Tuesday 2/03: Snow Day!!! :)
Monday 2/02: Snow Day!!! :)
Friday 1/30: Today the students worked on Lesson 9-2 and 9-3, the distributive property and multiplying binomials. Tonight's HW is HW #2 WS.
Thursday 1/29: Today the students worked on Lesson 9-1. Tonight's homework is HW #1 C-7 Worksheet on Polynomials.
Wednesday 1/28: Today the students did a Dog Fence Activity as an Intro for the Quadratics Unit. There is no homework.
Tuesday 1/27: Today the students took a quiz and then worked on the Diamond # pattern worksheet. They finished in class and have no hw.
Monday 1/26: Today the students worked on the quiz review. Tonight they should practice for tomorrow's quiz on arithmetic and geometric sequences. Reveiw is due tomorrow.
Friday 1/23: Today the students did the Candy Land Worksheet to review arithmetic and geometric sequences. The front needed to be done by Monday. A quiz will be give on Tuesday.
Thursday 1/22: Today the students learned about geometric sequences. Tonight's Homework is HW #2 WS.
Wednesday 1/21: Today the students learned about arithmetic sequences. Tonight's homework is HW #1 WS.
Tuesday 1/20: Happy Second Semester!!! Please read over syllabus, and have parent letter signed and returned by Friday. Supplies are also due by Friday. If possible, try to have spiral notebook by Thursday, 1/22.