Monday, April 26, 2010

 

Sinusoids

This is our last topic of the year and one of the most interesting. For each day, the homework is to finish whatever is on the pages covered.

4/26  The Unit Circle Angles  p.37-40
4/27  Computer Lab (room 700)  p.41-44
4/28  Graphing Sine & Cosine, The London Eye p.55-59
4/30  Finish The London Eye p.60-63

5/03  Sinusoid Practice p.63-66  (extra credit p.67)
5/04  More Sinusoids p.68-69
5/05  More Sinusoids p.70
5/07  Sinusoid Practice p.71  (extra credit p.72)

5/10  Sinusoid Quiz

Thursday, April 1, 2010

 

Geometric Trigonometry

The next section deals with triangles that are not right triangles.  We can still use trigonometry by drawing the altitude and making the one non-right triangles into two right triangles and creating some formulas.

6.2 Trigonometric Geometry

4/05  Area using trig  p.25-28
4/06  Law of Sines  p.29-30
4/07  no class - I am out
4/09  Law of Cosines  p.31-32

4/12  Summary of Ideas  p.33-36
4/13  Review  p.77-79
4/14  Geometric Trig Quiz or more practice
4/16  Trig Activity or Quiz

4/17 - 4/25  April Vacation

Monday, March 22, 2010

 

The beginning of trigonometry

We are beginning our study of trigonometry.  This is a big topic that will take at least 6 weeks to work through the book, probably longer.  This is a book that we need to finish so we may not get to the last book on probability.

Section 6.1 - Right Triangle Trigonometry

3/17  Right Triangle review and radicals  HW through p.6
3/19  Trig ratios (sine, cosine, tangent)  HW through p.12

3/22  Degrees/Minutes/Seconds and finding angles  HW through p.15
3/23  MCAS - no class
3/24  Right Triangle Trig Word Problems  HW p.18-19/problems 1 - 6
3/26  Right Triangle Trig Word Problems  HW p.19-21/problems 7 - 12

3/29  Right Triangle Trig Word Problems  HW p.21-23/problems 13 - 16
3/30  Right Triangle Review p.75-76
3/31  Right Triangle Quiz (end of section 6.1)
4/02  Good Friday - no school

Monday, March 1, 2010

 

Polynomials

Back from vacation, we continue with our yellow Unit 5 books. Quadratics were part of a family of functions called Polynomials. We will now study the whole family of polynomials.  As always, your homework is to finish the pages we worked on in class.

2/22  Review of Quadratic Skills
2/23  Polynomial Intro  p.23-24
2/24  More introductory ideas p.25-28
2/26  Zeros, multiplicity and the Intermediate Value Theorem p.29-31

3/01  Put the ideas together p.32-34
3/02  Practice p.35-36
3/03  More practice p.37-38
3/05  Polynomial Quiz

3/08  Solving Polynomial Equations on the Calculator p.39
3/09  Word Problems p.40-41
3/10  More Word Problems p.42-43
3/12  Review Day 1 p.60-62

3/15  Review Day 2 p.63-64
3/16  Polynomial Test

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

 

Schedule change due to the snow day

Since we don't have school on the day we originally scheduled for our quadratic quiz.  It will have to be on Friday, February 12th.  If you will be out of school on Friday, I suggest, if it is at all possible, that you take the quiz tomorrow rather than waiting until we get back from break.

Thursday, January 28, 2010

 

Starting Unit 5

Unit 5 is a big unit which will take us at least a month to do.  We will start with quadratics, functions with x2 in them. The unit focusses on zeros and the factored form of polynomial functions.  We will not be doing the rational function sections of the unit.

1/27  Review vocab (intercepts, zeros, roots)         HW p.2-4
1/29  5.1  Continue exploring quadratic functions    HW p.5,7

2/01  5.2  Quadratics in Factored Form    HW p.8-11
2/02  5.3  Solving Quadratics Using the Calculator   HW p.12-14
2/03  5.3  Relating Zeros and Solutions    HW p.14-18
2/05  5.3  More Practice     HW p.19-22

2/08  Quadratic Review p.54-56
2/09  Quadratic Review p.57-59
2/10  Quadratic Quiz
2/12  Pre-Vacation Activity

2/13 - 2/21  February Vacation

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

 

Finishing Linear Programming

We will do a problem a day, with a day for drill if necessary.  We start the listed problem in class.  Finish it for homework.

1/06  Problem 1: "Summer Work"
1/08  Problem 2: "Cookie Kits"

1/11  Problem 3: "Teachers and Aides"
1/12  Opener using problem 3, review skills
1/13  Graphing and vertex drills
1/15  Problem 4: "Vitamins"

1/18  Martin Luther King Day (no school)
1/19  Problem 5: "Park Clean-up"
1/20  Problem 6: "Thoroughbreds & Quarter Horses"
1/22  Problem 7: "Cookie Bakery"

1/25  Problem 8: "Christmas Trees"
1/26  Quiz of Unit 4

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