Concepts of
Algebra 1
Mrs.
Higginbotham
Syllabus
Link to the
online book:
password: 6018-4cc68
Current Assignments:
In class on Tuesday 4/15, I told them to turn in their Sample Quiz if
they hadn't done so already. Then they took the quiz - everyone
finished within the class hour. As they finished their quizzes, I
gave them an updated grade printout for Quarter 4. All latework
is due by Thursday!!!
No class on Wednesday 4/16.
In class on Thursday 4/17, We started out with the 7.4 Investigation WS. We worked through that for most of the hour, and the homework was to do WS Scientific Notation, but only Parts A & B left column only.
In class on Friday 4/18, I checked the homework. Then I went over
a few problems that were of a bit higher difficulty from the homework.
Thne we did #1-5 together on the WS "Working with Scientific Notation".
Their HW is to finish the WS "Working with Scientifi Notation"
and on the WS "7.4 Scientific Notation" WS do the right column of parts
A & B (so now everything but Part C and the middle column of A and
B are done).
On Monday 4/21, we were in the computer lab MAP testing - no homework.
On Tuesday 4/22, there was a sub. The homework was WS "A Look Back" - it is review of Ch 7 so far...
On Wednesday 4/23, ther was a sub. The homework was WS "7.5 Intro".
On Thursday 4/24, I went over questions from the two worksheets from
when I was gone. Then we worked through sone problems and example
A on the WS "7.5 Dividing Exponents", and the HW was #2 & 4 on that WS. We'll finish it tomorrow.
On Friday 4/25, I went over #4d,e since those were a bit different and
were missed most. Then we did Example B, 3, 5 together in class.
Homework was WS "Review Day 1" - review of all the exponent properties learned so far.
On Monday 4/28, I checked homework and then went over some of the common mistakes. Then we did #1-3 on the WS "Word Problems Part 2". The rest of the WS is homework.
On Tuesday 4/29, I checked the homework and went over #7 together in
class. Then we worked through the Investigation on WS "7.6 Investigation" and did the table on page 3 also. Then the homework is to complete #1, 4, 5, 7 on the WS for tomorrow.
On Wednesday 4/30, I checked the homework, and we went over together
many of the homework problems. Then we completed the WS together!
The homework was to do WS "7.6 Zero and Negative Exponents" #2-4, 7-10.
On Thursday 5/1, I chcked homework and we did a lot of them together.
Then we discussed #1cd, 10d. Homework is to finish the WS
"7.6 Zero and Negative Exponents" #1, 5, 6, 11, 12 (in other words -
all problems on the sheet must be complete.).
On Friday 5/2, I checked homework and we went over MANY in class. The homework is WS "7.7 Fitting Exponential Models to Data" Exverything BUT the Example on the front.
On Monday 5/5, I checked homework and then we worked through some problems on WS "Review for Test". The rest of the worksheet was homework.
On Tuesday 5/6, I checked the homework and we went through many of the problems on WS "Practice Test". The homework was to finish it! Test Tomorrow!
On Wednesday 5/7, we tookthe test and they turned in any work to their folders.
On Thursday 5/8, we talked about what a polynomial was and the
definition of that and monomials, binomials, and trinomials. The
we went through example problems from each section of the WS "Polynomials Part 1"
On Friday 5/9, I checked the homework while they did a warm-up.
We went over a few things from the previous HW that gave students
trouble. Then we went over two methods for mulitpling two
binomials together - the box method and the FOIL method. HW is
the WS "Mulitplying Binomials".
On Monday 5/12, I checked the homework as the students worked on
the warm-up, We went over some of the common errors I saw when
checking the homework. Then on the board I showed some special
cases of binomial times binomial. I covered for a second time the
BOX method and the FOIL method for multiplying a binomal times a
binomial. The homework was the WS "Distributive Property - FOIL"
On Tuesday 5/13, I checked homework while they did a warm-up. We
went over the previous day's warm-up which lead us into what we did
today. The WS "More practice of Polynomials" works through factoring out the GCF, grouping, and more practice with FOIL & BOX methods.
Upcoming Quizzes/Tests
Test on all of Ch 7 on Wednesday 5/7. All latework is due then!
Other
Resources:
Websites:
Slopes of lines - at purplemath.com
Slope formula - with practice problems
Slope and using slope - math forum explains many slope topics
Slope-intercept form of a line - interactive activity with questions to help your understanding.
Solve for y - helps explain solving equations of lines for "y"
solve for y - power point from the internet
Systems of equations - purplemath working through all ways to solve
Solving inequalities - website with examples and proactice problems
Graphing linear inequalities - purplemath website - very good
Exponential Equations - and modeling real life situations
Exponent Rules - explanations and examples
Exponent Rules - more good explanations and examples
Scientific notation - explanation
Scientific notation practice - an applet you can do problems and check your work online!
more exponent practice - practice problems with solutions available
Negative Exponents - Explained with good examples done with tables
More Exponent Practice - Examples for all types (easy and hard ones) - go down about half way to the EXPONENTS portion.
Practice Exponent problems - with hints and solutions
Using the FOIL method - example with good pictures
Multiplying Polynomials Powerpoint - great example for each method
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