Class Calendar

Date College Algebra/Trig 2 Algebra 2
Monday, Jan. 7 No School No School
Tuesday, Jan. 8 Objective: Identify and predict end behavior of polynomials

Sec. 6.2#15-26, 53-64

 Overarching Goal: How do we model the world when a range of answers is possible?

Objectives: How do you solve and check inequalities with addition/subtraction?

Purpose of Assignment: Practice

Assignment: Page 943#1-12. Solve, graph, check boundary and true point

Places to Look for Help: Notes, text, call a friend.
Wednesday, Jan. 9 Objectives:
bulletHow can I use my understanding of end behavior to graph functions that do no fit into a standard window?
bulletWhat are two methods for evaluating polynomial functions and how do they work?

Section 6.2#33-46,81-86

 Objectives: How do you solve inequalities using multiplication/division?

Purpose of Assignment: Practice

Assignment: Section 6.2#3-26. Solve, graph, check boundary and true point

Places to Look for Help: Notes and text
Thursday, Jan. 10 Objectives: How and why do we add/subtract/multiply polynomials?

Section 6.3#62-68,all;14-52,evens

 Objectives:
  1. How do I solve multi-step inequalities?
  2. When will an inequality have no solutions or all real numbers as a solution?

Purpose of Assignment: Work slowly for accuracy.

Assignment: Section 6.3#2-28,evens

Places to Look for Help: Notes, text
Friday, Jan. 11 Objectives:
  1. Use Pascal's Triangle to investigate the binomial theorem
  2. Use formulas for multiplication of binomials with higher exponents.

Section 6.3#53-61

 Objectives:
  1. Consolidate what we learned about solving one-step inequalities
  2. Begin to learn how to translate between words and math symbols.

Purpose of Assignment: Practice translating words to math symbols.

Assignment: 2 practice sheets begun in class

Places to Look for Help: PowerPoint Notes
     
Monday, Jan. 14 Objectives:
  1. Extend some factoring formulas from quadratic equations to polynomials with higher degree.
  2. Learn the factoring formula for the sum and difference of cubes
  3. Learn to factor by grouping
  4. Solve polynomial equations by factoring

Practice 6.4B First Column

 Objectives: How do I translate basic inequalities into math symbols.

Purpose of Assignment: Practice this new skill.

Assignment: p.359#24-25; p.366#30-33; p.372#29-32

Places to Look for Help: Text, Notes, and PowerPoint Handout
Tuesday, Jan. 15 Objectives:
  1. Learn long multiplication of polynomials
  2. Apply the remainder and factor theorems to polynomial functions

Practice 6.4B Second column; Text Section 6.5 #15 - 53, first column

 Objectives:
  1. How do I translate phrases like at most and no more than into inequalities?
  2. How do I translate word problems using addition and multiplication into inequalities and solve them?

Purpose of Assignment: Learn to translate word problems

Assignment: Do the following problems on the sheets that we began in class: 6.1B#21, 23, 22; 6.2B # 8, 25, and flower beds

Places to Look for Help: This handout and today's notes.
Wednesday, Jan. 16 Objective: Use the Rational Zero Theorem to help locate rational and irrational zeros of polynomials

3rd column of 6.4B; Section 6.5#16-56,divisible by 4; Section 6.6#33 - 57, odds

 Objectives: Continue to develop verbal models and inequalities

Purpose of Assignment: Practice this skill.

Assignment: Section 6.1#31-34, 36; Section 6.2#36-37

Places to Look for Help: Text, notes
Thursday, Jan. 17   Objectives: Solve and graph compound inequalities.

Purpose of Assignment:

Assignment: No Homework

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Friday, Jan. 18 Objectives:

Quiz - Factoring and other basic skills

Learn how to develop permutations and combinations

Section 13.2(handout)Read pp851-853 and do the Guided Practice Problems and exercises 1-27, 35-38; Section 13.2 Read pp 856-857 and do the guided practice problems and exercises 1 - 19, 23 - 26.

 Objectives: Quiz - Inequalities and applications

Purpose of Assignment:

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  College Algebra/Trig 2 Algebra 2
Monday, Jan. 21  No School - Martin Luther King Day  
Tuesday, Jan. 22 Objective: Review Factoring

Section 6.4#18-66 evens

 Objectives: Learn to Solve and Graph Linear Inequalities

Purpose of Assignment: Practice

Assignment: Section 6.4#7-27, all

Places to Look for Help: Notes and Text

 
Wednesday, Jan. 23   Objectives:
bulletWhat are absolute value equations used for?
bulletHow do you solve absolute value equations

Purpose of Assignment: Practice

Assignment: Section 6.5 #12 - 31

Places to Look for Help: Text, notes
Thursday, Jan. 24 No School - Snow Day  
Friday, Jan. 25 Objectives:
bulletUse the Calc features in a graphing calculator to find local maxima, minima, and zeros
bulletFind maximum and minimum for real-life applications

Section 6.8# 14 - 34, evens

 Objectives: Understand what |x - a| = b; |x - a| < b and |x - a| > b means

Purpose of Assignment: Practice the skill needed to solve these problems

Assignment: Why Are Bacteria Bad At Math? handout

Places to Look for Help: Wednesday's Notes
  College Algebra/Trig - 2 Algebra 2
Monday, Jan. 28 Objectives:
bulletUse the Calc intersect feature in the graphing calculator to solve polynomial equations
bulletUse finite differences to find the degree of a polynomial function
bulletUse the regression feature of the graphing calculator to find a polynomial function given a table of values

Section 6.9 #24-48 evens

 Objectives:
bulletWhat do absolute value inequalities mean?
bulletHow do we solve them?

Purpose of Assignment: Practice solving absolute value inequalities

Assignment: On a new sheet of paper, rewrite (Next Step) examples 1 - 16, solve, and graph

Places to Look for Help: Notes
Tuesday, Jan. 29 Objective: Review rules of exponents

Section 6.1# 16-47

 Objectives:
bulletHow do we solve more complex absolute value equations and inequalities?
bulletHow do we model the real-world using absolute value equations/inequalities?

Purpose of Assignment: Practice solving more complex absolute value inequalities

Assignment: Section 6.6#3-20, all

Places to Look for Help: Notes, text, call a friend
Wednesday, Jan. 30 Objective: Review for exam on Friday

Assignment: Chapter 6 Test and Standardized test in textbook

 Objectives: Learn how to write and sole absolute value word problems

Purpose of Assignment: Practice

Assignment: Handout: Write the absolute value equation/inequality, solve, and answer the questions

Places to Look for Help: Notes

 
Thursday, Jan. 31 Objectives: Learn to interpret rational exponents

Assignment: Section 7.1#13-52

 		 Objectives: Learn to graph inequalities on the Cartesian coordinate grid

Purpose of Assignment: Practice

Assignment: 6.7B # 1 - 21

Places to Look for Help: Notes
Friday, Feb. 1 Snow Day  
  College Algebra/Trig 2 Algebra 2
Monday, Feb. 4 Snow Day  
Tuesday, Feb. 5 Chapter 6 Exam Objectives: Learn to develop and solve word problems using inequalities.

Purpose of Assignment: Review

Assignment: Chapter 6 Review, pp 415-416 # 1- 19

Places to Look for Help: Notes, text
Wednesday, Feb. 6 Objectives: Learn to simplify radical expressions

Practice Handouts

 Objectives: Learn to write and solve absolute value inequalities independently.

Purpose of Assignment: Review for test

Assignment: pp. 416 - 419 #20 - 44

Places to Look for Help: Text, notes
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Monday, Feb. 11   Objectives: Learn to solve systems through graphing

Purpose of Assignment: To learn from our mistakes

Assignment: Make corrections to chapter 6 text

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Tuesday, Feb. 12   Objectives: Learn to solve systems of equations using the substitution method

Purpose of Assignment: No homework

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Wednesday, Feb. 13   Objectives: Develop proficiency in solving systems of equations using the substitution method

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Thursday, Feb. 14   Objectives: Learn to solve systems of equations using the elimination method

Purpose of Assignment: Practice this new skill

Assignment: Section 7.3#3 - 14, all; Solve and check

Places to Look for Help: Notes, text
Friday, Feb. 15   Objectives: How can we solve a system of equations using the elimination method when the variables don't easily drop out?

Purpose of Assignment: Develop accuracy using this procedure

Assignment: Section 7.4#3-17, p 454

Places to Look for Help: Notes, text (Hint: Multiply, distribute, what do you do with a minus sign?)
  College Algebra/Trig Algebra 2
Monday, Feb. 18 No school Objectives:

Purpose of Assignment:

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Tuesday, Feb. 19   Objectives: Learn to model real world problems using systems of equations

Purpose of Assignment: Practice setting up and solving problems

Assignment: Complete the coin problems begun in class

Places to Look for Help: Notes
Wednesday, Feb. 20   Objectives: To courageously solve systems of equations that might require some thinking.

Purpose of Assignment:

Assignment: Section 7.3#25-33 (p 448)

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Thursday, Feb. 21   Objectives: To learn to write a system of equations from a real-life situation

Purpose of Assignment: Practice solving systems using elimination

Assignment: Solve the problems on the handout we wrote in class

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Friday, Feb. 22 Objectives: To practice setting up and solving real world problems by myself.

Purpose of Assignment: Move this skill from short-term to long-term memory

Assignment: Section 7.4#37-41,

Places to Look for Help: Notes/text
     
Monday, Feb 25 Word Problems Chapter 7 Objectives:

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Tuesday, Feb 26 Introduction to histograms and mean, median, mode

Chapter 7 test (textbook)

 Objectives: Graph systems of linear inequalities

Purpose of Assignment: Practice

Assignment: Practice 7.6A and extra graphs

Places to Look for Help: Notes
Wednesday, Feb. 27 Box Plots and Five-Number Summary

Review for Chapter 7 Test and (9.1/9.2)

 Objectives: Review for Chapter 7 Test

Purpose of Assignment:

Assignment:

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Thursday, Feb. 28 Chapter 7 Exam

Section 13.4 Compound Probabilities

 Objectives: Chapter 7 Test

Purpose of Assignment:

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Friday, Feb. 29 Exponential Growth Objectives: Explore properties of exponents

Purpose of Assignment:

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  College Algebra/Trig Algebra 2
Monday, Mar. 3 Objective:
bulletLearn to graph exponential growth and decay functions
bulletIdentify the domain and range of exponential growth and decay functions
bulletApply these functions to real-world situations

Section 8.1#34-42,evens; 43-48 all; Section 8.2#34-42, evens; 43-46,all;

 Objectives:  Apply properties of exponents

Purpose of Assignment: Accurately apply these properties

Assignment: Section 8.1 #1 - 24

Places to Look for help: Notes
 
Tuesday, Mar. 4   Objectives: Explore properties of exponents

Purpose of Assignment:

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Wednesday, Mar. 5 Section 8.4#16-64,evens;

Section 8.1#37-39;

Section 8.2#37-39

 Objectives: Explore properties of exponents

Purpose of Assignment:

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    Objectives: Explore properties of exponents

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  Section 8.5#58-72, evens; Objectives:

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  College Algebra Trig 2 Algebra 2
Monday, Mar 10 Block 2
bulletSection 8.6#26-60,evens;
bulletSection 8.1# 4-9;
bulletSection 8.2#4-9

Block 5

bulletSection 8.7 #17-39, odds
bulletSection 8.1# 4-9;
bulletSection 8.2#4-9
 Objectives:  Learn to approximate numbers using order of magnitude

Purpose of Assignment: Begin to solve problems using order of magnitude

Assignment: 8.1#54-56; 8.2#51-53

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Tuesday, Mar 11 Block 2
bulletSection 8.7 #17-39, odds
bullet8.3#67-69
bullet8.4#24-35

Block 5

bulletSection 9.4#17-49,odd
bullet8.3#67-69
bullet8.4#24-35
 Objectives: Use properties of exponents to convert numbers to scientific notation and perform computations

Purpose of Assignment: Practice performing operations using scientific notation

Assignment: Section 8.4# 4 - 46, evens

Places to Look for Help: notes, text
     
     
     
     
Monday, Mar 17   Objectives:

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Wednesday, Mar 19 Objectives:
bulletFind inverse trig functions
bulletSolve word problems

Complete problems in the packet; 13.1C; Extra Packet 1 - 17 and circled word problems

 Objectives: Learn to multiply polynomials

Purpose of Assignment: Practice

Assignment: Section 9.2#3-8,17-25,37-39

Places to Look for Help: Notes, Text
Thursday, Mar 20 Objective: Learn to connect radian measure with degree measure and distance

Homework:  Midterm review - due the Friday we return from break.

 Objectives:
bulletLearn to Use the FOIL method to multiply binomials
bulletConnect FOIL to area

Purpose of Assignment:

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Friday, Mar 21 Spring Break Begins Spring Break Begins
  College Algebra/Trig Algebra 2
Monday, Mar 31 Objective: Investigate angle or rotation and reference angle

Section 13.2#26-82, evens

 

 Objective: Correct test problems, study for midterm

Purpose of Assignment: Review for Midterm

p945#1-55,odds; p 525#38; p 517 # 57
Tuesday, April 1 Objective:

Continue our investigation of angles of rotation and reference angles

 Objective: Connect multiplication of polynomials with Area Model

No Homework
Wednesday, April 2 Objective:
bulletUse our understanding of reference angles and special triangles.
bulletIntroduction to the Unit Circle

Complete the trig chart for special angles

 Objective: Derive (using algeblocks) and use the sum and difference multiplication formula

Section 9.3 (p. 572) # 3 - 8
Thursday, April 3 Objective: Find trig functions for any angle.

Section 13.3#24 - 68, evens

 Derive and use the square of binomial formulas

Complete the packet begun in class
Friday, April 4 Objective: Use the Law of Sines and the Area formula based on this law

Section 13.5 #38-52, e; 13.4# 26-30, e

Remediation Packet due

Midterm Review Packet is due

 Objective: Learn to factor out the greatest common monomial

Section 9.4#17 - 22, all

Section 9.3# 24 - 34, evens
  College Algebra/Trig Algebra 2
Monday, April 7 Objective: Use the law of cosines and Heron's Formula

Section 13. 6#16 - 52, evens

 Objectives
bulletLearn why we factor
bulletUse factoring and the zero product theorem to solve equations

Section 9.4 (p. 578) # 27 - 38, all. Check your answers
Tuesday, April 8 Objectives:
bulletInvestigate the ambiguous case using the Law of Sines
bulletDetermine when to apply the various formulas
  
Wednesday, April 9 Review Chapter 13 and Midpoint/Distance Formulas  
Thursday, April 10    
Friday, April 11 Remediation Packet Due

Midterm

 

  
  College Algebra/Trig 2 Algebra 2
Monday, April 14 Circles

Section 10.3 #20 -36, evens; 48 - 78, evens

 Learn to factor using UNFOIL : x2 + bx + c

Section 9.5#3 - 17, all
Tuesday, April 15 Parabolas

Section 10.2#16-76,evens

 Review multiplication and factoring and solving 2nd degree equations by factoring

p. 946#1 - 36, all
Wednesday, April 16 Ellipses 10.4#18-68,evens Pre-Test Multiplication and Factoring
Thursday, April 17 Hyperbolas 10.5#16-62, evens Freshmen Career Day on Wheels Field Trip
Friday, April 18 Conic Sections General Formula: Circles and Hyperbolas

Section 10.6#13-14,17-18,21,25,52-58 evens

 Test Corrections
  College Algebra/Trig - 2 Algebra 2
Monday,  April 21 Conic Sections General Formula: Hyperbolas and Parabolas Factoring ax2 + bx + c
Tuesday, April 22 Word Problems - Disseminate Extra Credit Project

Graphing Art Project and Rubric

Sample Art Project

 Combining Factoring Methods
Wednesday, April 23 ACT Review All factoring methods and combining methods
Thursday, April 24 WorkKeys Tests
Friday, April 26 Work on Extra Credit Graphing Project Midterm
  College Algebra/Trig - 2 Algebra 2
Monday, April 29    
Tuesday, April 30 Graphing Art Project is due: