posted Jun 9, 2014, 11:19 AM by Jonathan Rothman
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Monday, June 9 - Regents Review Day 3 & Mini-Lesson: Euler's Number & the Natural Log - LO: We will review last Tuesday's Mock Regents.
- Essential Question: What is the base of the Natural Log?
- Today's Handout: e and the natural Log
- Homework: DeltaMath
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posted Jun 2, 2014, 6:12 PM by Jonathan Rothman
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Friday, June 6 - Review Day 2 & Mini-Lesson: Correlation & Regression - LO: We will review our Mock Regents.
- Essential Question: Do we know how much we don't know?
- Mini-lesson: Correlation & Regression
- Homework: DeltaMath
- Next Monday's Quiz options: Correlation & Regression, Graphs of Sinusoidal Functions
Wednesday, June 4 - Review Day 1 & Mini-lesson: Combinations & Permutations - LO: We will review Tuesday’s mock Regents.
- Essential Question: When should we use combinations and when should we use permutations to determine the total number of ways that something can happen?
- Today's Handout: Combinations & Permutations
- Homework: Complete the Handout
- DeltaMath - on Today's Regents review topics: Factor by Grouping, Difference of Squares, Solve Reciprocal Trig Functions.
8th Period Topic: - LO: YWBAT to determine how many triangles are possible given 2 sides and one angle..
- Essential Question: What arrangement of 2 sides and 1 angle gives rise to the ‘ambiguous case’?
- Handout: Ambiguous Case
Tuesday, June 3 - Mock Regents! 1 - 4 pm
Monday, June 2 - graphs of Sinusoidal Functions - Learning Objective: YWBAT write the equation given the graph of a sine or cosine function.
- Essential Question: How is the unit circle related to the graphs of the trig functions?
- Today's Handouts: Graphs of Sine and Cosine
- Homework: Complete the handout
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posted May 28, 2014, 4:58 AM by Jonathan Rothman
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updated May 31, 2014, 4:06 PM
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Saturday Class - Sequences, Series, and Summation Part 1: Arithmetic & Geometric Sequences
Friday, may 30 - Difference/Sum Formulas & Double Angle Formulas
Thursday, May 29 - Trig Equations with Identities - LO: You will be able to use Trig Identities to solve trig equations.
- Essential Question: How many trig identities do we have to memorize and how many are we given?
- Today's Handout: Pythagorean Quadratic Trig & Graphing Sine & Cosine
- Homework: Complete the Handout
Wednesday, May 28 - Quadratic Trig Equations - LO: You will be able to solve quadratic trigonometric equations.
- Essential Question: What do we want to “get by itself” to solve trig equations?
- Today's Handout: Quadratic Trig Equations
- Homework: Complete the handout
LearnZillion Video: Recursive Sequences
Tuesday, May 27 - Linear Trig Equations - LO: You will be able to solve trigonometric equations.
- Essential Question: How can the unit circle help us solve trig equations?
- Today's Handout: Linear Trig Equations
- Homework: Complete Today's Handout
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posted May 19, 2014, 5:05 AM by Jonathan Rothman
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Saturday, May 24 - Standard Deviation & the Standard Normal Curve - LO: Given a set of observations, YWBAT determine the standard deviation of that data set.
- Essential Question: What does the standard deviation tell us about a data set?
- Handouts: Standard Deviation & Standard Normal Curve
LearnZillion Videos:
Thursday, May 22 - Reference Angles & Cofunctions - LO You will use reference angles to create equivalent trig functions with acute angles.
- Essential Question Why would we need to create equivalent acute trig functions?
- Handouts: Reference Angles & Cofunctions
Wednesday, May 21 - Signs of Trig Functions - LO: You will be able to determine which quadrant the terminal side of an angle is in, given the sign (+ or -) of its trig functions.
- Essential Question: Why is it important to know the sign value of a trig function in a particular quadrant?
- Today's Handout: Signs of Trig Functions
- Homework: Complete today's handout/
Tuesday, may 20 - Putting the Unit Circle to Use - LO: You will use the unit circle to simplify trig expressions.
- Essential Question: What part of the unit circle do we refer to when we’re trying to find the angle of a trig function?
- Today's Handout: Evaluate Angles around the Unit Circle
- Homework: complete the handout
Monday, May 19 - Special Right Triangles & the Unit Circle - LO: You will use the ratios of the sides of special right triangles to fill in the points around the unit circle.
- Essential Question: How is the unit circle connected to triangles?
- Today's Handouts: Coordinates of the Unit Circle Discovery & Blank Unit Circle
- Homework: DeltaMath - Special Right Triangles, Exact value of trig functions
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posted May 13, 2014, 2:16 PM by Jonathan Rothman
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updated May 19, 2014, 5:02 AM
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Saturday, May 17 - Saturday Class: Binomial Probability - LO: You will be able to determine the likelihood of a compound event.
- Essential Question: What kinds of events have only two possible outcomes?
- Essential Question: How do words like exactly, at least, and at most change how we compute the probability of an event?
- Today's Handout: Binomial Probability
- Homework: DeltaMath
Friday, May 16 - Reciprocal Trig Functions & Identities - LO: YWBAT to determine the ratios of all six trig functions.
- Essential Question: What happens when we multiply reciprocal trig functions? OR Since when were there six trig functions?
- Today's Handouts: Reciprocal Functions
- Homework: DeltaMath - - Identifying reciprocal trig ratios, Reciprocal trig functions, Finding trig ratios.
Thursday, May 15 - Coterminal Angles & Degreesº, Minutes', Second" Wednesday, May 14 - Standard Position & Arc Length - LO: You will be able to find the length of an arc given the measure of the angle that subtends that arc.
- Essential Question: How does arc length relate to radian measure?
- Today's Handouts: Standard Position & Arc Length
- Homework: Complete Both Handouts
Tuesday, may 13 - Radians, Degrees, and "Useful" partitions of a Circle - learning Objective : You will apply radian and degree measures to break up a circle into “useful” sections.
- Essential Question: How are radians a more natural way of describing angle measure?
- Today's Handout: Circles Broken in 8ths & 12ths
- Homework: Complete today's Handout
Monday, may 12 - Introduction to Trigonometry - Learning Objective: You will be able to convert from degrees to radians (and back).
- Essential Question: What is a Radian?
- Today's Handout: Radian Measure Activity
- Homework: Complete today's Handout
- Deltamath - convert from Radians to degrees, Degrees to radians.
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posted May 5, 2014, 1:37 PM by Jonathan Rothman
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updated May 9, 2014, 1:07 PM
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Friday, May 9 - Log Equations - LO: YWBAT solve log equations.
- Essential Question: Why is there a restriction on the domain of log functions?
- Today's Handouts: Log Equations & Test 6 REview Packet
- Homework: DeltaMath
- Complete the Log Equations Worksheet
Thursday, May 8 - Properties of Logs Wednesday, May 7 - Like Bases, Introduction to Logarithms - LO: You will be able to convert from an exponential to a logarithmic equation (and back).
- Essential Question: What is the inverse of an exponential function?
- Today's handouts: Like Bases & Introduction to Logarithms
- Homework: DeltaMath
Tuesday, May 6 - Exponential Growth & Decay, Like Bases - LO: YWBAT solve exponential word problems.
- Essential Question: How can we get x by itself when x is an exponent?
- Today's Handout: Growth & Decay Word Problems 2
- Homework: DeltaMath
Monday, may 5 - Exponential Growth & Decay Word Problems - LO: You will be able to calculate the rate of growth or decay.
- Essential Question: How can we tell if we have growth or decay?
- Today's Handout: Growth & Decay Word Problems
- Homework: DeltaMath - Exponential Functions (3 Correct)
- Complete Side 1 of today's handout
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posted Apr 28, 2014, 12:56 PM by Jonathan Rothman
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updated May 2, 2014, 8:11 PM
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Friday, May 2 - Test & introduction to Exponential Decay and Growth - LO: YWBAT calculate the rate of exponential growth or decay.
- Essential Question What every day changes can be modeled by exponential growth and decay?
- Today's Handout: Exponential Growth & Decay
- Homework: DeltaMath
Thursday, May 1 - Test Review - LO: You will Review for Tomorrow's Test
- Handout: Review Sheet - worth up to 2 points on tomorrow's test
- Homework: DeltaMath
Wednesday, April 30 - Quadratic Inequalities - LO: YWBAT solve quadratic inequalities.
- Essential Question: What part of the graph paper is > the line y = 0? What part is < than the line y=0? What part is = the line y=0?
- Today's Handouts: Quadratic Inequalities INtro & Regents Questions
- Homework: complete both handouts
Tuesday, April 29 - Sum & Product of the Roots - LO: YWBAT calculate the product and the sum of the roots of a quadratic.
- Essential Question: How are the roots of a quadratic related to the coefficients and constants of its equation?
- Today's Handout: Sum & Product of the Roots
- Homework: Complete Today's Handout
Monday, April 28 - Uses of Completing the Square - LO: Given a Quadratic in standard form, YWBAT put it in vertex Form by Completing the square.
- Essential Question: Why do the solutions we get when we solve by completing the square look so similar to the ones we get when we use the quadratic formula?
- Today's Handout: Complete the Square Part 2
- Homework: Complete today's handout
- DeltaMath - Find the complete the Square Constant (3), Complete the Square (3), Vertex Form (3), Center Radius Form (3)
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posted Apr 22, 2014, 3:33 PM by Jonathan Rothman
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updated Apr 25, 2014, 2:11 PM
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Friday, April 25 - Complete the Square Part 1 - LO: YWBAT solve by completing the square.
- Essential Question: Can we solve a quadratic without setting it equal to 0?
- Today's Handouts: Exploration - Complete the Square & Complete the Square Practice
- Homework: Complete the Handouts
- DeltaMath - complete the Squared rational solutions (4), complete the Square Irrational solutions (4), Find the Complete the Square constant (2)
Thursday, April 24 - Vertex Form - LO: You will be able to graph a parabola (quickly) given its quadratic equation.
- Essential question: Where have we seen vertex form before?
- Today's Handout: Vertex Form
- Homework: Complete today's handout
- Khan Academy (Log in Through DeltaMath) - Graphing Quadratics in Vertex Form
Wednesday, April 23 - Graphing Quadratics
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posted Apr 7, 2014, 6:10 PM by Jonathan Rothman
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updated Apr 11, 2014, 4:55 PM
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Friday, April 11 - Graphing Quadratics - LO: You will be able to graph quadratics using parts of the quadratic formula.
- Essential Question: How much information does the quadratic formula contain?
- Today's Handouts: Graphing Quadratics Notesheet & Graphing Quadratics
- Homework: Complete the Graphing Quadratics Handout
- DeltaMath - Vertex & Axis of Symmetry, Discriminant and the nature of the roots, & Finding the roots from the graph
Thursday, April 10 - Quadratics Part 1, Review and Test Day
Wednesday, April 9 - The Discriminant - LO: You will be able to use the discriminant to determine the type of roots of a quadratic equation.
- Essential Question: Do we need to find the roots to determine what kind of roots a quadratic has?
- Today's Handouts: The discriminant
- Homework: Complete the handouts
- DeltaMath - Find the nature of the roots given the discriminant (timed), the discriminant (4), Nature of the roots (4)
Tuesday, April 8 - Quadratic Formula - LO: YWBAT use the quadratic formula.
- Essential Question: When do we use the quadratic formula?
- Today's Handouts: Factorable or Not Exploration & Quadratic Formula
- Homework: complete the Quadratic Formula handout
- DeltaMath - Quadratic formula
Monday, April 7 - Solving Quadratics - LO: You will be able to find the roots of a quadratic.
- Essential Question: What is the use of factoring?
- Today's handouts: Roots of a Quadratic & Solving Quadratics
- Homework: Complete both handouts
- DeltaMath - Solve Quadratics (6) and set Quadratics equal to zero.
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posted Mar 30, 2014, 9:31 PM by Jonathan Rothman
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updated Apr 7, 2014, 7:21 PM
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Friday, April 4 - difference of Squares - LO: YWBAT factor a difference of squares.
- Essential Question: Can we factor binomial quadratics that do not have perfect squares?
- Today's Handout: Difference of Squares
- Homework: DeltaMath
This Weekend's Video:
Thursday, April 3 - Factoring Trinomials - LO: You will be able to factor trinomials.
- Essential Question: What can we do to factor quadratics more quickly when a = 1?
- Today's Handout: Factoring Trinomials
- Homework: DeltaMath - Greatest common Factor (3), Factor Trinomials (4), master Product Trinomial Factoring (2)
Tonight's Video: Difference of Perfect Squares - on Educanon
Wednesday, April 2 - Factor by Grouping & the number Puzzle - LO: You will be able to factor trinomials.
- Essential Question: What can we do to factor quadratics more quickly when a = 1?
- Today's Handout: Factor by Grouping & number Puzzles
- Homework: DeltaMath
Tuesday, April 1 - Quadratics Unit Begins! Greatest Common Factor - LO: YWBAT find the greatest common factor of a polynomial.
- Essential Question: Can algebraic expressions be prime?
- Today's Handout: Greatest Common Factor
- Homework: Complete Today's Handout
- DeltaMath: GCF Level 1 (3), GCF Level 2 (3), FActor by Grouping (4)
- Reminder: Quiz tomorrow! 9am! Imaginary & Complex Numbers.
Monday, March 31 - Rationalizing Complex Numbers - LO: YWBAT rationalize complex numbers.
- Essential Question: How many numbers can be considered complex?
- Today's Handouts: Rationalize Complex Numbers & Complex Numbers Quiz Review (quiz on Wednesday!)
- Homework: Complete the Rationalize complex numbers handout
- Deltamath - Add and subtract imaginary numbers (3), Rationalize complex numbers (4)
- Remember! Due Tomorrow! Regents Packet 1! Download the Instructions Here and the Packet Here.
Educanon.com Video: Greatest Common Factor (access the lesson by going to Educanon.com and signing in with your Google Account).
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