We have now finished 1/3 of the school year.
Southwest
We went over the homework and then took the quiz on section 4.4
Homework: enjoy the holiday
Lake Harriet
Exam day – chapter 3.
Homework: bring leftover sweet potatoes and stuffing to Mr. Towne
Archive for November, 2008
25 Nov
Day 57 – 1 Day Until Thanksgiving Break!
24 Nov
Day 56 – 2 Days Until Thanksgiving Break!
Southwest
We went over the distributive property and combining like terms some more by going over the homework from Friday and by taking a homework check in class. Then they worked on these skills some more:
Homework: worksheet
Lake Harriet
Exam on chapter 3 tomorrow. We reviewed today.
Homework: study
21 Nov
Day 55 – 3 Days Until Thanksgiving Break!
Southwest
We took our Math Fact of the Day Quiz today, then went over last night’s homework which will help them with tonight’s, which they began in class:
Homework: Section 4.4 #1, 2, 4, 5, and 9
Lake Harriet
We are reviewing for the chapter 3 exam which will be on monday.
Homework: Review worksheet “B”
20 Nov
Day 54 – 4 Days Until Thanksgiving Break!
Southwest
We moved on to section 4.4 which is writing different looking but equivalent forms of linear equations. In this section we work with the distributive property to show that a point-slope form of an equation is the same as “different-looking” slope-intercept form equation.
Homework: worksheet
Lake Harriet
We moved on to the last section of chapter 3 which [...]
19 Nov
Day 53 – 5 Days Until Thanksgiving Break!
Southwest
We continued on with point-slope form. First period did not have class because of the mayor speaking to the ninth graders. After going over the last quiz that they took in detail (I did the answers for all four versions on the board), they did problems from the book which I then gave them the [...]
18 Nov
Day 52 – 6 Days Until Thanksgiving Break!
Southwest
The students did a worksheet in class on point-slope form that was turned in to me.They’ll have more practice at home
Homework: none
Lake Harriet
We finally have arrived at the explicit form of a linear equation. The lesson is quite short, so we did lots of work in class.
Homework: Section 3.4 #1, 2, 6, 7, 10
17 Nov
Day 51 – 7 Days Until Thanksgiving Break!
Southwest
We continued going over point-slope form with this worksheet and with some extra notes. Tomorrow we will continue with the section.
Algebra 04-3 Notes
Lake Harriet
After working the entire class with the sensors on Friday, we did related bookwork today. What they didn’t finish they’ll have to take home to complete.
Homework: Section 3.3 #1, 2, 4 – [...]
14 Nov
Day 50 – 8 Days Until Thanksgiving Break!
Southwest
We did lots of graphing today in preparation for writing lines in a second way: point-slope form.
Homework: none
Lake Harriet
We worked with motion sensors in class, and that took up almost all of the time because of a code-red drill.
Homework: none
13 Nov
Day 49 – 9 Days Until Thanksgiving Break!
Southwest
Quiz today. Shortened class periods.
Homework: none
Lake Harriet
We finished section 3.2 by going over last nights homework and doing two problems in class.
Homework: none
12 Nov
Day 48 – 10 Days Until Thanksgiving Break!
Southwest
The students worked on a review worksheet for section 4.2 today. We also practiced drawing some lines of fit for “different looking” sorts of data.
For homework they had to finish the review worksheet (some finished in class) but more importantly, there is a quiz on sections 4.1 and 4.2 tomorrow.
Lake Harriet
We continued working on section [...]
