Southwest
Field Trip Day
Homework: none
Lake Harriet
I collected their quiz, then gave a brief review of yesterday’s lesson before giving them their classwork.
Homework: Finish Section 9.6 # 1 – 6, 11 – 13
Archive for May, 2009
29 May
Day 164 – 8 Days Until Summer Vacation!
28 May
Day 163 – 9 Days Until Summer Vacation!
Southwest
We went over the homework from 9.6 (questions 1-5), then the students did some classwork on the three forms of a quadratic equation.
Homework: none
Lake Harriet
We began section 9.6 on completing the square.
Homework: They took home the quiz to do there. They’ll have to bring it back, completed, tomorrow.
27 May
Day 162 – 10 Days Until Summer Vacation!
Southwest
For those students that did not have math class yesterday…..
We began section 9.6 with a long lesson on completing the square.
Homework: Section 9.6 (page 528) # 1 – 5
Lake Harriet
Choir Concert that began at 2:15 lasted all the way through my hour….no class again. Frustration level is high.
We began section 9.6 on completing the square. [...]
26 May
Day 161 – 11 Days Until Summer Vacation!
Southwest
We began section 9.6 with a long lesson on completing the square.
Homework: Section 9.6 (page 528) # 1 – 5 (not all students had my class today, though)
Lake Harriet
Class began 20 minutes late because their gym class went WAY over on time. Kids had to run a mile, and they didn’t do it at the [...]
22 May
Day 160 – 12 Days Until Summer Vacation!
Southwest
The students worked on a review worksheet from section 9.4. They’ll finish for homework
Homework: worksheet
Lake Harriet
The students worked more with factoring, and will do a worksheet to prepare for a quiz on Tuesday.
Homework: finish their worksheet
21 May
Day 159 – 13 Days Until Summer Vacation!
Southwest
We went over the zero-product property and factoring quadratics.
Homework: Section 9.4 # 1 – 7
Lake Harriet
No class – Dance Contest
20 May
Day 158 – 14 Days Until Summer Vacation!
Southwest
The students practiced more in class with the three different forms of a quadratic. Upon completion of each problem, they came to me to check their work.
Homework: none
Lake Harriet
We discussed factoring of quadratics and the zero-product property. They then worked out of their books
Homework: Section 9.4 #1 – 7
19 May
Day 157 – 15 Days Until Summer Vacation!
Southwest
We went over last night’s homework and then took a quiz on section 9.4
Homework: none
Lake Harriet
We went over yesterday’s homework, then we did book work on the same general material.
Homework: Section 9.4 #1 – 7 – ran out of time due to the homework check that took longer than I thought it would
18 May
Day 156 – 16 Days Until Summer Vacation!
Southwest
Today I gave the kids review on the three forms of a quadratic equation. Given an equation in factored form, we wrote the equation in vertex and general form, and then sketched the graph labelling the important points on the image. We did two together, and then they did four on their own, which I [...]
15 May
Day 155 – 17 Days Until Summer Vacation!
Southwest
We went over the homework from section 9.3, took the Math Fact of the Day quiz, then began taking notes for section 9.4.
Homework: none
Lake Harriet
We went over the homework from section 9.3, worked on section 9.4 with some problems on the board, but I didn’t get enough done to assign work for home.
Homework: none
