9/30 Monday

Welcome back and goodbye September.  here is the day's hw:


Alg II h - p. 361 #37. 36. 17. 55.63   test on the 8th of Oct

Alg I - p.96   textbook   #42-49, 52, 53

pre calc - pg. 71  9-11 text   test on the 10th of Oct

9/27 weekend

did anyone go to Glow?  Great night of public art.  My friends did the Glow Dome and it was a great hit.

Alg II H -  hw but all students should review the new concepts we have been learning in ch 5

alg I -  no hw

pre calc -  no hw but we are going to finish 2-4 on Monday so look it over a few times if you have been struggling with it.  Great class on Friday!


Dodgers playoffs start this week.  If you bleed blue, work hard before they start!

Wed 9/25

I am out at a training on Thursday but will return on Friday.

alg II h - quiz still Friday.  Material is on 5-5 and 5-9.   Probably just 3 problems.  Hw for Wed is:  p. 386 6-30 evens  Hw for Thursday   p. 387 #55, 56, 61-62, 70-72, 118.

Alg I - text p. 95 #1-11

pre calc -  no hw  finish 2.4 on Thursday while I am out

9/24 Tuesday

Alg II H -  pg. 354-5 text   #37-39, 46-48, 56-61, 76-78  Quiz Friday on 5-5 and 5-9

Alg I - wb pg. 8 #1-3, 15, 16

pre calc,  - text pg. 22, 28, 29, 34, 38

9/23

I am out at a training on Thursday so make sure we stay focused when I am here.


alg II - pg. 354-5 text   2-14, 82-83     Test on 10/8 on units 5-4, 5-5, 5-6, 5-8, 5-9

alg i -  finish classwork and pg. 8 wb #7-14

pre calc - quiz wed on 2-1 to 2-3   text p. 66-67 #14, 16, 17, 23, 33

9/20-9/22 Mater Dei No Way!

Hope to see you all at the game tonight.  Go vikings!

Alg II H - pg. 61 from the Explorations book.  We will do some of page 62 on Monday.  We plan on starting the new unit with 5-5.

Alg I  -  we will look at our chapter test and start our new unit ch 2.  There looked like a lot of less blanks.  Way to make adjustments.  Continue!

Pre Calc -  quiz on Wed.  Finish those problems from p. 67.  I believe it was 3, 5, 7 and 13.

I will be at wrestling tournament on Saturday.  Send us luck!

9/12 Thursday

I hope you are all looking forward to your weekends.  Mater Dei will be defeated by SAMOHI  ... mark my words!


Alg II h - p. 338 textbook #2-10, 71-72  Thank you to those who came to make test corrections.


Alg I - TEST   STUDY WISELY!   HW packets due Monday

Pre Calc -  No hw as the sub couldn't find the notes.  We will look at the lesson again tomorrow.

Darn those Red Sox look really good.  They're my pick for WS winners!

9/18

Welcome to Fall!



Alg II H - we will do more quadratics tomorrow in the textbook and we are also scheduled to get the explorations book as well.  We will most likely do the performance tasks for this unit.  No hw but you should still look over your notes from today.

Alg I - Everyone really needs to look over their 4-3 notes on graphing functions.    The test is now Friday so we can review more tomorrow.  The performance tasks showed people are still not clear on how to work with functions.  Review old handouts and notes,

Pre Calc - p. 61  #13,  19, 21-23.  Tomorrow we start graphing these polynomial functions.  Perhaps DJ Papas Fritaz will rock some jams for us while we grind it out.

Still no Jury Duty!!!

Alg II - I will be grading those tests until Friday most likely; if you missed the test, be prepared to make it up upon return.  POUs were mostly turned in but there are still a few more out there - get them in!

Alg I - 1-15 from the textbook in chapter 4-5.  See you notes to help you with the problems.  Performance task tomorrow!!   Nice work to the peeps who played Tiger Martian Salesman.

Pre Calc - p. 61- #3-9   More synthetic division tomorrow.

Enjoy your late starts!

No Jury duty yet!

I will be in tomorrow!

Alg II -  really study both parent function transformations and piecewise functions.  Many recent warm ups have pwfunctions and the handout that had you putting words into equations, equations into words, graphs into equations will also be a big help.
POUs due tomorrow, too.

ALg I - If you did not turn in hw packet 3 today, that should be a big priority.  Many of you made big improvements in hw completion and your grade is going up.  Others need to make this move to see better grades.

Pre calc -  congrats on such good test scores.  Unit 2 here we go!


Whether I am out for 1 day or 1 month, the math courses continue!  So be very responsible if I have to leave to do my civic duty.

9/13 weekend

Happy Holidays to all that are observing Rosh Hashana.  I hope to be in on Monday but jury duty is possible!   I will be in to pick up work after school.

Alg II h - Test Tuesday.  The warm up is very helpful for Monday.  It is already on the board in case a sub comes for me.  Help each other on the transformation handout if there are questions.  Practice old warm ups and feel free to use the whiteboards.
POU is also due on Tuesday.

Alg I -  You have the handout for Monday.  Work on that in case there is a sub.  Check out graphingstories.com for some cool videos that will help with this unit.

pre calc -  No hw.  You had your test and all of you worked very hard.

I am totally knackered after seeing Jimmy Cliff last night at the Pier.  Let's all catch up on the sleep and have some fun doing something this weekend. next week could be busy!

9/11 -9/13

I will be out on Thursday due to a training but the show must go on without me so do your best with the sub.  There is also a chance that I will have jury duty next week so there could be several subs coming in the near future.  Let's all send out good vibes that I will be released from that duty.

Alg II h- You were given the handout today on ID transformations.  That handout will be turned in at the end of class on Thursday.  Period 1, I also forgot to collect the piecewise/ transform. handout.  You will also give that to the sub at the end of class.
All students will take the POU from the sub and work on that if you complete the ID handout and this will be turned in on tuesday - which is the day of the test.  On Friday, we will start to look at the hardest  problems from the unit and Monday we will review for the test.
Test:  heavy of function transformation, a couple piecewise functions, domain and range

Alg I - You will do more work in partners on Friday.  Tonight, you should finish up to 3D on the handout that you worked on today in class.  Quiz tomorrow as well.  Only 4-5 problems and very similar to the warmups.

pre calc - study your review sheet.  With luck, I can stop in around 3 pm and answer any questions.  Test on Friday:  2-3 imaginary number problems, 3-4 solving quadratics, 1 writing quadratics from points, 1-2 parallel/ perp. slope with midpoint, 1 graph quadratic

Any students who will be celebrating the holiday this weekend and feels overloaded please talk to me and your other teachers about being flexible and open to alternatives.
See you soon.

9/9/13

Sorry for the late post.   I didn't get home until 6 pm and it was family time until right now 8:15 pm.

Alg II h - Handout on piecewise functions.  The problems were different for periods one and two but essentially it was 3 of the graphing problems and 2-3 of the writing equations problems.
Do not leave any blanks but make your very best effort!

Alg I -  pg. 23 in your workbook.  same type of problems that we have been working on in class for 2 days.  Try each problem to the best of your ability.

pre calc -  Short time this week so start preparing now for the test on Friday
quadratic solutions, quad graphs, simplifying imaginary numbers, solving systems, working with linear equations that are parallel or perp to another line.

I think I posted a web link to a pretty good transformations video for Alg II; check it out if you have time.
Alg I can check videos on the online textbook.
Pre calc look at problems from the quiz last week.

Enjoy something tomorrow that is not school related as well!

transformations video for alg II h

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcnN5SFXZhU


Here is a pretty good video on transformations that should match our unit notes pretty well.

don't forget that the online textbook has a graphing calculator for you to use under resources!

9/6 weekend

alg II h - p. 666 #1-6 text   the class does not seem to know the parent functions very well if today's game of function celebrity is an indication.  I would start REALLY studying and memorizing the parent functions and what transformations look like.  Next week will be very challenging.  Test on Thursday has now been moved to Tuesday 9/17.

Also, check out the online textbook to use a really good graphing calculator under resources.

alg I - p. 209 #3-12, 24 in text
quiz on Thursday  and we will turn in on Monday all hw from this week!

pre calc  finish 1-10 on pge 35 in text   written exercises always


Look of starts and stops this year, but we will not have another day off of school until November so I anticipate we will find our groove in the next week or so.  In the meanwhile, study and reflect what we have been workin on in class.
A la Lunes.

l'chaim (I think that's spelled right)

Enjoy the holidays and have fun either way!

Alg II -  p. 70 2-9, 47-49, 32-37   some of you looked very at home with your function aerobics
If you don't have a graphing calculator, don't forget about meta-calculator.com.  For those with DIM errors, I found this online:  http://www.fixya.com/support/t131073-invalid_dim.  

For 32-37, think about if you can have negative area, volume, distance,etc.  That could affect your domain and range.


alg I -  no hw just make sure you are caught up on the handouts and book work

pre calc - p. 28 1-6

Everyone, make sure you are checking Illuminate; all scores are updated and current.

If you were one of the billion and one surfers in the water this morning, I hope you did better than I did.  I am off to see "We're the Millers."  Hope it is good.

Easy week.  Enjoy them when they come.

9/3 scorcher

Sorry about the hot classroom.  I have reported the high temperatures and we shall see where that takes us.  Great job considering the heat to all classes.

ALG /ii - h - finish the notes on parent functions and we will work on ch 1-9 throughout the whole class tomorrow.

Alg I = p. 203 10-16

pre calc - hydrate with appropriate beverages.  I am a quart low myself.