tuesday 5/31

Heading in the home stretch!


People are so funny...they keep asking if there is a review guide.  I wish them well.

alg II HP - today we reviewed the trig part of the final.  it will most likely determine your grade on the final and your success in pre-calc and calc.  Tomorrow is rational functions.


alg I P - today we did a task on rockets and several problems on systems and sci notation.  

friday 5/27

alg II HP- we took our final quiz of our final unit!  enjoy the weekend and we will start reviewing next week.


alg I p -  we turned in our rocket math, finished the grid assignment and played the quad game to get ready for our final.  Enjoy your weekend and any recent missing work from the last few weeks cannot be turned in later than Tuesday.

alg II Hp final review

This year's final looks easier than in years past due to the new book but it is still fairly comprehensive.


There is one section of 10 MC questions that will be on logarithms and rational functions.  These will be worth less than the free response but will be scored as all or half.

The other section is free response and is completely on trigonometry.  Your previous tests/ perf tasks would be a great asset to study from.



Trig:  2 proving identities, 2 right triangle applications, 3 unit circle, 2 equations to solve, 2 graphs
p. 492  30--33, 37-39,60, 61
p. 482  25-30, 43, 46, 48
p. 474 #13-18
p.  467  45, 47, 49, 50
for identities and trig equations, there isn't enough in the book so consult the unit test and problems that we did in class

rational:   2 d=rt applications (air currents, cleaning with a friend, river currents), 1-2 solving, 1-2 graphing; see the old test or perf.task.

solving:  p. 396   20-30, 33,34   though check out your perf task for the applications
for graphing p. 371  #25-28, but these are pretty simple, better look at your unit test again to see problems that involve a hole or more than one vertical asymptote

logs:   2-3 solving log equations, 2-3 solving exponential equations, 1 application with e (natural base)

p. 316  #69
know the log properties in chapter 6.5 to help you solve
p.  338  #7-12, 22-28, 63, 67-70
some of the exponential equations are not in the book, like the one that turns into a quadratic and the China vs India problem but they should be on the unit test.  See below.

4(7)^x = 9(2)^x

9^x + 3(3)^x = 28

alg I final review

There are 2 parts of the final; a mult. choice and a free response.
The free response has 7 questions but is weighted more.  There are problems on:  rockets, graphing a quad, number of boxes in a figure, finding the distance between a rectangle in a rectangle, fencing in animals, solving a non-linear system and comparing a linear vs exponential.

The MC has problems on;  solving a quad, finding vertex, using scientific notation,solving linear systems and writing an equation from solutions.

here are some pages in the book you can check out:\
p. 477 #1
p. 542 #2,4,5
p. 586 #3-4
p. 587 #1, 5
p. 642 #10
p.  709 #1
p. 715 #11
p. 704 #1-5, 12-15, 22
p. 719 #1-4

look at all those tasks where we solve for the number of boxes
the concept connection from 5/18
the perf task from 5/20

kind of hard to find the graphing problems in the text so I would try to graph these: (x^2 is x "squared)

y= x^2 - 4x +6
y = x^2 +7x +10
y= 4(2)^x

There are not good examples of the systems on the test in the book so look at these 2

1.   y = 4x-7   and 2x +2y = 16

2.  y = x^2 - 5   and y = 0.5x

thursday 5/27

alg II HP-  today we worked on quiz prep.  The quiz is mostly using geometric finite sequence and series though there is 1 that is geometric infinite series.  being able to read summation notation is necessary.



alg I p - today we were on the field doing stomp rockets for periods 4 and 5.  Make sure you turn in your calculations for the initial velocity.  Last date to turn in missing work is next Tuesday 5/31/16.

wednesday 5/25

alg II HP - Today we did some moree problems from 8.3/8.4   p. 440 #29,31.  We also looked at the recursive equations again (not on quiz) and finished the class with some coding exercises.


alg I P - we reviewed the test from Tuesday and then we had a grid task to finish the class.

tuesday 5/24

alg II Hp -  today we reviewed the hw and tried a few applications from the book.   p.  416 #61 and p. 432 #63.  no hw.
quiz friday-   need to know the formulas for finite and infinite geom. sum; how to read a summation notation, know how to right a rule for a geom sequence.


alg I p - today was our test for the quadratics unit.   no hw.

Monday 5/23

alg II Hp-  Today we did another sequence from a table;  - it was a cubic model, Quiz is now on friday.   We then did 27-28 on page 414 and then got into groups and worked on 31-45 odds and 54,55 for hw


alg I P -   tomorrow is your quadratic test.  Today we reviewed as well went over the perf task.  Those problems on the perf task you will see again at some time!  Study and the review guide on a previous post is a good place to start.

Friday 5/20

alg II  HP =   today we did more work on sequences and series.   Mostly, we worked on infinite series but we also did writing equations from a seqence


alg I P -  perf task today!   hope you were there.   study for your test next Tuesday as well.

thursday 5/19

alg II Hp -  today we finished 8.3 geom sequences ( as well as look at a quad. sequence) and took notes on 8.4  sum of an infinite sequence    Oh, almost forgot, we also learned the summation notation and did 47-49 in 8.3.    no hw


alg I P - today we did our final coordinate plane boogie, did another task on sequence of figures, and finished class with the concept connection.

wed 5/18

alg II Hp -- today we had a lot of fun!   tonight's hw p,  431  #42-46 evens, 60,61


alg I p -  ok yesterday we did not have time for the concept connection so today we will do it, p. 566 in Holt book.   we also had a warm up and a talking circle.

alg I quadratics review guide

You have your test on Tuesday on solving quadratics.  here is what is on it.



5 - solving a quadratic equation- some are not factorable which means you need to know the quad. formula.

2- writing quadratic equations from solutions

1 - graphing a quadratic

1- problem about rockets (top height, time in the air, etc)

1- problem on finding the number of boxes in the 10th and 100th figure of a sequence



here are some pages in the book you can check out:
p.  709 #1
p. 715 #11
p. 704 #1-5, 12-15

look at all those tasks where we solve for the number of boxes
the concept connection from 5/18
the perf from 5/20
kind of hard to find the graphing problems in the text so I would try to graph these:

y= x^2 - 4x +6
y = x^2 +7x +10

tuesday 5/17

kooky morning

alg II Hp-  1rst period took the stats test but period 2 will do it tomorrow     instead 2nd worked on pg  430  #5-7, 15-17, 31  in text


alg I p -  today we did holt p. 604 #77 since we didn't get to it yesterday;  we also had a kahoot and then started the hw   p.  749  #11-14

5/16 monday

alg II Hp  -  today we went over the perf task and then prepared for the test tomorrow.  If anyone took a calculator, return it at once.  I may not let anyone use them if I don't get them back.




alg I p -   Today we finally did our tough task, hope it went well.   Then we did more graphing work in the Holt book p.   607 #14 and p. 604 #77.
The hw, on graphing,  is the CME book p. 737  #1-3

alg II HP Final Review guide

How do you like these apples?   3 weeks in ad-vance!

This year's final looks easier than in years past due to the new book but it is still fairly comprehensive.


There is one section of 10 MC questions that will be on logarithms and rational functions.  These will be worth less than the free response but will be scored as all or nothing.

The other section is free response and is currently on trigonometry though a few problems from our last unit of sequences could make it onto the final depending on how that goes.  Your previous tests/ perf tasks would be a great asset to study from.



Trig:  2 proving identities, 2 right triangle applications, 3 unit circle, 2 equations to solve, 2 graphs
p. 492  30--33, 37-39,60, 61
p. 482  25-30, 43, 46, 48
p. 474 #13-18
p.  467  45, 47, 49, 50
for identities and trig equations, there isn't enough in the book so consult the unit test and problems that we did in class

rational:   2 d=rt applications (air currents, cleaning with a friend, river currents), 1-2 solving, 1-2 graphing

solving:  p. 396   20-30, 33,34   though check out your perf task for the applications
for graphing p. 371  #25-28, but these are pretty simple, better look at your unit test again to see problems that involve a hole or more than one vertical asymptote

logs:   2-3 solving log equations, 2-3 solving exponential equations, 1 application with e (natural base)

p. 316  #69
know the log properties in chapter 6.5 to help you solve
p.  338  #7-12, 22-28, 63, 67-70
some of the exponential equations are not in the book, like the one that turns into a quadratic and the China vs India problem but they should be on the unit test.  See below.

4(7)^x = 9(2)^x

9^x + 3(3)^x = 28


Series/ sequences:  ??

friDAY 5/13

alg II Hp -  today we did our final performance task!  Nice job!!


alg i p-    today we did the hard task and then worked on our Desmos art.

thursday 5/12

alg II Hp - Today we did more box n whisker comparison, then worked on resampling a small sample to see if treatment produced significant results.  The book has what we did in the reading section of 11.6.


alg Ip -   Today we did another pattern task, then finished the notes on graphing and then used the Holt book for practice  p. 563  #8-14 evens

8.  f(x) = -4x^2 + 12x - 5
10.  y-7x^2 -14x= 3
12.  y-1 = 4x^2 + 8x
14 is a word problem

stat review guide

There are 8 problems on our stat test.  Not too much calculation, more analysis.


make sure you can tell the difference between an experiment, survey and ob study

make sure you can construct a survey without bias or point out what makes a survey biased

make sure you can take a data set and make either a bell curve or box n whiskers:  calculators encouraged

make sure you can find the z score for a number if you have mean and stand. dev.


know the 68-95-99.7 rule and how to find probabilities on a normal curve

make sure you can compare two data sets and come up with a statistic that says which group did better


I think the best things to look back on are the situational work we did in class but there are some problems that I found in the book.

p. 600 all

p. 602 # 29, 33

p. 614  any or all

p. 615 #15-23 odd, 33, 40

p. 623 any or all

p. 624 #12-14, 16

wed 5/11

alg II Hp -  Today we reviewed the hw and then worked in groups on the concepts:  bell curves, outliers, sample techniques, critiquing samplings, critiquing studies and experiments, IDing studies vs. experiements.  Test next Tuesday.


alg I P -  Today we did another task and another application.,  We then got notes on graphing a quadratic.  Tonight's hw is from the Holt book p. 563 #8-14 evens.

here are 8-12    each one needs to be graphed

tuesday 5/10

alg II Hp-  today we DID get notes to box n whiskers and then practiced making them and providing analysis using the graphing calculators.  WE reviewed the hw and then did 12-14 on p. 624


alg I p -  today we plan to do ANOTHER task on patterns, review the hw, practice on whiteboards, tackle an application problem and then the hw is p. 726 #13

monday 5/9

alg II Hp -  Today we looked at misleading statistics and found a better way to phrase/ display them; then we got the final notes of the unit (end of 11.3/ 11.4) and then worked on p. 623  #1-10


alg I p -  Today, we turned in last week's hw; did a task on common core patterns.  Lastly, we worked on area and perimeter on p. 719 #1-4 and p. 720 #10-11

friday 5/6

alg II hp -  Today we worked in groups of 4 doing stat activities -  making histograms using graphing calc.s, sampling techniques, survey questions, etc)   no hw



alg I p -   today we did another task and then took our quiz on solving quadratics; no hw

thurs 5/5

alg II HP -   Today we did some more calculator work in period 1, both classes reviewed the hw, then did 13-18 in 11.2.  We also got notes on 11.3 and period 2 did 5-12 in section 11.3


alg I P -  today we did a common core task with linear patterns; then we did whiteboards and finished with p. 715 # 11a-e

wed 5/4

alg II hp -  today we finished 11.1 by doing #25,26,29.  Then we learned how to use the graphing calculator to make histograms and box and whiskers  Hw is to read 11.2 (skim) then do #5-10


alg I p - Today we reviewed #12 from the hw, then we did a Kahoot.it on factors and solving quadratics, then we coded on Hour of Code.  hw is p. 714 #1abc

tuesday 5/3

alg II Hp -  today we went over our tests and last night's hw as well.  We took a few more notes on 11.1 and then worked on p. 600 #13-19



alg I p - today we worked on a system of equations problem that involved sea mines and battleships.  We then worked on p. 710  #4,6,12

monday 5/2

alg II Hp - today we started our statistic unit.  We took notes for 11.1 and worked on p. 600 #4-9.  We also did an activity (movies) that showed how random selection is better than self selection for data collection.


alg I p - Today we finished the work we started on Friday, (p. 709 #1), and today we did #2 and turned it in.  We had an activity that involved system of equations and we did whiteboard exercises on graphing and solving equations.