Thursday 9/ 28

Hey, I am out today!  At a conference and will return tomorrow. 
Sub has the work to give you.  If you missed, check in with a friend to see what you missed.
Paz.

Wednesday 9/27

alg II hp -  More practice on the graphing calc using stat plot and finding the curve of best fit.  WE also looked at the area of an mulit- animal pen.  Unfortunately, we did not finish the notes on 3.2 .  No hw.


alg II -  Hw is p. 84 #1-5  odds.  We took our quiz on 2.1/2.2. 




alg I -   We started with p. 216 #9.  After we worked on graphingstories.com putting together graphs based on situations.  We took notes on mean, median and mode.  Hw is p. 220-222 #2, 4, 6. 

tuesday 9/26

alg II hp -   We watched Emily quote the quad formula; here is the link-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1q1pPI79TY
We also reviewed the hw and did #23-24 together as a class.  For the rest of class, we did p. 100 #26-28, 31, 34, 42, 45, 58


alg II -  started with #73 on p. 63, reviewed the hw  and took 3.1 notes.  Finished class with p. 99 #2-5, 13, 15, 17


alg I -  We reviewed yesterday's handout and the test from last week.  p. 211-213 #1-3 for hw.

Monday 9/26

alg II hp -  Started the class with some time on the graphing calc, looking at p. 81 #27.  We followed it with a WODB on quad equations.  Took 3.1 notes on how to solve quadratics.  Hw is p. 99 #2-5, 14.


alg II -  Today we had a warm up on graphing quadratics (we looked rusty!).  After that, we did the 2.1/2.2 quiz in the textbook. p. 66,  #2-10 evens and #14.  Finish for hw.



alg I -   If you missed the test on Friday, you made it up today.  People got back into their groups from last Wednesday and finished the handout.  And we took a pre test on our new unit, Graphing.
no hw.

Friday 9/22

alg II hp-  We did the best we could without our computers.  We had 2 kahoots, reviewed the hw and did #10, 12 on p.80 in text.  No hw.



alg II -  We were able to review the hw as well as look at the swimmer problem on p. 62 #49




alg I -  Today was our unit test for linear equations!  No hw; monday we will finish that activity that we started on Wednesday.

Wednesday 9/20

alg II hp -  reviewed problem 5 from p. 84, took the quiz, finished with the work p. 62  #49, 51, 52.




alg II -   We did problems 25 and 26 on p. 52, and p. 54 #45 as a class.  After getting notes on 2.2, we tried p. 61 #3-5, 21`-23 as hw.





alg I -  Today we were in groups working on a math task about building functions.

alg I syllabus

Algebra I 2017-2018  - Mr. Parker and Mr. Russell    

Room: L109                 395-3204 Phone extension: 71-159

Email:        tparker@smmusd.org     Email is the best way to contact us!!

 arussell@smmusd.org

Blog: sweetmathguavas.blogspot.com –check for hw

ELECTRONICS POLICY – No PHONES/ iPODS!!

Both will be taken and given to house offices.

Please get a calculator if you need one!!  No phones can be used.

 

Beware:  Any senior missing more than 120 classes, will not be eligible to walk the stage at graduation.  This includes excused absences.

Curriculum:

Becoming the Algebra rock stars that you always dreamed of by mastering:

Solving Functions (many kinds!)      Graphing    System of Equations

***  Main Objectives -Standards of Mathematical Practice!!

·        Don’t give up without giving it your best effort

·        Be able to explain your thinking to others and understand theirs

·        Be able to apply math in real world contexts

Important: Every STEM class is built on this one!!

EXPECTATIONS:

• To be responsible for completing work.  You can always email your peers or teachers if you are absent.  Try not to be absent.
• To participate in class.  The more engaged you are in the class, the more you will learn and the easier the class will be.
• To come to class with the best attitude you can bring, and I’ll do the

same.

• Take responsibility for your actions!  You will be an adult soon!

Parents:  Check Illuminate every week with your child.  It is updated frequently.  If you don’t know the codes, contact your child’s advisor for instructions. 

RULES:

NO: walking in front of the teacher during instruction, electronic devices, cursing, eating/drinking, gum chewing, interrupting, hitting, teasing, tardiness, yelling, leaving seat, throwing things,  disruption or disrespect.

CONSEQUENCES:

Prompt, seat change, call home, send to house office, class detention, Sat. school, Suspension.

Materials for EACH class:  pencils, math notebook, a math folder or binder, calculator, workbook, and this syllabus.  BRING THEM!

Textbook:   CME Alg I with online resources

GRADING - Your scores on the following will determine grades:

                   A=90-100

Work                     25%            B=80-89

Tests/ projects                         40%                      C=70-79

Quizzes/ performance tasks     20%                      D = 60-69

Final                                        15%                      F below 60

         

                                                 

CLASSWORK AND HOMEWORK: the biggest factor in your grades!!!

There will be homework 4-5 times a week.  We will collect some of it at the end of the week, some at the end of class.  You may still turn it in the next week for 50-75% credit.  No homework can be turned in more than 1 weeks late.

***      If you are having issues, we can help you: during office hours or by emails.

OFFICE HOURS:  Lunch- M, Tu, Th.  Afterschool – Tu-Th

QUIZZES/ TESTS/ FINAL:

• We usually give 2-3 quizzes and a test a month.  In addition to these, there will be a final in January and in June.  You will take a performance task with every unit.  For these, you will work with a partner and be allowed to use your notes.
• If you miss a test, you will make it up the day you return.  Anyone who fails a test is expected to make test corrections outside of class in my room.

Assistance:

·        See your teacher during office hours.

·        Go to SAMOHI  afterschool tutoring (Tues, Thurs).

·        Look up videos on Youtube.com .  Khan Academy is good!!

·        Www.collabalgebra2018.weebly.com  Mr. Russell’s website

alg II syllabus

Algebra II  2017-2018  - Mr. Parker                 

Room L109                  395-3204 Phone extension: 71-159

Email: tparker@smmusd.org Email is the best way to contact me!!

Blog:  sweetmathguavas.blogspot.com – check for announcements or hw

ELECTRONICS POLICY – No PHONES/ iPODS!!

Both will be taken and given to house offices.

Please get a calculator if you need one!!  No phones can be used.  TIs are good.  The textbook room has them.   Desmos.com has a graphing calculator on it as well.

 

Beware:  Any senior missing more than 120 classes, will not be eligible to walk the stage at graduation.  This includes excused absences.

Curriculum:

Mastering the following and being able to apply:

Transformations            Solving Polynomials               

Rational Equations                  Radical equations                              Logarithms

Statistics                        Trigonometry                          Conic Sections    

Standards  of  Mathematical Practice

·        Solve problems without giving up

·        Be able to communicate your math ideas to others

·        Be able to solve real world problems

EXPECTATIONS:

• To be responsible for completing work and your own actions.
• Work with others.  It is part of the standards of mathematical practice to share your thought process.
• To participate in class.  The more engaged you are in the class, the more you will learn and the easier the class will be.
• Be on time!

RULES:

NO: electronic devices, cursing, eating/drinking, gum chewing, interrupting, hitting, teasing, tardiness, yelling, leaving seat, throwing things, walking in front of the teacher during instruction, disruption or disrespect.

CONSEQUENCES:

Prompt, seat change, call home, send to house office, class detention, sat school. Suspension.

Materials for EACH class:  pencils, math notebook, a math folder or binder, calculator, straight edge, graph paper, workbook and this syllabus.  BRING THEM!

Textbook:  Big Ideas Algebra 2

GRADING - Your scores on the following will determine grades:

                   A=90+

Work                                        25%                      B=80-89

Tests/ projects                         35%                      C=70-79

Quizzes/ performance tasks     20%                      D = 60-69

Final                                       20%                     F below 60

                                     

The final is usually very difficult.  Prepare for it!

Students/ Parents:  Check Illuminate every week with your child.  It is updated frequently.  If you don’t know the codes, contact your child’s advisor for instructions. 

HOMEWORK:

There will be homework 4-5 times a week. Homework will be checked randomly for completion 2-3 times a week.  Students who do hw consistently, do well in my class.  Check the blog to see which problems were assigned.

***    If you are having problems, I can help you during office hours (m, Tue, Th at lunch and Tue-Thurs after school)

 I also return emails for assistance.

QUIZZES/ TESTS/ FINAL:

·         I usually give 2-4 quizzes and a test a month.  In addition to these, there will be a final in January and in June.  Projects can be counted as tests as well. You will take a performance task with every unit.  For these, you will work with a partner and be allowed to use your notes.

·         If you miss a test, you will make it up the day you return.  Anyone who fails a test can make test corrections.

Assistance:

·        See your teacher during office hours.

·        Go to afterschool tutoring (Mon-Thurs.)  See  schedule.

HP alg II syllabus

Algebra II- HP 2017-2018  - Mr. Parker                

Room L109                  395-3204 Phone extension: 71-159

Email: tparker@smmusd.org Email is the best way to contact me!!

Blog:  sweetmathguavas.blogspot.com – videos, hw, review guides

ELECTRONICS POLICY – No PHONES/ iPODS!!

Both will be taken and given to house offices.

Please get a calculator if you need one!!  No phones can be used.  TIs and Casio are good.  I have some loaners. Desmos.com is a good online calculator.

 

OBJECTIVES:  Mastering the following and being able to apply:

Transformations            Solving quadratics and Polynomials          

Rational Equations                  Radical equations                              Logarithms

Statistics                        Trigonometry                          Conic Sections

         

***  Standards of Mathematical Practice (The REAL focus):

  Don’t give up, explain your thinking, apply math in real world contexts, using patterns

EXPECTATIONS:

• To be responsible for completing work and your own actions.
• This class is the link to calculus and is very rigorous to prepare you for it.
• To participate in class.  The more engaged you are in the class, the more you will learn and the easier the class will be.
• Be on time!

RULES:

NO:  walking in front of the teacher during instruction, eating/drinking, gum chewing, interrupting, hitting, tardiness, disruption or disrespect.

CONSEQUENCES:

Prompt, seat change, call home, send to house office, class detention, Sat school. Suspension.

Materials for EACH class:  pencils, math notebook/ folder/ binder, calculator, straight edge, graph paper and this syllabus.  BRING THEM!

Textbook:  Big Ideas Algebra 2; Ron Larson

GRADING - Your scores on the following will determine grades:

                  A=90+

Homework/ POUs                    20%                      B=80-89

Tests/ projects                         40%                      C=70-79

Quizzes/ performance tasks     20%                      D = 60-69

Final                                       20%                      F below 60          

The final is usually very difficult.  Prepare for it!

Students/ Parents:  Check Illuminate every week with your child.  It is updated frequently.  If you don’t know the codes, contact your child’s advisor for instructions. 

HOMEWORK:

There will be homework 4-5 times a week. Homework will be checked randomly for completion 2-3 times a week.  Students who do hw consistently will succeed in my class.  If you miss an assignment without a valid excuse, you can still turn it in by the end of the week for partial credit.

OFFICE HOURS:  Lunch M, Tu, Th.  After school on Tu-Th.

QUIZZES/ TESTS/ FINAL:

·        I usually give 2-4 quizzes and a test a month.  In addition to these, there will be a final in December and in June.  Projects can be counted as tests or quizzes as well. You will take a performance task with every unit.  For these, you will work with a partner and be allowed to use your notes.

·        If you miss a test, you will make it up the day you return.  Anyone who fails a test can make test corrections for up to 2 tests per semester at lunch or after school.

Assistance:

·        See your teacher at lunch.

·        Go to SAMOHI afterschool tutoring.

·        Try the Khan Academy on Youtube.com

·        Be assertive!  Ask a question in front of the class!

Tuesday 9/19

Short day due to BTSN


alg II hp -   Our quiz on 2.1-2.2 is tomorrow.  Look at p. 84 if you want to brush up.  Today we also did #86 on p. 86 and did whiteboards to find the vertex in any quad form.  No hw other than to review material.


alg II -   More factor practice and we reviewed the hw from Monday.  No hw.





alg I -   Unit test this Friday-  see the study guide!   Today we reviewed the hw from yesterday and did #5, 6 on p. 170.

alg I unit one review guide

Hi alg I classes,  Here is some information to help you with your upcoming test.


There are 10 problems on our unit test on solving equations.

4 - solving an equation (some have variables on the same side, some on both sides.   be prepared to           have equations that have no solutions or all real numbers as solutions).

1- Which One Doesn't Belong - be prepared to chose one and give a justification
3- word problems that you can solve algebraically or with a table
1- linear inequality - don't forget the number line and shading!
1 - triangle sum problem - all triangles add up to 180 degrees



We have problems that we did for hw that you can review or you can try these from our book:

p.  142 #21a, 22a
p. 150 #6
p. 152 #19
p. 165 #6-9
p. 171  #13
p. 185 #12

Monday 9/18

alg II hp -  Went over problem #33 from lst week and then took notes on 2.2 graphing quadratics  Hw is p. 61  #5-7, 22,23,33,38



alg II -  This class started with a warm up on factoring and then worked in groups of p. 52 #13-16, 27-29, 32-33.  If you did not finish in class then finish for hw.




alg I -   We played Loteria to practice solving equations  p. 185  #11-14

Friday 9/15

alg II hp -  Today we reviewed hw;did whiteboards on transforming quadratics, did #45, 46 in 2.1. Extra cred for riddle busters


alg II -  This class did whiteboards on transforming quadratics and practiced factoring.


alg I -   Today we did warm up #4, practiced solving linear equations and did a kahoot.  Work for the week was turned in (4 items).

Thursday 9/14

alg II hp - Today we reviewed the factoring problems from Wed. and took our pre test for the quad unit.  Finally, we did a little more practice on quad transformations.


alg II - Fun riddle times and also some notes and practice on factoring.



alg I -   Today we reviewed the quizzes from Wednesday, did a quick puzzle and then did p. 100 #1-4 in the Holt book.

Wednesday 9/13

alg II hp -  Today there was more graph calc practice and a lot more factoring practice.  Hw is pg.  52  #3, 10, 21, 22 in text.



alg II -  We reviewed our unit quiz and then took the pre test for our new unit, quadratics.


alg I -  Today we practiced more linear inequalities, 3 problems in Holt book due Friday,  and then took our quiz on solving linear equations.

Tuesday 9/12

alg II hp-  Today we practiced on the graphing calc and tried our hand at piecewise functions.  Today and tomorrow we are reviewing how to factor polynomials.  Hw was to try to factor the 5-6 poly.s that I wrote on the board.


alg II -  Today was the quiz to end unit 1.  No hw, we start our new unit tomorrow!


alg I -     We tried another routine of the "walkabout."  7 problems around the room due on Friday.  We also had some notes on linear inequalities.  No outside work tonight.

alg II quadratic unit

Our next unit is quadratics/ polynomial functions.  It should be about 4 weeks.
Here is the breakdown:  2.1, 2.2, 2.4, 3.1-3.5.

I would expect 2 quizzes, a performance task and a unit test.

The big points are:  solving a quad. for both real and imaginary solutions, identifying key parts of a quad graph, solving a non-linear system.



Here are some videos to help you with your factoring, which is very important in alg II and beyond.
Please do the work necessary to make sure you will not fall behind.


Dr Burger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMEau9OE6Bs&t=84s


Math BFF
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKyUuvulIbk&t=149s


Sal from Khan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMoqg_s4Dl4

Monday 9/11

alg II HP -  everyone was here today so I assume that everyone now has a graphing calculator, and has seen how to reset the calc and type in an equation and solve.  We also took notes on piecewise functions and will practice them tomorrow.  No hw.





alg II -   We did a unit review and we will have our quiz tomorrow.  Three students were missing so check out p. 20 to see more review problems.  Most textbooks have the answers to half the problems in the back of the book.


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alg I -  We tried our first Which One Doesn't Belong, then saw how to solve the unknown number algebraically.  Lastly, we worked on a Secret Code and problems 9 and 10 on pg 161

Friday 9/8

alg II Hp -  end of the unit assessment.  We start quadratics next week!




alg II -  We turned in our handouts.  Finished in groups working on an application of transformations.





alg I -   We turned in our work for the week, had a Kahoot and then did whiteboards.

Thursday 9/7

alg II hp -   First performance task- they only get easier.  Missed you, Lusa!   Quiz tomorrow!





alg II -   A lot of whiteboard exercises on both transforming functions and domain and range.  Hw was to do at least 8 problem on the handout of transformations of f(x).
Quiz next Tuesday!



alg I -  We tried an Illustrative Math problem and did problems #1, 4 on pg. 159.  Work due tomorrow and quiz next Tuesday.

Wednesday 9/6

alg II Hp -  Final review for the unit, we were able to go over systems, transforming a situation, and domain and range.  Perf task tomorrow and unit quiz on Friday.



alg II - We reviewed the composite functions and hw, then looked how transformations look in a real world situation.  No hw



alg I -  After reviewing the hw, we took notes on various ways to arrive at a solution.  In partners, we worked on p. 147 #12, 14-16.


here is a link to a video that has how to solve linear equatons:  Dr Burger!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe9frYF8Ghg

Review Guide for Alg II function quiz

There are 5 problems on the quiz this Friday

1 (3 parts) on sketching functions, quad and ab val, using transformations

1   transforming a point on f(x) using transformations

1  (2 parts)  stating D and R using any format

1 (2 parts) writing equations from a written description of the function

1 ( 4 parts)  stating the transformation that happens in a situation

Tuesday 9/5

alg II HP  -   Besides the evacuation, we did work on composite functions (function in a function)   Hw was p. 20 #2,3,16,17.




alg II -    we had a warm up on transformations of parent functions.  WE also took notes on composite functions and worked on 3 composite functions.  Hw is pg. 20. #9, 13-15.

friday 9/1

alg II hp -   If you missed today. we did many valuable things:  looked at another h(t) to make sure we are not getting confused in function notation, practiced tranforming single point on a non-parent function g(x).  It was very challenging but it made you stronger.
I was not able to talk about the system hw but I did reveal the answers and my work- see me if you have questions.



alg II - Today we reviewed hw and did a Kahoot on little on me.  We finished the day by practicing recognizing parent functions, transformations by doing whiteboard exercises.



alg I -   This is our final day of Inspirational Math!  More practice on functions and perseverance.  No hw.