I miss you guys! I cannot believe the school year is almost over. I know, I know, you are counting down the days!
Well, only one assignment this week and it is posted on Jupiter and I am happy to take a look at it as you work. ASK FOR HELP (if you need it). I added some inspiration to your final projects page. I cannot wait to see what you have in store for us. Have fun! I believe in you! |
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We missed you Kiley! I am posting today's notes for you.
You guys are totally rocking matrices. I am so impressed how quickly you picked it up. I hope you enjoyed code breaking. When you become part of a top-secret government agency and crack codes for a living, I hope you will give me a shout out! This next week, we will cover vectors. Hopefully, the notes I gave you will give you enough information to do the spaces that were left open. I totally forgot to post a visual for you on how to find the location of your vectors so I am going to try to explain it.
1st, using your points, determine which quadrant your vector is in. For example, if your points are <-2, -8> and you determine your angle of theta is 76 degrees. This means your vector will be in quadrant 3. Starting at the x-axis, you will travel counter-clockwise until you get to that point. So, you will need to add 180 to 76 degrees. Therefor, theta will be at 256 degrees. |
Where did the (1/2) come from for the tan of theta = 1/2??
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Ok, so we are going to keep working on our cell phone triangulations. I created a help page for part of it. I color coded the clues with lines and angles. All of the lines are not drawn to scale, I just wanted to show you how they would potentially connect. Once you find the length, you should be able to draw one with the correct scale and find where the interstections are! Please let me know if this helps or doesn't help. I won't be offended.
We are going to work on matrices. If nothing else, you will have an idea of what they are and how they work. What is better is that you get to use your calculator for the hard stuff. YAY! I sent you all a link for a presentation that should help as well. Be sure to keep your notes close by to use. This week, you will work on the stapled handout I gave out in class. You also have the option of doing a code breaking project that is posted on Jupiter. You only need to complete one or the other. Next week, we will continue to work on our scavenger hunt again. |
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We are going to try Khan Academy Classroom. Click the above link and it should take you to my "page" where I have saved assignments and videos for you. Please make sure you have gone to the link I sent on Jupiter email so I can get everyone set up.
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You guys seem to be getting a firm grasp on trig stuff which is awesome. Short quiz today which should help me to know what, if anything, we should cover more. For this last part of the intro trig unit, we will finish up with the laws of sine and cosines as well as finding the area of triangles (using those laws).
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This week we will be getting more and more into trigonometry. Some of this may feel like a review from Geometry class but hopefully, some will be a new and some will give you an "ah ha" moment of remembering or being able to relate it to a real world application of sorts.
Please review the answers from last week's notes as well as the notes for this week. Let me know if I am missing any pages! This week: Please complete all the problems from the notes as well as the at-home assignment. Next week, we will have a Mrs. Fry style "test" or quiz or whatever you want to call it (they are all worth the same amount) on what we have covered this semester. As will all exams, I want to make sure you are understanding the concepts. You are welcome to bring your notes with you but I HIGHLY recommend studying or you will run out of time having to search through your notes. Ideally, this exam will only take 20-30 minutes. This way, we can continue on with our adventures in trigonometry. |
Please be sure to fill in all your notes, including the blanks and complete the homework sheet. Yes, you have to do the word problems as well. Those are your real-world application for the week!
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I hope you guys are anxious and excited to move on to trigonometry!
This week should be pretty simple but there are quite a few different formulas so we will leave it there and add on more next week. |
15 JanuaryOh my goodness, I was starting to miss you guys. It has been forever! Luckily, we are going to work together to get back into the swing of things.
This week, we are continuing on with logarithmic and exponential equations which is Chapter 9 in your book. When you are working on these problems, you may want to spread out your notes in front of you. I may or may not have had to do that in order to do this week's work. But, hey... I also did this week's work so there is that :) You are not alone! Everyone has memorized the logarithm song that I posted correct? I shortened up the number of plain worksheet problems for the week and added in a fun coloring activity (which we may start in class) as well as a short, real life application project as well. The good news is that after this week, you will be able to determine how much money you will have in a bank account, or how many cooties could be spread around your household or how long it will take a zombie apocalypse to wipe out all of Bozeman. All good life lessons right?!? In all seriousness, exponential growth and decay is used for lots of stuff so you may as well understand how it works! |
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Good news Kiley...We were doing the math correctly, but the printed formula was wrong. I am attaching a copy of the updated version of the Seismologist activity.
Beth and Gabriella, this video is for you. but in all seriousness, you should all watch it, memorize it, etc. :) |
First off, I want to tell you guys you are doing an amazing job with all the work you are given. For only being in class with me one day and working through five days of work on your own, you are rocking it.
We are moving on to word problems that you are going to see in day-to-day life; try to contain your excitement and let's dive in. Drumroll please...we are learning about exponential functions! Ok, so in normal people language, that is how to determine what the money in your interest-earning bank account will be in 6 months or what the half-life of bacteria is, or even what the $100 your grandparents invested for you as a toddler will be worth when you are 20. In case you are wondering, this is in Chapter 9 of your "textbook". I gave you a stack of notes and homework. In addition, you will need to choose one of the mini-projects at the bottom of the notes to complete. |
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Week of HalloweenThe transformations just keep on keeping on! I found this image and hope it may add to your notes. Whichever one you find the most helpful is the one you should use!
Today, we worked on our functions a bit more but also started in on Parent Functions. These should not be any harder for you than what we have been doing. Actually, they will probably be easier! I am working on an awesome video to hep you through the notes. In the meantime, let's keep on reviewing with Unit 2 Homework 10 The Test Review Packet Mathlete Power Function Modeling and try out Unit 3 Homework 1 on Power Functions. All of these links can be found on Jupiter. Stay warm out there! |
Repetition, repetition! I hope today helped out! I have posted the notes from today with the stuff we did in class filled in. Instead of just printing them, I hope you will transcribe them to your notes so that you are getting more and more familiar with what you are writing. This week, you are just completing the worksheets I gave you in class and becoming more familiar with functions and algebra. :)
Keep up the good work and do not hesitate to ask for help! |
Hello all, I tried some new notes today and will continue to post as often as I can with information that will get the information to you again and again.
I am posting the answers from last weeks worksheets HERE. That should give you ample time to redo and turn them in (if you so choose). Here is a guideline of sorts to help you through the week. First and foremost, redo your test on the Juno Pod Day 1: Average Rate of Change notes and worksheet from class Day 2: Families of Function presentation and worksheet Day 3: Piecewise Functions interactive workbook and Stemersion Activity Day 4: f(x) men comic activity (your link can be found on Jupiter) and bootcamp worksheet If you need additional help with the assignments OR using your graphing calculator, please reach out. If you do not want me, then She Loves Math has some awesome tutorials as well. Yes, there is one on your calculator. You can find it HERE. |
Ok, so we need to back up a bit and slow down. No problemo! I am so glad you all told me and want to be sure your understanding of algebra is spot on before we go on. I am posting the answers from last weeks marathon worksheets. Please do not hesitate to ask questions about how and why something is the way it is.
For this week, we are going to continue reviewing how to solve by factoring, completing the square and taking the square root. I will be sure to post another tutorial. You only need to complete the first three pages of the handouts plus the new gridwords worksheet. Next week, we will cover absolute values. |
The vote is unanimous; we will spend the next couple weeks continuing to review concepts from Algebra 2.
I am attaching a link to the answers from last weeks worksheets. Please let me know if I can clarify anything for you! Like I told you in class, there is no one way to do a math problem. You can get there however it makes sense to you! This week we will keep on keeping on. We started a CSI game with slopes and will finish it next week. We realized you can determine speed and steepness by finding the slope of a line (on a graph). I gave you some worksheets that you can work on throughout the week and I created some tutorials for each concept. You also received a "gridwords" puzzle. Please complete that and bring it to class. Also, please watch the fourth island of exploding dots and then shoot me an email! Keep up the good work. I know you are a little frustrated with the review aspect, but I really want to be sure you have all these concepts down before we move on. I believe in you!. |