Homework Tuesday

Homework Tueday night. Good luck guys-

EXTENDED 1. H & F PERIODS:
In Khan Academy, please try until you get five in a row correct:
Simplifying Square Roots
Simplifying Square Roots 2

CORE 1. E PERIOD:
In Khan Academy, please try until you get five in a row correct:
Radius, Diameter, and Circumference

EXTENDED 1. D PERIOD:
In Khan Academy, please try until you get five in a row correct:
Adding and Subtracting Radicals
Cube Roots

Monday HDubz 9.29

Happy Monday homies and homegirls. Here is your hdubz:

EXTENDED 1. D & F PERIODS:
In Khan Academy, please try until you get five in a row correct:
Simplifying Square Roots
Simplifying Square Roots 2

CORE 1. E PERIOD:
In Khan Academy, please try until you get five in a row correct:
Radius, Diameter, and Circumference

Math Nicknames

Hi all, your Extended math nicknames are as follows:

F PERIOD:
Can - Abscan
Giorgio - Girgiocalc
Ellie - The H-Dubz Master
Gabriel - Gabrackets
Marta - Dumbest Math Queen
Lorenzo - Least Common Multiple
Sasha - Dumb Math Queen
Angelina - Addgelina
Tommasso - de Terminator
Jacopo - Triko
Astrid - Astraight line
Mustafa - Algebra 2

D PERIOD:
Nathalie - Natitan
Sara C. - Sarasin
Serena - The Multiplier
Sara M. - SDHH (Sara did her hdubz)
Willy - Mr. PEMDAS
Ely - Marymathics
Theo - Theo^2 aka Theo Squared
Ivan - Ivangle
Mina - Minus Mina
Claudia - Calclaudia

H PERIOD:
Ginevra - Error
Danila - xxxCalculator!$ucks@!
Juan Manuel - The Exponent Master
Pavel - The Division Man
Victoria - multi-love
Leonardo - Sum-mer
Navila - Not Equal To
Tanya - Trig Tanya

Weekend H to the Dizzubs

Hey guys, enjoy your weekends! I hope everyone has a great weekend and gets some rest.

Extended Math- because you took your quiz there will be no hdubz this weekend. Get reay for new topics come Monday

Core Math 1:
For Monday please do the following Khan Academy exercises until you get five correct: 

• Area of a Circle 
• Area and Circumference of Circles 

(use pi rather than multiplying by 3.14)

Homework Thursday 9.25

Tomorrow is Friday, hooray! Here's your hdubz:

EXTENDED 1. F & H PERIODS:
Solve the following and simplify completely:
a. (4^7 * 5^7) ^ -2
b. 1/3 ( 2/5y - 3/2 ) + (2/3)^3
c. Simplify and order from smallest to largest:
6^-2    (-1/8)^2      3^-3 / 4    (1/7)^-1
d.  15x^3y^-4 * -3x^6y^-5
 
EXTENDED 1. D PERIOD:
In Khan Academy complete until you get five in a row correct:
Positive and Negative Exponents
Using Exponent Rules to Evaluate Expressions

CORE 1. E PERIOD:
page 13 - 14 Exercise 9 # 2 -12 even
 

Homework 9.24

Hey guys, hope everyone had a great day. Here is your homework.

EXTENDED 1. ALL PERIODS:
In Khan Academy complete until you get five in a row correct:
Positive and Negative Exponents
Using Exponent Rules to Evaluate Expressions

Homework Tuesday 9.23

I will see you all on Wednesday! Here is your hdubs:

EXTENDED 1. E & H PERIODS:
Solve the following:
All variables are y. Any x means multiply!
a. (3y^2)^4
b. 16y^10 + 8y^10 - 7y^4
c. 5y^3 x -4y^12
d. (3y^5 - 2y^5)^2
e. 20y^8 / 4y^6

EXTENDED 1. D PERIOD:
In Khan Academy, please complete the exercise Properties of Exponents until you get five in a row correct.

CORE 1. E PERIOD:
The homework from the book for Wednesday is:
page 11-12 Exercise 8 # 1, 2, 4, 7

Homework Monday

Happy Monday. Today is a beautiful day- hope you make the most of it! See you all on Tuesday and Wednesday, remember that you have quizzes and notebook checks this week!

EXTENDED 1. D & F:
Solve the following:
All variables are y. Any x means multiply!
a. (3y^2)^4
b. 16y^10 + 8y^10 - 7y^4
c. 5y^3 x -4y^12
d. (3y^5 - 2y^5)^2
e. 20y^8 / 4y^6

CORE 1. E PERIOD:
The homework from the book for Wednesday is:
page 11-12 Exercise 8 # 1, 2, 4, 7

Homework Weekend

I hope everyone has a great weekend. Enjoy! Stay out of trouble. I will see you all back on Monday in class. Here's your homework! Enjoy the weekend. Here's a video we made a few years ago celebrating the weekend activities (you can find a list of activities at the bottom of the post):

CORE 1.
In Khan Academy, please complete five each in the following exercises:

• Parallel lines 1
• Vertical Angles
• Recognizing Parallel and Perpendicular Lines

EXTENDED 1. ALL PERIODS:
On Khan Academy, log in to the website and choose Algebra 1 under subject.
You will be taken to a screen like you see below. Please spend twenty to thirty minutes of the Mystery Challenge which will serve as algebra review for all of you. Send me a question if you have any.

 

WEEKEND ACTIVITIES

FRIDAY September 19th:

19:00 - 21:00 Movie in the Palmer Center: Dumb & Dumber or Frozen

SATURDAY September 20th:
9:30 - 19:;30 Bus to Luzern *sign up in the Dean's Office
17:00 - Baking in Monticello with Ms. Schlicht

SUNDAY September 21st:
13:00 - 15:00 Trip to Lugano Lido *sign up on the Monticello board

Homework Thursday 18.9

Hi all, here is your h.dubz for tomorrow, Friday! See you all tomorrow!

EXTENDED 1. ALL PERIODS:
a. If you did not complete the Khan Academy from yesterday, please do so!
b. In your calculator, please graph the following and answer the questions:
y = -1/5x - 15
     a. Did you have to change the window in order to see the graph? How did you change it if so?
y = -x^2 - 5x + 5
     a. Calculate the MAXIMUM of the graph
y = square root of 3.75 x
     a. Sketch the shape of the graph

CORE 1. E PERIOD:
In your book please try the following activities:
page 4 exercise 3 # 3 - 6 all
page 6 exercise 5 # 4 - 11 all
 

Homework Wednesday 17.9

Hi guys, I enjoyed our math class hikes today. Have a nice evening, see you all tomorrow.

EXTENDED 1. All Classes:
Finish your calculator problems and begin work on these three by logging in to Khanacademy.org

• Order of Operations with Negative Numbers
• Combining Like Terms with Distribution
• Adding and Subtracting Fractions with Unlike Denomenators

CORE 1. E PERIOD:
Please log on to your Khan Academy account and do the exercises on:

• Measuring angles
• Angle Types
• Drawing Right Acute and Obtuse Angles

Homework Tuesday Night 16.9

No class hiked tomorrow. Instead your homework for Wednesday will be the following:

EXTENDED 1. D PERIOD:
In your calculator, please graph the following and answer the questions:
y = -1/5x - 15
     a. Did you have to change the window in order to see the graph? How did you change it if so?
y = -x^2 - 5x + 5
     a. Calculate the MAXIMUM of the graph
y = square root of 3.75 x
     a. Sketch the shape of the graph

EXTENDED 1. H & F PERIODS:
Solve the following using your graphing calculator:
a. The square root of 5 squared times 3.74 plus cosine 35 degrees
b. The absolute value of 17.8 + 9.21 minus the square root of 12 x -3.15
c. Find the product of the fourth root of 129 and the seventh root of 7
e. The quotient of 7.29 squared and 6.84
f. The absolute value of the square root of 9.83 to the two thirds power

CORE 1. E PERIOD:
Please log on to your Khan Academy account and do the exercises on:

• Measuring angles
• Angle Types
• Drawing Right Acute and Obtuse Angles

Homework Monday 9.15

Hey yall, here's the hw for tomorrow's classes, don't forget its a special schedule. If you still need to download the SmartView, you can do so here:


http://education.ti.com/en/us/software/details/en/FFEA90EE7F9B4C24A6EC427622C77D09/sda-ti-smartview-ti-84-plus

Extended Math 1 D & F Periods:
Solve the following using your graphing calculator:
a. The square root of 5 squared times 3.74 plus cosine 35 degrees
b. The absolute value of 17.8 + 9.21 minus the square root of 12 x -3.15
c. Find the product of the fourth root of 129 and the seventh root of 7
e. The quotient of 7.29 squared and 6.84
f. The absolute value of the square root of 9.83 to the two thirds power

Core Math 1 PERIOD E:
Please log on to your Khan Academy account and do the exercises on:

• Measuring angles
• Angle Types 
• Drawing Right Acute and Obtuse Angles 

Homework for the Weekend

EXTENDED MATH CLASSES:
Hi all, for Monday's classes please have your notebook or binder ready to take notes in.

Also, if you have a laptop computer, please bring it to class. We are going to install a graphing calculator application on it and begin our second week of lessons.

This is the link for the calculator:
http://education.ti.com/en/us/software/details/en/FFEA90EE7F9B4C24A6EC427622C77D09/sda-ti-smartview-ti-84-plus

Have a great weekend! See you all at the boat dance!

Homework #3

Hi all, for all classes, Friday you will take your placement test in class. Remember: just do your best and take your time. There will be problems which you will not be expected to know yet, that is okay. Here is your homework for tomorrow.

Log in to Khan Academy, and search for the following exercises. Please try all three until you get five in a row correct (or until it takes you 15 minutes). The exercises have stars next to them:

• Two Step Equations
• Equations with variables on both sides
• Multi-step equations with distribution

Email me if you have any questions, good luck!

Homework #2: Khan Academy Video

Hey guys,

If you did not previously do the article review, please scroll down below to yesterday's post. Read one article please, and comment on the post with your thoughts.

D PERIOD. EXTENDED 1:
For Wednesday, please watch the following youtube video I made about one of the websites we will be using in our class called Khan Academy. This is just designed to show you a little bit about the website before we begin using it later this week. There is no other homework. If you did not do the article review, you may still do it for partial credit tomorrow.

The link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0UfIXDpehs 

Welcome to Math Class

Hey guys, welcome to the blog, I have found a few articles on the current state of math education in the world. Some of them are very college based or United States based, but I think they get their point across. Please choose one to read and comment on this blog posting with a minimum of a 50 word response. You will not be graded on your opinion, but you will be graded on how closely you read the article and how well formulated your opinion is. Please let me know which article you've chosen and include your name, there is a sample below.

Is Algebra Necessary? New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/29/opinion/sunday/is-algebra-necessary.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0

Mathematics. Trust Me. It's Important in Your Life. ABC Science:
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2013/01/23/3674843.htm

Do The Math Right. Edutopia:
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/do-the-math-right-ainissa-ramirez

Thanks. See you tomorrow,

Mr. Schiff