End of Quarter 2 Update

Hi! Please see below for class updates.

Intermediate Algebra
Students are finishing their semester 1 final in class today or tomorrow. This will go on your student's quarter 2 grade. Final grades for quarter 2 should be available early next week. There is no homework over the long weekend. We will start quarter 3 by taking our semester 2 pretest. This is not graded but gives me a chance to see what students may already know about the material. From there we will go back to our Factoring unit and finish that up.

Investigations
We finished up our data and statistics unit last week and have moved on to ratios and proportions. Our first activity was called "New-trition Info" and we had a lot of good in class discussion. The activity focused on figuring out how many calories different people burn while doing different activities. Then, using that info, students were able to figure out how long it would take those people to burn off different foods. We looked at a McDonald's nutritional information sheet and students were surprised by some of the things on there! Students were also surprised to learn that they burn calories just while sitting!

As always, please check Schoolview to see how your student is doing. Feel free to contact me with any questions, comments, or concerns. Thank you!

Update Thursday, January 14

Hello and happy end of the week!

Intermediate Algebra
We are in the middle of our factoring unit. We will continue working on this Tuesday of next week (we have Monday off) and then we will take a break to review for the semester 1 final. Students will be taking their semester final the last week of January. This will go on student's quarter 2 grade and cannot be retaken. Students will be given a review packet to help prepare for this and it is due Monday, January 25. Please feel free to email me for an extra copy if needed.

Wednesday Homework (due block day) linked below:
Factoring Trinomials

Block day homework January 14/15 (due Tuesday, January 19) linked below:
Factoring Special Cases and Mixed Practice 

Investigations
Students are currently working on a project debating whether Pixar or Dreamworks makes a better animated movie. They are making posters to display their data and reasoning. They will be presenting on this next Tuesday/Wednesday.

IA Homework Tuesday, January 12

Hi all,

We are starting our unit on factoring. The worksheet for Intermediate Algebra for Tuesday night (due Wednesday) is linked below. Feel free to email me with questions.

Diamond Problems Homework

Intermediate Algebra- IXL for Semester Final

For Intermediate Algebra students...

We will be taking our semester final at the end of the quarter. This is cumulative. I'm attaching a link with optional IXL to help review for this. It will go on student's semester 1 grade.

IXL Review for Semester 1 Final

This IXL is not required but I encourage students to work on areas they are not feeling confident on. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

Thank you!

IA Week of January 4

Hello everyone and welcome back from winter break! I hope everyone had a chance to relax and do something fun.

We will be finishing our unit on Intro to Polynomials this week and will be testing on the block day (Thursday/Friday January 7/8). The assignments for the week are linked below.

Monday homework (due Tuesday)
Tuesday homework (due Wednesday)
Review Worksheet (due on block day)

Optional IXL to help review for the test is listed on the bottom of the review worksheet. As usual I will be after school Tuesday and Thursday this week.

Thank you!