Archive+Algebra+I+Part+1

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=**Monday, June 15, 2009**= Test day. After the test, we worked on the four pages of exam revision and www.thatquiz.org. We ended by correcting our tests.

__HW:__
 * Revise for Thursday's final exam by organizing your notebook.

=**Thursday, June 11, 2009**= We began with some revision for the final exam by doing [|this warm-up quiz]. We then worked on the revision for the Unit 7 test on Monday (answers here:[|U7 p139 solutions.pdf]).

__HW:__
 * Revise for Monday's Unit 7 test by going over Page 139.
 * Bring any IOUs to next class.

=**Tuesday, June 9, 2009**= We corrected the quiz, learned about direct variation, and worked on practice problems.

__HW:__
 * Continue revision for the final exam by doing the second page of the notebook section revision (answers here).

=**Friday, June 5, 2009**= We discussed the final exam, took the notebook quiz and worked on [|ALEKS].

__HW:__
 * Begin revision for the final exam by doing the first page of the notebook section revision (answers here).

=**Wednesday, June 3, 2009**= We went over homework, practiced for the quiz and took the quiz.

__HW:__
 * Finish p. 133. Be ready for the notebook quiz on Friday and the homework collection on Friday (Pages 128-133).

=**Monday, June 1, 2009**= We worked on more practice problems, went over homework and did some [|ALEKS] work.

__HW:__
 * Finish p. 131 & 132

=**Thursday, May 28, 2009**= After handing in textbooks, we began by completing the [|MELMAC activity] (search for your occupation with your browser's Find command). We then went over the homework and took notes on slope. We gave Mr. O'Brien feedback and then finished by working on Page 130.

__HW:__
 * Finish p. 130

=**Tuesday, May 26, 2009**= We began by taking [|this warm-up quiz]. After collecting Pages 122-125, we corrected the quiz, paying attention to graphing by intercepts. We took notes on the difference between functions and relations (Page 127) and then practiced some with Page 128. We ended by doing some [|ALEKS] work.

__HW:__
 * Finish p. 128
 * Bring your textbook to class- you will hand it in on Thursday

=**Thursday, May 21, 2009**= We began by taking [|this warm-up quiz]. We then learned the importance of the standard form of a line- graphing by intercepts. We practiced with Page 125 while Mr. O'Brien went over the homework individually. We took the quiz and ended by doing some [|ALEKS] work.

__HW:__
 * Finish p. 125
 * Homework 122-125 due Tuesday, May 26th

=**Tuesday, May 19, 2009**= We began class by correcting the test, and then we worked on Pages 123 and 124. We finished with some ALEKS work.

__HW:__
 * Finish p. 123 & 124
 * Homework quiz on Thursday

=**Friday, May 15, 2009**= Test day. Work on ALEKS when finished.

__HW:__
 * Finish p. 121 & 122

=Wednesday, May 13, 2009= We began class by completing the first part of our MELMAC worksheet- find the annual salary of your occupation [|here] (you may want to use the Find command in your web browser- it's a lon list!). We then began the new unit with a revision on Page 121 and some new material on standard form of a linear equation on Page 122. Those who had questions on Page 118 were able to ask them. We ended class by working on [|ALEKS].

__HW:__
 * Study Page 118 in preparation for Friday's test. Make sure your notebook is organized for the open notes portion.
 * Finish Pages 121 & 122 for Tuesday if necessary.

=Monday, May 11, 2009= We began class by correcting the quiz from last class (solutions available here: [|U6 quiz key.pdf]). We then worked on the practice test- the real deal is Friday. We ended class by working on [|ALEKS].

__HW:__
 * Page 118 if necessary.

=Thursday, May 7, 2009= We began with [|this warm-up]. Those who finished early tried to get a high score on either [|the alien game] or [|Billy Bug]. Go [|here]. We then worked on the Page 115 revision and finished class with the Page 116 quiz.

__HW:__
 * Page 115 if necessary.
 * Organize Page 111-115 homework to be handed in on Monday in preparation of Notebook Quiz and Unit 6 Test on Wednesday.

=Tuesday, May 5, 2009= Today was NWEA day.

=Friday, May 1, 2009= We began class by finishing up the quiz from last class. We then took notes on slope and worked on Pages 113 and 114. We finished class by beginning to work with ALEKS. [|Sign up here].

__HW:__
 * Page 113 & 114 if necessary.
 * Organize homework for quiz on Thursday.

=Wednesday, April 29, 2009= We began with [|this warm-up]. Those who finished early tried to get a high score on either [|the alien game] or [|Billy Bug]. We then discussed the graphing homework and took the homework quiz. We spent the remainder of class working on the graphing homework Page 112.

__HW:__
 * Page 112 if necessary.

=Monday, April 27, 2009= We began class by warming up with [|some coordinate graphing] and [|equation solving]. We then went over the homework in preparation for the quiz (which has been moved to Wednesday). We took notes on the linear family and worked on practice problems.

__HW:__
 * Finish Page 111.
 * Be ready for the homework quiz on Wednesday, April 29th. Pages 107 & 108 are due Wednesday as well.

=Thursday, April 16, 2009= We began class with a warm-up to get our math brains going. We then went over the homework that was handed in last class and took notes on Box and Whisker Plots. We finished by working on Page 107 and 108.

__HW:__
 * Finish Page 107 & 108.
 * Be ready for a homework quiz on Monday, April 27th.

=Tuesday, April 14, 2009= We began class with some [|mental math practice]. We then went over homework and took some notes on Stem and Leaf Plots. We had the notebook quiz and then worked a little on page 107.

__HW:__
 * If your notebook is organized through page 106, then none!

=Friday, April 10, 2009= We began with [|this warm-up]. We then worked on some more graphing problems and a set of revision problems.

__HW:__
 * Page 103 & 104 if necessary.
 * Make sure your notebook is organized for Tuesday's quiz.

=Wednesday, April 8, 2009= We began class by correcting the test. We then began our new unit by examining graphs.

__HW:__
 * Page 101 & 102 if necessary.

=Monday, April 6, 2009= Today was the test day.

__HW:__
 * None.

=Thursday, April 2, 2009= We corrected the quiz and worked on the test revision homework (Page 99).

__HW:__
 * Page 99 to review for Monday's test

=Tuesday, March 31, 2009= We began class with the warm-up quiz [|here]. We did Page 97 in a spreadsheet on Google Docs. We then submitted homework 92-94 and took the quiz (Page 98).

__HW:__
 * Organize your homework for the test on Monday (band and chorus members do the review sheet Page 99).

=Friday, March 27, 2009= We began class with the warm-up quiz [|here]. We then worked on finishing off Page 94 as necessary. We took notes on Page 95 and worked on Page 96.

__HW:__
 * Page 96 if necessary.
 * Quiz Tuesday

=Wednesday, March 25, 2009= We began class with some [|fraction, decimal, and percent, practice]. We then discussed homework and worked on Page 93 & 94.

__HW:__
 * Finish Page 93 & 94 if necessary.

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=Monday, March 23, 2009= We began class by correcting the quizzes. We then went over the homework and submitted pages 82-88. We took notes on probability and then worked on Page 92.

__HW:__
 * Finish Page 92 if necessary.

=Thursday, March 19, 2009= We warmed up with some logic problems, and then we went over Page 86 and 87. We practiced for the quiz with Page 88 and then took the quiz (Page 89) and the open notebook quiz (Page 90).

__HW:__
 * Finish Page 88 if necessary.

=Tuesday, March 17, 2009= We began class with some multiplication practice at [|www.thatquiz.org]. We then worked on Page 86 percent practice and Page 87 simplification revision.

__HW:__
 * Page 86 & 87
 * Organize your notebook and review proportions and percents for Thursday's quiz

=Thursday, March 12, 2009= We began class with the warm-up quiz [|here]. We then solved three equations [|here] (level 4) and [|here] (from the ??? button) and wrote the questions and answers on a sheet of paper. We took notes on solving percentage problems with proportions on Page 84, and we explored percentage problems using proportions with [|this applet]. We ended class working on Page 85.

__HW:__
 * Page 85

=Tuesday, March 10, 2009= We began class with some revision [|here]. We then solved three equations [|here] (level 4) and [|here] (from the ??? button). We finished with some fraction, decimal and percent practice [|here]. While students worked on Page 83, Mr. O'B helped out with questions from Page 82.

__HW:__
 * Page 83

=Friday, March 6, 2009= We corrected the test, took notes on proportions, and worked on Page 82.

__HW:__
 * Page 82

=Wednesday, March 4, 2009= Today was the test day. We began class by collecting the homework, revising and going over Page 79, and then we took the test.

__HW:__
 * None!

=Monday, March 2, 2009= No school day! Test postponed until Wednesday.

=Thursday, February 26, 2009= Today was our revision day. We worked on finishing up old work and practiced for the test with Page 79.

__HW:__
 * Do Page 79- your test will look just like this.

=Tuesday, February 24, 2009= We began class by revising equations [|using this website]. We went over homework questions from Page 73, and then we took notes on solving more complicated linear equations. We practiced with Page 77, took the Notebook Quiz, and then continued to practice with Page 78.

__HW:__
 * Work on Page 77 & 78- these don't need to be finished until test day on Monday, but bring your questions to class Thursday

=Friday, February 13, 2009= We began class with an equations game [|using this website]. We worked on Page 73 and went over the old homework and then took the equations quiz.

__HW:__
 * Finish Page 73 if necessary
 * Be sure your notebook is organized for Tuesday's notebook quiz

=Wednesday, February 11, 2009= We began class with an equations game [|using this website]. We then corrected the homework. We spent the remainder of the lesson practicing with Pages 71 and 72.

__HW:__
 * Finish Page 71 & 72 if necessary
 * Be ready for the equations quiz and the notebook quiz on Friday

=Monday, February 9, 2009= Mr. Mackenzie covered class today. He helped correct the quiz and the homework. You spent the remainder of the lesson practicing with Pages 69 and 70.

__HW:__
 * Finish Page 69 & 70 if necessary
 * Be ready to submit Pages 67-70 on Wednesday

=Thursday, February 5, 2009= We began class with the equations quiz. After submitting homework Pages 62-65, we worked on Pages 67 and 68.

__HW:__
 * Finish Page 67 & 68 if necessary

=Tuesday, February 3, 2009= We began class with [|some positive and negative number and fraction practice]. After correcting the p. 63 & 64 homework, we worked on solving more complicated equations using the two websites from last class. We began work on Page 65 and then took a practice version of the Page 66 quiz- we will take the real version on Thursday.

__HW:__
 * Finish Page 65 if necessary
 * Be ready for the equations quiz on Thursday

=Friday, January 30, 2009= We began class with [|some positive and negative number and fraction practice]. Those who finished early checked their homework answers for p. 62 and corrected their mistakes. We went over the homework problems together which caused trouble. We then used [|this website] to practice together using properties of equality to solve 1st degree equations with one unknown. We practiced solving by hand using Page 63 of the notebook. After some practice time, we visited [|this other website] that also reinforced the properties of equality. We used it to introduce the variety of equations featured on Page 64 of the notebook. We ended class by working on Page 64.

__HW:__
 * Finish Page 63 & 64 if necessary
 * Be ready for an equations quiz on Tuesday

=Monday, January 26, 2009= We began class with the following: After discussing the previous semester and advice for the coming semester, we paused for a moment to appreciate the chance to begin again, to have a fresh start. We then began Unit 4 ([|U4 TOC a1p1.pdf]) and learned about solving first degree equations.
 * 1) Look over your final exam- are there any mistakes in marking?
 * 2) Look at your Quarter 2, Midterm Exam, and Semester [|grades in Powerschool]- are there any mistakes in my calculations? Keep in mind that this is not necessarily your final grade, but if reflects my raw calculations up to this point.
 * 3) Take [|this very short survey] reflecting on the first semester.
 * 4) Form a group of three or four, and [|give your advice to a new student].

__HW:__
 * Take a look back over your Course Outline ([|course_outline_alg_1_part_1.pdf]) in preparation for your fresh start to the semester.
 * Look over p. 61 and finish p. 62 (if necessary)

=Thursday, January 15, 2009= We began class by working on some exam revision. We then went over the Unit 3 test. We talked about the format of the exam and ended class doing revision problems.

__HW:__
 * Revise for the midterm. For details, view the study guide here.

=Tuesday, January 13, 2009= Today was test day. The test was open notes, including page 59. Homeworks 53, 54, 55, 58 were also collected.

__HW__:
 * Organize your notebook- you should have pages 1-60. If you are missing any pages, let me know, and I will get you extra copies. You will use your notebook to revise for the midterm next week.

=Friday, January 9, 2009= We began class with [|this online quiz] and then worked on finishing up the quiz from last class. We discussed radicals more and worked on p. 59 in preparation for Tuesday's test.

__HW__:
 * Study your notes from Unit 3, especially p. 59- the test will look exactly like p. 59. You can use your notes on the test- make sure p. 53, 54, 55, 58 are corrected (you will hand them in to be graded on Tuesday), as some test questions come directly from your notebook!

=December 22, 2008- moved to January 5, 2009 due to snow day= We began class with The Easiest Quiz You Will Take. [|Here] are the explanations to each problem- find a quiet place in the classroom (use headphones if possible), listen to the explanation, and then do the problem yourself. You can listen to the explanation as many times as you'd like. After the quiz, we went over the radical quiz from before the holidays and took the second half.

__HW__:
 * Correct p. 53, 54, 55, and 58 to be handed in Wednesday
 * Begin work on p. 59 to prepare for test Friday, January 9th: do #41-51

=December 18, 2008= An opportunity for questions from the homework was provided, and then the first part of the quiz was given. Those who finished early ran some laps. The quiz was discussed in class, and then the second half of the quiz was given. After the quiz time was spent on the page 58 homework.

__HW__:
 * Finish p. 58 homework if necessary
 * Have p. 53, 54, 55, 58 homework ready to be handed in on Monday

=December 16, 2008= We began class by organizing our notebooks through p. 59. We then went over p. 53 & 54 homework and worked on p. 55. We finished class with our final radical notes on p. 57.

__HW__:
 * Finish page 55 if necessary and be ready for the quiz on Thursday.

=December 10, 2008= We began class with [|this warm-up quiz]. We then went over the homework and collected p. 48-51. We finished taking notes on irrationals and radicals (p. 52B in the notebook), and ended by doing the p. 53 & 54 homework.

__HW__:
 * Finish page 53 & 54 homework if necessary.

=December 8, 2008= We began class with [|this warm-up quiz]. We then went over the homework, took notes on radicals (p. 52 in the notebook), and ended by doing the p. 51 homework.

__HW__:
 * Finish page 51 homework if necessary.
 * Be sure p. 48-50 homework is done, checked, and corrected to be submitted Wednesday

=December 4, 2008= We began class by working on page 50. We then worked on correcting the quiz from last class. We ended class by doing page 49.

__HW__:
 * Finish page 49 & 50 if necessary.
 * Take [|this practice quiz] (you will need an internet connection, so you may need to do it during study hall).

=November 21, 2008= We went over homework and then took the quiz. We finished by doing page 48.

__HW__:
 * Finish page 48 if necessary.

=November 19, 2008= We began class by going over homework. We then took the notebook quiz and finished by working on homework problems in preparation for Friday's quiz.

__HW__:
 * Finish page 46.
 * Prepare for Friday's algebra quiz over homework

=November 17, 2008= We began class by getting back into the groove of math. We then worked on old homework problems and took notes on combining monomials and polynomials.

__HW__:
 * Finish page 44.
 * Be sure your notebook pages 31-44 are organized for Wednesday's notebook quiz

=November 10, 2008= We began class by filling in [|this survey] and then calculated [|second quarter averages]. We corrected the test, discussed combining like terms, and worked on the homework (revision from the test).

__HW__:
 * Finish page 41 and 42.
 * Organize the next 20 pages of your notebook (21-40) and let Mr. O'Brien know if you need any extra sheets

=November 6, 2008= We began class by going over any last minute questions and then took the test. When the test was finished, we filled in [|this survey] and ran a few more laps.

__HW__:
 * Keep running laps!

=November 4, 2008= We began class by working on page 39 of our notes- test revision. We then corrected the quiz using page 21 and 32 from our notes. We then corrected page 38 from the homework and organized pages 21-39 of our notebook in preparation for Thursday's Unit 2 Test. We discussed what will be on the test and started to make plans for how to start the second quarter fresh ([|quarter grade simple spreadsheet]).

__HW__:
 * Study your notes through for Thursday's test
 * Be sure pages 37 and 38 are done, checked and corrected to start the quarter off right!

=Halloween, 2008= We began class by collecting the homework and taking the quiz. We then corrected page 37. We finished by working on page 38.

__HW__:
 * Finish page 38 (if necessary)
 * Study your notes through for Thursday's test

=October 29, 2008= We began class by correcting the quiz. We then corrected pages 28, 29, 33, and 34. We took notes on combining like terms, and we finished by working on page 37.

__HW__:
 * Finish page 37 (if necessary)
 * Study your notes through page 34 for Friday's quiz

=October 27, 2008= Mr. O'Brien will not be in class today, so here's the schedule: tackle the huge Work Day assignment (the easiest hard A you'll ever earn).

__HW__:
 * Finish the Work Day assignment (if necessary)

=October 23, 2008= Mr. O'Brien will not be in class today, so here's the schedule:
 * 1) [|Run some laps]. Whoever gets the most in ten minutes wins the extra credit IOU.
 * 2) Take the quiz.
 * 3) Work on page 33 and 34 of your notebook.

__HW__:
 * Finish page 33 and 34 of your notebook.

=October 21, 2008= We began class by [|running some laps]. We then went into [|Google Docs] and took our page 32 notes on Axioms. We finished class by working on the Take Home portion of the quiz which showed us what we need to review for the quiz next class.

__HW__:
 * Finish Take Home portion of quiz
 * Review page 21, page 26, and page 27 notes for the quiz next class

=October 17, 2008= We began class by [|running some laps]. We then checked homework page 28 and began homework page 29. We took the notebook quiz and finished class with some math games.
 * Finish page 29 of your notebook if necessary
 * Study pages 21-29 of your notebook to prepare for Tuesday's quiz

=October 15, 2008= We began class by [|running some laps]. We then did some more [|SAT work]. We then took some notes on dividing real numbers and began work on page 28.
 * Finish page 28 of your notebook if necessary
 * Organize first 28 pages of your notebook in preparation for Friday's notebook quiz.

=October 8, 2008= We began class by [|running some laps] (Mr. O'Brien gave some game playing hints first). We then checked page 25 and collected the first homework set (22, 23, 24, and 25). We took some notes on multiplying real numbers (we read [|this article] and [|this article]), and we finished with some SAT practice: Number and Operations Practice Quiz #1 (click on the Practice Quizzes tab) on the [|SAT practice site].
 * Keep practicing your math skills by running some more laps.

=October 6, 2008= Today was the NWEA testing. Those who finished early worked on notebook Page 25.

__HW__:
 * Finish page 25 if necessary.
 * Run some laps.

=October 2, 2008= We began class by [|running some laps] and then [|ran some more laps]. We then corrected Page 22 from the homework and worked on Pages 23 and 24 from the notebook. We ended class by looking at the [|SAT Number and Operations Practice Quiz #1] and updating our quarter grades.

__HW__:
 * Finish Pages 23 and 24 of notebook if necessary.

=September 30, 2008= We began class by [|running some laps]. We then corrected the Unit 1 test and organized our Unit 1 notebook. We began Unit 2 with some notes on real numbers and then finished class by working on the homework.

__HW__:
 * Finish Page 22 of notebook if necessary.

=September 26, 2008= We took the Unit 1 test. We then worked on Number and Operations Practice Quiz #1 (click on the Practice Quizzes tab) on the [|SAT practice site]. Those who finished early ran some laps.

__HW__:
 * Have a nice weekend- work on some extra credit (see Run Some Laps link at left) if you'd like.

=September 24, 2008= We started by beginning Number and Operations Practice Quiz #1 (click on the Practice Quizzes tab) on the [|SAT practice site]. We corrected Page 17 and 18 of the homework, and then Mr. O'Brien gave out a copy of the test (with the directions, but without the questions...). We spent the rest of the class reviewing.

__HW__:
 * Test on Unit 1 Friday- study by going through all 20 pages of your notebook!

=September 22, 2008= We began class by taking notes on signed number subtraction. We then worked on Page 17 and 18 of our notebook, and finished by [|updating our quarter grades] and signed up for an [|SAT revision account].

__HW__:
 * Finish Page 17 & 18 of your notebook.
 * Test on Unit 1 Friday

=September 18, 2008= We began class by taking notes on signed number addition. We used money as our example, and we used [|this demonstration] to learn how we can always use chips to help us answer signed number questions. We then checked Page 11 homework and took the notebook quiz. We then submitted Page 11 homework and took the quiz over all of the homework. We finished by working on Page 13 of our notebook.

__HW__:
 * Finish Page 13 of your notebook.

=September 16, 2008= We began class by organizing our notebooks and finishing our [|quarter grade spreadsheet.]

__HW__:
 * Finish Page 11 (both parts) of your notebook- this is a major homework assignment that will be collected Thursday!
 * Make sure the first 15 pages of your notebook are organized so that you are ready for Thursday's notebook quiz.
 * Get your progress report signed for a bonus responsibility point.
 * Prepare for Thursday's quiz covering your homework.

=September 12, 2008= We began class by [|running a few more laps]. We then spent some time working on the large Page 11 homework assignment. We took a break to correct our quizzes and make a [|quarter grade spreadsheet] ([|click here first] for an example).

__HW__:
 * Finish Page 11 of your notebook- this is a major homework assignment that will be collected Thursday!

=September 10, 2008= We began class by running a few laps. We then spent some time answering final questions from the homework problems on Pages 4, 5, 7, and 8 before submitting them. We took the quiz and finished by taking notes on the vocabulary from p. 46 of the text- in our own words (Page 10 of the notes).

__HW__:
 * Finish writing descriptions in your own words of vocabulary on Page 10 of your notebook

=September 8, 2008= We began class with a little [|Billy Bug] coordinate plotting practice. We then went over the homework from last class (individual help from Mr. O'Brien) and worked on the new homework problems.

__HW__:
 * Finish textbook problems on Page 7 & 8 of your notebook if necessary.
 * Revise the first 8 pages of your notebook for Wednesday's quiz.
 * Prepare to hand in Pages 4, 5, 7, 8 from your notebook on Wednesday for the homework check.

=September 4, 2008= We began class with an order of operations Bingo game, checked notebooks, texts, homework, and then took notes on graphing with coordinates. We finished by working on homework Page 5.

__HW__:
 * Finish textbook problems on Page 5 of your notebook.

=September 2, 2008= We began class with the homework quiz. Following the quiz, we went over the Course Methodology and discussed expectations for class. We then took a look at our first unit and its 20 pages of notes (table of contents available here: [|U1 TOC a1p1.pdf]). We looked at the calendar for the month (see link above). Page 1 of our notebook was the Course Methodology, and Page 2 was the homework quiz. We discussed Order of Operations and took notes (for additional review, take a look at [|this website] from class) which formed Page 3. We ended class by working on homework problems from p. 21 in the text which formed Page 4 of our notebook.

__HW__:
 * Finish textbook problems on Page 4 of your notebook.

=Thursday, August 28th= We thought about these problems:

For each of the following problems, first estimate an answer and then try to calculate an answer using your mathematical skills. If you're interested in how we name large numbers, [|click here].
 * 1) When was one million seconds ago? How about one billion seconds ago? For more on this problem, [|click here].
 * 2) If a piece of paper could be folded in half fifty times, how high would the stack of paper be? For more on this problem, [|click here].
 * 3) Suppose a string were tied tight around the earth. If one additional meter were added to the string, and the string was lifted the same distance off the surface of the earth, how high would it rise? For more on this problem, [|click here].

__HW__:
 * Explore this class website- it would be a good idea to bookmark it.
 * Create a Google Account by going [|here] (you do not need to use Gmail, but you will need a Google Account for some class activities this year)
 * Cover your text book.
 * Read the course methodology and come to class prepared to discuss it (a copy is available on the home page).
 * You will have a quiz next class on the above- be prepared!
 * Give the parent/guardian letter to your parent/guardian (a copy is available on the home page).
 * Please complete this [|student information sheet] (plan on spending about half an hour on this- I would like some thought on some of the questions).