After doing a test run this last week and getting some feedback from students (thank you!) I've decided to move my lessons to Google Classroom. Use the Class Code: 4446ula. I was hesitant to change platforms in the middle of the semester but it seems like many other teachers are on Google Classroom and students like having all their work in one place. I also like how it uses due dates and your calendar to keep everything organized. I hope this is not an inconvenience for anyone and helps to make our "distance learning" easier.
ATTENDANCE: Please visit the WHS homepage to sign in to attendance. Be sure to fill in the attendance form for each period at the appropriate time. The new distance learning schedule can be found on the WHS homepage here.
Objectives:
Good morning everyone! This week we will continue our unit on exponential functions with a continued look at exponential growth and decay. We will learn about something called compound interest and develop a formula for calculating more complex growth and decay models. We will also learn about the number e and how it can be used to model continuously compounded interest. This week I have several investigations and instructional videos for you to help you understand these concepts. I strongly recommend that you do the investigation for the topic first and then use the video(s) to reinforce the concepts before trying the practice problems and doing the learning check. There are quite a few tasks this week, don't feel like you need to do everything at once. Space it out as needed. Also, the practice problems are there for your own practice, do as much as you feel is necessary to understand the concept.
ATTENDANCE: Please visit the WHS homepage to sign in to attendance. Be sure to fill in the attendance form for each period at the appropriate time. The new distance learning schedule can be found on the WHS homepage here.
Objectives:
Good morning students! Well, we have concluded our unit on function compositions and inverses (Unit 6). If you have still not completed the required "learning check" I assigned last week, scroll down below to last weeks post and find instructions there. This week we will begin Unit 7, which will have us exploring exponential and logarithmic functions. We will start with exponential growth and decay, focusing on how to model growth and decay using graphs and equations. I have quite a few tasks listed below - please don't think you have to do all these in one sitting, work through them throughout the week as your schedule allows.
ATTENDANCE: Please visit the WHS homepage to sign in to attendance. Be sure to fill in the attendance form for each period at the appropriate time. The new distance learning schedule can be found on the WHS homepage here.
Objectives:
Good morning students! I hope you all enjoyed your spring break and were able to take advantage of the nice weather. This week we will continue working through Unit 6, but our focus this week will be on inverse functions. The week before spring break, you all completed an activity in Desmos that was designed to introduce you to inverse functions and their graphs. We will expand on those ideas below, learning how to find inverses algebraically, graphically, and by looking at a table of values.
ATTENDANCE: Please visit the WHS homepage to sign in to attendance. Be sure to fill in the attendance form for each period at the appropriate time. The new distance learning schedule can be found on the WHS homepage here.
Objectives:
Good morning students! Well, we're back. I hope you are making the most of this time and are at least enjoying this time with your family. We are moving back to "Distance Learning" this week and I'd like to use this week to continue working on Unit 6, our unit on function operations, compositions, and inverses. Next week we will be on Spring Break and when we return we'll finish up this unit and move on to the next phase. Please keep in mind that the remainder of the year will be "Pass/No Credit" and will be based on participation only.
Tasks and Materials for this week:
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PERIOD 3 - THURSDAY, MARCH 12TH
Objectives:
Hello everyone! Our lesson today is going to consist of more practice with function operations and compositions but I'm going to mix up the type of functions we're using and also expand on how we can write the domain of a function composition in interval notation. Before watching the video, I recommend printing out the worksheet posted below because I'm going to do several problems from this worksheet for you as part of our notes for today.
Materials for today:
Objective: Function Operations and Compositions
Good morning! Please check out the instructional videos posted to the left. The first video explains what function operations are and how we can add, subtract, multiply, and divide functions. The second video explains what a function composition is and demonstrates two methods we can use to compose functions. *Note - At about 5:11 in the first video I make a mistake, the second term should be 33x^2, not 33x. Sorry!*
Materials for today: