Welcome to Intermediate Algebra! This week will be spent on getting comfortable with Google Classroom and other educational technology that your child will need for online learning, such as Google Docs, Sheets, Forms and Slides, Quizlet, Khan Academy, Edpuzzle and Zoom. Please make sure to read over the syllabus carefully. If you have questions or concerns about it, feel free to email me.

This week we will review basic terminology on equations and get detailed with simple linear equations. We will work on various examples of linear equations with variables on one side. These equations will involve performing distributive property and combining like terms. This week is also the middle of the trimester, so progress reports will be coming to you very soon. Any late work students have to make up needs to be turned in as soon as possible.

We will wrap up our review of equation this week. Multi-step equations with variables on both sides, involving distributive property, combining like terms and fractions, will be practiced and discussed. There will be a quiz on Friday, so please check your PowerSchool regularly. We will also have a practice quiz before Friday to review and reinforce what we learned.

This week, we'll move on to the unit on systems of equations. We will discuss methods of solving systems of equations such as graphing and substitution. Problems will involve solving for a variable, graphing linear functions in slope-intercept form and finding solutions to systems graphically and algebraically. Please keep in mind that the first trimester ends on December 4.

This is a short week, so we will review putting equations in slope intercept form and do some graphing practice with y = mx + b. Please keep in mind that the first trimester ends on December 4.

This week, we'll move on to the unit on systems of equations. We will discuss methods of solving systems of equations such as graphing and substitution. Problems will involve solving for a variable, graphing linear functions in slope-intercept form and finding solutions to systems graphically and algebraically. Report cards are coming out this week, so please be on a lookout for those.

We will review solving systems of equations by graphing and substitution and have a quiz involving both methods. Your child will need some graph paper for this week, so please print it out from Google Classroom or have your child ask me to leave a few sheets for them in the main office to be picked up. I am also able to drop off graph paper for students in shop for those in need. Late work is still being accepted for full credit.

We will spend the week going over practice MCAS tests - paper based as well as digital. Make up and catch up work will also be allowed during class time. Please keep in mind that this week is the end of the second trimester.

After starting off with factoring last week, we will continue exploring and practicing different factoring methods. We will be looking at factoring by GCF, factoring trinomials into two binomials, factoring by grouping and difference of squares. There will be MCAS testing this week for the first three hours of the day Monday through Thursday. Periods will run on Monday and Wednesday as 4, 5, 6 and on Tuesday and Thursday 3, 2, 1.