Unit 7: Polynomial Equations and Factoring
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Monday, February 4, 2019 (Odd)
- Learning Targets:
- To demonstrate proficiency on concepts and skills related to polynomials
- Warm-Up:
- Questions?
- Classwork:
- Summative
- Homework:
- Exponential Practice - KEY is HERE
- Important Dates:
Friday, February 1, 2019 (even)
- Learning Targets:
- To add, subtract, multiply, factor, and solve polynomial equations
- Warm-Up:
- Classwork:
- Correct practice summative
- Word problems
- Homework:
- Important Dates:
- Summative - Monday, 2/4/19
Thursday, January 31, 2019 (odd)
- Learning Targets:
- To add, subtract, multiply, factor, and solve polynomial equations
- Warm-Up:
- Correct homework
- Classwork:
- Video game review
- Homework:
- Practice summative due tomorrow with corrections made by end of class
- Key is here !
- Important Dates:
- Summative - Monday, 2/4/19
Wednesday, January 30, 2019 (even)
- Learning Targets:
- To factor polynomial equations and apply skills to real life situations
- Warm-Up:
- Go over formative
- Classwork:
- More word problems
- Homework:
- Word problems
- Important Dates:
- Summative - Monday, 2/4/19
Tuesday, January 29, 2019 (odd)
- Learning Targets:
- To factor polynomial equations and apply skills to real life situations
- Warm-Up:
- Factoring
- Classwork:
- Formative
- Homework:
- More factoring practice
- Important Dates:
- Summative - Monday, 2/4/19
Monday, January 28, 2019 (Even)
- Learning Targets:
- To factor polynomial equations
- Warm-Up:
- Multiplying special cases
- Classwork:
- Factoring special cases
- Homework:
- 7.9 Practice A (handout)
- Important Dates:
- Formative - Tuesday, 1/29/19
- Summative - Monday, 2/4/19
Friday, January 25, 2019 (Even)
- Learning Targets:
- To factor polynomial equations
- Warm-Up:
- Classwork:
- More work on factoring when a > 1
- Mixed factoring practice
- Homework:
- 7.8 Practice A handout
- Important Dates:
- Formative - Tuesday, 1/29/19
- Summative - Monday, 2/4/19
Thursday, January 24, 2019 (Even)
- Learning Targets:
- To factor polynomial equations
- Warm-Up:
- Problems on board
- Check homework from last night and record on clipboard
- Classwork:
- Factoring when a >1
- Homework:
- One problem
- Important Dates:
- Formative - Tuesday, 1/29/19
- Summative - Monday, 2/4/19
Wednesday, January 23, 2019 (Odd)
- Learning Targets:
- To factor polynomial equations
- Warm-Up:
- Board - factoring from simple to advanced
- Classwork:
- What does it mean to factor?
- Factoring polynomial equations
- Diamonds are a mathematicians best friend
- Practice - handout
- Homework:
- 7.7 Practice A (handout)
- Important Dates:
- Formative - Tuesday, 1/29/19
- Summative - Monday, 2/4/19
Tuesday, January 22, 2019 (Even)
On Friday - Meet in Room 517 during period 1
- Learning Targets:
- To solve quadratic equations using the zero product property
- Warm-Up:
- Return formatives
- Classwork:
- Solving polynomial equations
- Factored form and standard form and non-standard form
- What is a solution?
- Zero product property
- Practice - page 192 in journal
- Solving polynomial equations
- Homework:
- Online 7.5, pages 360-361, problems 4-24 (even)
- Important Dates:
- Formative - Tuesday, 1/29/19
- Summative - Monday, 2/4/19
Friday, January 18, 2019 (Odd)
- Learning Targets:
- To operate with polynomials
- To factor the GCF
- Warm-Up:
- Correct practice formative
- Problems on board - special products
- Classwork:
- Factoring the GCF
- Formative
- Homework:
- Online 7.6 - pages 366-367, problems 6-12, 14-16, 33-36
- Important Dates:
- Summative - Wednesday, 2/6/19
Thursday, January 17, 2019 (Even)
- Learning Targets:
- To operate with polynomials
- Warm-Up:
- Correct homework
- Exponents warm-up
- Classwork:
- Begin practice formative
- Homework:
- Finish practice formative
- Important Dates:
- Formative - Friday, 1/16/19
- Formative - Wednesday, 1/23/19 (will include simplifying expressions with exponents and exponential functions)
- Summative - Wednesday, 2/6/19
Wednesday, January 16, 2019 (Odd)
- Learning Targets:
- To add and subtract polynomials
- To multiply polynomials
- Warm-Up:
- Correct homework
- Classwork:
- Adding and subtracting polynomials
- 7.2 Online or pages 338-339, problems 5-17 (odd) and 21-23 (odd)
- Multiplying polynomials - 3 methods
- Homework:
- Practice 7.3 - multiplying polynomials
- Important Dates:
- Formative - Wednesday, 1/23/19 (will include simplifying expressions with exponents and exponential functions)
- Summative - Wednesday, 2/6/19
Tuesday, January 15, 2018 (Even)
- Learning Targets:
- To identify monomials
- To classify polynomials
- Warm-Up:
- Please get journals
- What you learned before - pages 171-172 in journal
- What vocabulary do we know to describe the parts of the following equation?
- y = 2x^2 + 5x + 3
- Classwork:
- Notes: Make a t-chart with examples of monomials and not monomials, write a definition of a monomial and a definition for the degree of a monomial
- Notes: Polynomials and standard form of a polynomial
- Start homework
- Homework:
- 7.1 Practice (handout)
- Important Dates:
- Formative - Wednesday, 1/23/19 (will include simplifying expressions with exponents and exponential functions)
- Summative - Wednesday, 2/6/19
Monday, January 14, 2019 (Even)
- Learning Targets:
- To demonstrate proficiency on 1st semester concepts and skills
- Warm-Up:
- Please get a privacy folder
- Put your practice district summative on the clipboard and record your level of confidence about these concepts and skills
- Classwork:
- District summative
- Homework:
- Basic factoring practice
- Important Dates:
Thursday, January 10, 2019 (Odd)
- Learning Targets:
- To review concepts and skills from 1st semester
- Warm-Up:
- Make a list of concepts and skills we've learned from the first half of the year
- Our goal will be to group them into 6 or fewer categories by Friday
- Classwork:
- District summative practice
- Homework:
- Finish district summative review packet so we can check it in class on Friday
- Key is here
- Important Dates:
- District Summative - Monday, 1/14/19
Wednesday, January 9, 2019 (Even)
- Learning Targets:
- To understand and interpret scatter plots
- Warm-Up:
- Scatter plots - what do the slopes and y-intercepts mean?
- Classwork:
- Return summatives - what do we need to continue to work on?
- District summative - begin work on packet
- Homework:
- Problems 1-13, 34-35, 53-59 in district summative review packet
- Key is here
- Important Dates:
- District Summative - Monday, 1/14/19
Tuesday, January 8, 2019 (Odd)
- Learning Targets:
- To review concepts and skills related to exponential functions
- To understand and interpret scatter plots
- Warm-Up:
- New seats
- Get journals
- ELO - Get graphing calculators
- Classwork:
- Page 146 in journal - review of exponent properties
- Page 333 in journal - making a scatter plot and interpreting the line of best fit
- Positive, negative, and no correlation
- Interpreting slope and y-intercept
- Correlation and causation
- https://towardsdatascience.com/why-correlation-does-not-imply-causation-5b99790df07e
- The more firemen are sent to a fire, the more damage is done.
- Children who get tutored get worse grades than children who do not get tutored.
- The number of Nobel prizes won by a country (adjusting for population) correlates well with per capita chocolate consumption.
- Chocolate consumption (per capita) also significantly correlates with the per capita number of serial murderers.
- There is a strong relationship between the amount of serious crime committed and the amount of ice cream sold by street vendors!
- The size of your palm is negatively correlated with how long you will live.
- The amount of soda a person drinks is positively correlated to the likelihood of obesity.
- ELO - Using calculators with scatter plots
- Clear everything
- DiagnosticON - 2ndCatalog - scroll down
- Enter values - stat > edit.
- Homework:
- 12.5 Practice (handout)
- Important Dates:
- District Summative - Monday, 1/14/19
Friday, February 1, 2019 (Even)
- Learning Targets:
- To review all concepts and skills related to polynomial equations and factoring
- Classwork:
- Practice summative
- Homework:
- Practice summative (due Tuesday, 2/5/19)
- Key is here !
- Important Dates:
- Summative - Monday, 2/4/19