Monday, January 26: Simplification of Radicals
Goal: Simplifying Radicals to assist in exact values of distance
Resources:
http://www.themathpage.com/alg/simplify-radicals.htm -- great if you prefer the swimming buddies method
Khan Academy doing prime factorization method. Try the problem before he does it. Pause the video and see if you're better at it than he is!
http://www.purplemath.com/modules/radicals.htm -- does both methods fairly well
http://www.regentsprep.org/regents/math/algebra/AO1/Lsimplify.htm -- great if you prefer the largest square method
Extra Practice: http://www.ixl.com/math/algebra-1/simplify-radical-expressions -- instant feedback to check your answers
Homework: 03.simplify.radicals.hw.pdf (on your drive)
Tuesday, January 27: Snow Day
Wednesday, January 28: Perimeters and Areas of Triangles
Goals:
Adding Radicals in the Guise of Rectangles
How do we Know it's a rectangle?
Area and perimeter of a Rectangle
Homework: 03.add.radicals.hw.pdf
Thursday, January 29: Triangles!
Quiz Today!
Goals:
Classify Triangles by the sides
Add radical values of triangle sides
Find Area of triangles aligned and not aligned on a grid
Homework: Define the following terms:
scalene triangle,
acute triangle,
equilateral triangle,
obtuse triangle,
right triangle,
isosceles triangle,
parallelogram
trapezoid
isosceles trapezoid
rhombus
Friday, January 30:
Goal: Review Quiz, work more on radicals.
Homework: none