FOA/Algebra I
ONLINE LEARNING BEGINS 03/16/2020
Please scroll all the way down for the new notes.
This is the link to the blog of all teachers of FOA/Algebra 1 :
Welcome to the Foundations of Algebra/Algebra 1 class! I am looking forward to teaching you this year!
You will recieve a packet for each unit, beginning from the first day of school.
Here is the supply list that you will need for the whole year:
- pencils/erasers
- dry erase markers
- tissues
I cannot wait to see you on August 1st!
08/01 Thursday
08/02 Friday
Please finish #1-6 (p. 7) for homework (due Monday).
08/05 Monday
Simplifying Algebraic Expressions_Notes
HW: finish all exercises on p. 7.
08/06 Tuesday
HW: complete p. 11 and the study guide.
08/07 Wednesday
Quiz 1
Notes on Distributive Property can be looked up on the common FOA blog (p. 12):
08/08 Thursday
Solving multi-step equations and inequalities (notes and practice) - p.12, 13 and 15 (see the notes on the common blog).
HW:finish p.12,13,15
08/09 Friday
Practice on p. 14 and p. 16.
HW: finish p.14 and p.16, and the Study Guide on p. 24 (First block students, you received it on a separate piece of paper).
Be ready for the quiz on Monday!!!
08/15 Thursday
Practice on the review problems and be ready for the Test Unit 0 tomorrow! The packets are due tomorrow.
08/16 Friday
Test Unit 0, independent practice in the Unit 6 packet, pages 8-11.
08/19 Monday
Vocab Skills Check
Going over Vocab, Coordinate Plane, Linear Equations,
HW p. 12
08/20 Tuesday
Ordering Rational Numbers, notes p. 13
HW p. 14
08/21 Wednesday
Frequency Tables, notes p. 15
HW p. 17
08/22 Thursday
Review of Mean, Median, Mode, Range and Outliers, notes on page 19.
HW p. 21-22
08/23 Friday
Five number summary
HW: p.25
08/26 Monday
Skills Check
Quiz 1 Unit 6
HW: p. 29
10/11 Friday
Multiplying Binomials
HW: p45, #1-6 (only on the left part)
10/14 Monday
Finding Area and Perimeter using algebraic expressions
HW; p. 49 (part 1, 3, 4)
10/15 Tuesday
Skills Check and Quiz 1.2.
No HW
10/16 Wednesday
Testing Day/No 1 or 2 Block
10/17 Thursday
Simplifying Radicals
10/25 Friday
Unit conversion
HW: p.65
10/31 Thursday
Station 1 Questions and Answers
The packets are due tomorrow. Be ready for the test!
11/1 Friday
Test Unit 1
11/4 Monday
Unit 2 Linear Functions begins
Unit 2 Packets are given out to students.
Error Analysis (p.8).
Touchstone Test Unit 1 (on paper)
11/5 Tuesday
No school
11/6 Wednesday
Review: Solving Multi-Step Equations
HW: page 9 (finish)
11/7 Thursday
Review: Solving inequalities
HW: page 11.
11/8 Friday
Review: Literal Equations
11/11 Monday
Please complete the following worksheets and check your answers with the key:
Evaluating Expressions and Key
Solving Literal Equations and Key
12/18 Wednesday
Final Quiz Review Packet and Answer Key
WINTER BREAK
01/06 Monday
Unit 3 Begins - Quadratics
Review of Graphing Points, Order of Operations, Solving Equations and Evaluating Functions.
p. 8-11
01/07 Tuesday
Evaluating and Graphing Quadratic Functions
p. 12
01/08 Wednesday
Rate of Change, p.13-14
01/09 Thursday
Math Inventory Test
Skills Check
01/10 Friday
Quiz 1 UNIT 3
01/13 Monday
Characteristics of Quadratics p. 16-21
01/14 Tuesday
Finish Characteristics of Quadratics
01/15 Wednesday
Rate of Change p. 22-24
01/16 Thursday
Graphing in Standard Form, p. 25-30
01/17 Friday
Converting Between Forms, p. 31-33
01/21 Monday - NO SCHOOL MLK DAY
01/22 Tuesday
Graphing in Vertex Form, p. 34-36
01/23 Wednesday
Transformations of Quadratic Functions, p.37-39
01/24 Thursday
Task - Transformations
01/25 Friday
Practice on Transformations - p. 38 (Team Work)
Creating a Transformed Parabola (Individual Work) - Hands-on Activity.
01/ 27 Monday
Review before the Quiz and Quiz 3.2
02/11 Friday
Quiz 3.3
02/14 Friday
Unit 3 Test
02/28 Friday
Quiz 4.1
03/06 Friday
Quiz 4.2
03/13 Friday
Test Unit 4
ONLINE LEARNING BEGINS 03/16/2020
Dear students,
From 03/16/202 we begin our online learning. We completed Unit 4 right before the schools got closed, and we were about to start Unit 5. If you received the new Unit 5 packet, please hold on to it for now. I also will collect your Unit 4 packets when we return back to school.
- What you need to do is to practice on various EOC math problems every day, Monday through Friday, for 30 minutes each day.
- You will need to create an account on deltamath.com website, pick your teacher's name, which is given as Ms. M, and start exercising on EOC Practice set of problems.
- The code for deltamath is 693792.
I will be monitoring your progress through deltamath.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me by email:
Monday through Friday, I am available for a video conference through Zoom Video Conference. You can make an appointment with me for a video call. The URL for it is https://zoom.us/j/5046567129
Start practicing on EOC questions!
Day 1 - March 16, Monday
I can see that some of my students did a good job working on Delta Math. There were only 8 students so far, though. Please tell a friend who did not create an account on deltamath.com to do it as fast as possible. Remember, you will great credit for this work.
Day 2 - March 17, Tuesday
I see that many more students created the deltamath account, well done! If you created an account, please start working and work every day for 30 minutes. I have an access to your progress and I am monitoring it every day.
Day 3 - March 18, Wednesday
Here is the information about low-cost internet service:
Students, here is the information about food pick-up locations:
I am glad to see that the number of students using deltamath is increasing. Please, tell your classmates to go to the blog and start exercising if they have not being doing that yet. Some of you created an account, but have 0% of work done. Make sure you exercise 30 minutes per day.
I changed the instructions regarding the time you can make a video call to me.
Monday through Friday, I am available for a video conference through Zoom Video Conference. You can make an appointment with me for a video call. The URL for it is https://zoom.us/j/5046567129
On Friday, March 20th, we will have a video session as a class (both of my classes can join). You can ask me any questions on login or the material you are working on. The time for the video conference is 10:30-11:15. Please use the URL above to join the conference.
Day 4 - March 19, Thursday
One student had a video call with me, good job! If you need any help, please send an email with a request.
Day 5 - March 20, Friday
This is the URL of our current meeting
https://zoom.us/j/514521961?pwd=enJWbm9RaXZpU09aVlVySG0rcXJVQT09
Please use it to log in.
Students, please understand the importance of social distancing at this time. Please, click on the links below and follow the directions.
March 21 and March 22
Please join my class on Remind!
Here is the link: https://www.remind.com/join/d4ggh
Please, sign up as soon as possible.
Day 7 - Tuesday, March 24
Please keep working on Deltamath EOC Prep exercises.
Some of you are getting done with it, great job! So, when you done with Deltamath exercises, please start working through the Unit 5 packet (see the file below). If you do not have a printed copy, write your solutions on a piece of paper and send them to me 2 pages per email (take a picture and send it). I will give you feed back. The material in Unit 5 is not new. Unit 5 is bringing together everything we learned about different types of functions. If you do not remember something, please try to find the answer in the old packets, and then, if you still questions, please contact me.
The time of exercise on the Notebook - 30 minutes per day as well.
Reminder: you can always ask for a personal or a group video conference with me. We will schedule our conference for a convenient time, and I can answer any questions you have live!
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Week 3/30 -4/3
This week please continue working on EOC Prep exercises until you receive 100% of completion on that. I am monitoring your progress through the Delta Math teacher's portal. You will receive credit for your work. If you are done with the Delta Math work, start working in the Unit 5 Packet (posted above, on the blog). Send me the pictures of the work you completed via email. Keep working 30 minutes each day. If you have any questions - please send me a message through Remind or the email.
The goal is to complete EOC Prep on Delta Math before the Spring Break.
Spring break - 04/06-04/10
Monday, April 13
Welcome back, students! I hope you are all well and your Spring Break was nice.
We are beginning to work through Unit 5 now.
Please, watch the recorded video with guided examples and complete pages 6, 8, and 9 in the packet. You will need to do additional exercises on Nearpod for each topic and take quizzes on Quizizz. com (please see below the plan for each day).
Please, send the completed pages from the packet to me via email (take a picture and attach with the date and your name in the subject line).
3-13 Video_Solving Equations and Inequalities
Unit 5 Virtual Assignments_ Plan
HW:
1) complete p. 6,8, and 9, take a picture and send it to Ms. M via email
2) complete the assigned lessons on Nearpod (Day 1 and Day 2) and the Quizzes for Day 1 and Day 2 (you have to create an account on Quizizz.com).
All work is due on Tuesday, 4/14, by 5pm.
Wednesday, April 15th
Please, watch the video and complete pages 13, 14, 15 from the packet. Take a picture of your work and send it to me.
Go to the Unit 5 Virtual Assignments Plan and complete the work for day 3 and 4.
All the work should be done by 5pm on Thursday.
April 20th, Monday
Good morning students,
Please, watch the video and complete p.21 by Tuesday, 5pm. Look at Unit 5 Virtual Plan and complete exercises for Day 5 and Day 6.
April 22nd, Wednesday
04_22_Video_Characteristics of Functions
Please, watch the video and complete pages 23, 26, 27, 28 in the packet (it's multiple choice). Take a picture of your work and send it to me via email.
From the Virtual plan - complete only Day 7 assignment.
Remember: this assigned work is for today and Thursday, and Friday is used as a day to catch up (finish any unfinished work and turn it in).
April 27th, Monday
Students, we will have a Zoom video lesson today at 12pm. Here is the link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84673833902?pwd=R0tMTkx4TXdaYktiM1ZZY0lHZ3pQUT09
I will answer your questions on p.23, 26,27,28 of the packet.
Assigned work for today and tomorrow: Finish the work Characteristics (Day 7 in Virtual Assignment and p.23, 26,27,28 from the packet), and Day 8 of Virtual Assignment. Make sure that you complete the Characteristics work first, then complete Day 8 assignment.
New link to use for Zoom conference:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87074381647?pwd=YWFnODNZV2tFTHg0T2NITEpvVWJwdz09
April 29th, Wednesday
Students, please, watch the video about Transformations (page 33 of the packet). Complete page 34 and send me a picture of it. Then, complete the assigned work on the NEW Virtual plan (see above), Day 9.
This work is for today and tomorrow. Friday is the day to catch up with the weekly assignments.
May 4th, Monday
Students, please watch the video and complete HW on page 38 (send me a picture of your complete work). On the NEW Virtual Assignments Plan - Day 10 assignment.
May 6th, Wednesday
Video_pages 10, 22, 32, 35 (review)
Students, please watch the video and complete the HW on pages 11, 22, 32 and 35. Take a picture of your work and send it to me.
No other work on Delta Math or Quizizz is assigned this time.
Monday, May 11th - Friday, May 15th
*This assigned work is for the whole week.
Students, please, watch the video below and complete the remaining pages from the packet: pages 7, 17, 18, 25, 31, 39. Take a picture of your work and send it to me.
05_11 Video_Remaining Packet Pages
From Unit 5 Virtual Assignments, please complete the assigned work for Day 11 and Day 12.
Everything is due on Thursday, 5 pm, but remember that Friday is our catch up day, so if you did not turn in something, this would be the day to submit your work.