Direct Variation

Agenda for Thursday, March 30, 2017 and Friday, March 31, 2017.


SHORTENED PERIOD due to OSSLT


1.  Attendance and Video Task:  What is it? 
2.  Start Lesson:  Direct Variation


We didn't finish it!....so, no homework assigned. 
3.  Homework:  Page 242, #1, 5 - 9, 12


REMEMBER THAT YOU'LL NEED ACCESS TO YOUR OWN GRAPH PAPER FOR THIS UNIT!  A ruler and several colours will be useful, too.

Coordinate Points

Agenda for Wednesday, March 29, 2017.

1.  Attendance and Parent Interview Sign Up
2.  Lesson:  Review the coordinate basics
3.  Homework:  Plot the Points - be creative! 
Due:  Friday, March 31 at the start of the period.

1. Set up a +/-10 X +/-10 Cartesian Plane. 
2. Plot the following points and join them with line segments. 

(1, -3), (5, -4), (4, -3), (9, 1),

(7, 2), (8, 5), (5, 4), (5, 5), (3, 4), (4, 9), (2, 7), (0,10), (-2, 7), (-4, 8), (-3, 3), (-5, 6), (-5, 4), (-8, 5), (-7, 2), (-9, 1), (-4, -3), (-5,-4), (0, -3), (2, -7), (2, -6), (1, -3)

Tomorrow's Schedule

8:20 a.m. - 11:40 a.m.  OSSLT:  Literacy Test

11:45 a.m. – 12:25 p.m.    Lunch

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12:30 – 1:15 p.m.      Period 1

1:20 – 2:05 p.m.        Period 2

2:05 – 2:10 p.m.        Announcements

2:15 – 3:00 p.m.        Period 5

Test Day and the New Unit!

Agenda for Tuesday, March 28, 2017.


1.  Hand in chapter tests x 2 and your word scaries.
2.  Hand in your signed quiz


3.  TO BE READY FOR TOMORROW, BE SURE TO COME TO CLASS WITH YOUR RULERS, COLOURS AND GRAPH PAPER! We are entering a new unit called analytic geometry where graph paper is necessary.  Improve the quality of your notes and homework by having graph paper available all the time.  This unit should last about a month.


Parent night interviews are next week Wednesday....speak to your parents about possible concerns and let me know what time slot to book you in for!  I am now in Room 338, rather than the portable.

Answers to the Practice Test

PARENT NIGHT INTERVIEWS on Wednesday, April 5th for C. Passafiume will be in Room 338.  Sign up via your student!


Check your answers carefully and mark accordingly. 
How did you do?  What can you improve on?  I know what I can improve on!...#7.  NOTE that the last two lines of my solution for this question should have the - r in the denominator written as + r instead.  Sorry for the error!

Ready for the Test?

Agenda for Monday, March 27, 2017.


1.  Attendance
2.  Set up for a test:

• Computers out and open at the blog
• Take some blank pieces of paper out to write your answers on.  
• 30 minutes for your practice test

4.  Take up Test....  How did you do?
6.  Questions?....Remember that you will have to submit your chapter tests and word scaries


A little more practice?  Try this 2 page quiz:

Review 2

Agenda for Friday, March 24, 2017.


1.  Attendance and Warm Up:  What did the martian say when he accidentally landed on Venus?
2.  Quiz take up 
3.  Complete Review assigned on Wednesday and Thursday.  Be sure that your word problems are completed, too!  Try EQAO Review from the formative tab...just the multiple choice.


4.  Get ready for the mock test on Monday!!!!

Review

Agenda for Thursday, March 23, 2017.


1.  Attendance and Warm Up! - What did the girl mushroom say about the boy mushroom after their first date? 
2.  Concept Map
3.  Homework:  Page 231 #12, Chapter test Page 232 #1 - 10


All Chapter Test Homework (March 22 and March 23) and the word scaries will be collected on Tuesday prior to the test. 

Math Quiz Today!

Agenda for Wednesday, March 22, 2017.


1.  Attendance and Warm Up!
Complete the handout:  Why couldn't the chicken find her egg?
and solve for AB given the composite shape to the right:
and solve the following word problem:
A rectangular picture is 5 cm longer than it is wide.  The perimeter of the picture is 90 cm.  Determine the width of the picture. 

2.  Quiz:  30 minutes

3.  Beginning Review for the Test:  Chapter Practice Test:  Page 176 #1 - 14
If you feel like you need more review on this section then try Page 174 #3 - 20.

Word Problems

Agenda for Tuesday, March 21, 2017.

1.  Attendance and Warm Up:  Solving Equations #1 - 8
2.  Lesson:  Word Problems
3.  Homework:  Word Scaries # 6 - 23


Quiz tomorrow!  Be sure to have your own equipment.  No sharing allowed.


Solutions to the word problems:

Welcome back from the March Break!

Agenda for Monday, March 20, 2017.


1.  Attendance and Warm Up:  Solving Equations #1 - 3
2.  Lesson:  Translating Math into English and English into Math!
3.  Homework:  Page 226 #1, 2


Word Scaries #1 - 5
(Answers are:  [16], [84], [64], [16, 11], [22, 23], [36, 40], [6, 16], [21, 31], [62, 59.5], [13, 14])

Pythagorean Word Problems

Agenda for Friday, March 10, 2017.

1.  Attendance

2.  Lesson:  Make sure that you take time to read with the question and understand what it is asking you to find.  Then, make a plan for your solution - set up a picture to introduce your variables.


3.  Homework:  Page 424 #5 - 10, 12

Pythagorean Theorem

Agenda for Thursday, March 9, 2017.


1.  Attendance and Warm Up: Check Formative Items and solve the equations for the unknown variable.  Pick 1 question to check your answer.




2.  Lesson:  Pythagorean Theorem...how did I lie to you yesterday?






3.  Homework:  Page 423 #1ad, 2ad, 3a, 4ac
Be sure to draw the triangles, too!  And check your answers to be sure that you're completing the work correctly. 


Take a listen and think about our lesson today!

What is the difference between a formula and an equation?

Agenda for Wednesday, March 8, 2017.

1.  Attendance and Warm Up with Communication

co·her·ence

ˌkōˈhirəns/

noun

1.

the quality of being logical and consistent.

2.

the quality of forming a unified whole.

plan

verb

1.

decide on and arrange in advance.


Check out:  http://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Good-Answer-to-Exam-Essay-Questions

2.  Lesson:  Rearranging Formulae
3.  Homework:  Page 215 #1 - 3, 8, 10, 12, 15, 16
4.  Looking Ahead:  Test on March 28/29; Quiz/Task on March 22

Multi Step Equations...some more!

Agenda for Tuesday, March 7, 2017.

1.  Attendance and Homework Check!
2.  Warm up:  Mad Minutes - repeat from yesterday but work from the bottom up!
3.  Lesson:  Let's solve more complex equations:  Remember BEDMAS, expand and simplify and ISOLATE!
4.  Test take up!

Fractional Multi Step Equations

Agenda for Monday, March 6, 2017.

1.  Attendance and Warm Up with MAD MINUTES

2.  Lesson:  What do you do when you have fractions in an equation?  How do you approach it? 
3.  Test 1A take up tomorrow! STAMP?  Be sure not to forget!!! 
Test must be signed.
Quiz must be signed.
4.  Homework:  Page 208 #1ad, 3ac, 4, 6 - 9, 11

Multi Step Equations

Agenda for Friday, March 3, 2017.


1.  Attendance
2.  Zonk!
3.  Homework:  Page 200 #(1 - 5)ad, 8, 9ace, 10a, 17, 18

Simple Equations

Agenda for Thursday, March 2, 2017.


1.  Agenda
2.  Quiz (30 minutes)
3.  Lesson:  Solving Simple Equations
4.  Homework:  Page 192 1 - 6, 8, 11 - 13, Communication Task on page 192 C2 - Hand in!

Monomial x Polynomial

Agenda for Wednesday, March 1, 2017.

1.  Attendance
2.  Warm up with mad minutes!  Go to the Formative Task tab:  No need to write out the question and get as many answers as possible!  Check your answers with the sheet below, but #6) is wrong.  Y's exponent should be 13, not 14.
3.  Lesson:  Monomial x Polynomial
Get your colours out!...and you'll need a ruler, too.
4.  Homework:  Page 167 #8, 9, 12, 13, 15abgh, 16ac, 18.