The Chapter 1 Test was today. You will have 20 additional minutes tomorrow to finish up.
The topics for tomorrow's Chapter 1 test are:
Today we finished our short notes on graphing linear inequalities. A photo of the notes is below, and these notes go on page 26 of your ISN: We then spent a bunch of time just practicing. The worksheet and the answer key can be found here. If you didn't finish, you should probably go ahead and do all the problems for practice. Then, attach this worksheet to page 25 of your ISN. We'll review all of Chapter 1 tomorrow, and then you have your first Chapter TEST on Thursday.
Today you took a quiz on Piecewise Functions. You'll get it back tomorrow!
I only saw period 2 and period 8 today (shout out to period 4! I missed you guys!), and we just continued reviewing and practicing with piecewise functions. I've created a set of flashcards for you to practice with that are posted below. You may want to try the flashcards both ways - graph first and you write the equations, and equations first and you plot the graphs. Have a wonderful weekend! The answer key to yesterday's homework is embedded below: We began class today with a warm up problem in which you were the graph of one of ten different piecewise functions and you were to write out the equation. Then, you found the one or two other people in class who had the same graph and compared answers. I heard a lot of REALLY great discussions during this portion of the class, and you did a great job of working with your partners/group members with very little help from me. Finally, I gave you the correct answers to each graph and you all asked a whole bunch of really great clarifying questions. (For my teacher folks who check out the blog, here's a link to the graphs that I bought for $3 on TPT - which you know I am philosophically against, but dang, creating graphs of piecewise functions is THE WORST). Students, if you need a copy or would like more problems - come see me! We then finished up the foldable we started yesterday, looking at how to graph functions when you are given the equation. There is a large range of comfort levels with this - but know that you can always use a table of values to help you out. Homework tonight is to practice like crazy! Here's a blank copy: You all did a really great job on the homework last night! I was really impressed. We spent a little more time talking about evaluating piecewise functions from the graph only, and then we moved on to writing equations of piecewise functions when given the graph. Here is a blank copy of the foldable (print on legal size paper) that we used today, and that we'll finish tomorrow: We did more color coding (and will do some more tomorrow!), filling in the top part of the foldable. We worked very slowly and carefully, and then you all did very well on the "your turn" problem.
Today we started a new topic - Piecewise Functions (woohoo!) Our focus in today's lesson was connecting the graph of a piecewise function with its equation, and then we evaluated the functions using the graph and using the equation. We color coded like crazy! The following notes are on page 22 of your ISN. Here is a blank copy of the foldable if you need it. Homework tonight is to complete the following questions, evaluating the functions given the graph, or equation, or both! Here it is: Today we took a quiz on graphing linear equations, writing equations of linear functions, and writing equations of parallel and perpendicular lines! It was great! Have a WONDERFUL three day weekend :)
I ran today's class much like a T.A. (Teaching Assistant) session will be run when you are in college. I projected all of the answers to the homework, and then you all asked lots of really great, clarifying questions.
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AuthorMrs. Secor teaches Pre Calculus and AP Statistics at the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute. Archives
November 2014
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