Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Week 3 9/29

IMP 100
Quiz today on substitution and evaluation, requiz on the order of operations
Group work on Catching Up and presentations

IMP 200
Box and whisker plots
Beginning work on factoring and distribution

Stats
chapter 2.1 do 2 question topic: frequency charts, histograms, frequency polygons

Geometry
1.1 1-31 odd
1.2 assigned today

Monday, September 28, 2009

Statistics Online

If you would like to see the book we are using in class in statistics please follow this link.

http://www.mhhe.com/math/stat/bluman4e/index.mhtml

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Week 2 9/22

IMP 100
We have collected 4 assignments so far in class and have taken a quiz on the order of operations. There will be re-takes of that quiz happening in a week. We are now working on solving linear equations, substitution and evaluation.

HW Update:
Intro to the Order of operations (past due)
Pre-assessment (past due)
HW 2 (past due)
Hw 6 (past due)
HW 7 assigned today
HW 8 assigned 9/23

IMP 200


We covered graphing linear equations, some students did quadratic or equations involving roots. We took a quiz covering graphing and identifying the slope and y-intercept of a linear written in y=mx+b form. We are now working on writing equations given two points, but it's slow going. We've been reviewing how to solve algebraic equations.

HW Update:
Pre-Assessment (past due)
Find the slope and y-intercept (past due)
2 graphs (past due)
Algebra Review (do today)
Writing equations assigned 9/22


Geometry

Page 4-6 # 3, 4, 5, 8, 9 (past due)
Geoboard activity regarding the count of right triangles (past due)
Pythagorean Thm using geogebra (done today)
page 12 do one problem

Statistics


Pre-assessment past due
Ti-activity in class
Human histogram due 9/23
Test on Vocabulary 9/23

Sunday, September 13, 2009

Week One Plans

Welcome Back!

Here are my plans for the first week of classes:

In advising we will be starting our unit on hunger and doing a few get to know you activities. Our first class meeting will be on Wednesday and our first all school meeting will be on Friday.

In IMP 100 we will be starting each day will a review of old concepts like the dreaded fraction. We will then learn/review the order of operations. Expect some homework from these days. There will be a pre-assessment that will be handed out the first day of class which will help inform my instruction. It should be done independently.

In IMP 200 we will start with a graphing review and move into a more generic Algebra review. There will be a pre-assessment that will be handed out the first day of class which will help inform my instruction. It should be done independently.

In Geometry we'll be starting with a geo-board activity and Chapter 1.

In Statistics there will also be a pre-assessment, followed by a TI activity and CH 1. Which will focus on terms and definitions. It's a short chapter that will be followed up by a quiz.

In Chemistry there will be an in class pre-assessment and a written HW assessment focusing on fears and issues related to the class. We will then move on to the "the atom and the scientific method."