Ms. N. Bisanz

Week of January 30

Math 8

Monday, January 30  Graphing with intercepts    pages 25 and 26  Homework:  finish Unit Review

Tuesday, January 31  Reviewing for tomorrow's test:  is this a function?  domain, range, slope, y-intercept, graphing from slope intercept equations, changing equations to slope-intercept form, grpahing from the x and y intercepts.

Wednesday, February 1  Unit Test 1  "Slippery Slope"

Thursday, February 2  Writing equations from graphs

Friday, February 3  More writing equations from two points.

Accelerated Math I

Monday, Jan. 30  Reviewing properties of quadrilaterals  Download Classifying Quadrilaterals Homework:  page 325-326 1-16

Tuesday, Jan. 31  Creating two column proofs to verify the properties of quadrilaterals.

Wednesday, Feb. 1  Coordinate geometry and quadrilaterals.  Homework:  study guide

Thursday, Feb. 2  Review for test

Friday, Feb. 3  Unit Test   "Polygons on the Plane".  Logic, congruent triangles, triangle inequality theorem, midsegment theorem, distance formula, midpoint formula, interior  and exterior angles of polygons, names of polygons, quadrilaterals.

Week of January 23

Math 8

Monday, January 23  Determining the slope from two points and from the graph.  Homework:  page 18

Tuesday, January 24  Intercepts;  Graphing linear equations from slope intercept form.  Homework:  page 20

Wednesday, January 25  Graphing linear equations from slope intercept form.  Homework:  page 21

Thursday, January 26  Graph match  Homework:  page 24

Friday, January 27  Unit 5 Review

Accelerated Math I

Monday, January 23  Properties of exterior and interior angles of polygons.  Homework:  page 300-301;  numbers 2-34 even.

Tuesday, January 24  Properties of quadrilaterals.  Quadrilateral sort, defining parallelograms.  Homework:  pages 306-307  2-28 even; 29

Wednesday, January 25  Discovering the properties of quadrilaterals by constructing diagonals.  Homework:  pages 319-320 1-26 all.  omit #24

Thursday, January 26  Performance task, "Surveillance of the Village"  Complete for homework.

Friday, January 27  Coordinate Geometry....quadrilaterals.  Unit Test is next Friday, Feb. 3

Week of January 17

Math 8

Tuesday, January 17  slope, review for thursday quiz...quiz is on Functions, domain and range, graphing lines from a table, determining a linear function from the equation or the picture. 

Wednesday, January 18  Eighth Grade Writing Assessment ....no math class

Thursday, January 19  Quiz and more about slope. Slope intercept form of an equation

Friday, January 20 graphing from slope intercept form.

Accelerated Math I

Tuesday, January 17  Construction quiz...points of concurrency:  orthocenter, circumcenter, centroid, incenter.  Review for test.  Study guide:  Download Polygons in the plane study guide test 1 2012 

Wednesday, January 18  Eighth Grade Writing Assessment....no math class

Thursday, January 19  Unit 3, Polygons on the Plane, Test 1.

Friday, January 20  Names of polygons, interior angles of polygons.

Week of January 10

Math 8

Tuesday, Jan 10  Checkpoint Formative Assessment;  what is a function?  Notes, complete page 3 in your new packet.

Wednesday, Jan. 11  Functions, relations, and linear functions. Complete the charts and plot the points (graph) for numbers 13 and 14 on 4C

Thursday, Jan. 12  Table of values,  Homework:  pages 10 a and b.  Complete the charts and riddle on page 10a and graph them on page 10b.

 Friday, Jan. 13 identifying solutions to linear equations with two variables.Soving for y and graphing.  Pages 14 and 12

Accelerated Math I

Tuesday, Jan. 10  Checkpoint Formative Assessment;  Review midterm test, Homework:  page 266 1-12

Wednesday, Jan. 11  Construction of perpendicular bisector and circumcenter.  Homework:  page 266 13-18 and pages 268-9 1-16.

Thursday, Jan. 12  Construction of angle bisectors and the incenter of a triangle.   Homework:  page 274-275  1-19

Friday, Jan. 13  Medians and Altitudes;  centroid and orthocenter.  Page 280-281

Test next Thursday, Jan. 19 covering the Triangle Inequality Theorem, The Midsegment Theorem, Points of concurrency and congruent triangles.

Construction quiz on points of concurrency next Tuesday. 

Notes on points of concurrencty:  Download Points of Concurrency - notes

Week of December 19

Math 8

Monday, Dec. 19  Explicit forms of arithmetic sequences.  Packet pages 7z and 7b

Tuesday, Dec. 20  Explicit and recursive forms of sequences.  Homework:  finish pg 13 a, 13b

Wednesday, Dec. 21  Sequence quiz

Thursday, Dec. 22  Video/activity with sequences.

Accelerated Math I

Monday, Dec. 19  Distance and midpoint formulas  Homework:  page 195 4-6;  10, 11, 16

Tuesday, Dec. 20  Using coordinate geometry to discover the midsegment theorem.  No homework.

Wednesday, Dec. 21  Classifying triangles with coordinate geometry.  Midterm tomorrow

Thursday, Dec. 22  Mid Term Exam

There will be help sessions Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday mornings at 8:15 for the midterm.  A study guide was given out 10 days ago and the answers are in the classroom if you wish to check yours.

Week of December 12

Math 8

Monday, Dec. 12  Review for Checkpoint....Complete Benchmark Review 1st 9 weeks and do test corrections for the retest on Dec. 19.

Tuesday, Dec. 13  Review for Checkpoint ....Review #2  Homework:  page 1 of the retest contract study guide.  You will not have the privilege of retesting if you do not complete this study guide by Friday, check your answers, and do test corrections....come see me with questions.

Wednesday, Dec. 14 Sequences  Homework:  page 10 in the sequence packet and  page 2 of the retest contract study guide.

Thursday, Dec. 15  Checkpoint Assessment  Homework:  page 3 of the retest contract study guide.

Friday, Dec. 16  Explicit forms of sequences.

Accelerated Math I

Monday, Dec. 12  Triangle Inequalities....complete performance task for homework  (through #15)

Tuesday, Dec. 13  Triangle inequalities....angle/side relationships  complete worksheet  Homework: begin the midterm study guide.

Wednesday, Dec. 14  Triangle congruence....SSS, HL, SAS  Homework:  page 238-239  1-3, 13-16 and page 244 1-13

Thursday, Dec. 15  Checkpoint Assessment  Homework:  work on study guide for midterm

 Friday, Dec. 16  Triangle congruence....AAS, ASA

 

Week of December 5

Math 8

Monday, Dec. 5  Writing inequalities from word problems.  Homework:  page 62 and 66a/b

Tuesday, Dec. 6  Solving for a variable;  solving word problems with inequalities and equations.  Homework:  Take Home Quiz...page 86 in packet....you must show your work to get credit for this quiz. 

Wednesday, Dec. 7  Unit review for test tomorrow.  Review is on pages 87 a and b

Thursday, Dec. 8  Unit 3 Test

Friday, Dec. 9    Performance Task:  What's my Pattern?

Accelerated Math I

Monday, Dec. 5  Inductive reasoning, deductive reasoning and conditional statements.  Homework:  page 199  2,5,18,19,20 and page 205 7-10 in the Red Textbook.

Tuesday, Dec. 6  Two column proofs....angle addition and segment addition postulates;  angle and segment congruence properties.  Homework:  Riddle worksheets:  Dirty Yarn and red barker

Wednesday, Dec. 7  Vertical,  Supplementary and Complementary Angles  Homework:  riddle worksheets:  lumber jack/scale

Thursday, Dec. 8  Perpendicular lines

Friday, Dec. 9  Performance task, To Tri or Not to Tri....the triangle inequality theorem.

Week of November 28

Math 8

Monday, Nov. 28  Absolute value equations.  Page 49 in Part II of the packet.  Do numbers 1-10. and 12.  Also, test corrections....write all steps to correctly solve the equation on a seperate piece of paper.

Tuesday, Nov. 29  Absolue value equations.   Homework:  page 52 in packet

Wednesday, Nov. 30  Inequalities..graphing simple and compound on the number line.  Homework:  page 59 in packet.

Thursday, Dec. 1  Inequalities and solving for a variable.  Homework: page 63

Friday, Dec. 2  Quiz on absolute value equations;  inequalities, solving for a variable.

Unit test is Thursday, Dec. 8

Accelerated Math I

Monday, Nov. 28  Using the quadratic formula and the discriminant.  Homework:  page 93 in the purple book.  Also:  quiz tomorrow on the quadratic formula.

Tuesday, Nov. 29  Changing quadratic equations from one form to another.  Analyzing quadratics:  complete for homework and study guide for test.

Wednesday, Nov. 30  Help session for test tomorrow.  There is a list of all the topics and a few study guide questions on the previous post of this blog.  Here is the worksheet we had in class today, the answers to it,Download Methods of solving quadratics Download Answers to Methods of Solving Equations worksheet   and the answers to the study guide....omit #13 Download Great Quadratic Study guide answers

Thursday, Dec. 1  Unit Post Test:  the great Quadratic.

Friday, Dec. 2  Logic

Week of Nov. 21

Happy Thanksgiving.  I hope you all have a wonderful  holiday with your families.

Accelerated Math I

In case anyone is anxious to get a head start on studying for the unit test we are having Thursday, Dec. 1 I am attaching both a study guide and a list of topics that the test will cover.

Download Great Quadratic Study guide.

Download Topics to study for the Quadratics Test

Week of November 15

Math 8

Tuesday, November 15  Page 25 in the packet.  here are the answers, please show your work.Download Math 8 answers to page 25 in packet  Quiz tomorrow on equation solving.  Unit 3 Test 1 on Friday, Nov. 18

Wednesday, Nov. 16  Quiz on equation solving;  word problems using equations.  Homework:  page 29

Thursday, Nov. 17  Review equations for test.  Classwork:  page 28.  Homework:  worksheet with 15 equations.

Friday, Nov. 18  Unit 3 Test 1:  Equation solving.

 

Accelerated Math I

Tuesday, Nov. 15  Graph the following equations, using your notes from today on intercept form.

y = (x + 4)(x + 6)

y = (x - 5)(x - 7)

  For those of you that were gone on the trip, here are the notes.Download Notes on intercept form pg 1  Download Notes on intercept form pg 2  Download Notes on intercept form pg 3  The first page of each of these are the notes, the second page is just the scrap paper that I took them on, ignore the second page of each of these and hopefully I will have learned to scan a little better for future notes.

Wednesday, Nov. 16  Completing the square.  This is lesson 3.7 in your purple book.  Homework:  complete worksheet:  Download Completing the Square homework

Thursday, Nov. 17  Completeing the square  Homework:  page 88 numbers 1024 even in the Purple, math II textbook.

Friday, Nov. 18  The great quadratic formula.