Thursday, February 28, 2008
Friday, February 22, 2008
Vocabulary Into Short Answer Questions?
Today we worked on some vocabulary based crossword puzzles related to our work in the First Peoples unit. I thought the clues would make excellent short answer questions for our upcomming test next Wednesday. If you absent you can follow the link to get your crossword and please use the internet or any other resource you'd like to help you with the clues. For those who have been away at Festival I hope you've had a great time and we'll see you on Monday. Have a great weekend.
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Radian measure
Today we reviewed the unit circle and developed a working definition of a radian. I may be posting some notes later on this if you require them, but the module isn't too bad at explaining it (although I think the picture at the bottom of the title page for lesson 4 explains it all). I really need people to be able to ask questions on lesson 3 by tomorrow so that I can show some examples from lesson 4 and get on to some theory for lesson 5.
Please keep in mind that we need to finish 8 modules by early June. Translated loosely, this means about a module every two weeks and it is now the end of February. Ask lots of questions folks...
Sharing is nice...
In history class today we took our information for the various regions first peoples lived in, found a partner to share this with and made a comparison chart. We'll be working on some vocabulary tomorrow and learning about the rest of the regions. I have planned a test for Wednesday, February the 27 next week before we start off our new unit on New France.
If you were away or haven't completed the work on the Northwest Rebellion we did on Tuesday (the 19th), here's a link to the assignment.
More Word Problems
Today we worked together on some word problems I had you copy down yesterday. Some of these turned out to be a little on the difficult side, but we did manage to find a pattern to solving them.
- Read the problem
- Construct two equations (one sentence is usually one equation)
- Substitute on equation into the other one
- Solve
After struggling along with yesterday's 'extra problems' we discovered that the homework from section 3.1 looked a little easier. Tonight I'd like you to finish more of #15-33 from the assignment on section 3.1 and tomorrow we'll find some more problems to practice together. Good luck.
Review Day
Today we worked on the review lesson of our first module and I answered some questions on completing the square, finding roots (also called x-intercepts or zeroes).
To ease your mind about lesson 8, I'll remind you that each question will be worth one mark and the test will not consist entirely of word problems from lesson 8. Make sure that you can complete the square (don't worry about #6 on the review...it won't be asked), sketch quadratic equations, and determine equations given a vertex and a point. Good luck with your studying for those who are here tomorrow. For those who are away please feel free to ask questions by using the comment link below and check back regularly (I'll post an answer as quickly as I can). See everyone Monday.
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
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