Excuse Me, My Watch is Ringing

Both Apple and Motorola are getting ready to roll out the world's first smart watches this fall, probably in October.

It's About Time!

First made popular in the Dick Tracy comic books during the 1940's, the smart watch has been a long time coming, almost 70 years since the idea first appeared.

The Apple iWatch

Running the same OS as the iPhone, the iWatch is expected to outsell all other Apple products in its first year.

Many concept designs have been released, but Apple has not specified which particular styles are being produced.

No word yet on prices.

Motorola & Google Team Up

If you like your watches to run Android, the Moto 360 is made for you. As with the iphone, price and variety of styles has not been confirmed.

 

 What is yet to be determined..

Is there a need for both a watch and a phone?

Happy Birthday Internet

 Actually, it's happy birthday world wide web. (The internet had been around for a few years before, but was only used by professors, science geeks, and government agencies, to share information, text only, in a clumsy, slow, and complicated way. In June of 1989, one of those science geeks thought of a better way, and introduced the idea of Hyperlinks, the heart and soul of the www, or internet as we call it today.  

Here's the very first web page ever posted; it is still up 25 years later. As you can see, its come a long, long way.  What will the internet be in another 25 years, when you're still young at 40 or so?

Final Exam Part II Test Results

And....that's a wrap. 
Another round of good scores for most of you.
You learned a lot. It will help you as you move forward with your math classes.

Get your score here.

Final Exam Part I Results

Mostly very well done. Get 'em here.

Class Summary: June 11, 2014

We bury the warm-up, prepare our notebooks for Thursday's submission, and, oh yea, part I of the final exam is today.

4th Quarter Class Work Links

 Here are the links to all the required class work of this quarter. As each will count towards the 20% of your grade that is class work, be sure to complete and submit all of them.
The work is listed from the earliest in the quarter to the last assigned.

1)  April 11, Complete the Square                   

2)  April 23, 24  Quadratic Test Review

3)  May 5, Radicals                                             

4)  May 7, Simplifying Radicals

5) May 12/13 Radicals                                          

6)  May 14, Distance/Mid-Point                  7)  May 27, Rational Expressions                      

8) May 30, Rational Operations                 9)  June 2/3 Rational Equations

Class Summary: June 10, 2014

The light at the end of the tunnel... is actually very bright. One more day before the final exam.  Lots of good prep questions for the final in today's slideshow. Practice them!

June 10, 2014

Class Summary: June 9, 2014

It's the beginning of the end.  Our last topic is solving mixture type problems. Learn all about them and how easy they are to solve if you just set them up correctly.
Our class work is here, slideshow is below, add some popcorn, and you're all set.

June 9, 2014

The Week That Was: A Review

June 6th, 2014

June 5, 2014

June 4, 2014

June 3, 2014

Class work can be found here.

Rational Expression Test Scores

Good news for just about everyone on this test. You can see your score here. This was the last of six tests for this quarter. We have only the final exam remaining. Links to the other five tests this quarter are below.  You can find your average test score and then multiply by .4 since the test category is worth 40% of your grade.

Radical Equations:

Radical Operations:

Simplifying Radicals:

Quadratic Formula Retake:

Quadratic Formula:

If your test score does not appear, it is most likely the result of not taking the test. Any non-scores will change to a grade of zero after June 11.

Last Khan Academy: June 2nd-9th

I am sorry to share this sad news with you, but we have come to the last Khan Academy assignment for the year.  Take some time, let the tears roll freely, then head to the KA for these topics.

We haven't covered rational equations yet, but will this week.

Class Summary: June 2, 2014

Lot's of examples and explanations as we wind down the school year. Our class work for Monday & Tuesday is here.

June 2, 2014