In Case You Missed the Notes

The following slideshow has the essential notes from last week. The material below will be on Thursday's test; write and memorize the A, B, C, D portion of the notes.

Tuesday's Teaser:

A timely teaser since we've almost completed our unit on fractions, percents, etc.

Submit your answer, work included, on or before Friday, February 4, 2016 for a double bonus of 10 points. (One test Question)

Merry Christmas To All of You

Hope you're enjoying your time away. This break will be over in a hurry, so make the most of it. I just checked the weather and it's not snowing, so don't stay indoors all week!

 Just a quick shot before the gang sits down to Christmas dinner.

Tuesday's Teaser: Christmas Edition

*As Santa prepared to deliver the last of his packages down under in Sydney, Australia, he noticed two small boxes at the bottom addressed to: "Bambino" Rome, Italy. 

Realizing that the boxes had been misplaced and that he only had 4 hours before the Bambino would wake up, Santa strapped a pair of Nike Air Max Hyper Aggressor's on each Reindeer and sped towards Rome. Exactly 4 hrs. later, Santa delivered the boxes and headed home to Mrs. C.

  
Find the distance (in miles, rounded to the nearest hundred) between Sydney and Rome, then calculate Santa's average speed during his trip. Round Santa's speed to the nearest whole number.

First five correct emails share 50 extra credit points. One correct answer gets them all, two correct get 25 points each,  etc....


* Information from the 2014 bestseller, "I Want to be an Algebra Teacher," by S. Claus

Grades for Inequalities Tests 1 & 2

Both tests have been recorded and are ready for your inspection.


First and third periods are here, while fourth and fifth periods await you  here.

Note: If your test has a boldface zero (0) for your score, it means that:

a) You didn't take the test. Or,
b) Yours is one of the four tests without a code. 

At some point (the end of the quarter), the temporary zero's will turn into to real zero's, so let me know if you took the test.  

Bonus Teaser: Weekend Edition

Who doesn't love extra-credit points? 

Here's a holiday teaser bursting with bonus points for everyone. Have your answer to me with work showing before we leave for vacation and the ten bonus points are yours. Here goes:

You are downloading your favorite Christmas movie, Dora the Explorer: A Gift for Santa (The Full movie  can be found here,  Dora Stickers, Coloring, and Activity Books are here). After 11 minutes, you have downloaded 32mb. The entire movie is 704 mb. 

At this rate, how long will it take to download the entire movie (round to the nearest minute). 

That's it. Solve it and win.

Tuesday's Non-Algebra Teaser

That's right, you don't need algebra to solve this one, just straight forward numbers. The picture below is of Marianas High School as seen with Google Earth from a bit more than 2,300 feet in the air.

At that altitude, the scale is 3.5 inches on the picture equals 525 feet in reality. Proportions work well when dealing with scaled images.

Your task is simple, really: Tell me the area of MHS as outlined below, in feet, by this Friday. Your bonus points await.

 (Click image for larger view)

Tuesday's Teaser

Here she is:

Three consecutive numbers add up to 105 if the first number is multiplied by one, the second number is multiplied by two, and the third number is multiplied by three. What are the three consecutive numbers?

This is almost too easy to qualify as a teaser. Take advantage of this very solvable problem.

E-mail or submit solution with work attached before the end of the day named after Freya, the Norse goddess of love, beauty and fertility. If correct, 10 extra credit points are yours.

Class Summary: November 30, 2015

It's all about inequalities today and this week. Lot's of basic information in the slide show below.

A copy of Class Work 2.4, which was given today,  can be found here.

Algebra Anywhere

*Except on test days.....

After the Break......

            For all of you forward looking students, here's what's up after our return from Thanksgiving break:

Introduction to Inequalities

 Resources to Help Along the Way

Text book,  Chapter 6:  Solving & Graphing Linear Inequalities

Many more examples, descriptions, and explanations   

On-Line Resources from the Textbook: Examples, Game formats, section quizzes and lot's more.

   Videos:

 Basics of Inequalities; Part I
 Basics of Inequalities; Part II
How to Solve Linear Inequalities; Here

And, of course, there is the Khan Academy for videos and practice problems.

Complete 2nd Quarter Khan Academy Schedule

 The weekly schedule for this quarter's Khan Academy is available to view or download. If you want finish ahead of schedule, or just practice before we get to the concept in class, the document is yours right here.

Literal Equations Test Results

While you wait for your Thanksgiving dinner.... Check your score from our last test here.

The Rest of the 2nd Quarter

We're getting close to wrapping up our unit on literal equations, although we will be practicing and using them all year. So what's after that, you ask? 

These topics:

Opposites & Reciprocals

The Real Number System

Number Properties

Algebraic Proofs

Inequalities

The Coordinate Plane

 This should get us to the end of the 2nd quarter. 

Another Great Resource

If you need more help with equations (and who doesn't?), Algebra-Class.com is there to help.

Step-by-step guides, short videos--(all less than 5 minutes long and clearly written and explained) and practice questions with answers; it's all there.

Algebra-Class.com is a site that can help you throughout the year. Bookmark it now.

Toosday's Teeser

 This teaser may look difficult, but it's totally do-able. Multiplying fractions is easy; the rest is arithmetic.

But wait, there's more!!!

Since solving equations is so important in algebra (and geometry, and algebra II), the boss said we can double the extra credit points this week.

Take five minutes out of your incredibly busy life to work this one out and score some much needed extra credit.  "You'll be glad you did."

Class Summary: November 16, 2015

Today we begin a new unit and a new type of equation to solve. We will be solving literal equations--equations with more than one variable in them. Class work 2.3 was distributed today and is due  Wednesday, November 18.

If you were absent this day, or just want to review, check the presentation below. A copy of class work 2.3 can be found here.

November 16, 2015

|Absolute Value| Test Results

The envelope, please..You can open it yourself  here.

Tuesday's Translation Teaser

Today's teaser tests your knowledge of translating and writing equations. As is the norm, personally deliver or  email your solution before the end of this week to receive your 10 bonus points.

Here's the teaser:

 If $15.20 is divided among Andrew, Joseph, and Samantha so that Joseph has one more dollar than Andrew and Samantha has $2.70 more than Joseph, how much does each individual receive?

Good Luck!