March 21st, 2019

Today’s bellwork reviewed exponential functions and growth/decay problems. For the remainder of the hour, we finished discussing exponential functions and reviewed for Monday’s Chapter 8 Test. Students worked on a practice handout over growth/decay problems – it was due today. Attached below are today’s class materials.

IXL #9 – V.5 & X.1 due tomorrow by 4pm!

Chapter 8 Test on Monday – see previous blog post for review.

Alg 1 BW #25 3-21

Practice 8-8 Sheet (3-21)

Alg 1 BW + Notes 3.21

March 19th, 2019

Today’s bellwork reviewed all material covered in Chapter 8. For the remainder of the hour, we continued discussing section 8.8: exponential functions in real-world problems. Attached below are today’s class materials.

Chapter 8 Test on Monday! See previous blog post for a copy of the review.

CW: Finish for Homework: Worksheet covering Section 8.7 – Graphs of Exponential Functions

Exp. Functions Practice (8-7), 3-19

Alg 1 BW #24 3-19

Alg 1 BW + Notes 3.19

IXL #9 – V.5 & X.1 due Friday at 4pm!

March 18th, 2019

Today’s bellwork gave students practice for skills needed in chapter 9. For the remainder of the hour, we finished discussing graphs of exponential equations and moved on to discussing finding growth/decay factors, percent changes, and real-life models with exponential functions. Attached below are today’s class materials.

Alg 1 BW #23 3-18

Sect. 8-8 Guided Notes

Alg 1 HW #15 3-18

Alg 1 BW Ans + Notes 3.18

Hwk #15 — Practice Sect. 8-8 Handout

IXL #9 – V.5 & X.1 due Friday at 4pm!

March 15th, 2019

Today’s bellwork gave students practice over properties of exponents. For the remainder of the hour, we finished discussing properties of exponents and started discussing exponential functions, section 8-7. Attached below are today’s class materials.

Alg 1 BW #22 3-15

Alg 1 HW #14 3-15

Sect. 8-7 Guided Notes

Alg 1 BW + Notes 3.15

Hwk #14 – due Monday

Practice Sheet Sec 8-7

IXL #8 – V.6 & V.7 due today at 4pm!

March 11th, 2019

Today’s bellwork reviewed simplifying expressions using properties of exponents. For the remainder of the hour, we discussed section 8.5 – simplifying expressions using the division property of exponents. Attached below are today’s class materials.

Alg 1 BW #20 3-11

Alg 1 BW + Notes 3.11

Hwk #13 – due tomorrow

Sec 8-5

Pages 420-421

Problems 1-7, 34, 35, 45-47, 52

IXL #8 – V.6 & V.7 due Friday at 4pm!