About Brian Riley

2013-2014 is my 19th year teaching in the Dearborn Public Schools. Graduate of Michigan State University. B.S. Civil Engineering. Graduate of California State University. Secondary Teaching Certificate Graduate of Wayne State University. M. A. Sports Administration. Prior to Teaching at the Early College I taught for 13 years at Fordson High School where I coached baseball for 16 years. Born and raised in Rochester, Michigan Graduate of Rochester Adams High School

Friday, November 21, 2014

Bellwork reviewed making a scatter plot and writing the equation of the trend line to predict missing values.

The remainder of the period we finished sec 6-6 by discussing Correlation in scatter plots.

Hwk #25 is due on Monday, Nov. 24:  Pages 320-322, Problems 5 and 20.  Students must use graph paper.

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Alg 1 Bellwork with answers 11-21-14

Notes 11-21-14

Friday, November 14, 2014

Bellwork was a Lateral Thinking question that the students had to try and figure out by asking yes/no questions.

The remainder of the period we finished discussing sec 6-5, Parallel and Perpendicular Lines.

Hwk #24 is due on Thursday, Nov 20:  Page 314, Problems 3-5, 16, 20, 21, 24, 27, 35-37, 39

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Notes 11-14-14

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Bellwork reviewed equations of Horizontal and Vertical Lines as well as lines in Standard Form.

Hwk #22 is due today.

Students took a short quiz over Sec 6-3.

The remainder of the period we discussed how to graph lines given the equation in any form.

Hwk #23 is due on Thursday:  Practice Sheet on graphing lines.

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Alg 1 Bellwork with answers 11-11-14

Alg 1 Hwk 23

Notes 11-11-14

Monday, November 10, 2014

Bellwork reviewed writing equations to model real-life situations and then using these equations to find some missing values.

The remainder of the period we finished discussing Sec 6-3, Standard Form of a Linear Equation.

Hwk #22 is due tomorrow.  Pages 301-302, Problems 5-8, 10, 11, 19, 20, 36, 37, 49, 50  (for 49 and 50 just write in Slope-Intercept Form).

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Alg 1 Bellwork with answers 11-10-14

Notes 11-10-14