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, October 24, 2014

Bellwork was a puzzle students were asked to figure out.

Hwk #17 is due today.

After the bellwork  students were shown how to do a Boolean check on an inequality.

Students then took a short quiz over solving inequalities.

After the quiz we began our discussion on Compound Inequalities (Sec 3-5).

Hwk #18 is due on Tuesday, Pages 163-164, Problems 2, 3, 12, 18, 20, 21, 36-39

Click on the links below for a  copy of today’s bellwork and notes/examples from today’s lesson:

Alg 1 Bellwork

Notes 10-24-14

 

Thursday, October 23, 2014

Bellwork reviewed writing, graphing, and solving inequalities

Hwk #16 is due today.

Students took a short homework quiz over sec 3-1.

After the quiz students worked on a few story problems involving inequalities.

Hwk #17 is due tomorrow:  Pages 156-157, Problems 15, 19, 21, 27, 39, 61, 64, 68, 73

Click on the links below for a copy of today’s bellwork with answers and notes/examples from today’s lesson:

Alg 1 Bellwork with Answers 10-23-14

Notes 10-23-14

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Bellwork had students practice graphing, writing, and solving inequalities.

The remainder of the period we continued discussing inequalities.  Students learned:

  • how to tell if a value is a solution to an inequality
  • how to solve an inequality
  • when to flip the direction of the inequality during the solving process

Hwk #16 is due on Thursday.  Pages 136-138, Problems 9, 10, 20, 22, 23, 31-36, 68, 72, 73

Hwk #17 is due on Friday.  Pages 156-157, Problems 15, 19, 21, 27, 39, 61, 64, 68, 73

Click on the links below for a copy of today’s bellwork and notes/examples from today’s lesson:

Alg 1 Bellwork with answers 10-21-14

Notes 10-21-14

Friday, October 17, 2014

No bellwork today.  Students took the first part of the Chapter 2 Test which covered problems from Sec 2-5.  Part 2 of the test will be Monday.  This part covers all of the equation solving skills.

Students who are still working on passing the six equation solving quizzes we have been working on the past few week need to pass all of these quizzes before they can take Part 2 of the test.

Students who have passed all six equation solving quizzes will take Part 2 of the test on Monday.

Hwk #15 is due on Monday.  This homework is a sheet that introduces the topic of solving inequalities (Chapter 3).

Click on the link below for a copy of Hwk #15:

Alg 1 Hwk #15