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

Thursday, May 29, 2014

Bellwork reviewed factoring trinomials and binomials.

Hwk #31 is due today.

The remainder of the period we began discussing Sec 10-5, solving equations by finding zeros of the factors.

Hwk #32 is due tomorrow:

Sec 9-5, pages 483-484, problems 14, 15, 28, 29, 33, 46, 47

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Bellwork 5-29-14

Bellwork Answers 5-29-14

Notes 5-29-14

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Bellwork reviewed factoring using GCF and finding numbers with a given product and sum.

Hwk #30 is due today.

The remainder of the period students practiced factoring trinomials with the following form:   ax^2+bx+c use the Box-Method.

Hwk #31 is due tomorrow:

Sec 9-6, pages 487-488, problems 6, 12, 18, 25, 26, 36

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Bellwork 5-27-14

Bellwork Answers 5-27-14

Notes 5-27-14

Monday, May 19, 2014

Bellwork reviewed factoring with GCF and expanding two binomials.

The remainder of the period we finished our discussion on Sec 9-7, Factoring the Difference of Perfect Squares.

Hwk #29 is due tomorrow:

Sec 9-7, pages 493-494, problems 14, 15, 22, 23, 31, 32, 60

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Bellwork 5-19-14

Bellwork Answers 5-19-14
Notes 5-19-14

Friday, May 16, 2014

Bellwork reviewed expanding polynomials.

Hwk #28 is due today.

The remainder of the period we finished discussing Sec 9-4.  Then we began discussing how to factor the Difference of Perfect Squares Sec 9-7.

Hwk #29 was assigned and will be due on Tuesday, May 20.

Sec 9-7, pages 493-494, problems 14, 15, 22, 23, 31, 32, 60.

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Bellwork 5-16-14

Bellwork Answers 5-16-14

Notes 5-16-14