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 15, 2014

Bellwork reviewed factoring and expanding polynomials, Sec 9-2 and 9-3.

Hwk #27 is due today.

The remainder of the period we discussed Expanding Special Cases (Sec 9-4).

Hwk #28 is due tomorrow

Sec 9-4, pages 477-478, problems 2 3, 6, 18-20, 38, 49

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Bellwork 5-15-14

Bellwork Answers 5-15-14

Notes 5-15-14

Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Bellwork reviewed expanding and factoring polynomials.

The remainder of the period we continued discussing finding the product of two polynomials using several different methods (Sec 9-3).

Hwk #27 is due on Thursday:

Sec 9-3, pages 469-470, problems 13-16, 31, 34-36 (you can use any method to expand for any of these problems).

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Bellwork 5-13-14

Bellwork Answers 5-13-14

Notes 5-13-14

Friday, May 9, 2014

Bellwork reviewed finding degrees of polynomials, naming polynomials based on degree and number of terms, and expanding a product of a monomial and a binomial.

Hwk #25 is due today.

The remainder of the period we finished our discussion on Sec 9-1 and continued discussing Sec 9-2, Expanding and Factoring Polynomials.

Hwk #26 is due on Monday:

Sec 9-2, pages 463-464, problems 17, 18, 22, 23, 28, 29, 38, 39

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Bellwork 5-9-14

Bellwork Answers 5-9-14

Notes 5-9-14

Thursday, May 8, 2014

Bellwork review Distributive Property and Combining Like Terms.

Hwk #24 is due today.

The remainder of the period we discussed Sec 9-1 which introduces the vocabulary used when working with Polynomials.

Hwk #25 is due tomorrow:

Sec 9-1, Pages 459-460, problems 2-4, 10-14, 35, 36, 41, 51.

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Bellwork 5-8-14

Bellwork Answers 5-8-143

Notes 5-8-14

Friday, May 2, 2014

Bellwork reviewed solving exponential growth and decay problems (Sec 8-8).

Hwk #23 is due today.

The remainder of the period we discussed Scientific Notation (Sec 8-2).

No homework assigned today.

The Chapter 8 Test will be given Tuesday, May 6.

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Bellwork 5-2-14

Bellwork Answers 5-2-14

Notes 5-2-14