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

Monday, March 3, 2014

Bellwork reviewed graphing lines given equations in both Point-Slope Form and Standard Form.

The remainder of the period we finished our discussion on Sec 6-3:  Standard Form.  We then began discussing Sec 6-5:  Parallel and Perpendicular Lines.

Hwk #10 assigned:

Sec 6-3, pages 301-302, problems 5, 6, 15, 16, 18, 21 ,22, 25, 26, 36, 58-61.  Students were given a pre-printed sheet to do this homework on.

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Bellwork 3-3-14

Bellwork Answers 3-3-14

Notes 3-3-14

Hwk #10

Friday, February 28, 2014

No bellwork today.  Students took a quiz over sections 6-1, 6-2, 6-4.

The remainder of the period we discussed writing equations in Slope-Intercept and Standard Forms to model real situations and also graphing different linear equations.

No hwk due today and none was assigned.

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Notes 2-28-14

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Bellwork reviewed writing equations in Slope-Intercept Form.

Hwk #8 is due today.

Hwk #9 was assigned and will be due on Thursday.  Students were given a sheet of graphs to do this homework on.

Sec 6-2, Pages 294-296, Problems  22, 23, 29, 32, 35, 39, 69, 71

The remainder of the period we discussed how to graph linear equations.

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Bellwork 2-25-14

Bellwork Answers 2-25-14

Notes 2-25-14

Hwk #9 Sec 6-2

Monday, February 24, 2014

Bellwork reviewed Sec 6-1 and 6-4.

Hwk #’s 6 and 7 are due today.

The remainder of the period we continued discussing Sec 6-2:  Slope Intercept Form for the equation of a line.

Hwk #8 was assigned and is due tomorrow:

Pages 307-308

Problems 17, 18, 24, 25, 37, 38, 58

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Bellwork 2-24-14

Bellwork Answers 2-24-14

Notes 2-24-14

Friday, February 14, 2014

Bellwork reviewed finding slope and rate of change (sec 6-1).

The remainder of the period we began discussing the different forms for the equation of lines:

  • Slope-Intercept Form
  • Standard Form
  • Point-Slope Form
  • Equation of a Horizontal Line
  • Equation of a Vertical Line

We started with the Point-Slope Form for the equation of a line (Sec 6-4).

Hwk #’s 6 and 7 were assigned and are due on Monday, Feb. 24.

Sec 6-1, pages 286-288, problems 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 12, 13, 22-25, 27, 28, 51, 52.

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Bellwork 2-14-14

Bellwork Answers 2-14-14

Notes 2-14-14