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, February 6, 2014

Bellwork reviewed problems from Sec 5-3 and 5-5.

Hwk #4 is due today.

The remainder of the period we finished our discussion on sec 5-5:  Direct Variation.

Hwk #5 is due tomorrow:

Sec 5-5, Pages 264-265, Problems 12, 13, 23, 28, 37, 45

We then began discussing Slope from Sec 6-1.

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Bellwork 3-6-14

Bellwork Answers 2-6-14

Notes 2-6-14

Monday, February 3, 2014

Bellwork reviewed graphing equations and writing function rules.

The remainder of the period we started discussing Sec 5-5:  Direct Variation.

Hwk #2 is due today.

Hwk #3 is due tomorrow:

Sec 5-4, pages 256-257, problems 7, 8, 12, 13, 14, 17, 24

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Bellwork 2-3-14

Bellwork Answers 2-3-14

Notes 2-3-14

Friday, January 31, 2014

 Bellwork:  Students worked on graphing stations to practice graphing Linear, Quadratic, and Absolute Value functions.

The remainder of the period we continued discussing function notation and Domain and Range then began our discussion on Sec 5-4:  Writing Function rules.

Hwk #1 was due today.

Hwk #2 was assigned and is due on Monday.  Graph paper is needed to complete the assignment.

Hwk #2:  Sec 5-3, pages 248-249, problems 6, 7, 21, 23, 27, 37.

Students were given the review for Chapter 5 today.

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Bellwork 1-31-14

Notes 1-31-14

Thursday, January 30, 2014

First full day of the Spring Semester.

Bellwork reviewed the ideas of Functions, Domain and Range, and Function Notation.

The remainder of the period we reviewed the concepts from the bellwork a little further then began working on graphs of the following functions:

  • Linear
  • Quadratic
  • Absolute Value

This is also review from previous lessons.

Hwk #1 was assigned today and will be due tomorrow:

Sec 5-2

Pages 244-245

Problems: 28, 29, 32, 39, 40, 41

 

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Bellwork 1-30-14

Bellwork Answers 1-30-14

Notes 1-30-14