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

Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Bellwork reviewed questions from Sec 8-7 and a review question involving the rules of exponents from Sec 8-1 to 8-5.

Hwk #13 is due today.

The remainder of the period we continued our discussion on Sec 8-8, Exponential Growth and Decay.

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Alg 1 Bellwork with answers 4-5-16

Alg 1 Notes 4-5-16

 

Monday, April 4, 2016

Bellwork introduced and practiced skills that students will be using in Chapter 9.

The remainder of the period we finished discussing Sec 8-7, Exponential Functions, and began discussing Sec 8-8, Exponential Growth and Decay.

Hwk #13 is due tomorrow.  Practice Sheet Sec 8-7.

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Alg 1 Bellwork with answers 4-4-16

Alg 1 Hwk #13

Alg 1 Notes 4-4-16

Thursday, March 24, 2016

Bellwork had students determine which method of payment produced the highest salary.  This bellwork introduced the concept of exponential growth.

The Percent Practice Sheets from Tuesday are due today.

The remainder of the period we began discussing Sec 8-7, Exponential Functions.

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Alg 1 Bellwork with answers 3-24-16

Alg 1 Notes 3-24-16

Thursday, March 17, 2016

Bellwork introduced Sequences.  This requires a student to find a patter in a sequence of numbers and then use this patter to predict the next three terms.

Hwk #10 is due today.

The remainder of the period we finished our discussion on Sec 8-4, More Multiplication Rules of Exponents.

Hwk #11 is due tomorrow.  Sec 8-4

Pages 413-414

Problems 4-8, 13, 15, 17, 20-22, 51

We also began our discussion on Sec 8-5, Division Rules of Exponents.

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Alg 1 Bellwork with answers 3-17-16

Alg 1 Notes 3-17-16

Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Bellwork reviewed rules of exponents and Scientific Notation, Sections 8-1 to 8-3.

The remainder of the period we finished our discussion on Sec 8-3 and began discussing Sec 8-4, More Multiplication Rules of Exponents.

Hwk #10 is due on Thursday.  Sec 8-3

Pages 407-408

Problems 10, 12, 16-18, 21, 28, 40, 44-47

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Alg 1 Bellwork with answers 3-15-16

Alg 1 Notes 3-15-16