Thursday, September 18, 2014

Bellwork reviewed the Distributive Property, Combining Like Terms, Midpoint, and solving 2-step equations.

Hwk #6 is due today.

The remainder of the period we finished our discussion on Sec 1-7, Distributive Property and Combining Like Terms.

Chapter 1 test is on Monday, September 22.  Students were given the review for the test yesterday.

Click on the links below for a copy of today’s bellwork with answers and notes/examples from today’s lesson:

Alg 1 Bellwork with Answers 9-18-14

Notes 9-18-14

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Bellwork reviewed the topics of slope, graphing inequalities on a number line, and solving one-step equations.

We then discussed the practice sheet students worked on after yesterday’s quiz about using the Distributive Property (Sec 1-7).

The remainder of the period we began discussing the topic of Like Terms (Sec 1-7).

Hwk #6 is due tomorrow.  See yesterday’s blog entry for this assignment.

Click on the links below for a copy of today’s bellwork with answers and notes/examples from today’s lesson:

Alg 1 Bellwork with answers 9-17-14

Notes 9-17-14

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

No bellwork today. Students took a few minutes to prepare for today’s quiz over sections 1-1 to 1-3.

After the quiz students were given a practice sheet on the Distributive Property to work on .  This should be brought back tomorrow completed.

Hwk #6:  Pages 50-53, Problems 16, 20, 23, 32, 63, 80-83, 90, 91  (Due on Thursday)

Click on the link below for a copy of the Distributive Property practice sheet:

Distributive Property Practice Sheet

Monday, September 15, 2014

Bellwork reviewed problems for tomorrow’s quiz.

Hwk #5 is due today.

The remainder of the period we discussed the concepts of Opposites and Absolute Value using a number line.  We also discussed Conjectures and Counterexamples.  These are all found in Sec 1-3.

We also began our discussion on Sec 1-7:  The Distributive Property.

Click on the links below for a copy of today’s bellwork with answers and notes/examples from today’s lesson:

Alg 1 Bellwork with Answers 9-15-14

Notes 9-15-14

Friday, September 12, 2014

Bellwork reviewed Order of Operations, area, and names for sets of numbers.

Hwk #4 is due today.

The remainder of the period we discussed Absolute Value.

Students were also shown how to access this Blog and also how to access the textbook online.

Hwk #5:  Pages 20-22, Problems 1-3, 6, 9, 10, 14-18, 59, 60, 62, 73  (Due Mon)

Click on the links below for a copy of today’s bellwork with answers and notes/examples from today’s lesson:

Alg 1 Bellwork with Answers 9-12-14

Notes 9-12-14

Thursday, September 11, 2014

Bellwork reviewed simplifying using Order of Operations and writing equations that model real-life situations.

Hwk #4 is due tomorrow.

The remainder of the period we finished our discussion on Order of Operations and began discussing the name of number sets and their relationships (Sec 1-3).

Click on the links below for a copy of today’s bellwork with answers and notes/examples from today’s lesson:

Alg 1 Bellwork with Answers 9-11-14

Notes 9-11-14

Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Bellwork reviewed operations with fractions and writing an algebraic equation to model a situation.

Hwk #3 is due today.

The remainder of the period we began discussing the Order of Operations ( Sec 1-2).

Hwk #4:  Pages 12-14, problems 20, 29, 32, 34, 42, 48, 52, 65, 66, 71  (due on Friday)

Click on the links below for today’s bellwork, bellwork answers, and notes from today’s lesson:

Bellwork 9-10-14

Bellwork Answers 9-10-14

Notes 9-10-14

Monday, September 8, 2014

Bellwork reviewed adding and subtracting matrices and evaluating variable expressions.

Hwk #2 is due today.

Students then took a short quiz over adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing Integers.  Students must get 100% on the quiz or retake it until they do so.  Failure to get 100% will result in receiving a zero.  Students who need to retake this quiz must do so before school, after school, or at lunch.

The remainder of the period students worked on finding the GCF and LCM of a pair of numbers.  This lead to the skills necessary to reduce, add, subtract, multiply, and divide fractions.

Hwk #3 is a practice sheet involving working with fractions.  This assignment is due on Wednesday.

Click on the links below for today’s bellwork and answers, LCM/GCF practice and answers, and Hwk #3:

Alg 1 Bellwork and Answers 9-8-14

Alg 1 Finding LCM and GCF practice and answers 9-8-14

Alg 1 Hwk #3 Practice with Fractions