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, March 26, 2015

Bellwork reviewed problems from Sec 13-6.
Hwk #12 is due today.
Students will have a test over Chapter 13 on Monday, March 30. Students received the review for Ch 13 today.
The remainder of the period we reviewed for the Ch 13 test and began discussing some rules of exponents that will be applied in the next chapter we will be studying (Ch 7).

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Alg 2 Bellwork with answers 3-26-15

Notes 3-26-15

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Bellwork reviewed graphing transformed Sine and Cosine Functions and writing their equations.
Hwk #11 is due today.

The remainder of the period we discussed Sec 13-6, Graph of the Tangent Function.

Hwk #12 is due tomorrow: Sec 13-6, Page 752, problems 9-12, 38, 40

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Alg 2 Bellwork with answers 3-25-15

Notes 3-25-15

Friday, March 20, 2015

Bellwork reviewed skill of adding and subtracting fractions and the average of two fractions. These are skills that will be needed in Sec 13-7.
The remainder of the period we continued discussing Sec 13-7.

The due date for Hwk #11 has been changed to Tuesday, March 24.

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Alg 2 Bellwork with answers 3-20-15

Notes 3-20-15

Hwk #11

Thursday, March 19, 2015

Bellwork reviewed graphs of the Cosine Function.

Hwk #10 is due today.

The remainder of the period we began discussing sec 13-7, Translations of Sine and Cosine Functions.

Hwk #11 is due on Monday: Practice Sheet for Sec 13-7

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Alg 2 Bellwork with answers 3-19-15

Notes 3-19-15

Hwk #11

Monday, March 16, 2015

Bellwork reviewed graphs and equations of the Sine Function.
Hwk #9 is due today.

The remainder of the period we reviewed some problems that will be on Wednesday’s Quiz over Sections 13-1 to 13-4.
We also began discussing Sec 13-5: The Cosine Function.

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Alg 2 Bellwork with answers 3-16-15

Notes 3-16-15