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 1, 2014

Bellwork reviewed the concept of radians from Sec 13-3.

Hwk #16 is due today.

The remainder of the period we finished our discussion on Sec 13-3 by covering the topic of Arc Length. 

Hwk #17 is due tomorrow:

Sec 13-3, Pages 730-731, Problems 22, 23, 29, 33, 35, 36, 45

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Bellwork 4-1-14

Bellwork Answers 4-1-14

Notes 4-1-14

Monday, March 31, 2014

Bellwork reviewed finding the Sin, Cos, and Tan of an angle by using the Unit Circle and Coterminal Angles.  Students were also introduced to the graph of y=Sinx.

Hwk #15 is due today.

The remainder of the period we discussed Sec 13-3, Measuring Angles using Radians.

Hwk #16 is assigned and will be due tomorrow:

Sec 13-3, pages 729-730, problems 1-3, 8-10, 16, 17

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Bellwork 3-31-14

Bellwork Answers 3-31-14

Notes 3-31-14

Friday, March 28, 2014

Bellwork reviewed problems involving the Unit Circle and coterminal angles.

Hwk #14 is due today.

The remainder of the period we continued discussing the Unit Circle.

Hwk #15 due on Monday:

Sec 13-2, pages 722-723, problems 22-26, 56-58

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Bellwork 3-28-14

Bellwork Answers 3-28-14

Notes 3-28-14

Thursday, March 27, 2014

Bellwork reviewed the concepts of Amplitude, Coterminal Angles, Sin, Cos, and Tan of angles, and Periodic Functions.

The remainder of the period we began our discussion on the Unit Circle and how to use it to find the exact value for Sin, Cos, and Tan of angles on the Unit Circle.

Hwk #14 assigned:

Sec 13-2, Pages 722-723, Problems 17-19, 40-42, 46-49.

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Bellwork 3-27-14

Bellwork Answers 3-27-14

Notes 3-27-14

Thursday, March 20, 2014

Bellwork reviewed solving exponential and logarithmic equations (Sec 8-5).

The remainder of the period we finished our discussion on Sec 8-5.

We then began our discussion on sec 13-1, Periodic Functions.

Chapter 8 Test next week.  Students were given the review with answers today.

Hwk #12 due tomorrow

Sec 8-5

Pages 464-466

Problems 2, 6, 11, 37, 40, 47 ,82

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Bellwork 3-20-14

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Notes 3-20-14