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, December 3, 2013

Bellwork reviewed solving polynomials by  factoring and factoring the sum/difference of perfect cubes.

Students took a homework quiz over sections 6-3 and 6-4.

The remainder of the period we discussed how you could use just one zero and polynomial division to find all the zeros of a higher order polynomial.

Hwk #23 is due today.

Chapter 6 test is Friday.

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Bellwork 12-3-13

Bellwork Answers 12-3-13

Notes 12-3-13

Monday, December 2, 2013

Bellwork reviewed polynomial division and factoring polynomials.

After the bellwork we continued discussing Sec 6-4, Solving Polynomial Equations using the formulas for the sum and difference of perfect cubes.

Hwk #22 is due today.

Hwk #23 is due tomorrow.

Homework quiz tomorrow over sec 6-3 and 6-4.

Chapter 6 Test Friday.  Students were given the review today.

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Bellwork 12-2-13

Bellwork Answers 12-2-13

Notes 12-2-13

Monday, November 25, 2013

Bellwork reviewed polynomial division and whether a divisor is really a factor of the dividend.

The remainder of the period we continued our discussion on Sec 6-3.

Hwk #21 is due today.

Hwk #22 is due on Monday, December 2.

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Bellwork 11-25-13

Bellwork Answers 11-25-13

Notes 11-25-13

Friday, November 22, 2013

Bellwork reviewed finding degree, leading coefficient, and end-behavior of polynomials.  Also covered were graphs of polynomials.

Students took a homework quiz over these ideas.

The remainder of the period we continued discussing polynomial division both with long division and using the “box” to divide.

Hwk #21 is due on Monday.

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Bellwork 11-22-13

Bellwork Answers 11-22-13

Thursday, November 21, 2013

Bellwork reviewed graphing polynomials, writing their equations from a graph, and finding extrema and zeros using the graphing calculator.

The remainder of the period we began discussing Sec 6-3, Polynomial Division.

Hwk #20 is due today

Hwk #21 is due on Monday.

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Bellwork 11-21-13

Bellwork Answers 11-21-13

Notes 11-21-13