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

Friday, September 21, 2018

Bellwork reviewed graphs and equations of Quadratic Functions in Vertex Form.

The remainder of the period we finished our discussion on Quadratic Functions in Vertex Form (Sec 5-3).

Hwk #9 is due on Monday.  Sec 5-3

Page 255.  Problems 9, 10, 19, 20, 25, 42, 43, 47, 70.

Students are to use the sheet I’ve printed for them to do this homework assignment.

Click on the links below for a copy of today’s bellwork with answers, a copy of Hwk #9, and notes/examples from today’s lesson:

Bellwork with answers 9-21-18

Hwk #9 – Sec 5-3

Alg 2 notes 9-21-18

Thursday, September 20, 2018

Bellwork reviewed factoring and graphs of Quadratic Functions.

The remainder of the period we continued discussing Sec 5-3, Vertex Form of a Quadratic Function.  We practiced graphing parabolas involving translations and vertical stretches/shrinks.  Students also learned how to write the equation from the graph.

Hwk #9 was made available to the students.

Problems from Sec 5-3.  Students are to use the sheet that I printed for the hwk.

Due date is still to be determined.

Click on the links below for a copy of today’s bellwork with answers, a copy of Hwk #9, and notes/examples from today’s lesson:

Bellwork with answers 9-20-18

Hwk #9 – Sec 5-3

Alg 2 notes 9-20-18

Wednesday, September 19, 2018

Bellwork reviewed factoring and graphs of Quadratic Functions.

The remainder of the period we continued discussing the graphs of Quadratic Functions.  We discussed how to graph a parabola with a coefficient other than 1 or -1 using the Vertical Stretch/Shrink Factor.

Hwk #9 was made available to the students today.  Due date for this hwk is still to be determined.

Click on the links below for a copy of today’s bellwork with answers, a copy of Hwk #9, and notes/examples from today’s lesson:

Bellwork with answers 9-19-18

Hwk #9 – Sec 5-3

Alg 2 notes 9-19-18

Tuesday, September 18, 2018

Bellwork reviewed factoring.

Hwk #8 is due today.

The remainder of the period we began our discussion on Quadratic Functions and Equations.  We started by going over a Quadratic Function in Vertex Form (Sec 5-3).

Next Hwk :  Hwk #9      Sec 5-3

Hwk is from the textbook.  Students will be using the sheet that I’ll provide them tomorrow.

Click on the links below for a copy of today’s bellwork with answers, a copy of hwk #9, and notes/examples from today’s lesson:

Bellwork with answers 9-18-18

Hwk #9 – Sec 5-3

Alg 2 notes 9-18-18

Friday, September 14, 2018

Bellwork reviewed graphs of Absolute Value Functions and Function Operations and Composites.

Hwk #7 is due today.

Today is a half-day, therefore, we spent the entire 1/2 period working on and going over the bellwork.  Since we didn’t have time to go over Hwk #7 I’ll post the answers using the link at the bottom of this post.

Quiz #1 is Monday.

Click on the links below for a copy of today’s bellwork with answers and the answers to Hwk #7:

Bellwork with answers 9-14-18

Answers to Hwk #7

Thursday, September 13, 2018

Bellwork reviewed Composite Functions and Domain & Range of a graph.

Hwk #6 is due today.

The remainder of the period we continued discussing Graphs of Absolute Value Functions (Sec 2-5).

Hwk #7 is due tomorrow.

Practice Sheet:  Graphs of Absolute Value Functions (Sec 2-5).

Click on the links below for a copy of today’s bellwork with answers, a copy of Hwk #7, and notes/examples from today’s lesson:

Bellwork with answers 9-13-14

Hwk #7

Alg 2 notes 9-13-18

Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Bellwork reviewed Composite Functions and Factoring.

The remainder of the period we finished our discussion on Composite Functions (Sec 7-6).  We then began our discussion on the graphs of Absolute Value Functions (Sec 2-5).

Hwk #6 is due tomorrow.

Practice Sheet:  Composite Functions.

Click  on the links below for a copy of today’s bellwork with answers, a copy of Hwk #6, and notes/examples from today’s lesson:

Bellwork with answers 9-12-18

Hwk #6

Alg 2 notes 9-12-18

Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Bellwork reviewed Composite Functions and Factoring.

Hwk #5 is due today.

The remainder of the period we continued discussing Composite Functions (Sec 7-6).

Hwk #6 was made available to the students.

Due date for hwk #6 is still to be determined.

Click on the links below for a copy of today’s bellwork with answers, a copy of Hwk #6, and notes/examples from today’s lesson:

Bellwork with answers 9-11-18

Hwk #6

Alg 2 notes 9-11-18