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, May 15, 2018

Hrs 1-3:

Bellwork reviewed simplifying trigonometric expressions (Sec 14-1).

Hwk #24 is due today.

The remainder of the period we finished discussing simplifying trig expressions.

Hwk #25 is due tomorrow.

Practice Sheet Sec 14-1: Simplifying Trig Expressions.

Click on the links below for a copy of today’s bellwork with answers, a copy of Hwk #25, and notes/examples from today’s lesson:

Alg 2B Bellwork with answers 5-15-18

Alg 2B Hwk #25

Alg 2B notes 5-15-18

 

5th Hr:

Bellwork reviewed graphing Secant and Cosecant functions.

The remainder of the period we finished our discussion o Sec 13-8 by covering the graphs of the Cotangent Function.

Hwk #23 is due tomorrow. Sec 13-8

Practice Sheet:  Graphing the Reciprocal Trig Functions

Click on the links below for a copy of today’s bellwork with answers, a copy of Hwk #23, and notes/examples from today’s lesson:

Alg 2B 5th hr Bellwork with answers 5-15-18

Alg 2B Hwk #23

Alg 2B 5th hr Notes 5-15-18

Monday, May 14, 2018

Hrs 1-3:

Bellwork reviewed graphs of the reciprocal trig functions.

Hwk #23 is due today.

The remainder of the period we began our discussion on Sec 14-1, Trigonometric Identities.  Students were introduced to the Pythagorean Identities and simplifying trigonometric expressions.

Hwk #24 is due tomorrow.  Sec 14-1

Page 780.  Problems 18, 20-23, 28, 30, 32-34

Students must show work to receive credit.

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

Alg 2B Bellwork with answers 5-14-18

Alg 2B notes 5-14-18

5th Hr:

Bellwork reviewed using a right triangle to evaluate the six trig functions, and graphing and labeling Sin, Cos, and Tan graphs.

Hwk #22 is due today.

The remainder of the period we continued discussing graphs of Csc, Sec, and Cot (Sec 13-8).  Hwk #23 was made available to the students and will be due on Wednesday.

Click on the links below for a copy of today’s bellwork with answers, a copy of Hwk #23, and notes/examples from today’s lesson:

Alg 2B 5th Hr Bellwork with answers 5-14-18

Alg 2B Hwk #23

Alg 2B 5th hr Notes 5-14-18

Friday, May 11, 2018

Hrs 1-3:

Bellwork reviewed graphing Cosine and Tangent Functions and labeling coordinates and Vertical Asymptotes.

The remainder of the period we finished our discussion of Sec 13-8, The Reciprocal Trig Functions.  We focused on the graphs of these functions.

Hwk #23 is due on Monday.

Practice Sheet Sec 13-8

Click on the links below for a copy of today’s Bellwork with answers, a copy of Hwk #23, and notes/examples from today’s lesson:

Alg 2B Bellwork with answers 5-11-18

Alg 2B Hwk #23

Alg 2B notes 5-11-18

 

5th Hr:

5th hour did not meet today.

Thursday, May 10, 2018

Hrs 1-3:

Bellwork reviewed writing the six trig functions as ratios, graphing a transformed Sine function, and finding x-int and VA of a transformed Tangent function.

Hwk #22 is due today.

The remainder of the period we began our discussion on the graphs of the Reciprocal Trig Functions.

Hwk #23 was made available to the students.

Practice Sheet:  Graphs of the Reciprocal Trig Functions.

Due date for Hwk #23 is still to be determined.

Click on the links below for a copy of today’s bellwork with answers, a copy of Hwk #23, and notes/examples from today’s lesson:

Alg 2B Bellwork with answers 5-10-18

Alg 2B Hwk #23

Alg 2B notes 5-10-18

 

5th Hr:

Bellwork reviewed using the Unit Circle to find the exact values for Sinx, Cosx, and Tanx.

The remainder of the period we started discussing Sec 13-8, The Reciprocal Trig Functions.

Hwk #22 is due on Monday, May 14, 2018

Page 766.  Problems 2-4, 9-14

AND

Page 797.  Problems 28, 30

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

Alg 2B 5th Hr Bellwork with answers 5-10-18

Alg 2B 5th hr Notes 5-10-18

Wednesday, May 9, 2018

Hrs 1-3:

Bellwork reviewed using the Unit Circle to find the exact value of trigonometric expresssions.

The remainder of the period we began our discussion on Sec 13-8, Reciprocal Trig Functions.

Hwk #22 is due tomorrow.  Sec 13-8

Page 766.  Problems 2-4, 9-14

AND

Page 797.  Problems 28, 30

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

Alg 2B Bellwork with answers 5-9-18

Alg 2B notes 5-9-18

5th Hour:

No bellwork today, students took the test over Outcomes, Probability, and Statistics.

Tuesday, May 8, 2018

Hrs 1-3:

No Bellwork today, students took the test over Outcomes, Probability, and Statistics.

 

5th Hour:

Bellwork reviewed for tomorrow’s test over Outcomes, Probability, and Statistics.

Hwk #21 is due today.

The remainder of the period we finished discussing Sec Normal Distributions when the z-score is not an integer.

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

Alg 2B 5th hr Bellwork with answers 5-8-18

Alg 2B 5th hr Notes 5-8-18

Monday, May 7, 2018

Hrs 1-3:

Bellwork reviewed for tomorrow’s test over Probability, Outcomes, and Statistics.

Hwk #21 is due today.

The remainder of the period we finished Sec 12-7, using a Normal Distributions Table to answer questions involving non-integer z-scores.

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

Alg 2B Bellwork with answers 5-7-18

Alg 2B notes 5-7-18

5th Hr:

Bellwork reviewed Normal Distributions.

The remainder of the period we finished discussing Sec 12-7.

Hwk #21 is due tomorrow.    Sec 12-7

Page: 695.   Problems:  5, 9-15, 18, 20-22, 27

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

Alg 2B 5th Bellwork with answers 5-7-18

Alg 2B 5th hr Notes 5-7-18

Friday, May 4, 2018

Bellwork reviewed Normal Distributions, Sec 12-7.

The remainder of the period we finished our discussion on Normal Distributions.

Test over Outcomes, Probability, and Statistics will be Tuesday, May 8, 2018

Hwk #21 is due on Monday, May 7, 2018.    Sec 12-7

Page 695.   Problems 5, 9-15, 18, 20-22, 27.

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

Alg 2B Bellwork with answers 5-4-18

Alg 2B notes 5-4-18

Thursday, May 3, 3018

Hours 1-3:

Bellwork reviewed problems for the upcoming test and from sec 12-7.

The remainder of the period we continued discussing Sec 12-7, Normal Distributions.

Hwk #21 is due on Monday, May 7.    Sec 12-7

Page 695.   Problems 5, 9-15, 18, 20-22, 27

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

Alg 2B Bellwork with answers 5-3-18

Alg 2B notes 5-3-18

5th Hour:

Bellwork reviewed sec 12-5, Working with Samples (same as Bellwork for Hrs 1-3 on Wed. 5-2-18).

Hwk #20 is due today.

The remainder of the period we began discussing Sec 12-7, Normal Distributions.

Click on the links below for a copy of today’s bellwork (same as Bellwork for Hrs 1-3 on Wed. 5-2-18) and notes/examples from today’s lesson:

Alg 2B Bellwork wtih answers 5-2-18

Alg 2B 5th hr Notes 5-3-18

Wednesday, May 2, 2018

Hrs 1-3:

Bellwork reviewed questions from Sec 12-5 and some experimental probabilities.

Hwk #20 is due today.

The remainder of the period we began discussing Sec 12-7, Normal Distributions.

Next Hwk:   #21    Sec 12-7

Page 695.   Problems 5, 9-15, 18, 20-22, 27

Due date is still to be determined.

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

Alg 2B Bellwork wtih answers 5-2-18

Alg 2B notes 5-2-18

5th Hr:

Finished discussing Sec 12-5

Hwk #20 is due tomorrow.    Sec 12-5

Page 680.  Problems:  2, 3, 7-10, 13-17, 31