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

Monday, November 27, 2017

Bellwork reviewed writing equations of circles and ellipses and SAT like math questions.

Students were given a sheet of notes that summarizes all the information they need to know about Ellipses.

The remainder of the period we finished our discussion on Translating Ellipses.

Hwk #24 is due tomorrow.

Practice Sheet:  Translating Ellipses.

Click on the links below for a copy of today’s bellwork with answers, a copy of Hwk #24, the Ellipse Summary sheet, and notes/examples from today’s lesson:

Alg 2B Bellwork with answers 11-27-17

Alg 2B Hwk #24

Ellipse Summary

Alg 2B Notes 11-27-17

Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Bellwork gave students practice writing equations of ellipses and finding certain characteristics of an ellipse from its equation.

Hwk #23 is due today.

The remainder of the period we began discussing Translations of Ellipses (Sec 10-6).

Hwk #24 was given to the students and will be due on Tuesday, November 28.  This homework is a practice sheet on Translating Ellipses.

Click on the links below for a copy of today’s  bellwork with answers, a copy of Hwk #24, and notes/examples from today’s lesson:

Alg 2B Bellwork with answers 11-21-17

Alg 2B Hwk #24

Alg 2B Notes 11-21-17

Monday, November 20, 2017

Bellwork gave students practice writing the equation of a circle then a couple of SAT like math problems.

The remainder of the period we continued discussing Sec 10-4 Ellipses.

Hwk #23 is due tomorrow.    Sec 10-4

Page 571            Problems 6, 7, 14, 20, 32, 37, 44, 47, 50, 59

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 11-20-17

Alg 2B Notes 11-20-17

Friday, November 17, 2017

Bellwork gave students practice writing equations of circles and finding the radius and center of a circle given its equation.

Hwk #22 is due today.

The remainder of the period we began discussing Ellipses, Sec 10-4.

Hwk #23.    Sec 10-4   Due date is still to be determined.

Page 571.   Problems 6, 7, 14, 20, 32, 37, 44, 47, 50, 59

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 11-17-17

Alg 2B Notes 11-17-17

Thursday, November 16, 2017

Bellwork gave students practice on problems similar to ones they will encounter on the SAT and Accuplacer.

The remainder of the period we finished our discussion on Sec 10-3, Circles.

Hwk #22 is due tomorrow.   Sec 10-3

Page 564.  Problems 5, 6, 14, 15, 18, 24, 46, 50, 60, 68

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Alg 2B Bellwork with answers 11-16-17
Alg 2B Notes 11-16-17

Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Bellwork was different for hours 1-3 and 6th hr.

Hours 1-3 bellwork gave students practice on SAT like math questions.

6th hour bellwork introduced the distance and midpoint formulas and gave students practice on using them to find the length and midpoints of given segments.

The remainder of the period we continued our discussion on the equations of circles (Sec 10-3).

Hwk #22 will be due on Friday.  Sec 10-3.

Page 564

Problems 5, 6, 14, 15, 18, 24, 46, 50, 60, 68

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

Alg 2B Bellwork 1st, 2nd, 3rd hrs with answers 11-15-17

Alg 2B Bellwork 6th hr with answers 11-15-17

Alg 2B Notes 11-15-17