1st, 2nd, 3rd Hours:

For bellwork students were given review problems to work on in order to help them prepare for this week’s final exam.  This was a lengthy bellwork and took most of the period for students to work on and for us to go over in class.

Click on the link below for a copy of today’s bellwork with answers:

Hon Alg 2 Bellwork with answers 1-23-17

4th & 5th Hours:

For bellwork students were given review problems to work on in order to help them prepare for this week’s final exam.

After the bellwork students were given time to finish last Friday’s Chapter 4 Test.

After students were done with the  Classwork sheet of review problems for the final exam.  This sheet is due tomorrow.

Click on the links below for a copy of today’s bellwork and a copy of the Classwork sheet:

Alg 2A Bellwork with answers 1-23-17

Alg 2A Classwork 1-23-17

1st, 2nd, 3rd Hours:

Students reviewed for next week’s Final Exam.

Click on the link below for a copy of the review problems, with answers, that students worked on today.

Hon Alg 2 Bellwork with answers 1-20-17

4th & 5th Hours:

No bellwork today, students took the Chapter 4 Test.

Students were also given the Final Exam Reviews.

See the previous post for a copy of the final exam reviews.

Click on the links below for a copy of the Final Exam Reviews for Honors Alg 2 (1st, 2nd, & 3rd hours) and Alg 2A (4th & 5th hours):

Hon Alg 2 Final Exam Reviews

Alg 2A Final Exam Reviews

1st, 2nd, 3rd Hours:

No bellwork today.  Students took the test over Chapter 6.

4th & 5th Hours:

Bellwork gave students practice on problems that will appear on next week’s final exam.

The remainder of the period students reviewed for both tomorrow’s Chapter 4 Test and next week’s Final Exam.

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

Alg 2A Bellwork with answers 1-19-17
Alg 2A Classnotes 1-19-17

1st, 2nd, 3rd Hours:

Bellwork gave students practice on SAT-type math questions.

The remainder of the period students continued with the review for tomorrow’s Chapter 6 Test that was begun yesterday.

Click on the link below for a copy of today’s bellwork with answers:

Hon Alg 2 Bellwork with answers 1-18-17

4th Hour:

Bellwork gave students more practice on logic/math questions.

The remainder of the period we reviewed for Friday’s Chapter 4 Test and review for the Final Exam.

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

Alg 2A 4th Hr Bellwork with answers 1-18-17

Alg 2A 4th Hour Classnotes 1-18-17

5th Hour:

Bellwork gave students more practice on logic/math questions.

The remainder of the period we reviewed for Friday’s Chapter 4 Test and review for the Final Exam.

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

Alg 2A 5th Hr Bellwork with answers 1-18-17

Alg 2A 5th Hour Classnotes 1-18-17

1st, 2nd, 3rd Hours:

Bellwork reviewed problems for Thursday’s Chapter 6 Test.

Hwk #33 is due today.

The remainder of the period students reviewed for Thursday’s test by moving amongst ten stations in the atrium.  Each station had different problems to practice.

Click on the links below for a copy of today’s bellwork with answers and answers to the in-class review:

Hon Alg 2 Bellwork with answers 1-17-17

Answers from in-class review

4th Hour:

Bellwork gave students some practice on logic-math questions.

The remainder of the period we reviewed for Friday’s Chapter 4 Test.

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

4th Hr Alg 2A Bellwork with answers 1-17-17

Alg 2A 4th Hour Classnotes 1-17-17

5th Hour:

Bellwork had students find the number of triangles or rectangles in a give drawing.  To answer these questions it is helpful to have a systematic approach.

Hwk #23 is due today.

The remainder of the period we reviewed for Friday’s Chapter 4 Test.

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

5th Hr Alg 2A Bellwork with answers 1-17-17

Alg 2A 5th Hour Classnotes 1-17-17

1st, 2nd, 3rd Hours:

Bellwork gave students practice on SAT-style math questions.

Hwk #32 is due today.

The remainder of the period we finished our discussion on Sec 6-8, expanding powers of binomials using Pascal’s Triangle.

Hwk #33 is due on Tuesday.   Sec 6-8

Page 356  Problems 26-28, 34, 38, 46, 48, 50

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

Hon Alg 2 Bellwork with answers 1-13-17

Hon Alg 2 Classnotes 1-13-17

4th Hour:

Bellwork required students to find the number of a certain figure that can be found in a design, a visual logic problem.

Hwk #23 is due today.

The remainder of the period students were given practice writing and solving systems of equations using matrices.

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

Alg 2A Bellwork with answers 4th Hour 1-13-17

Alg 2A 4th Hour Classnotes 1-13-17

5th Hour:

Bellwork gave students practice solving matrix equations using the graphing calculator.

The remainder of the period  students were given practice writing and solving systems of equations using matrices.

Hwk #23 is due on Tuesday.     Practice Sheet:  Solving Matrix Equations.

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 2A Bellwork with answers 5th hour 1-13-17

Alg 2A Hwk #23

Alg 2A 5th Hour Classnotes 1-13-17

1st, 2nd, 3rd Hours:

Bellwork reviewed Synthetic Division and the Remainder Theorem.

Hwk #31 is due today.

The remainder of the period we finished discussing Synthetic Division from sec 6-3 and began discussing Sec 6-8, The Binomial Theorem using Pascal’s Triangle.

Hwk #32 is due tomorrow.  Sec 6-3

Page 324.  Problems 14, 15, 24, 26, 27, 50, 51

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

Hon Alg 2 Bellwork with answers 1-12-17

Hon Alg 2 Classnotes 1-12-17

4th Hour:

Bellwork reviewed solving matrix equations.

The remainder of the period we continued discussing solving matrix equations using Inverse Matrices.  We also began discussing how a system of linear equations can be solve using matrices.

Hwk #23 is due tomorrow.  Practice Sheet:  Solving Matrix Equations.

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 2A 4th hour Bellwork with answers 1-12-17

Alg 2A Hwk #23

Alg 2A 4th Hour Classnotes 1-12-17

5th Hour:

Bellwork reviewed using matrices on the graphing calculator to multiply matrices, if possible, determine if two matrices are inverses, and to find  the inverse of a matrix, if it exists.

The remainder of the period we discussed solving matrix equations using inverse matrices.  We also began our discussion on how a system of linear equations can be solved using matrices.

Hwk #23 is due on Tuesday, January 17.  Practice Sheet:  Solving Matrix Equations.

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 2A 5th hour Bellwork with answers 1-12-17

Alg 2A Hwk #23

Alg 2A 5th Hour Classnotes 1-12-17

1st, 2nd, 3rd Hours:

Bellwork gave students practice finding real solutions by graphing and using these solutions and polynomial division to find the imaginary solutions.

The remainder of the period we finished discussing Sec 6-3 by covering the topics of the Remainder Theorem and Synthetic Division.

Hwk #31 is due tomorrow.     Sec 6-3

Page 324.       Problems 11, 12, 23, 28, 29, 43, 44.  For #23 use polynomial division only.  For #’s 28 & 29 use Remainder Theorem only.

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

Hon Alg 2 Bellwork with answers 1-11-17

Hon Alg 2 Classnotes 1-11-17

4th hour:

Bellwork gave students practice on multiplying matrices by hand and find the determinant and inverse of a matrix by hand.

The remainder of the period we discussed what the inverse of a matrix is used for and how to solve matrix equations using inverse matrices.

Hwk #23 will be due on Friday, January 13.  Practice Sheet: Solving Matrix Equations.

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 2A 4th Hour Bellwork with answers 1-11-1

Alg 2A 4th Hour Classnotes 1-11-17

5th Hour:

Bellwork gave students practice multiplying matrices by hand.

The remainder of the period we finished discussing how to multiply two matrices, what the Identity Matrix is, what the inverse of a number is, and what the product of two matrices would be if one of them is the inverse of the other.

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

Alg 2A 5th Hour Bellwork with answers 1-11-17

Alg 2A 5th Hour Classnotes 1-11-17

Students were given the review for the Chapter 6 Test that will be given next week.  The actual date of the Test is still to be determined and will be announced when it is known.

Click on the link below for a copy of this review:

Hon Alg 2 Chapter 6 Review