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

Thursday, May 7, 2015

Bellwork reviewed equations for and graphs of Square Root Functions.

Hwk #19 is due today.

The remainder of the period we continued discussing sec 7-8: Graphs of Square Root Functions, including domain and range of square root functions.

Hwk #20 is due on Monday: Practice Sheet Sec 7-8. See yesterday’s blog post for a copy of Hwk #20.

Click on the links below for a copy of today’s bellwork with answers and notes/examples from today’s lesson:
Alg 2 Bellwork with answers 5-7-15
Notes 5-7-15

Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Bellwork reviewed the topics involved with Inverse Functions.
The remainder of the period we began our discussion on Sec 7-8: Graph of Square Root Functions.

Hwk #19 is due tomorrow: Practice Sheet for Sec 7-7.

Hwk #20 is due on Monday: Practice Sheet for Sec 7-8.

Click on the links below for a copy of today’s bellwork with answers, notes/examples from today’s lesson, and a copy of Hwk #20:

Alg 2 Bellwork with answers 5-6-15
Notes 5-6-15
Alg 2 Hwk #20

Tuesday, May 5, 2015

1st Hour:
Bellwork reviewed the concepts of Domain & Range and solving an equation for one of its variables.

Preview Sheet for Sec 7-7 is due today.

The remainder of the period we discussed Sec 7-7: Inverse Relations.

Hwk #19 is due on Thursday: Practice Sheet Sec 7-7

Click on the links below for a copy of today’s bellwork and notes/examples from today’s lesson. You can find a copy of Hwk #19 on yesterday’s blog post under 3rd hour:
Alg 2 Bellwork with Answers 1st hour 5-5-15
Notes 5-5-15 1st hour

3rd hour:
Bellwork reviewed how to find the Domain & Range of an inverse relation, the equation of an inverse, and whether or not the inverse relation is a function or not.

The remainder of the period we finished discussing Sec 7-7 and began Sec 7-8.
Hwk #19 is due on Thursday: Practice Sheet Sec 7-7

Click on the links below for a copy of today’s bellwork and notes/examples from today’s lesson. You can find a copy of Hwk #19 on yesterday’s blog post under 3rd hour:
Alg 2 Bellwork with Answers 3rd hour 5-5-15
Notes 5-5-15 3rd hour

Monday, May 4, 2015

1st hour:
No bellwork today, students took a quiz over Sections 7-1 to 7-5.
After the quiz students were to work on a preview for Sec 7-7. This is due tomorrow.

See blog post from Friday, May 1 under 3rd hour for a link to this preview sheet.

3rd hour:
Bellwork reviewed Domain & Range and solving an equation for one of its variables.

Preview sheet for Sec 7-7 is due today.

The remainder of the period we began discussing Sec 7-7.

Hwk #19 is due on Wednesday. This hwk is a practice sheet.

Click on the links below for a copy of today’s bellwork with answers, notes/examples from today’s lesson, and a copy of Hwk #19:
Alg 2 Bellwork with Answers 3rd hour 5-4-15
Notes 5-1-15 3rd hour
Alg 2 Hwk #19 Sec 7-7

Friday, May 1, 2015

1st hour:
Bellwork reviewed for Monday’s Quiz over Sections 7-1 to 7-5. This took the entire period.
Hwk #18 is due today.

Click on the link below for a copy of today’s bellwork with answers:
Alg 2 Bellwork with Answers 1st hour 5-1-15

3rd hour:
No bellwork today, students took a quiz over Sections 7-1 to 7-5.
After the quiz students were to work on a practice sheet previewing Section 7-7. This practice sheet is due on Monday.

Click on the link below for a copy of the Practice Sheet Previewing Sec 7-7:
Alg 2 Sec 7-7 Preview

Thursday, April 30, 2015

1st hour:
Bellwork reviewed solving radical equations.
The remainder of the period we finished our discussion on solving different kinds of radical equations.

Hwk #18 is due tomorrow: Sec 7-5, pages 394-395, problems 6, 7, 9, 17, 18, 21-23, 54

Click on the links below for a copy of today’s bellwork with answers and notes/examples from today’s lesson:
Alg 2 Bellwork with Answers 1st hour 4-30-15
Notes 3-30-15 First Hour

3rd hour:
Bellwork reviewed for tomorrow’s Quiz over sections 7-1 to 7-5. This review took the whole period.

Click on the link below for a copy of today’s bellwork with answers:
Alg 2 Bellwork with Answers 3rd hour