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, February 10, 2020

Bellwork gave students practice using coordinate geometry to determine the most precise name for a quadrilateral.

The remainder of the period we finished discussing Sec 6-6.

Hwk #8:  Due tomorrow.  Sec 6-6

Page 344

Problems 2-7, 23-25

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Friday, February 7, 2020

Bellwork reviewed finding missing angles in a kite.

Hwk #7 is due today.

The remainder of the period we practiced using coordinate geometry to determine the most precise name for a given quadrilateral.  We also began discussing Sec 6-6:  Placing figures in the coordinate plane.

Hwk #8:  Sec 6-6

Page 344

Problems 2-7, 23-25

Due date is still to be determined

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Thursday, February 6, 2020

Bellwork gave students practice on PSAT/SAT math questions.

Hwk #6 is due today.

The remainder of the period we finished our discussion on Sec 6-5:  Trapezoids and Kites.

Hwk #7 is due tomorrow.  Sec 6-5

Page 338

Problems 2, 9, 10, 13, 14, 17, 18, 26, 28

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Monday, February 3, 2020

Bellwork gave students practice using the properties of Parallelograms, Rhombuses, and Rectangles to find missing values.  Students also used coordinate geometry to find the most precise name for a given quadrilateral.

Hwk #5 is due today.

Students were given the review for the first quiz over Sections 6-1 to 6-4.

The remainder of the period we finished discussing Sec 6-4:  Special Quadrilaterals.  We discussed the properties of Squares.

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Friday, January 31, 2020

Bellwork gave students practice using coordinates and the formulas for slope, distance, and midpoint to determine if a figure is a Parallelogram, a Rhombus, or neither.

The remainder of the period we finished our discussion on Sec 6-4:  Special Parallelograms.

Hwk #5 is due on Monday, February 3, 2020.  Sec 6-4

Page 332.

Problems 2, 4-6, 12, 16-21.

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Thursday, January 30, 2020

Bellwork gave students practice deciding if a quadrilateral is a parallelogram or using the properties of a parallelogram to find missing values.

Hwk #4 is due today.

The remainder of the period we began discussing Sec 6-4:  Special Parallelograms.  We started with a discussion on Rhombuses and their properties.

Hwk  #5:  Sec 6-4

Page 322

Problems 2, 4-6, 12, 16-21

Due date for this hwk is still to be determined.

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