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, January 28, 2020

Bellwork gave students practice using skills from Sec 6-2.

Hwk #3 is due today

The remainder of the period we discussed Sec 6-3:  Ways to Prove Quadrilaterals are Parallelograms.

Hwk #4 is due tomorrow.  Sec 6-3

Page 324.

Problems 3, 4, 7-9, 14, 15, 17, 22-24

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Monday, January 27, 2020

Bellwork gave students practice solving problems involving the properties of parallelograms.

Hwk #2 is due today.

The remainder of the period we continued discussing Sec 6-2:  Properties of Parallelograms.

Hwk #3 is due tomorrow.  Sec 6-2

Page 315.

Problems 6, 7, 10, 12, 14, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32

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Friday, January 24, 2020

Bellwork gave students practice using the relationships between Quadrilaterals to fill in blanks in order to make statement true, as well as using the properties of special quadrilaterals to find missing values.

The rest of the period we finished discussing Sec 6-1, “Classifying Quadrilaterals” and began our discussion on Sec 6-2, “Properties of Parallelograms”.

Hwk #2 is due on Monday, January 27, 2020.

Sec 6-1.  Page 309.

Problems 21, 22, 24-26, 36-39.

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Thursday, January 23, 2020

Bellwork asked students to find the number of rectangles contained in a given a figure.

Hwk #1 is due today.

The remainder of the period we continued discussing Sec 6-1:  Classifying Quadrilaterals.

Hwk #2        Sec 6-1

Page 309.

Problems 21, 22, 24-26, 36-39.

Due on Monday, January 27, 2020.

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Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Bellwork gave students practice slope and distance formulas to determine which segments are parallel, perpendicular, and congruent.

The remainder of the class period we began discussing Sec 6-1:  Classifying Quadrilaterals.

Hwk #1 is due on Thursday.

Students are to write down the given terms and all they currently know about each, including a diagram with markings on it to show these characteristics.

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Monday, June 9, 2014

Bellwork reviewed finding lengths of tangent segments, determining if a segment is tangent to a  circle, and using coordinate geometry to find the best name for a quadrilateral.

The remainder of the period we discussed the relationship between an inscribed angle and its intercepted arc (Sec 12-3).

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Bellwork 6-9-14

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Notes 6-9-14

Thursday, June 5, 2014

Bellwork reviewed naming arc and finding the measure of arcs (Sec 10-6).

The remainder of the period we discussed how to find the following (sec 10-6, 10-7):

  • Circumference and area of circles
  • Arc Length
  • Area of a Sector

Students were given the Final Exam Review for Ch 6.

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Bellwork 6-5-14

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Notes 6-5-14