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, May 19, 2014

Bellwork reviewed finding heights diagonals in certain figures.

The remainder of the period we continued discussing Sec 11-2, Surface Areas of Prisms and Cylinders.

Hwk #26 is due on Thursday:

Sec 11-2, pages 611-612, problems 4-9,14, 21

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Bellwork 5-19-14

Bellwork Answers 5-19-14

Notes 5-19-14

Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Bellwork reviewed problems that will be on Thursday’s quiz over sections 10-1, 10-2, 10-3, 10-5.

Hwk #25 is due today.

The remainder of the period we finished reviewing for Thursday’s quiz.  Then we continued discussing vocabulary used when working with Space Figures (3-D).

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Bellwork 5-13-14

Bellwork Answers 5-13-14

Notes 5-13-14

Monday, May 12, 2014

Bellwork reviewed finding areas of regular polygons using trigonometry.

hwk #24 is due today.

The remainder of the period we finished sec 10-5 by finding the area of a triangle using SAS.

Hwk #25 is due tomorrow:

Sec 10-5, pages 561-562, problems 2, 4, 7, 11, 12, 25, 26

Click on the links below for today’s bellwork, bellwork answers, and notes/examples from today’s lesson:
Bellwork 5-12-14

Bellwork Answers 5-12-14

Notes 5-12-14

Friday, May 9, 2014

Bellwork reviewed finding the area of regular polygons using Special Right Triangles (Sec 10-3), Squares, Equilateral Triangles, and Regular Hexagons.

The remainder of the hour we discussed finding the area of regular polygons using Trigonometry (Sec 10-5).

Hwk #24 is due on Monday:

Sec 10-3, pages 548-549, problems 10, 11, 14, 15, 17, 26, 27.

Click on the links below for today’s bellwork, bellwork answers, and notes/examples from today’s lesson:
Bellwork 5-9-14

Bellwork Answers 5-9-14

Notes 5-9-14