Monday, May 3, 2010

Is it really May already?

Time sure goes by fast by when you are having fun and time is definitely going by fast for us. This year has been very enjoyable. The dreaded end-of-course exam is finally completed and I feel good about my students overall. We have 5 weeks of school left and I still have a lot planned for the students. We will begin this period talking about how math is used in the real world. I will have some guest speakers and I am also making the students complete a project where they research how math is used in the career field of their choice. This project will be due on Friday, May 7th. We will then do a Geometry Unit which will take up the next two weeks of class time. I want for my students to have a fundamental understanding of Geometry so that they can be successful in there next year. For the homework, I will give them 8 book assignments that will be due around Friday, May 21st. After that, we will review and take the semester test. Here is a breakdown of the next three weeks (which will definitely change):

Monday, May 3rd- In-class Image project
Tuesday, May 4th- Guest Speaker
Wednesday, May 5th- Computer Lab, work on "Math in Real World" project
Thursday, May 6th- Lesson 11.4 Pythagorean Theorem, finish Image project
Friday, May 7th- Present "Math in Real World" project, Project DUE

Monday, May 10th- Midpoint/Distance Formula
Tuesday, May 11th- Similar Triangles
Wednesday, May 12th- Review Activity
Thursday, May 13th- Trig Ratios
Friday, May 14th- Review Trig Ratios, In-class Activity

Monday, May 17th- Review Slope-intercept form
Tuesday, May 18th- Review Parallel/Perpendicular lines
Wednesday, May 19th- Review all sections, work on assignments in class
Thursday, May 20th- Review activity for the test
Friday, May 21st- GEOMETRY TEST, NOTEBOOK DUE, ALL ASSIGNMENTS DUE!

List of assignments:
Geometry Assignments-100 points total, 12 points each
Lesson 11.4: p. 608 15-36 multiples of 3
Lesson 11.5: p. 613 14-26 even (Find the midpoint and the distance between the points in all the problems)
Lesson 11.6: p. 619 12-24 multiples of 3
Lesson 11.7: p. 628-9 21-60 multiples of 3
Slope-intercept form: p. 284 12-27 multiples of 3
Parallel/Perpendicular: p. 296 15-39 multiples of 3
Review part 1: p.634-6 33-66 multiples of 3, skip 48
Review part 2: p. 310-12 26, 28, 30, 38, 40, 42, 54, 57, 60, 63

Please make sure that these assignments are completed, they can definitely help or hurt grades a significant amount. Thanks for your help, feel free to contact me if you have any comments/questions.