Monday, December 22, 2014

Week of December 22 and January 5th

Stats: Test 12/22
Jan 5th:   Finish ch 4 presentations and Review for Midterms.

Calculus:  Review for test on 4-1 and 4-3. 
Jan 5th:  Review for midterm. 

Pssa Math 7:  Students are starting their unit packets on Percents.

Monday, November 24, 2014

Week of 11/24

Stats:   Students will complete the lesson on the multiplication rule of probability beginning on page 209.   We will likely be having a quiz before Thanksgiving break.


Calculus:  Students will begin working on taking derivatives of logrthymic functions.  They will complete lesson 3-9 from their book.

Pssa Math: Students will continue to work on their Area and Perimeter Unit.  Please encourage them to work on these each day.

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Week of 11/11

Stats:  Students will be starting chapter 4, simple probability.  They will learn to write sample spaces for all possible outcomes in an event and then test and compare the theoretical probability to the experimental probability.


Calculus:  Students will begin to learn the rules for differentiating exponential and log functions.  Students will be asked to complete lesson 3-7 from the book and will follow up with a practice worksheet.


Pssa math:  Students will start their next unit on similar figures and proportions.  They will continue to work through this packet for the duration of the week.

Monday, November 3, 2014

Week of 11/3

Stats:  Students will begin their bungee Barbie projects on Monday and be assessed on chapter 10 on Friday.


Calculus:  Students will begin their sports science project Monday, and complete the lesson on the chain rule Thursday.  Test on lesson 2-4 and 3-5 will be on Thursday.


Pssa Math 7:  Students will continue to work on their unit 1 packets entitled Angles and Triangles.  Their test will be at the end of the week.

Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Week of 10/14

Statistics:  Students will complete page 144 on percentiles and z-scores and then add this new knowledge to finishing their fast food projects.  A test on chapter 3 will be next week.


Calculus:  Students will begin lesson 3-4 on velocity, acceleration and other rates of change.  They will be asked to complete page 129 for homework along with a worksheet.


Pssa Math:  Students will complete their last unit packet on percents before having their test at the end of the week.  Then they will begin to practice standardized test items.


Monday, October 6, 2014

Week of 10/6

Stats:  Students will begin by completing page 144 for homework.  Then students will be working on a fast food project for finding the measures of central tendency, position and variation.

Calculus:  Test on Tuesday for derivatives!  Students will begin to study velocity and other rates of change.  Then they will be asked to complete page 129 for homework.

Pssa Math:  Students will complete their unit packet on percents throughout the week.

Monday, September 29, 2014

Week of September 29th....

We are nearing the end of the marking period.

Statistics:  Students will be working on measures of central tendency and will be asked to complete lesson 3-2 on page 110, #'s 1-8 and 12-15, 17-21.

Calculus:  Students will complete lesson 3-2 on differentiability.  Then they will be asked to complete page 111, #'s 1-18.  A quiz will follow on lessons 3-1 and 3-2.  Students will also begin working on rules of derivatives near the end of the week.

Pssa math 7:  Test Today!  On Tuesday, students will begin working on their 3-D shapes unit.

Friday, September 12, 2014

Week of September 15th

Statistics:  Students will move into creating graphs for frequency distributions that include: histograms, frequency polygons, ogives and stem and leaf plots.  Students will be expected to color their graphs to promote professional appearance.  Monday's homework will be on page 58, 2-5, 8, 15 and 16.  Tuesday's homework will be page 77, 2-4, 15-17.  Test on chapter 2 likely to be on Friday.

Calculus:  Students are learning how to find average rate of change of a function over a specified domain.  Students will also learn to compute the slope of a line at a given point by using the limit definition for slope.  Students will complete page 87, #'s 1-6, 9-12 and 27-30.  Test will be on Wednesday.

Pssa Math 7:  Students will continue to work with their angles and triangles unit.  Please encourage them to maintain studying and completion of their packets.

Monday, September 8, 2014

Week of September 8th

Statistics:  We will continue to work on frequency distributions this week with a test coming up next week on unit 2.  Students will be asked to complete page 43, 3-5 and 8-18 even for an assignment.  Then students will complete a worksheet that developes higher level thinking for distributions.
Finally students will be asked to construct the four main graphs for their distributions.

Calculus:  Students will be asked to complete page 80, numbers 1-16, 19-24 and 35, 36 for homework.  Students will also complete page 87, 2 -18 even and 23-30.

Pssa math 7:  Unit one Packets are due soon and we have our test this week!  Please study all your formulas and commit them to memory!  After the test, we will move into our next unit.

Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Week of september 2nd

Statistics:  Students will begin chapter 2 and work on developing frequency distributions by organizing data into a table.  Students will complete lesson 2-2 by doing problems 3-5 and 7-18 for homework.

Calculus:  We are continuing limits by exploring limits that approach infinity.  Students in calculus will also complete problems from lesson 2-2, evens.

Pssa math 7:  We are nearing the end of our first unit on area.  Please encourage students to prepare for their first unit test.  The test will be no sooner than Friday.

Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Week of 8/25/14

Welcome Back to School!

Pssa Math 7:  Students will receive a formula sheet to go along with their first packet on area and perimeter.  Please save the formula sheet throughout the year as it will remain useful for you.

Statistics:  Students will begin working on chapter one, The Nature of Statistics by taking notes and learning primarily about sampling techniques and types of statistics.  An activity will occur within class later in the week.

Calculus:  The class will begin the year by working with limits.  Students will be expected to complete lesson 2.1 on page 62, #'s 2-32 even.

Monday, May 12, 2014

Week of May 12th

All classes:  Finish reviews and STUDY for finals!

Monday, April 21, 2014

Week of April 21st

Stats: Students will work on hyptohesis test for means using t-scores and testing for proportions.

Calculus:  Students will continue to work on integration by parts.

Geometry:  Students will finish their unit on quadrilaterals and take their test before moving into similar figures.

Monday, April 14, 2014

Week of 4/14

Stats:   Test on first part of hypothesis testing for a mean will be this Wednesday before we move into testing proportions.

Calculus:  Integration by Substitution test on Monday!  Students will begin integration by parts on Tuesday and complete multiple assignments this week that cover this lesson.

Geometry:  Students will e finishing their unit 8 packet this week on quadrilaterals and have their test either Thursday or Friday.

Friday, April 4, 2014

Week of April 7th

Geometry:  Students will begin with their unit 8 packet on properties of quadrilaterals.

Statistics:  Students will begin working on Hypothesis Testing in class and complete lessons 8-2 and 8-3 for homework.

Calculus:  Students are currently working on integration by substitution.  Next, we will be moving into integration by parts and tabular integration.  Students will be asked to complete lessons 6-2 and 6-3 from their book along with problems from the college textbook.

Monday, March 10, 2014

Week of March 10th

Staistics:  Students will be leaning to find confidence intervals for the population mean using t-distributions and will be asked to complete lesson 7-3 from their textbooks.  Then students will have a test on lessons 7-2 and 7-3 near the end of the week.

Geometry:  Students will begin their unit 5 packets this week.  The packets will focus mainly on isosceles triangles, equaliateral triangles and determining side lengths for triangles.

Calculus:  Students will be finishing up chapter 5 this week with a test likely on Friday involving definite integrals and the fundamental theorem of calculus.  They will complete an assignment on page 286.

Monday, March 3, 2014

Week of 3/3

Statistics:  We will begin our chapter on confidence intervals and complete lesson 7-2 on page 758 for homework.

Geometry:  Students will be completing their unit 3 topics this week as well as taking the unit 3 assessment.  Then we will be unit 4, Transformations.

Calculus:  Students will work to master evaluating definite integrals and explore the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus.

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Week of 2/18

Statistics:  We are currently working on the normal distributions, z-scores and areas under the curve.  We will be completing lessons 6-3 and 6-4 for homework.

Geometry:  Test on Unit 2 will be on Thursday! Then we will move into unit 3, polygons.

Calculus: Test on Wednesday before moving into reimann sums and the definite integral.

Monday, February 10, 2014

Week of 2/10

Statistics:  We will be taking notes on chapter 6 this week and complete lesson 6-2 for homework.

Geometry:  We will continue working on Unit 2 and will focus mainly on angle relationships and angle bisectors.

Calculus:  The class will be taking the chapter 4 test later this week.  Please study lessons, 4-4 through 4-6 for the test.

Thursday, February 6, 2014

Week of Feb. 4th

More snow anyone?

Statistics:  The primary focus this week will completing the chapter 5 test on probobility distributions and binomial experiments.  Please study!

Calculus:  We are currently working on related rates and we will be having our test on lessons 4.4-4.6 next week. (Likely Tuesday)

Geometry:  We have recently taken our unit one test on points, lines and planes.  Now we will be moving into Unit 2 "Angles."  Please continue to work through your unit packets.

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Week of January 22nd.

Applied Geometry:   This week we will be learning about the basic concepts in Geometry.  They will include: points, lines, segments, rays and planes.  We will also be learning the classroom procedures and grading policies.

Statistics:  This week, we will begin chapter five, "Probability distributions" and we will also learn about binomial experiments and the binomial formula.

Calculus:  We are currently beginning optimization problems where the students will have to write functions for different scenarios and solve for maximum and minimal circumstances.