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Wednesday, March 30, 2011

hw #8-6 Springtime, Love, & Polynomial Unit Tests...

... PERFECT TOGETHER!!

ANSWER KEY FOR PS 8B (Ignore the fact that it's titled "PS 10C"... that's an "old" number)

Chapter 8 Review & Chapter Test
#1 - Infinity

excluding section 8-8 Factoring by Grouping (which is really not too much different than the beautiful symmetry and proportion inherent in the Area Model).

Monday, March 28, 2011

hw #8-5 Factoring is FUN & EASY!!

pg 508-09
#1-5 All
#15-25 Odd

Problem Set 8A
... look at Problem Set 8B

Thursday, March 24, 2011

hw #8-3 Special Cases

QUIZ on Wednesday 8-1 thru 8-4
hw #8-3
pg 496 #25-45 Odd, #53

pg 498 1-Infinity Odd AND #26

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

hw #8-2 Multiplying Polynomials, Factoring with GCF, FOIL & Area Model

hw #8-2
pg 483 #9-25, 39 Odd
USE BOTH FOIL AND the AREA MODEL
(the book discusses the "distribution" and a table method, both are very similar to what we have done in class, so just use any method you are comfortable with)
pg 489-490 #21-41 Odd

Friday, March 18, 2011

hw #8-1 Adding & Subtracting Polynomials

Read pg 474-477
#1-15 All
#17,21,25,32,35,38,42,45,47,52,66

Know you new vocabulary:
- Monomial
- Polynomial
- Degree of a monmial
- Degree of a polynomial
- Degree of a term

Re-read and understand COMBINE LIKE TERMS

New Learning
- Standard Form of a Polynomial
- Add & Subtract Polynomials Vertically & Horizontally

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Unit 7 Review & Celebration

Test on Friday... woo-hoo!!

This little piggy is heading to a Pi-week party!!

Monday, March 14, 2011

hw #7-7 Exponential Growth APR APY

Read Section 7-8
pg 458-60
#1-13 Odd, 19-21 All, 33-40 Odd

Thursday, March 10, 2011

hw #7-6 Ooooohhh-Aaaahhhhhh!!

Reminder: PLEASE visit www.frelinghuysenmiddleschool.org and take the student and parent math survey... THANKS!

Who knew graphing could be this much fun??

Read 447-449
pg 450 #1,2,5, 9-23 Odd

Finish the graphs from classwork
Use the web-based graphing calculator to check your work

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

hw #7-5 Incontrovertible Truths

pg 439 #1-infinity
pg 443 #19-23 Odd, 41-47 Odd
Problem Set 7B

Just a thought... you might find some of the video tutors on MathChamber helpful...

Friday, March 4, 2011

hw #7-4 POWERS TO THE PEOPLE!!

hw #7-4
pg 436-437
#11-37 Odd
#51-55 Odd
& Problem Set 7A

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

hw #7-3 Properties of Powers & Exponents

Note: We are skipping scientific notation (section 7-2) and will come back to it SOON... (I could tell that you were VERY concerned!)

hw #7-3
 pg 417 #21-39 Odd
pg 429 #1-7 All, #9-19 Odd