Sunday, February 5, 2012

Week 24 - Square Roots & Pythagorean Theorem

Substitute on Tuesday
This Tuesday, all math teachers at John Muir will be attending a workshop on Explicit Direct Instruction Part 1.  Part 2 will be the following Tuesday (Feb. 14).  There will be a substitute teacher on both Tuesdays, but I'm not sure who it will be.

Pre-Algebra Announcements


This Week
This week, we will be studying squares and square roots and apply them in the Pythagorean Theorem for right triangles (a^2 + b^2 = c^2).

Homework is as follows:
Monday (2/6):  WB 4-6 #1-9 odd
Tuesday (2/7):  WB 4-6 #11-19 odd
Wednesday (2/8): WB 4-8 #7-14
Thursday (2/9): Unit 5 Quiz 2 Practice Problems
Friday (2/10): Problem of the Week #19 - Exponent Expression Matching


Algebra Announcements


This Week
This week, we will be learning about standard form for linear equations, how to find intercepts, and how to convert back and forth from standard form to slope-intercept form.

Homework is as follows:
Monday (2/6):  TB Pg. 266 #9, 13, 14, 16, 19


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