Entries from September 2007

September 27, 2007

Parallel and Perpendicular Lines

Our next two benchmarks, 7 and 8, are on writing equations of parallel and perpendicular lines. Here are the notes that we took in class. It’s pretty much the same as benchmark 6, except the slope for parallel lines are the same and opposite reciprocals for perpendicular lines.
We had 2 assignments, #14 Parallel and Perpendicular [...]

September 25, 2007

SLOPE!

What a fun day we had today! Slope was the name of the game! And if that wasn’t enough, WRITING EQUATIONS OF LINE!! I thought the fun would never end. Here are some notes about finding the slope and writing the equations of a line (which is benchmark 6, by the way). The homework was [...]

September 24, 2007

More Reasoning

On our short day today, we looked at more conditional statements, including the biconditional statement (if and only if). There was a fun little handout that we worked through, too. Not much else! The only homework is to bring your book next class.
Posting for Points Question:
What is the difference between inductive and deductive reasoning? Give [...]

September 21, 2007

Conditional Statments

We started off class with a review and retake of benchmarks 3 and 4. We then got back our Unit 1 Test. After that, we took a quick look at conditional statements. We will work more with conditional statements on Monday, so NO HOMEWORK!!
Posting for Points Question:
Write your own conditional statement and the converse. Then [...]

September 18, 2007

Day of Review

Sorry about this post, It’s dated correctly, but I’m actually writing it Friday. I really thought I posted our summary for Tuesday’s class. I bet you thought you did something but turned out you didn’t!!
I’m back! Man did we have a lot of homework to review!! We spent most of the period going over the [...]

September 17, 2007

1.6 and 1.7 Review

My first absence! I know you all missed me, but the show must go on! I want to thank all of you for being on your best behavior for the sub.
Today we did a bit of reviewing the angle pair relationships and area and perimeter. Here is a link to download assignment #12.
Coming up:
- BM [...]