Entries from January 2008

January 28, 2008

Events for Week 4

Monday (28):
Review and take BM 25-27, 32

First Block (29/30): Book Day
New Seats
9.5 Trig Ratios

Ratio (sine, cosine, tangent)
Solving
BM 29
Finding the angle (inverse)

HW: #10 page 562 #11-39 (o), 40-42 (all)

Second Block (31/1): Book Day
9.6 Solving a Right Triangle

inverses
finding all 6 parts

HW: #11 page 570 #11-21 (odd), 22-33 (odd), 38
For Monday: BM 25-27 Retakes and BM 29 and [...]

January 17, 2008

Review of Pythagorean Theorem

In Class: #6 Similarity Review Geo_Similar_WS.pdf
9.2 Pythagorean Theorem Review

Copy examples 1-3 from text

HW: #7 page 538 #7-18 (all), 25-30 (all), 34

January 16, 2008

Another change in plans

Hello everyone. You may notice that those last 2 posts do not have questions. It was my goal with this semester as with last semester to keep on top of posting our class events and getting feedback from you. I have enjoyed reading all 1400 comments so far this year. At this pace, we would [...]

January 15, 2008

Similar Solids

So what happens to a solid’s perimeter, area, and volume if you double the edge length? That’s what we looked at today. We started class going over HW #4 review on the board. We then did a quick investigation followed by some examples of BM 26. Here are the notes and the HW is #5 [...]

January 14, 2008

BM 25-27 Review

First off, we check #3 from over the weekend and went over it. The we took our first HW Quiz (#1). After that, we just continued to review for BM 25-27 on similar triangles.
Homework: BM 25-28 Review (BM 28 is optional right now). Also, bring a calculator if you have one.

January 10, 2008

8.4-8.5 Similar Triangles

Now the benchmark problems!
Today we looked at similar triangles. The main way to prove triangles are similar, some additional ways to prove they are similar, and some examples of the upcoming benchmarks (BM 25, 27, and 28). Notice there are a lot of “proving” triangles are similar? Don’t let that get you down, it’s our [...]