Exam Bonus

Given: Regular hexagon ABCDEF, diagonals BF and CE. ( Draw a regular hexagon. Label the vertices in order A,B,C,D,E,F. Draw diagonals BF and CE.)

Prove:

Due Monday, January 2.

Happy Holidays !

4th Quarter Geometry Project

Check above for the details of an optional 4th quarter project . Due Date: January 5.
This is a No Later Than Date which means no late projects will be taken.

Algebra II Assistance

The following is a link to mini lessons in Algebra II provided by a Wake County Math Teacher.
Algebra II Mini Lessons
This link will be be under the video tutorials on the right hand side of the blog also.

Chapter 9 Test

Chapter 9 Test:
Right Triangle similarities
Pythagorean Theorem & Converse
Special Right Triangles
trig ratios/arcfunctions
problem solving using right triangles

Geometry & Algebra II Exam News

Exam Review packets will go home with you before break. You are required to do them even if it looks like you may be exempt from the final exam. They will be counted as 4 homework grades.

Proof of work required for credit.

Mathematical Advent Calendars

For Serious Math Lovers

Secondary Math Advent Calendar

Santa's Reindeer

Lead Reindeer:
dancer & prancer (orange & purple harnesses)
comet & cupid     ( red & green)
blitzen & vixen    ( gold & white)
donner & dasher ( yellow & brown)

Welcome Algebra II students

You are welcome to check out any of the links on this blogspot. The ones you'll find most useful are the ones in the right hand column. Khan Academy is a great resource for any high school course (math and otherwise). MathTV.com is strictly for math.

For military students, there are two other sites (soar at home and tutor.com)under easy access, where you can get free math help especially if your military family member is deployed.

Don't forget we offer before and afterschool help in room 204 (me) , 202 (Mr. Johnson) and Miss Reece (16).

End of 3rd quarter

The last grade for this quarter is the Factoring Test on Friday. The last homework grade for this quarter will be taken on Wednesday.

For those who are out

You can follow along with class by reading Sections 8.3 & 8.4.
Assignment: p. 477 31-38
                   p. 484 39-44
                  

See you Monday!

Thankgsiving Week

Monday I will be after school for last minute consultations abour project ideas.
Remember your project is due Wednesday which is an early release day. All projects must be here and finished by Wednesday.

Chapter 8 Test

Chapter 8 Test on Similar Polygons is next Tuesday, the day before projects are due.

Vocab

VOCABULARY DUE TODAY !!!

Projects

Projects are due one week from Wednesday. I suggest you turn them in early. I will have art supplies available afterschool Wednesday if you need some.

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BRING YOUR TEXT BOOK WEDNESDAY !

Tutoring This Week

I will be available this week only on Monday afterschool. We'll start at 4 since I I need to go to a math department meeting. Hope to see you there!

Halloween Clips

Monster Mash

Hocus Pocus

Love Potion No. 9

The Time Warp: Glee

Time Warp: Rocky Horror

4th period

If you choose to do it, the guidelines for a geometry photo/picture essay are on a tab above. :)

New Games

Our British mathematician friend has been busy with the BBC inventing some new games and puzzles. You can find four new games under the games list. Enjoy! Let me know what your think.

Marcus du Sautoy: Symmetry, reality's riddle | Video on TED.com

Marcus du Sautoy: Symmetry, reality's riddle Video on TED.com

Vocabulary for Project

My suggestion is to restrict the voacbulary used in your project to Chapter 1-3. Chapter 3 vocab can be found at the beginning of your chapter.

For Geometry Geeks like me

Here's a link to Euclid's Elements. Actually it has both the original Greek and English translation side by side. Pretty cool. Definitely worth checking out: Euclid's Elements

Sep 5- Sep 8

Monday: Labor Day no school
Tuesday: Review Chapter 1, Chapter 3 Vocabulary, Project Assigned
Friday: Return project sheet with signature

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Vocabulary Test: Friday
Also a project will be assigned. If you are not present make sure you get the project sheet when you come back to class.

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Print Copies of Blog Items

If you would like to print a blog item such as the syllabus, try the following:

Open a blank document and minimize.
Click on the blog item so it's in full view.
Highlight what you want to print.
Right click and copy.
Click over to your document, right click and paste.

This should give you a printable document. Good luck!

Welcome to Geometry Class!

I want to start class with a fun activity, Geometry Flashcards Oh yay!

ReOpening

New posts for Geometry will start August 25.

Closing down for the summer

Everyone enjoy your summer and best wishes in your future endeavors whether its college, the school of math and science or AP Calculus!

Final Course Reminders

1. Your reference sheet must be checked the day before the exam is taken.

2. Turn in your book in on exam day. Missing book fine is $58.40. You may turn it in in class the day before the exam as well.

3.  Bring to the exam: a pencil, along with your unit circle and reference sheet.

4. Get a good night's sleep and a good breakfast!

FYI

Content:
Wednesday: 2 & 3 space vectors,  unit vectors, vector operations
Thursday: dot (inner) products
Friday: cross products
Monday: word problems(parametrics) & quiz review

Due Monday: 4th Quarter Extra Credit
       Tuesday: Vector Quiz
Due Wednesday: Review Pkt 1 (assign this Thursday)
Due Thursday/Friday: Review Pkt 2 (assign next Tuesday unless it becomes available sooner)
 May 27, Friday Exam Review, Seniors find out if they are exempt from final exam

Your exam is partitioned  40 %  open response, graphical analysis of basic functions /// 60% multiple choice focus: trig, vectors, complex numbers, polar graphs

4th Quarter Extra Credit is here.....

See tab above this post. Due Date is one week from Monday at the beginning of your class period. :)

For my Algebra I friends...

EOC Practice Problems
Practice makes higher exam scores!

The following link takes you to an algebra I blogspot. There are lessons on one side and games and practices EOC questions. Practice at home and ask questions at school.
Algebra I Practice EOC questions

Good luck on your exam.

Homework Instructions

The instructions were cut off from the top of your homework sheet.
Graph r = 5 theta. (Use 10 different values) and identify the type of curve it represents ie: cardioid, rose with n petals, lemniscate, Archimedes sprial.

My answers will be worked out using the unit circle.

Extra Credit will be posted on Saturday afternoon.

Polar Quiz

Friday's homework will include problems on deMoivre's Theorem and review questions for Monday's quiz. Monday we will go over and answer questions about the review, then quiz. If you are not present Friday, get a friend to pick up the review. If you aren't present Monday plan to take the make up Wednesday after school.

Review packets for the final exam will be given out most likely next Wednesday.

Polar Graphs

This is a picture of the Northen Lights from Anchorage, Alaska. The dust in the earth's atmosphere gets electrically charged and is carried toward the magnetic pole. It is their movement along the lines of the magnetic field which we see as the Northern Lights.

I started a new list of useful links for our work with polar graphs. Thevery first one is of polar graph paper. If you need some you can click on this link. Just tell it to mark degrees or radians and to print a black image, then click download. You can find the print command under "file". This will make sense when you open the page.

3rd Quarter Extra Credit

The extra credit is finally here!!!!

Please note the due date: the Monday we come back from break. At the bottom of the questions page it asks you to circle which category you want me to put in the extra credit. Some of you have really good test averages and some have strong quiz averages. Choose the category that helps you most.

One final note, please do not read the questions and then google answers. I recognize when this is done and this time will not give you credit for the assignment if that's the path you choose. Happy trails, don't forget to have lots of fun and rest on your break

Answers can be emailed to me at cindytaylor@ccs.k12.nc.us.

Trig Identities Practice

Just when you think trug couldn't get any better, I found this fun way to practice your trig identities--->Stop the Fun!

Breaking News

There will be a quiz on law of sines and law of cosines on Thursday of this week.
The next major test will be Thursday of next week (April 21) on proving trig identities and solving trig equations.

Test Review & Practice

Trig Graphs Matching Activity You have to click on the red to try them out.


Answer to extra credit question on test

New Item to help with Trig Quiz

Trig Flash Cards!!!!!

Upcoming Quiz & Test

Next Tuesday (April 5) is a trig quiz.
The topics for it include:
-identifying the quadrant/axis where the terminal side of an angle is
-finding coterminal angles
-converting decimal degrees into degrees, minutes, seconds
-converting from degrees, min, seconds into decimal degrees
- converting degree measures into radians
-converting radians into degrees
- finding exact values
-finding approximates values of trig functions
-finding angles when the trig ratio is given

On the Friday(April 8) will be trig test #2:
The topics for this one are:
graphing trig functions and solving right triangles. Identifying period and amplitude.

Tuesday's Nutshell

Today we learned how to graph the parent functions of sine and cosine. We defined period and amplitude. The link here addresses this set of notes: Graphing Sine/Cosine and Amplitudes

The homework is more on yesterday's notes. Finding the exact values of the six trig functions using the unit circle.

Reminders: Thursday is the first trig test of this unit. You are responsible for recreating the unit circle. You will have to label the axes, positive & negative degrees measures, positive & negative radian measures. On a third empty circle you will have to mark the coordinates of the points where the terminal side of the angle intercepts the circle. On your index card you can have the special right triangles and the signs of points assocoiated with each quadrant.
On Friday you have a log & exponential functions requiz. If you are not present that day, there will not be a makeup. Be there or accept the quiz grade you already have. There will be no exceptions to this.

Monday's Nutshell

The first two links are notes with sample problems similar to what we did in class today.
Reference Angles  Trig functions & Exact Values

These two videos are about the same thing. The presenter doesn't show the pattern we talked about in class to make memorization easier but he does give agood explanation of why it works. You will need to watch both videos: Exact Trig Values 1  Trig functions & Exact Values 2

We will have our first trig test on Thursday. You will be recreating the unit circle from scratch. You will need to be able to do today's material for Thursday's test. Also the requiz on logs and exponentials will on Friday.

In a nutshell #1

I just found these two links and love them. If you were out on Tuesday check them out.
Angle measurement

Radian Measure

Practice 1  & Practice 2 If you are absent and can't get the worksheet from today. Do these and I'll count it. This is not an option to those present in class today.

Bonus Round Results

The following groups got the final question correct:

Period 3: Tori, Haley, Sita, Rebecca
               Forrest, Meagan, Steph, Alicia, Rachel

Period 2: Victoria, Rose, Michael, Claire, Jamie, Evan
               Katie, Trey, Daniel ^2, Callie
               Aanya, Janki, Brooke, Karen, Hana

Period 1: Camille, Cayce, Cynthia, Ashley
               Liza, Alisa, Juhi
 :)

Trig and Other Cool Math Stuff

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If you're struggling with precal (and sooner or later we all struggle with math) check out this guys advice--it's good stuff.

Many of you are going on field trips over the next few weeks and it's so important that you are able to keep up with what we're doing in class. I'm posting on the right side of the blog "Nifty Trig Stuff". Most of them are interactive tutorials.

If you prefer videos to reading, check out the "Precal tutorials" under math videos--scroll and select trig.
Enjoy :)

Extra Credit: Due Monday March 21

The extra credit assignment is posted above. Please read the two Turing pieces in sequence( they're marked 1 and 2). You can find them located on the left side of the blog under articles. The due date is Monday, March 21 by close of business (345pm).

Domain of Functions

The following link is about the Domain of the function. If you are still struggling with these concepts you may want to check them out. There are three video clips. Watch one or all if you need to:
The first talks about piecewise functions and why domain is important.
The second talks about functions expressed with radicals and fractions and the why domain is an issue for these. Please note that the presenter uses both set and interval notations. We will begin to use these in class shortly.
The third video is on how to find the domain using algebra.

Updates: New Due Date for Study Island Assignment

There's a change in due dates for the Study Island assignment since a couple of students were not in the student database and have not been able to get on. The new date is February 5. You have until midnight Friday to complete the assignment. Kudos to those who have almost finished it already!

Also, if you don't have a graphics calculator at home I can provide you with a graphics calculator download. Bring in a thumb drive and we'll copy the dowload to it.

Study Island

Your first assignment on Study Island is waiting for you. If you haven't been using study island for another course then follow these instructions to go there for the first time.
1. use the study island link from the easy access links on the left hand side of this blog
2. your userid  firstname.lastname@tshs
3. your password  is tshs ( you will change it in your first sittin)
4. once you enter, go to "my attributes" and change your password.
5. from this point forward you can access your assignment by clicking on math and following instructions.

The first assignment is due by February 2. Study Island emails me a weekly report with your scores. Let me know if there are any problems.

EOC Practice Problems

Practice makes higher exam scores!
The following links are to questions released by the state to our Algebra I exam. Feel free to practice them at home and ask questions at school. The testing rules of ethics prohibit me from answering any questions regarding algebra I the day of your test ( but any other day is fine).

Goal 1 Sample Questions
Goal 2 Sample Questions
Goal 3 Sample Questions  About 75% of the test is drawn from Goals 3 & 4.
Goal 4 Sample Questions

Released EOC Form H