Week of October 31st, 2011

Pre-Calculus:

Monday- Review in Class..due on Tuesday before Test
Tuesday - Chapter 3 Test
Wednesday - Section 4.1...homework TBD
Thursday - Same as Wednesday
Friday - Section 4.2...homework TBD

Statistics:
Monday - Review for Ch 4 Retest
Tuesday - Chapter 4 Retest
Wednesday - 5.1 Intro to Normal Distributions and Standard Normal Distribution...p. 224;1-40 all, 40-46 even, 47-62 all
Thursday - Same as Wednesday
Friday - 5.2 Normal Distribution: Finding Probabilities...p. 232;1-12,14-30 even

Algebra
Monday - Start Unit 10 on Exponential Functions...Homework...SG's10.5(a) and 10.5(b)
Tuesday - Finish Monday's Work, then do 10.5 Practice and Skills Practice Worksheets
Wednesday - no class
Thursday - Finish 10.5 Practice and Skills Practice Worksheets...Start Compound Interest Problems and CI WS
Friday: Finish HW and Quiz

October 10th, 2011

Pre-Calculus:

Monday: p. 334;6-48x6s
Tuesday: p. 344;3-33x3s,36,40,42 and p. 351;46,48-90x3s
Wednesday and Thursday [block days]...Work on review
Friday Ch 2 Test sections 6-8

Statistics:

Monday...p. 179;1-18,20-40even
Tuesday-Friday...Finish Projects

Algebra:

Monday:  Factoring Review Day 1 WS [a=1]
Tuesday: Factoring Review Day 1 WS [a not equal to 1]
Thursday: More Factoring Practice [worksheets]
Friday:  Review Special Products Factoring...DOS/PST

Week of 10/3/2011

Precalculus (1st and 2nd hours):  
Monday: Notes 2.6
Tuesday: Questions p. 321, Notes 2.6 continued, add to assignment p. 321 1-36,39-57 by 3's, 67, 70,87
Wednesday:Work on 2.6
Thursday: same as Wednesday
Friday: 2.7 Notes...p. 334;6-48x3s

Statistics;

Monday:p. 146;15-24x3s (3.30
Tuesday:
p. 157;1-10,12-40x3s
p. 167;1-6
Wednesday:Review and Work on Projects
Thursday: same as Wednesday
Friday: Ch 3 Test

Algebra: 
Monday: Introduce Quadratic Formula...Start Study Guide and Intervention 10.4 [597]...Due by end of hour Tuesday

Tuesday:

• Finish and turn in Monday's Work...
• Start Discriminant WS 10.4

Wednesday:No Class

Thursday:

• Finish 10.4 from Tuesday
• Review
• Quiz

Friday: 

Moneyball Movie

Just saw the new movie Moneyball with Brad Pitt.  This film will appeal to baseball fans as well as moviegoers who just like a good story.  The trailer is here:

The film is rated PG-13 and opened Friday night.

Students looking for a way to earn some points can complete the following:

1. Bring in an initialed ticket stub from the film
2. Read the Wikipedia Entry on Moneyball
3. Calculate the probability of a team with a .636 winning "percentage" having a 20 game winning streak (assume that the probability of winning each game is .636...i.e., that each game can be considered an independent event which it technically is not).  Show the calculations that you use.
4. Read the article A Game of Numbers and explain three of the statistics described.

Successful completion of the 4 steps above will earn the student a perfect score equal to a 25 point quiz grade in Statistics OR a perfect score equal to two homework grades in Pre-Calculus or Algebra.  For Pre-Calculus or Algebra, these points cam be used to replace missing or low grades or added in as a separate grades at student's choice.  For students in two of my classes, the points can be used in one class only.

The real guy behind the stats is guy named Paul Depodesta.  The image below is him:

Image by O'Reilly Conferences via Flickr

week of 9/19/2010

Pre-Calc:

Monday: Grade p. 264, questions p. 278, notes 2.3 continued, continue to work on p. 278 1-20 all, 21-60 by 3's, 74, 75, 90
Tuesday:  Questions p. 278, Graphing Calc instruction and problems, p. 281 84-87, 92
Wednesday: Grade p. 278, Notes 2.4, p. 290 3-42 by 3's, 60, 61, 64
Thursday: same as Wednesday
Friday: Questions p. 290, finish notes 2.4, work on assignment from p. 290 above.

Stats:

Monday: P. 111:1-7

Tuesday: Grade p. 100 and review for Test (Ch 2)

Wednesday: Collect p. 111 and Ch 2 Test

Thursday: Same as Wed.

Friday: Go over tests and p. 113;1-8 all

Algebra:

Monday: Work on p.528;12-27x3s [due at end of hour]...start p. 841;1-24 all [due at end of period Tuesday]

Tuesday: Work on p. 841...Due at end of hour...start Skills Practice 10.1...[Due at end of hour on Thursday]

Thursday: Finish Skills Practice 10.1...Start Practice 10.1 [due at end of period Friday]

Friday...Finish Skills Practice and turn in by end of period 

September 14th, 2011

Pre-Calculus:
p. 264 1-8 all, 9-39 by 3's, 44, 45, 46, 48, 52, 54, 60, 68, 80

Statistics:
Discussed Distributions using income distributions as example
Answered ?'s on 2.4
Worked on 2.4
Worked on Project Proposals...Due Friday

September 7, 2011

Pre-Calculus:

p. 229;2, 7, 12-27 by 3's, 40 and 46 [due at period's end Thursday]
p. 242;1,2-26,29-31 [due at start class Friday]


Help session after school tomorrow and before school Friday [starts at 6:45 in Lakey's room]


Stats:
Correlation of Attendance and Wins at 2010 NFL Games [3rd period]
p. 56;1-14,15-27x3s,29 and 30 ec


Algebra:
Work on Objectives 2 and 3 for Unit 8 Review