Mark your calendars.

Friday December 18th,  Polynomial Summative.  

There will at least be
5 exponent problems
4 polynomial operations
3 polynomial factoring
2 graphs with end behavior
and
1 partridge in a pear tree, I mean synthetic substitution.

Leave a list in the comments of any areas still in need of practice prior to.  

Optional:  favorite Christmas song.   mine is little drummer boy.

Thanksgiving

My Thanksgiving in bullets

• Turkey trot
• Make brussel spout recipe.  What I was in charge of.  Everything tastes good with enough butter and cheese, even brussel sprouts.  
• Thanksgiving dinner with extended fam @ 1:00
• Twister competition.
• Piece of pumpkin pie the size of my face.
• Packer/Bear game.  

What we are doing today in class in bullets

• reviewing exponent rules.

In the comments state some of your Thanksgiving bullets, or give one of the exponent rules.  

Imaginary Friends

Toby and Cece, the names of my two childhood imaginary friends.


Please tell me I am not alone in this.......who else had an imaginary friend?  Fun fact, having them are supposed to be a sign of creativity.





Without further ado: solve this problem and put your answer in the comments.  

(4i)(i) + 5i(3i) + (7i)(i)(3i)(i)

Halloween

The best part about Halloween is the candy, right?  Snickers and Resse's Peanut Butter Cups are my favorites, and are considered an acceptable breakfast for the week following Halloween.

If snickers costs .25 per pound, and RPC cost .40 per pound.  How many pounds of each must I buy to make a 10 pound .30 per pound Halloween mixture?


Post your answer in the comments below.  

Do you want the good news or bad news first?

Most of the time when someone asks me if I want the good news or the bad news first, I almost always say the bad news so then if it makes me feel bad I still have the good news to feel better about.

Here is your bad news.   Learn this.

Here is your good news.  Other than what we do in class today, there will be no additional homework for the weekend.  Waaaaaaahooooooo!  

Anything you are looking forward to this weekend?  Share in the comments.  

6 years ago??

Do you remember something you did 6 years ago?
Hmmmmmmm, yes I do remember, the husband and I vacationed to Portland Oregon.

Before doing this word problem, share with your group any memories you have from 6 years ago.

Now onto the problem.

The sum of Eli and Cece's ages is 60.
Six years ago, Eli was 3 times as old as Cece.
Find Eli's age now.

SET UP the system of equations, then solve.  (emphasis on the set up, that is what I am most interested in.)


If you are waiting on other groups, share some of your 6 years ago memories in the comments.  

Happy Homecoming Weekend!

Look at all your school spirit.  Love it!

Enjoy!
Have Fun!
Be Safe!
Keep it in the back (very back) of your mind that the summative is Tuesday next week.

Share one thing from your weekend.

Absolute Value.

No I am not talking about the V shaped graph. 

 

I am talking about things we absolutely value in life.  

If you do not know what that is, I was told to take a look at a current goal, or a past New Year's resolution.......it is your value that causes you to make that goal.  

Look through this list...........what is your highest value at the moment?   (we all know it can change, month to month, even day to day)  But today is it.........

• Love                      (passion, playfulness, connection, self-love, compassion, unity)
• Success                (achievement, pride, self-worth, contribution)
• Freedom               (self-expression, independence, openness, autonomy)
• Connection          (intimacy, belonging, honesty)
• Security                (trust, loyalty, confidence)
• Variety                  (flexibility, adventure, courage, excitement, adaptability)
• Empowerment     (confidence, self-esteem, fulfillment, self-worth)
• Passion                (excitement, fulfillment, aliveness)
• Trust                     (faith, comfort, ease, certainty
• Compassion        (kindness, empathy, generosity)
• Well-Being           (health, vitality, energy)
• Peace                   (presence, contentment, balance, equanimity)
• Significance        (contribution, charity, influence, gratitude, recognition)
• Balance               (flexibility, wholeness, harmony)
• Growth                (wisdom, progress, expansion)
• Joy                      (delight, humor, wonder, happiness)
• Creativity           (inspiration, curiosity, power, innovation)
• Resilience          (perseverance, hope, strength)
• Responsibility   (contribution, choice, empowerment, providing)
• Integrity             (authenticity, alignment, truth, wholeness)

 Current Highest Value? Seeing as though I am still trying to do my best with the DMD (diet mountain dew) consumption, I am saying well being for me.   

Planning ahead.

I know it can be fun to be spontaneous, especially with things like plans with friends.  However, studying for a summative should be one of those things we actually plan for.

There is a summative this Friday on unit 2!  

Review for that should not start Thursday night.  It has to start sooner, so that there is time to clear up any topics that are not yet solid.

Music, it can help the focus and motivation.

However, if you find yourself doing drum beats and breaking into your best dance moves, maybe best to work without.

Are you a with or without music kind of studier?  

Topics that need review before summative?  

Correlation.

Things can have positive correlation.

• My daughter's age and her weight. 
• My daughter's age and her height.
• The number of miles I run and calories burned.  
• The number of miles run and sweets consumed.  

Things can have negative correlation.

• The more diet soda I consume the less water I drink.  
• The more diet soda I consume the less coffee I drink.
• The more I consume the less tired I feel. 
• The more I consume the less I am meeting my goal of quitting this stupid thing.  

Some things have no correlation.

• Number of siblings and favorite number.  (I have one and my favorite is 13, I know you were wondering)  

Give a situation from your life with positive, negative, or no correlation.  

Attention to detail

When graphing with a restricted domain, pay attention to the little things.

• Is there an endpoint? endpoints? ......if so, open or closed circles? 
• Is the graph dots or continuous?  
• Is zero even, odd or neither?
• Is zero positive, negative, or neither?  

Here is some attention to detail I was not anticipating.....

Did you see the ants on the sandwich on last night's worksheet?

Are there any things you would add to the bulleted list up above?  

Did you notice the ant sandwich? 

Favorite Sandwich?  Turkey......however, I am on a grilled cheese, tomato, avocado kick.

First Monday of 2015-2016

Ok, so that class period went by fast.  It is amazing what those extra 15 minutes do.  Don't forget you need to finish the the Domain and Range worksheet for Block 1.

See you in the morning, I have to tune into Dancing with the stars.

Can you give me a function where the domain is all real numbers and the range is y - 8?

Anyone else watch Dancing with the Stars?  Favorite pro?  Derek.

Sometimes you just have to.....

do some independent practice before the summative.  Working in groups is great!  Asking your teacher for help is also great! However, when you want to know what you do (or do not) know before the summative, there is nothing better than some one on one time with the review.

I always say, there never should be any surprises with a summative.  Be honest with yourself about how the review went.  If it did not go as well as you would like, it cannot magically happen on the assessment.  Come in Friday morning, so we can clear anything up.

Happy Thursday evening, and happy reviewing.

Any topics I should use as review before the summative? 

A video, a worksheet

What better to do on this rainy day right? Absolute Value Inequalities are the best!
Come to class for your second block this week having:

• watched the video 
• completed the worksheet

We are having another assessment this Friday to check up on all this review work.
Be prepared!

Best rainy day activities?  Watching a mindless romantic comedy.

3 day weekend is here, but it has homework!

First of all, my apologies for numbers 23, and 25 on the worksheet last night.  Those are quite the extension!  If you want a super challenge, my hint to you is it involves factoring.

Your 3 day weekend has HOMEWORK.

Go to bb9, unit 1, classwork/practice:

Order of Operations (1)

Linear Equations (2)

Linear Equations (3)

Linear Inequalities (4)

You are responsible for knowing all of this review material.  Do as much as makes you proficient at these topics.  

Find time to soak in these last days of summer.

Plans for the weekend?  Wedding, Brunch with friends, and grading your assessments.  

The night before the first assessment.

As I sit here making the key and watching a little pre-season, I am thinking of you guys and wondering how many of you are studying for your first assessment?  Sometimes I think we do not study because we do not know how.

• Practice your like type problems, preferably one you have an answer for so you know if you are good or not. 
• Problems to practice: Write the nth term for both arithmetic and geometric.  Find the sum, both arithmetic and geometric.  
• If not finding your error, come with those questions before school, or for the beginning of class review.  
• You could always call a friend tonight to help you through it. 

Other things than the ones mentioned that help you prepare?  

How you feeling about the first assessment?  

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday to the person first on my list to call to round out a fore-some.

...........especially when it is best ball.  

Happy Birthday Mr. McDoanld!  

I hope life got in the way.

Whether it be

• catching up with friends
• homework in your new classes
• sport practice
• enjoying it still feeling like summer
• etc.

I hope there was a lot of good life that happened between algebra 2 class and now.  That is why I am reminding you of the ever so important marking of your text so that you can go back and easily be reminded about what seemed so clear as we were doing it in class.

Best thing about your first day of school?  Meeting all of you. 

One thing that happened since math class?  3.579 mile run as a shout out to arithmetic sequences today.

3-2-1

3 Things I did this summer:

• Went to Gulf Shores, AL for a beach vacation.  
• Went to Colorado for a mountain vacation.  

• Logged some miles with the jogging stroller, that usually ended somewhere for a muffin and coffee.  

2 Favorite Foods: 

• Salad
• Diet Mountain Dew (Is this a food?, if not then cereal would be my 2nd)

1 Goal For The Year

• In all things be a little better today than I was yesterday.  (Which might have to include giving up the above mentioned favorite drink. )

Tell me something you did this summer, favorite food, or goal for the year.

Coffee, a picture, and lesson planning.

This morning started with an iced coffee from McDonalds and an all staff picture in the field house.  I was tempted to photograph the iced coffee, but this cannot turn into a food blog at entry 2.

Then we had some work time and I got to do one of my favorite things of all time, lesson plan.  On top of that happiness I ran into the best problem to use for the arithmetic sequence notes.

Yep, running related......awesome.  

Coffee, yeah or nay? If yeah, favorite thing to order?  All time favorite is black coffee, but I have gone trough a vanilla latte phase, and I most recently am going through an iced coffee phase.  

What would be the topic of your favorite word problem?  

First Day Back.

That was the best nights sleep I have ever had before a back to school.  Baby slept 7:45-?  I was out the door before I even got to see her face.  That actually was great because I felt no sadness only excitement to be heading off to school.

So here I am, creating this blog.

While missing this face

Even so, it was a good day back.  I love my South family, and just being in school makes me anticipate the student's return on Tuesday.

For all your returning teachers, do you sleep well the night before?  

Who were you missing most today?