Quick write: D/R Is it a function?

On a piece of paper, for the next 3 minutes, write about finding the domain and range, and if it is a function or not.  The answer is not as important as the process.  Be specific in your look fors, rich in your vocabulary words, and complete in your sentences.  

Ready go.

Translate

Translate each of these scenarios to a math sentence.

1.  Six more than twice a number.

2.  The quotient of a number and eight is two.

3.  The absolute value of x is less than or equal to four.

4.  Nine squared times a number is equal to one hundred and one.

5.  Lydia is six years older than James.  Together their ages equal eighteen.

6.  You started the year with $435, and continue to save $25 each week.

7.  You add fifteen percent onto your dinner bill at a restaurant.

8.  The perimeter of a rectangle where the length is 3 times the width. 

Your teacher's summer through word problems?

Hi.  All the below are true.  Solve each one.





1.  This summer we flew from Chicago to Munich.  Our plane was flying at a rate of 845km/h and out flight was 8 hours and 15 minutes.  How many miles (1km = .6214 miles) is Munich from Chicago? Round answer to the nearest mile. 

2.  Ice cream is a summer family favorite food.  Kopps always has chocolate, vanilla, and a flavor of the day.  When my husband, daughter, and I go, what is the probability we all choose the flavor of the day?  Leave answer as a fraction.

3.  At the Brewer game we ordered 3 hot dogs and 3 bottles of water and it cost $11.25.  At the end of the 5th we ordered another hot dog and 2 waters and the total was $5.25.  How much does each hotdog and water cost?

My cold Spring Break.

Well, we had to hunt for Easter eggs and baskets in winter coats. 

My daughter and nephew were not phased. 

Searching for candy was too exciting!

Whenever I am on a break, I treat myself to fancy coffee. 

  

I tried to make it more springy by getting the iced, but the gloves and heater, on full blast, brought me back to reality.

We tried to make it more springy by going to the park, but snow at the end of the slide made it difficult to pretend.  

No matter what, weather is just weather........it was great fun to be on break!  We can keep dreaming of some warmer days together.  

In the comments:

Tell me something about your families Easter?  

and/or

Tell me something you did over break?  

Pi Day Recap.

Woke up 3 minutes and 14 seconds later than normal, because I got to wear jeans.

At 3:14pm a fellow math teacher sent me this.

So I had to go out and buy this.  

And I ate it in 3.14 bites.  Delicious. 

In the comments answer as many as you want:

1.  Favorite kind of pie?  

2.  Pie, not your thing......favorite circular food?  

3.  Ever have a math teacher celebrate pi day in their class, what grade?  

3rd hour inspired this breakfast.

There was a discussion third hour, waffles or pancakes?  Over my lifetime I have vacillated between pancakes and waffles, but I definitely team waffle at the moment. 

I have wanted a waffle every day since this discussion.  And this weekend the craving was finally satisfied! 

Delicious.  

Answer any or all in the comments.  

Pancakes or Waffles? Waffles.  

Toppings?  

My hubby loves chocolate chip pancakes, I am a butter and syrup purist.  

Something you had for breakfast this weekend?  

Valentine's Day

My first memories of Valentine's Day have to do with receiving a package from my grandmother that had things like my favorite candy, some stickers, stuffed animal, red pens, and pencils with heart erasers.......you get the idea.  She did this for me every year for me, and I always looked forward to receiving it.

Because of that, I have never associated this holiday as just a romantic holiday, and that is probably why I like it so much!  I never let it be lame, or depressing, I just let it be a chance to surround myself with people or things I care about.

Top 5 things I will LOVE doing today:


1.  Eating chocolate with every meal.
2.  Being at school with you guys, and my math deptartment co-workers!!
3.  Changing into this mom heart shirt Hope got me, and playing school.  Girl can play lots of hours of school.  She is always the teacher...........and I lose my sticker for not paying attention on a daily basis.
4.  Eating some amazing food for dinner.
5.  Making homemade Valentines with the Mr.

Something you will LOVE doing today?

We finished 2017, but NOT the semester.

Goodbye 2017. 
Hope you all had a good week closing it out. 

My highlight was my New Year's Eve baby turned 3. 







Back to the school stuff.

• Remember the morning/after school sessions in order to get an additional score in a target.  

Schedule found on bb9 on the unit 5 page.  

• You took the first summative for unit 5 right before break, the second summative for this chapter will be 1/10 for hour 2, and 1/11 for 3 and 4.  

• Semester exams : 
  

In the comments:

Highlight of your break??

Any questions about anything from now till the end of semester??

I wouldn't be upset about it.

If she wanted to play the guitar, I wouldn't be upset about it.

Welcome back, hope you had a great long weekend.  In the comments answer ONE (only more if you want) of the following.

Favorite Song? (Tide is high, Let it be, Wildflowers)

Favorite Artist or Music Group?  (Mumford and Sons)

Secretly like this artist/music group/song?  (Justin Timberlake)

Do you play a musical instrument?  If so, which one?  (Guitar......self taught......few cords)

In 3 Words

Using ONLY 3 words describe your long weekend. 

Here are my examples. 

• Still have Thursday.
• Sleeping in Friday
• Long slow run
• Pumpkin Spice Latte
• Time with Her :)

Your turn........post in the comments.  

Coffee and Doughnuts

Coffee and Doughnuts.  Two of my favorite things, but that is besides the point.  Read below and solve the word problem. 

On Monday Mr. Goetsch brought 10 cups of coffee and 5 doughnuts for the math department at the cost of $16.50.  It turns out the doughnuts were way more popular, so on Tuesday he bought 5 cups of coffee and 10 doughnuts for $14.25.  How much was each cup of coffee. 


Solve.

Then, share your favorite doughnut in the comments.  I go through doughnut favorite phases.  My current favorite is a cruller.  

Correlation

Positive Correlation:

The weight of the tube and the speed of the waterslide.

(One thing increases the other increases)














Negative Correlation:

The number of hours she sleeps at night and the length of her nap.  

(As one thing decreases the other increases.)

No Correlation:  

The the number of siblings you have and your favorite number.  

(No relation) 

Mine is 1 and 13 because I know you wanted to know.  

In the comments, give me two things that are positively correlated or negatively correlated.  

If you had to choose today?

My husband I went to the Badger game on Saturday.  The babysitter cost us what we paid for each ticket, parking was one-fifth of a ticket, and food was double the parking.  If we spent $324, what did we pay for both tickets?

In the comments post:
1.  the answer to this problem
2.  If you had to choose today, what college would you like to go to?

Simplify

A simple life has a different meaning and a different value for every person. But, basically it means eliminating all but the essential, and spending your time doing what’s important to you.

It means getting rid of many of the things you do so you can spend time with people you love and do the things you love. It means getting rid of the clutter so you are left with only that which gives you value.

In math it is no different.  To simplify means you get rid of things/clutter (grouping symbols, exponents and operations) so that you are left with a value. 

Simplify, and post your answer in the comments.  

10 × 4 - 2 × (4² ÷ 4) ÷ 2 ÷ 1/2 + 9

Introducing myself through a photo dump from my phone.

1.  My Family:  Me, my husband, and daughter Hope.  She is 2.5 years old.

2.  Something I like to do:   Run

3.  Favorite Food:  Cereal.  

4.  Best part of my job:  Working with all of you!!!! But since I have no picture of that I will say my awesome co-workers!!! 

5.  Bad Habit:  Using exclamation points too often.  See #4.  And without a doubt my beloved diet mountain dew.  (Which Mr. McDonald and I are thinking of giving up this school year.  Wish us luck.) 

In the comments tell me something about your family, favorite thing to do, favorite food, your job, or your bad habit.  

Meet my Dad

This is my Dad.

High School math teacher for 41 years.  I had him for 2 of those years.......honors geo, and honors pre-calc.

A few years ago we were playing cribbage and I mentioned how we now intro the unit circle at the end of honors algebra 2, and so I was going to have to put that lesson together.

The next day this HANDWRITTEN packet shows up at my door..........with a donut.........my dad always brings me a donut.

I thought about re-typing the notes, but for sentimental reasons, I just did not want to.  So without further ado go to bb9 and open unit circle notes.  (and yes, he still writes in cursive........who does that??)

Before leaving this page if you want to comment about your dad, his job, his favorite food, activity you do together.  Go for it.  I love reading that stuff.  

Spring Break.

Welcome back!

Hope you relaxed, enjoyed some time away, ate some jelly beans.

We made $1.50, got 8 reese's PB cups, and bunny figurine. I am counting that as a successful egg hunt.

It is now Monday night.  I am gearing up for the return by doing this.......

Mathematically, can you remember what we did before break?  

In the comments answer any of the following.  

Something you did over break?

Favorite Easter Candy?  

What did we do in math before break?  

My Pi Day

3.14 started with all of you.....

.......and this crew. 

An afternoon jog.

A lazy person's apple pie.  

McDonald's thanks for coming through so I did not have to dirty my kitchen.  

Something you did yesterday.  Pi or not pi related? 

Favorite flavor of pi?  

Any runners out there?  Distance of your last run?  

Borrowing money.

Isaiah's mom has borrowed $370 from his secret stash of tips from work.  What interest rate should he use so that when she pays him back in a month she gives him $400?

Work out problem and type answer in the comments.


Anyone else's mom owe them money?
My mom owes me $100, and keeps conveniently forgetting about it.

Groundhogs day.

There is a Bill Murray movie Ground Hogs Day, where he just keeps waking up on the same day over and over again.

Since last Thursday was ground hogs day.  The math department wore the same clothes Friday as they did Thursday to go along with this idea.   Person that gets called out first brings doughnuts for the department.   

Here I am with some of my math colleagues THURSDAY.  

Here I am with the 2 students that called me out FRIDAY.

This sweater was a little distinctive to be a good choice for this game.   You live and you learn.  

Answer any of the questions in the comments.  

Ever seen the movie groundhogs day?  

Is there a day in your life you would relive?   

Favorite Doughnut?