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.