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Class Activities & Assignments |
Wed. 9/3 |
- Welcome back!
- Discuss course syllabus
- Team yarn activity
- Introduction to Unit 1: Exploring Functions
- Team problems: EF-3 to 5 (graph paper needed)
- Individual problems: EF- 6 to 10, signature
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Fri. 9/5 |
- Introduction to the graphing calculator: graphing, zoom, intersections
- Tool kit: x- and y-intercepts
- Team problems: EF-14, 15, 33 to 36 (graphing calculator needed)
- Individual problems: EF-18, 19, 27 to 31
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Tues. 9/9 |
- Introduction to Domain and Range
- Tool kit entry: Domain and Range
- Worksheet: finding domain and range given graphs
- Team problems: EF-12, 38 to 40, 42, 46, 50
- Individual problems: worksheet, EF-51 to 57
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Thur. 9/11 |
- Review: Domain and range using inequalities
- Digger Dog problem
- Team problems: EF-51 & 57 (using inequalities), 59 to 62, 70, 98
- Individual problems: EF-63 to 69
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Mon. 9/15 |
- SAT practice problems
- Investigating functions and function notation
- Unit 1 Quiz
- Team problems: EF- 98, 70 to 77
- Individual problems: EF-78 to 84
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Wed. 9/17 |
- Turn in Unit 1 assignment packet A
- Investigating functions with asymptotes
- Team problems: EF- 101 to 103, 85 to 88
- Individual problems: EF-89 to 97
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Mon. 9/22 |
- Tool kit entry: The Quadratic Formula
- Graph interpretation: matching cities to average temperature graphs
- Team problems: EF- 104 to 112
- Individual problems: EF-116 to 121
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Wed. 9/24 |
- Review Unit 1 Topics
- Unit 1 Team Test
- Team problems: Unit 1 Team Test
- Individual problems: Unit 1 Review packet
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Fri. 9/26 |
- Turn in Unit 1 assignment packet B
- Unit 1 Test
- Team problems: none
- Individual problems: BB-1 to 5
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Tues. 9/30 |
- Analyzing sequences
- Sequences: graphing and categorizing
- Team problems: BB-7 to 10, 12 (resource page needed), 13
- Individual problems: BB-17, 18, 22, 27 to 29
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Thur. 10/2 |
- Arithmetic sequences: What are they? What do their graphs look like? What do their functions look like?
- Team problems: BB-24 to 26, 36 to 42
- Individual problems: BB-33 to 35, 44 to 48
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Mon. 10/6 |
- Tool kit entries: Arithmetic Sequences and Geometric Sequences
- More practice with sequences
- Team problems: BB-30, 49 to 52, 59 to 61, 63
- Individual problems: BB-66 to 72
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Wed. 10/8 |
- Arithmetic sequence practice
- Introduction to Geometric Sequences: What do geometric functions look like?
- Team problems: Arithmetic sequence practice, BB-73 to 75, PSAT practice (multiple choice only)
- Individual problems: BB-78 to 83
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Mon. 10/13 |
- Applications of multipliers and Geometric sequence practice
- Unit 2 Quiz
- Team problems: Geometric sequence practice, BB-84, 85
- Individual problems: BB-86 to 90
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Wed. 10/15 |
- More applications of multipliers and sequences
- Team problems: BB-91 to 96, 98 to 102, 115
- Individual problems: BB-103 to 108
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Fri. 10/17 |
- SAT practice problems (packet)
- Unit 2 Team Test
- Team problems: Unit 2 Team Test
- Individual problems: Unit 2 Review packet
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Tues. 10/21 |
- Turn in Unit 2 assignment packet
- Unit 2 Individual Test
- Team problems: none
- Individual problems: FX-8 to 14
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Thur. 10/23 |
- Introduction to Unit 3: Exponential Functions
- Simple and compound interest
- The M & M lab
- Team problems: FX-1 to 7, M & M lab
- Individual problems: FX-20 to 27
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Mon. 10/27 |
- Half-life
- Understanding zero exponents
- Graphing exponential functions
- Team problems: FX-18, 19, 29 to 34, 43, 45
- Individual problems: FX-35 to 41
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Wed. 10/29 |
- More work with exponentials
- Tool kit entry: Exponential Functions
- Team problems: FX-46, 47, 56, 60 to 64
- Individual problems: FX-48 to 55
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Fri. 10/31 |
- Connecting roots and fractional exponents
- Team problems: FX-71 to 79
- Individual problems: FX-65 to 70
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Tues. 11/4 |
- Applications of exponential functions
- Unit 3 Quiz
- Team problems: FX-80 to 87, 89
- Individual problems: FX-94 to 101
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Thur. 11/6 |
- Compounding interest worksheet
- Team problems: Interest worksheet, FX-90 to 92, 102 to 105
- Individual problems: FX-109 to 116
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Mon. 11/10 |
- Finding multipliers and points of intersection
- Team problems: FX-106 to 108, 117 to 120
- Individual problems: FX-121 to 128
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Thur. 11/13 |
- Unit 3 Team Test
- Team problems: Unit 3 Team Test
- Individual problems: FX-135 to 144
- Unit 3 Test next class!
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Mon. 11/17 |
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Wed. 11/19 |
- Review function notation and composite functions
- Team problems: Function notation worksheet
- Individual problems:Factoring practice worksheet
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Fri. 11/21 |
- Parabola investigation: How does the equation change when the graph is changed?
- Team problems: PG-6 to 12 (Parabola investigation)
- Individual problems: PG-13, 15 to 20
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Tues. 11/25 |
- Tool kit: Parabolas in graphing form
- Practice: Describing graphs of parabolas
- Team problems: PG-13, 14, 21 to 25
- Individual problems: PG-27 to 31
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Mon. 12/1 |
- Modeling word problems with parabolas
- Transformations of cubics, hyperbolas, and exponentials
- Team problems: PG-32 to 37, 56 to 58
- Individual problems: PG-38 to 45
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Wed. 12/3 |
- Examining parent graphs
- Finding the vertex of a parabola by completing the square
- Team problems: PG-58 to 61, 46 to 49
- Individual problems: PG-50 to 55
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Fri. 12/5 |
- Writing equations in vertex form
- Parent Graph Tool Kit entries: lines, parabolas, cubics, exponentials, and hyperbolas
- Team problems: PG-62, 64, 76 (a and b), parent graph tool kit entries (5 of them)
- Individual problems: PG-76 (the rest), 65, 66, 68 to 73
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Tues. 12/9 |
- Transformations of cubic graphs
- Matching graphs and equations
- Unit 4 Quiz
- Team problems: PG-78, 79, 83 to 87
- Individual problems: PG-89 to 95
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Thur. 12/11 |
- Modeling situations with parabolas
- Graphing and solving equations with absolute values
- Team problems: PG-99, 111 to 119, 102, 103
- Individual problems: PG-120 to 124, 107, 108
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Mon. 12/15 |
- Investigating non-functions: Sideways parabolas and circles
- Tool kit entry: Definition of a function
- Team problems: PG-125 to 129, 138, 139, 141 to 143
- Individual problems: PG-144 to 147, 149, 150
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Wed. 12/17 |
- Unit 4 Team Test
- Team problems: Unit 4 Team Test
- Individual problems: PG-157 to 163
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