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Class Activities & Assignments |
Thur. 9/4 |
- Welcome!
- Discuss course syllabus
- Paper tower activity
- Introduction to Unit 0: Prelude--Study teams and coordinate grids
- Pick's Theorem: finding patterns in numbers
- Team problems: PR-8 to 13
- Individual problems: PR-4 to 7, signature
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Mon. 9/8 |
- Using the xy-coordinate system
- Discuss Milepost Quizzes (first one next class on the Distributive Property)
- Team problems: PR-14 to 22
- Individual problems: PR-24, 29 to 34
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Wed. 9/10 |
- Milepost quiz #1: The Distributive Property
- Introduction to Unit 1
- Tool kit entries: Right triangles and the Pythagorean Theorem
- Team problems: RC-2 to 8 (click here for resource page needed)
- Individual problems: RC-11 to 16
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Fri. 9/12 |
- Milepost quiz #2: Combining Like Terms
- Turn in Unit 1 assignment packet A
- Investigating the area formulas: Why to they work?
- Team problems: RC-24 to 26, 28 to 33 (resource page needed)
- Individual problems: RC-34 to 39
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Tues. 9/16 |
- Milepost quiz #3: Solving linear equations
- Area and subproblems
- Tool kit entry: Base and height
- Team problems: RC-41, 43 to 46, 51, 52 (resource page needed)
- Individual problems: RC-54 to 61
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Thur. 9/18 |
- Unit 1 Quiz
- Review: Graphing linear equations and slope
- Team problems: Graphs, RC-49, 50, 73
- Individual problems: RC-75, 69 to 72
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Tues. 9/23 |
- Tool kit entry: Slope-intercept form
- More graphing and finding midpoint
- Team problems: RC-78 to 84, 86, 88 (resource page needed)
- Individual problems: RC-90 to 95
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Thur. 9/25 |
- Tool kit entry: The Midpoint Formula
- Unit 0/1 Team Test
- Team problems: Unit 0/1 Team Test
- Individual problems: Unit 1 Review packet (worksheets needed)
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Mon. 9/29 |
- Turn in Unit 1 assignment packet B
- Unit 0/1 Test
- Introduction to the Digit Place Game
- Team problems: none
- Individual problems: BP-2 to 6, 8
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Wed. 10/1 |
- More with logic puzzles: The Digit Place Game and the Color Square Game
- Team problems: BP-10 to 17, 26 to 28
- Individual problems: BP-19 to 24
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Fri. 10/3 |
- Notes: Algebraic Inequalities
- Team problems: BP-29, 38 to 40, 42, 45 to 47, notes
- Individual problems: BP-30 to 33, 36, 37
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Tues. 10/7 |
- Solving systems of equations: Substitution method
- Team problems: BP-49, 51, 53 to 57, 60 to 62, 65
- Individual problems: BP-67 to 73
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Thur. 10/9 |
- Tool kit entries: Solving systems of equations using substitution, Integers, Types of Triangles
- Unit 2 Quiz
- Team problems: BP-74 to 76, 78 to 83
- Individual problems: BP-88 to 94
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Tues. 10/14 |
- Inequalities practice worksheet
- Solving systems of equations using elimination
- Tool kit entry: The Elimination Method
- Team problems: Inequalities worksheet, BP-84 to 87
- Individual problems: BP-96 to 100, 103 to 106
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Thur. 10/16 |
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Mon. 10/20 |
- Turn in Unit 2 assignment packets
- Unit 2 Individual Test
- Team problems: none
- Individual problems: PS-2 to 4, 6 to 9
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Wed. 10/22 |
- Introduction to Unit 3: Problem solving and patterns
- Finding patterns in diagrams and tables of values
- Team problems: PS-5, 13, 15, 16, 21 to 24
- Individual problems: PS-10 to 12, 17 to 20
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Fri. 10/24 |
- Introduction to "Vocabulary Grid"
- Tool kit entries: Supplementary angles, acute angle, obtuse angle, straight angle, ray
- Team problems: PS-27 to 31, 33 to 36, protractor practice worksheet
- Individual problems: PS-37 to 43
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Tues. 10/28 |
- Parallel line investigations
- Tool kit entries: Corresponding angles, alternate interior angles
- Team problems: PS-45 to 49
- Individual problems: PS-51 to 57
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Thur. 10/30 |
- More angle relationships
- Tool kit entries: Adjacent angles, vertical angles
- Team problems: PS-58, 59, 61, 62
- Individual problems: Angle worksheet (yellow)
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Mon. 11/3 |
- Practice with angle relationships
- Unit 3 Quiz
- Team problems: PS-64, 65, 67 to 71
- Individual problems: PS-72 to 77
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Wed. 11/5 |
- Notes: Graphing linear inequalities
- Team problems: Notes, PS-82 to 90
- Individual problems: Angle Measure Worksheet #1
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Fri. 11/7 |
- Tool kit entries: Triangle sum theorem and Exterior angle theorem
- Team problems: PS-93 to 96, 103 to 110
- Individual problems: PS-97 to 102
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Wed. 11/12 |
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Fri. 11/14 |
- Turn in Unit 3 assignment packets
- Unit 3 Test
- Team problems: none
- Individual problems: SV-1 to 5
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Tues. 11/18 |
- Introduction to Unit 4: Spatial Visualization
- Zero product property, intercepts of quadratics and non-linear inequalities
- Team problems: SV-7, 10, 14 to 19
- Individual problems: SV-11 to 13, 22 to 24
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Thur. 11/20 |
- Visualization practice: Mental pictures and descriptions
- Optical illusions
- Team problems: SV-25 to 34, 39 to 43
- Individual problems: SV-35 to 38
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Mon. 11/24 |
- Isometric drawings of cube stacks
- Team problems: SV-45, 46, 54 to 60, 62 to 64 (isometric dot paper needed)
- Individual problems: SV-47 to 52
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Wed. 11/26 |
- Using mat plans for isometric figures
- Finding volume of prisms
- Team problems: SV-65 to 73, 79 to 82 (isometric dot paper needed)
- Individual problems: SV-74 to 78
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Tues. 12/2 |
- Uncovering "Hidden Prisms"
- Tool kit entry: Prisms and volume
- Team problems: SV-84 to 94, 96
- Individual problems: SV-98 to 100, 107, 108
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Thur. 12/4 |
- Practice worksheet: Volume of prisms
- Unit 4 Team Test
- Team problems: Volume worksheet
- Individual problems: SV-109 to 115
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Mon. 12/8 |
- Turn in Unit 4 assignment packet
- Unit 4 Test
- Tool kit entry: Methods for Factoring
- Team problems: none
- Individual problems: none
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Wed. 12/10 |
- Introduction to Unit 5: Triangles and Congruence
- Reflections and polygons
- Team problems: CG-1 to 4, 7 (resource page needed)
- Individual problems: CG-8, 9, 15 to 19
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Fri. 12/12 |
- Tool kit entries: Reflections, Parallel and perpendicular slopes, transformations, congruent figures, corresponding parts
- Team problems: CG-11, 14, 20 to 23, 31
- Individual problems: CG-24 to 30
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Tues. 12/16 |
- What does it take for two triangles to be congruent?
- Tool kit entries: Triangle congruence properties (SSS, SAS, ASA)
- Team problems: CG-32, 33, 37 to 40
- Individual problems: CG-44 to 48
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Mon. 1/5 |
- Review and practice determining if triangles are congruent
- Tool kit entries: Triangle congruence properties (HL)
- Team problems: CG-41, 42, 50 to 52, 60, 61
- Individual problems: CG-54 to 59
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