June 1, 2009
· Filed under Algebra 1
Monday: Probability
Learning Target: Students will find the probability of compound events.
- Review Factoring Trinomials
- Probability Self-Assessment
- Go over Counting Outcomes
- How many possibilities are there?
Tuesday: Probability
Learning Target: Students will find the probability of compound events.
- Review Factoring Trinomials
- Continue work on probability assessment
- Class Discussion on Compound Probability
- Compound Probability Tree
Wednesday: Weekly Assessment
Learning Targets Covered: Same as last week
When students are finished, they should work on the graphing calculator activity from the week before.
Thursday: NUMB3RS
May 26, 2009
· Filed under Algebra 1
Tuesday: Statistics
Learning Target: Students will analyze statistics.
- Review factoring trinomials
- How do you factor x² + bx + c?
- How do you factor ax² + bx = c?
- What are special factors?
- What are statistics?
- Students will take a pre-assessment on statistics.
- Discuss answers as a class.
Wednesday: Weekly Assessment
Learning Targets Covered;
- Students will multiply a polynomial by a monomial.
- Students will multiply polynomials.
- Text Lesson 8-7
- Text Lesson 8-8
- Students will find the GCF of monomials.
- Students will factor a monomial out of a polynomial.
- Students will factor trinomials.
- Text Lesson 9-3
- Text Lesson 9-4
- Students will factor polynomials of special products.
- Text Lesson 9-5
- Text Lesson 9-6
- Problem of the Week
Thursday: Statistics
Learning Target: Students will analyze statistics.
- What is data?
- How is data collected?
- How is data displayed?
- What graphs are misleading?
Friday: Statistics
Learning Target: Students will analyze statistics.
- What is a histogram?
- What are the measures of central tendency?
- What are the measures of variation?
- How do you create a Box-and-Whisker Plot?
May 18, 2009
· Filed under Algebra 1
Monday: Factoring Trinomials x² + bx + c (Lesson 9-3)
Learning Target: Students will factor trinomials.
- X Puzzle Game
- What number goes in each quadrant?
- What are the rules?
- How do you factor a trinomial?
- x² + 5x + 6
- X Method
- Book Method and methodology
- Class Practice
Tuesday: Factoring Trinomials ax² + bx + c (Lesson 9-4)
Learning Target: Students will factor trinomials.
- 5-minute check over factoring trinomials with a coefficient a = 1
- Factor using distributive property 3a² + 3a + 4a + 4
- What happens when you have a number other than 1 in front of the variable squared?
- Can you use the X Method?
- What other methods are there?
Wednesday: Weekly Assessment
Learning Targets Covered;
- Students will multiply and divide monomials.
- Text Lesson 8-1
- Text Lesson 8-2
- Students will add and subtract polynomials.
- Text Lesson 8-4
- Text Lesson 8-5
- Students will multiply a polynomial by a monomial.
- Students will multiply polynomials.
- Text Lesson 8-7
- Text Lesson 8-8
- Students will find the GCF of monomials.
- Students will factor a monomial out of a polynomial.
- Problem of the Week
Thursday: Special Factors
Learning Target: Students will factor polynomials of special products.
- 5-minute check over text lesson 9-4
- What are special factors?
- Factoring the difference of squares (Lesson 9-5)
- Factoring perfect squares (Lesson 9-6)
- Class Practice
Friday: Factoring Polynomials
Goal: Review of weekly targets and practice
- Test post view
- Students can get with their teams and go over the results of their assessments. (Spread out in the two combined rooms)
- Help one another with their mistakes.
- 5-minute check over factoring the difference of squares.
- Worksheet review of factoring polynomials
- Individual practice
- Group Practice
- Class Discussion
May 11, 2009
· Filed under Algebra 1
Monday: Factors
Learning Target: Students will find the greatest common factor of two or more monomials. (Chapter 9 Lesson 1)
- Review what are polynomials and how do you find their products.
- Unit 5 Introduction “Factoring Polynomials”
- What is factoring?
- What is it used for?
- What are the prime factors of monomials?
- How do you find the GCF of two or more polynomials?
Tuesday: Factoring Polynomials
Learning Target: Students will factor a monomial out of a polynomial.
- 5-minute check over finding the GCF of two or more polynomials.
- Review: How do you multiply a polynomial by a monomial?
- How do you factor a monomial out of a polynomial?
- Chapter 9 Lesson 2
- Distributive Property
- Find the GCF of all terms
- Put in parenthesis what is leftover?
- Class Practice
Wednesday: Weekly Assessment
Learning Targets Covered;
- Students will graph the solution to a system of linear inequalities.
- Students will multiply and divide monomials.
- Text Lesson 8-1
- Text Lesson 8-2
- Students will add and subtract polynomials.
- Text Lesson 8-4
- Text Lesson 8-5
- Students will multiply a polynomial by a monomial.
- Students will multiply polynomials.
- Text Lesson 8-7
- Text Lesson 8-8
- Problem of the Week
Thursday: Factoring Polynomials
Learning Target: Students will factor a monomial out of a polynomial.
- Test post view
- Students can get with their teams and go over the results of their assessments. (Spread out in the two combined rooms)
- Help one another with their mistakes.
- Factoring Practice Sheets
- Students will work individually on the odd number problems for about 30 minutes.
- Go over some of the questions and concerns as a class.
- Students can work with their teams to finish the sheets and help each other.
- Whole class discussion on questions and concerns the last 10 or 15 minutes.
Friday: Factoring Polynomials
Learning Target: Students will factor a monomial out of a polynomial.
- Computer lab practice on Lesson 9-2
- Possible NUMB3RS
