Summative Review of This Year's Concepts and The Final Rubric for Our Origami Project

Home Nugget #17
Assigned on Friday June 6, 2008
Due on Wednesday June 11, 2008

Reflection sheets handed out on Thursday for Looking for Pythagoras.
Reflection sheets for summative review handed out on Friday.

These serve as your last refreshers for concepts likely to appear on the district final exam but are by no means comprehensive.

The final rubric which will be used to score your origami project, due on Thursday June 12 is also provided at the link which follows and was distributed and discussed in class.

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dcszzgg_106fq3hx4cm

Prepping for Final Exams: Say it With Symbols

Home Nugget #16
Assigned on Wednesday June 4, 2008
Due on Friday June 6, 2008

Reflection Sheet for Say it With Symbols (actually a summative test for the book)

Students are encouraged to continue solving all assigned problems to ensure comfort and preparation for next week's final exams which cover the curriculum from September to June.

Prepping for Final Exams: Say it With Symbols

Home Nugget #16
Assigned on Wednesday June 4, 2008
Due on Friday June 6, 2008

Reflection Sheet for Say it With Symbols (actually a summative test for the book)

Students are encouraged to continue solving all assigned problems to ensure comfort and preparation for next week's final exams which cover the curriculum from September to June.

Reaching Back To Reflect on Our Math Journeys This Year

Students have entered the phase of the year when we are preparing for final exams (scheduled for June 12, 13 and 16). Integral to this process is having an opportunity to reflect on the major topics we have covered. This endeavor will be achieved on the home nuggets as students are being provided with summative assessments from all the major books to help them become refamiliar with material.

Tonight's lesson covers two nights and revolves around exponential relationships.

Home Nugget #15
Assigned on Monday June 2, 2008
Due on Wednesday June 4, 2008

Summative Assessment on Exponential Relationship
Can be found at http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dcszzgg_105gfxccwc7

Systems of Linear Inequalities

REMINDER: ROUGH DRAFT OF ORIGAMI PROJECT DUE ON MONDAY.

Home Nugget #14
Assigned on Friday May 30, 2008
Due on Monday June 2, 2008

From The Shapes of Algebra
Read Page 69 then answer section titled "getting ready for problem 5.1" on page 70
Also answer questions A - D

FCAs
2 points: all problems genuinely attempted in their entirety
2 points: abundant evidence that quality time and effort were spent thinking about, responding to and presenting solutions

Another Attempt at the Extension Problems from SOA

Home Nugget #13
Assigned on Thursday May 29, 2008
Due on Friday May 30, 2008

In Shapes of Algebra
Page 63 #51 - 55
Page 64 #56
Page 65 #57 - 63
Page 67 #67

FCAs
2 points: all problems genuinely attempted in their entirety
2 points: abundant evidence that quality time and effort were spent thinking about, responding to and presenting solutions

Extension Problems from Shapes of Algebra

Home Nugget #13
Assigned on Wednesday May 28, 2008
Due on Thursday May 29, 2008

In Shapes of Algebra
Page 63 #51 - 55
Page 64 #56
Page 65 #57 - 63
Page 67 #67

FCAs
2 points: all problems genuinely attempted in their entirety
2 points: abundant evidence that quality time and effort were spent thinking about, responding to and presenting solutions

Systems of Equations and Related Matters

Home Nugget #12
Assigned on Tuesday May 27, 2008
Due on Wednesday May 28, 2008

Using "Vincent's Problem" from class, solve the system of equations using the four methods we have been working on:
1. Equality
2. Graphing
3. Substitution
4. Combination

(Vincent's problem is as follows: he is an artist who sells oil paintings for $500 apiece and charcoal sketches for $300 apiece. He wants to sell a total of 56 items and earn a total of
$20, 000. How many of each item must he sell to satisfy these two requirements?)

Then, in SOA
Page 61 #34 - 37 and 44 - 46
Page 62 #48 - 50

Continue to provide representative explanations for repetitive problem sets

FCAs
2 points: all problems genuinely attempted in their entirety
2 points: abundant evidence that quality time and effort were spent thinking about, responding to and presenting solutions

Solving Systems Using Combination

Home Nugget #11
Assigned on Thursday May 22, 2008
Due on Tuesday May 27, 2008 (Extended due date needed to allow for sufficient exploration of topics in class)

From the text The Shapes of Algebra
Page 58 Questions A #1, B # 1, 2, D #1, 2 and E #1
Page 60 #15 - 26

Extremely important to provide representative explanations for numbers 15 - 26 such that you are not just blindly answering questions but rather being forced to think through the concepts.

FCAs
2 points: all problems genuinely attempted in their entirety
2 points: abundant evidence that quality time and effort were spent thinking about, responding to and presenting solutions

Solving Systems of Equations Via Substitution

Home Nugget #10
Assigned on Tuesday May 20, 2008
Due on Thursday May 22, 2008

From The Shapes of Algebra
On page 56 read "Getting Ready for Problem 4.3"
Answer 2 bulleted points following #5

Then solve problems A, B and C on pages 56 and 57

FCAs
2 points: all problems genuinely attempted in their entirety
2 points: abundant evidence that quality time and effort were spent thinking about, responding to and presenting solutions

Solving Systems of Equations Symbolically - Focusing on the Slope-Intercept Form

Home Nugget #9
Assigned on Monday May 19, 2008
Due on Tuesday May 20, 2008

In The Shapes of Algebra
Page 59 #1
Page 60 #3 - 13

You must provide representative explanations for each problem set (e.g. #1, 2 - 7, 8 - 13)

FCAs
2 points: all problems genuinely attempted in their entirety
2 points: abundant evidence that quality time and effort were spent thinking about, responding to and presenting solutions