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9/12 – Class Introduction

• Review Roles and Responsibilities. Get Policies signed – due 9/14.
• Hand out text books. Get books covered for Monday’s class.
• Elephant WS

9/13– 3.1 Graphing systems of linear equations

• Warm Up: Graph Using Intercepts
• PG: 142-144: 11-19 odd, 24, 25, 28, 32-40 all

9/14– Application: Using Graphing Calculator to solve systems

• PG 146 1-6

9/15 – Application: Break Even Analysis

• WS 5.1

9/16 – 3.2 Solving Systems Algebraically

• PG 152-153 13-46 RHC, 54

9/19 – Quiz

• Review HW
• Quiz 3.1 and 3.2

9/20 – Graphing Inequalities

• WS 2.6A

9/21 – 3.3 Solving Systems of Linear Inequalities by Graphing

• PG 159-160: 21-26 all 27-48 LHC

9/22 – Graphing Systems: Linear Programming

• Quick Quiz on 3.3
• PG 166-167: 9-15

 9/23 – Using Linear Programming to model and solve

• PG 167 21-22
• 2.6 application activity

9/26 – Test Solving Systems of Equations and Inequalities

10/12 – PSATs.

10/13–5.1 Graphing Quadratic Functions using a table of values

• Define quadratic function
• Graphing packet
• PG 253: 38-49

10/14– 5.1 Graphing Quadratic Functions in standard form

• Notes on graphing quadratics
• PG 253-254: 17-37 odd, 51 and 54.

10/17- 5.2 Factoring Quadratics

• Quick quiz on 5.1
• PG 260-261: 25-64 RHC

10/18 – no school

10/19 – 5.2 Solve quadratics by factoring

• Notes on solving quadratics by factoring
• PG 261 65-86 LHC, 91, 101

10/20 – Properties of square roots

• Notes on square roots
• PG 267: 19-49 odd

10/21 – 5.3 Solving Quadratics by finding square roots

• Notes on solving using square roots
• PG 267: 51, 54, 55, 57, 71
• PG 277: 17, 19, 23, 25, 100

10/24 – 5.6 Solving Using the Quadratic Formula

• PG 295-297: 17-34 LHC, 47-55 RHC, 78

10/25 – Field Trip

10/26 – Solve quadratics by graphing

• 5.6 Graphing calculator activity
• PG 271 #1-9

10/27 – Review solving quadratics

• PG 317: 1-4, 20-26

10/28 – QUIZ: Solving Quadratic Equations

11/16 – Graphing a system of quadratic inequalities

• PG: 303-304: 13, 19, 22, 25, 28, 30, 33

• DWA Review Problem Set #1 : DWA review WS Due 11/21

11/17– Solving systems of quadratic inequalities

• PG 304: 35, 39, 41, 44, 49
• DWA Review Problem Set #2 PG 317: 1-8, 20-32

11/18– Review quadratic Inequalities

• Quick Quiz
• Work on DWA review

11/21– Trimester Review

• Review Problem Set Due

11/22 – DWTA

11/23 – Modeling with quadratics: Field Goals

11/28– Modeling with Quadratics: Ball bounce

11/29 – Modeling with Quadratics: Free fall motion problems

• WS on free fall problems

11/30 – Classifying and evaluating polynomials

• Notes: function notation, evaluating functions
• PG 333: 15-36

12/1 – End Behavior

• 9-3 Pg 22 in class
• Notes on end behavior
• PG 334: 47-64

12/2 – Graphing Polynomials

• Graphing polynomials WS
• Classifying polynomials Graphic Organizer

12/5 – Graphing Polynomials using graphing calculator

• PG 337 1-6 (also find all local min and max)

12/6 – Quiz: Graphing Polynomials