Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Tues Feb 15, 2011

HW - Mean, Median, Mode Sheet, Questions 1-4. Due Thursday
Overdue - Distributive Property Sheet.

Monday, February 14, 2011

Monday Feb 14th - Happy Valentine's Day


Today we worked on finishing off Test #6 - Algebra
Homework - Do Distributive Property Multiplication sheet.

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Feb 8, 2011

ALGEBRA TEST THURSDAY.
To prepare:
1) Go over the Pretest
2) Try to redo equations from the blue sheet
3) Come see Ms. Gesner for a one-on-one explanation
4) Go over sample problems with a friend or parent
5) Watch the YouTube videos below

Monday, February 7, 2011

Mon Feb 7, 2011

HW - Finish blue sheet (due tomorrow) & study for Algebra Test on Thursday

Don't forget that your alegebra toolkit gives you these tools -
1) Use the distributive property to get rid of brackets.
2) Gather like terms (get all your variables together)
3) Do the same thing to both sides to get the variable by itself.

Feeling confused? - Try watching the YouTube videos in the post from Monday January 31st.

Friday, February 4, 2011

Friday Feb 4 - Homework for Weekend


Solve then check the following three equations on lined paper.
Ms. Gesner will collect them P1 on Monday. Show all steps, including the check.

Be sure to

1) Use the distributive property to get rid of brackets.

2) Gather like terms (get all your variables combined into a single term

3) Do the same thing to both sides to isolate the variable

Solve and check - Show all steps for solving, and all steps for checking.

a) 4t -3 = 25

b) 3(2y + 1) = 21

c) 5x - 2x + x + 6 = x + 21

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Thurs Feb 3, 2011

HW - Blue algebra sheet #1,2,3,4,5,8,13. Due tomorrow

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Feb 1, 2011

HW - Make sure that your Letter to Ms. Vohra meets all of these criteria.

Based on the attendance at past events, Jennifer and Steve's committee believe that between 20 and 25% of the 80 people invited will not attend. As secretary of the Fundraising Committee, write a report tot the faculty advisor, Ms. Vohra, recommending on of the three locations.

Suppot your recommendation by including the following elements in your report:
* the approximate number of guests who are expected to attend.
* the algebraic expressions that give the costs at each location for n guests
* the cost at each location for the estimated number of guests
* graphs and/or tables to show the range in the number of guests for which your recommendation offers the lowest cost.
* possible reasons why the location offering the lowest cost might not be the best choice.