CP+PreCalculus+Fall+2012

CP Pre-Calculus Spring 2013 Lesson Plans posted on this site are approximate and subject to change. Plans and assignments will be updated by the end of each day.

Complete p.11-15 [9,25,45,47,51,57,67,*87] ||  || HW Quiz on Thu. || Complete p.24-29 [5,19,29,37,59,63,*73,83,85,89] ||  || present HW on Fri. || Complete p.38-41[1,4,7,10,21,33,49,52,59,61,65,95-100] ||  || Domain/range Quiz Wed. || Complete p.48-50[21-26,33-38,45,51,55,64] ||  || Domain/Range Quiz || Handout || Paper copy || due Tue. transformations quiz Tue. || Combinations of functions || Quiz, Intro compositions of functions. HW: write a verbal definition of two functions, which, when composed make a valuable third function. ||  || written function to be shared Wed. || functions || Read and take notes on p.51-57 Complete p.58-61[1-71 EO odd, 73, 79, *87, 91] ||  || HW Quiz Thu. || Scatterplot || Begin Review Assignment: Read p.82 Do: p.83-87[1-148] ||  ||   || Continue Review work p.83-87[1-148] ||  ||   || p.112 vocab 1-6, p.112-115 [1-9,15,17,19,21] ||  ||   || C-Block || Juniors - NECAP, Non-juniors (matrices with technology) Roots, IVT, factoring, multiplicity p.112-115 [23,29,33,37,43,49,55,59,65,71,73] || n/a handout ||  || C-Block || Roots, IVT, factoring, multiplicity p.112-115 [23,29,33,37,43,49,55,59,65,71,73] Polynomial long division and synthetic division p.127-130 [9,12,17-20] || handout ||  || C-Block || Polynomial long division and synthetic division p.127-130 [9,12,17-20] Juniors - NECAP, Non-juniors (matrices with technology) ||  ||   || p.127-130 [37,39,41,43,50,64] ||  ||   || p.114-115 [91-92,99-107] ||  ||   || Homework: p.129 [74], p.145 [62] ||  ||   || 3.1 HW quiz Mon. ||  ||   || Packet 3.2, Do: p. 133-138[2,3,6,9,12,13,14,17,20,23] || paper handout || HW quiz || Introduce compound interest. || paper handout ||  || Lesson: Compound interest Handout || paper handout || Quiz || Packet 3.6, Do: p.167-169[2,4,5,6,9,13,18,19,20] **note no #22 || paper handout ||  || Practice problems (text) p.194-195 [53,65-72] || textbook ||  || We will discuss this on Friday. || paper handout ||  || Do: p.203-206 [1-105, E.O. odd] ||  ||   || Do: p.211-213 [9,17,22,33,41,43,49,55,61,67,75,96,99-106,111] ||  ||   || Do: p.221-224 [11,15,21,25,29,37,39,41,45,49,51,55,67,77, 87,97,101,103,131,147] ||  ||   || Do: p.232 [Vocab #1, 1-6, 27,33,39] ||   ||   || discussion - models involving exp and log functions More practice Logs and Exponential Functions Review Packet || Handout ||  || p.242 [1-8, 34*, for part c give r^2 values to answer question] ||  ||   || Worksheet ||  || Complete Geo Ch.8 Mult Choice test for HW || Handout due Thu. ||  || Study exact trig values (1st quadrant) ||   || Trig quiz Thu. || Packet 7.1 selected problems || handout || HW || 7.2 - selected problems Assign project || ||   || Packet 5.5 [2,4,7,12,19,20] || handout ||  || Packet 5.5 [5,6,11,14] || handout ||  || Work on project - study exact Trig values - Quiz 01/02/2013 || || project || ||  ||   || 01-02-2013 || Review Trig Equations || Project work day - Trig Quiz #3 ||   || Quiz || 01-03-2013 || Review Trig equations || Project Work Day + Review Assignment handout || handout ||  || 01-04-2013 || Inverse Trig functions || discuss restricted domain for inverse trig functions and multiple solutions for trig equations || handout ||  ||
 * Date || Topic || Class activities and Homework || Links or attachments || Assessment ||
 * Tuesday 1-22-2013 || Course introduction || No class ||  || n/a ||
 * Wednesday 1-23-2013 || Vocabulary of lines || Read and take notes on p.2-10.
 * Thursday 1-24-2013 || Vocabulary of functions || Read and take notes on p.16-23.
 * Friday 1-25-2013 || Function notation || Handout Introduction to function notation || paper copy || due Mon. ||
 * Week 2 ||=  ||=   ||=   ||=   ||
 * < Monday 1-28-2013 || Function notation || Read and take notes on p.30-37
 * Tuesday 9-04-2012 || Functions notation || Review Monday's assignment || Handout ||  ||
 * Wednesday 9-05-2012 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Thursday 9-06-2012 || Transformations || Calculator Lab - transformations, Essential question #4-6 || Lab || HW ||
 * Friday 9-07-2012 || Transformations || Read and take notes p.42-47
 * Week 3 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Monday 9-10-2012 || Transformations || Q&A Transformations of Functions. Special case: quadratics.
 * Tuesday 9-11-2012 || Transformations and
 * Wednesday 9-12-2012 || Combinations of
 * Thursday 9-13-2012 || Inverse functions || Handout: Problems 1-7,11-15,16,19,20,27,28,38-41] ||  || Formative ||
 * Friday 9-14-2012 || Inverse functions || Notes: p.62-68 Do: 69-72[1,3,15,19,25,55,59,61,65] ||  || HW Quiz Mon. ||
 * Week 4 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Monday 9-17-2012 || Inverse Practice || Do: p.69-72 [6,18,21-24,34,62,68,74, 78,80,84,86,88,94,104,106] || [| inverse practice] || Full assign due Tue. ||
 * Tuesday 9-18-2012 || Gather Data
 * Wednesday 9-19-2012 || Linear Regression || Do: p. 80-81[17,20]
 * Thursday 9-20-2012 || Q&A Review || Review for Exam. Take home regression question for exam. ||  || Take home exam ||
 * Friday 9-21-2012 || Functions Exam || Chapter 1 Exam ||  || Exam ||
 * Week 5 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Monday 9-24-2012 || Quadratics Review || Find a great online resource to review quadratic functions and email the URL to pbremel@burrburton.org || [|Quad help] || email ||
 * Tuesday 9-25-2012 || Quadratics || p. 99-101 [1-47 EO odd, 53-61 odd] ||  || HW quiz ||
 * Wednesday 9-26-2012 || More quadratic review || Discuss test corrections and quadratic homework. HW quiz tomorrow ||  ||   ||
 * Thursday 9-27-2012 || Introduction to power functions || Quadratics Quiz - intro to power functions ||  || Quiz ||
 * Friday 9-28-2012 || Power functions || Packet problems: [S1-S10,1-6, 9-12,15,19-20,32a,37,41] ||  || HW due Mon ||
 * Week 6 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Monday 10-01-2012 || Q&A power functions || Quiz - power function graphs. Intro Polynomial functions
 * Tuesday 10-02-2012 || B-Block
 * Wednesday 10-03-2012 || B-Block
 * Thursday 10-04-2012 || B-Block
 * Friday 10-05-2012 ||  || DeCartes Rule of signs, Rational root theorem
 * Week 7 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Monday 10-08-2012 ||  || No School - Columbus Day ||   ||   ||
 * Tuesday 10-09-2012 || Relative extrema || Optimal Volume problems
 * Wednesday 10-10-2012 || Complex numbers || p.137-138 [1-63 E.O. odd] ||  || HW quiz Thu. ||
 * Thursday 10-11-2012 || Polynomial Roots || p.129 [61], p.145 [51] ||  ||   ||
 * Friday 10-12-2012 || Polynomial Roots || Groups in class: p.145 [59]
 * Week 8 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Monday 10-15-2012 || Quiz Polynomials || Remainder theorem, Rational Root Theorem, DesCartes Rule of Signs, Upper/Lower Bounds, Synthetic Division, Complex roots, Factored form, graphing ||  || Quiz ||
 * Tuesday 10-16-2012 || Rational Functions || p. 152-155 [7-22, 35,37,39,43] ||  ||   ||
 * Wednesday 10-17-2012 || Rational functions || p.161 [11,21,23,25,47,49,77,83] ||  ||   ||
 * Thursday 10-18-2012 || Rational Functions || Packet on rational functions || paper handout ||  ||
 * Friday 10-19-2012 || Ch. Review and regression || Polynomial regression p.169 [15] do both a quadratic and a quartic regression for the data. Read p. 172 Begin p.173-178 [1-172] ||  ||   ||
 * Week 9 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Monday 10-22-2012 || Ch. Review || Q&A on Review - T/F partner review ||  ||   ||
 * Tuesday 10-23-2012 || Ch. 2 Test ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Wednesday10-24-2012 || Review for Mid-Term || Review for Mid-Term Exam ||  ||   ||
 * Thursday 10-25-2012 || Mid-Term Exams || B-Block Mid-Term ||  ||   ||
 * Friday 10-26-2012 || Mid-Term Exams || C-Block Mid-Term ||  ||   ||
 * Week 10 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Monday 10-29-2012 || no class || Hurricane Sandy ||  ||   ||
 * Tuesday 10-30-2012 || discuss midterm || Discuss midterm - No B-Block class - late start ||  ||   ||
 * Wednesday 10-31-2012 || Golf balls || Determine the rebound height of golf balls. Introduce exponential functions. Read p. 184-187 through example 4. Do: p. 193 [3,5,7,17] ||  ||   ||
 * Thursday 11-01-2012 || Intro. Exponential fcn. || Reading quiz. Packet 3.1, Do:p. 120-123 [2,5,6,8,9,12,18,21] || paper handout || Rdg Quiz ||
 * Friday 11-02-2012 || Exponential Functions || Review Exponential functions
 * Week 11 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Monday 11-05-2012 || Exponential Functions || Finding formulas
 * Tuesday 11-06-2012 || Exponential Functions || Worksheet 3.1-3.3
 * Wednesday 11-07-2012 || Exponential Functions || Quiz on basic exponential functions
 * Thursday 11-08-2012 || Base e || Continuous exponential functions
 * Friday 11-09-2012 || More Exponential functions || Discuss Homework (pair/share)
 * Week 12 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Monday 11-12-2012 || Veterans Day || no school - teacher inservice ||  ||   ||
 * Tuesday 11-13-2012 || Exponents review - Intro Logs || Work on packet Appendix A and 3.4 (Hughes-Hallett) Notes on 3.4 || 2 paper handouts ||  ||
 * Wednesday 11-14-2012 || Logarithms || Homework from 3.4
 * Thursday 11-15-2012 || Logarithms || The Exponential and Logarithmic functions
 * Friday 11-16-2012 || Logarithms || The Exponential and Logarithmic functions
 * Week 13 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Monday 11-19-2012 || Solving Exponential Equations || Using Logs to solve equations (incl. extraneous solutions and approximations)
 * Tuesday 11-20-2012 || Exponential and Logratihmic Models || Read and take notes on p.225-231
 * 11/21 - 11/25 || Thanksgiving Break || Enjoy your extended weekend. ||  ||   ||
 * Week 14 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Monday 11-26-2012 || Exponential functions and Logarithms || Quiz - Logarithms
 * Tuesday 11-27-2012 || Regression models || Review regression now with exponential and logarithmic models
 * Wednesday 11-28-2012 || Review for exam || p. 246-254 do problems for review. Exam tomorrow. ||  ||   ||
 * Thursday 11-29-2012 || Exam || Exam ||  ||   ||
 * Friday 11-30-2012 || Triangle Trig Review || Review Right Triangle Trigonometry - ratios involving sine, cosine, and tangent ||  ||   ||
 * Week 15 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Monday 12-03-2012 || Triangle Trig || Partner work trig and inverse trig functions for right angles || Handout
 * Tuesday 12-04-2012 || Law of Sines || Law of sines Do: p.415 [27,31] ||  ||   ||
 * Wednesday 12-05-2012 || Law of Cosines || Law of cosines and trig wrap-up
 * Thursday 12-06-2012 || Radian Lab || Complete Radian Lab and practice || handout ||  ||
 * Friday 12-07-2012 || Radians and special triangles || Do: p.265 Vocab[1-10], p.265-268 [3-57odd,71,73,77-99odd] || HW quiz Mon. || quiz post-poned to Tue ||
 * Week 16 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Monday 12-10-2012 || Special triangles || Do: p. 284-287 [1-33odd,43,45,47,64,66,69-81odd] ||  || Deg-Rad quiz Tue. ||
 * Tuesday 12-11-2012 || The Unit Circle || Read: p.288-293 and take notes
 * Wednesday 12-12-2012 || The Unit Circle || Definition of sine, cosine, tangent as they pertain to a point or radius of the unit circle. - Study for Quiz ||  || Quiz Thu. ||
 * Thursday 12-13-2012 || Periodic Functions || The London Eye - y=h(t) related to sine and cosine.
 * Friday 12-14-2012 || Biorhythm Project assigned || Discuss HW from 7.1
 * Week 17 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Monday 12-17-2012 || Sinusoidal functions || General form Sine and Cosine Functions
 * Tuesday 12-18-2012 || Sinusoidal functions || General form Sine and Cosine Functions
 * Wednesday 12-19-2012 || Project Check || Trig Project check.
 * <span style="background-color: #008000; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Winter Break || <span style="background-color: #008000; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">12/20 - 01/02 || <span style="background-color: #008000; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;"> Have a safe, relaxing and rejuvenating break!
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 * Monday 01-07-20134 || Inverse Trig || Discuss Inverse Trig homework. Project Checkpoint #11. Trig Quiz #4 ||  || Trig Quiz #4 ||
 * Tuesday 01-08-2013 || Trig Identities || Trig Identities - HW due Thu ||  ||   ||
 * Wednesday 01-09-2013 || Trig Review || 7 second Quiz. Projects Due. Trig Review ||  ||   ||
 * Thursday 01-10-2013 || Trig Exam || Trig Exam 55 min. Identities- 30 min. ||  ||   ||
 * Friday 01-11-2013 || Final exam review ||  ||   ||   ||
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 * Monday 01-14-2013 || Final Exam Review ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Tuesday 01-15-2013 || Final Exams ||  ||   ||   ||
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