What's Going On? May 31st-June 3rd

Our Last Week of Classes!

It's hard to believe, but this is our last week of classes!  We will not have school on Monday due to Memorial Day, so that leaves us with three class periods this week.  On our first day of class for the week we will talk about the probability on the first class of the week.  The last two class periods of the week will be spent preparing for the final exam.  We will talk more about the format during class, but it will be similar to the exam we took first semester.  We will have 3-4 learning targets that will be required and you will have a choice of 2-3 other targets to complete.  You may complete as many sections of the test as you can complete within the 90 minute exam period.

Cheat Sheet

For the exam, you may use one piece of paper (8 1/2" x 11") that contains formulas, sample problems, definitions, etc.  This cheat sheet must be handwritten.  No formulas will be provided on the exam so be sure to include all formulas that are not committed to memory. Some of the formulas you may want to include are the SOH CAH TOA ratios, the law of sines, the law of cosines, special right triangle patterns, area formulas, surface area formulas, volume formulas, transformation rules, the distance formula, the midpoint formula, and any other formula you think you might need during the exam.  Please note that you will need to turn in your cheat sheet at the end of the exam, so do not plan on sharing it with a student in another class.

Exam Schedule

Please check out the exam schedule.  You'll notice that the first exam does not begin until 9:30am each day.  You can use the time before the first exam to ask questions.  I will be at school beginning at 7:00am each day, so I would be happy to work with you at this time.  Do NOT be late to your exam!

What's Going On? May 23rd-27th

Celebration Day!

Monday is North's annual celebration day!  Students will be attending celebration day with their class for one hour during the day.  Other students (over 400!) have signed up to be a part of North's first service learning day and will be volunteering in the community.  Please take a look at the schedule below to see what's going on.

Our Last Unit!

This week we will start unit 13 on probability.  Students will take a look at the definition of probability and make some calculations about the likelihood that a certain event will occur.  We will look at events where order matters, such as the chance of correctly guessing your iPad password (permutations).  We will also look at events where order does not matter, such as the chance of picking the winning lottery numbers (combinations).

Probability and statistics play a big part in some career options.  According to careercast.com, the best job in 2015 was an actuary. An actuary is someone who analyzes statistics calculates the risks associated with different events.

According to US News' top 100 jobs list, the #17 job is a statistician.  A statistician prepares and analyzes data in order to help make decisions.

What's Going On? May 16th-20th

Wrapping Up Unit 12: Transformations

During this unit we discussed non-rigid versus rigid transformations.  We have practiced performing translations, rotations, and reflections on the coordinate plane.  We also spent some time looking at composition of transformations: performing multiple transformations on a single image and writing a single rule that would map the pre-image to the image.

This week we will review our material, finish up our tessellation projects, and complete the unit 12 summative at the end of the week.  During this week on Tuesday and Wednesday, the sophomores will also be participating in the ACT Aspire Test.  While the sophomores are Aspire Testing, the freshmen will complete their final math MAP test.  Freshmen need to make sure that the NWEA Map App is installed on their iPad in order to be ready for this assessment.