What's Going On? March 4th through March 8th

Wrapping Up Unit 8: Triangle Trigonometry



We will start off the week by talking about our final non-right trigonometry rule: the Law of Cosines.  This is useful when we want to find an angle measure and we know all three side lengths of a triangle.  This is also useful when we see a triangle set us as "SAS", where we know the measures of two sides and their included angle, and we want to find the measure of the third side length.

Once we finish with this, we will spend Tuesday's class applying our trigonometry rules to real-world situations (ie word problems).  We will spend Wednesday reviewing and we will have our summative assessment on Thursday.  Based on student interest, we may have a Class Kick session on Wednesday night to get last-minute questions answered.  Students are also welcome to come in for review before school on Wednesday and Thursday mornings.

What's Going On? February 25th through March 1st

Modified Schedule This Week

This week, students will have a modified schedule due to our early release day on Friday.  Students will follow a "Tuesday" schedule on Monday, a "Wednesday" schedule on Tuesday, a "Thursday" schedule on Wednesday, and "Friday" schedule on Thursday.  On Friday, we will run a modified "purple" schedule where students will see all of their classes, with the exception of AE.

Unit 8: Triangles and Trigonometry

This week, we will continue our study of solving triangles.  This week, we will focus on triangle trigonometry, a topic that will resurface in every math class students take at Waukesha North.  We will spend Monday's class learning how to use inverse sine operations to solve for missing angle measurements in right triangles.  We will then apply our knowledge to "real world" problems when we dive into word problems related to right triangle trigonometry.  We will finish the week by taking a look at how we can use the law of sines in order to solve for missing measurements in non-right triangles.

 

What's Going On? February 18th through February 22nd

Notice: We Have a Modified Schedule This Week!

Since the sophomores and juniors will be completing the ACT on Wednesday this week, we will have a modified schedule.  On Monday, we will run a "Tuesday"-style schedule, on Tuesday we will run a "Wednesday"-style schedule and Thursday and Friday will run the normal schedule.

Please note: Only sophomores and juniors should report to school on Wednesday for the ACT.  Freshmen and Seniors will have no school on Wednesday.  

Additionally on Wednesday, we will hold parent-teacher conferences.  Please stop by between 5 and 7pm to chat about your students' progress.


Unit 8: Trigonometry

This week, we will continue our study of unit 8 on trigonometry.  During class on Monday, we will investigate some patterns that exist within special right triangles (isosceles right triangles and 30-60-90 triangles).  To finish off the rest of the week, we will talk about trigonometric ratios (sine, cosine, and tangent).  We will use these ratios to help us solve for missing side length and missing angle measurements in right triangles.

What's Going On? February 11th through February 15th

Wrapping Up Unit 7: Similarity

We will begin the week by wrapping up our unit on similarity.  We will play a "Castle Attack" review
game during class on Monday and complete our summative assessment during class on Tuesday.  Please reach out if you have questions!

During class on Thursday, we broke up into groups and spent a few minutes writing some Similarity Haikus to quickly summarize some of the topics we have been studying.  Check out the haikus here.


Unit 8: Trigonometry

Once we have wrapped up our similarity unit, we will move ahead to our eighth unit on trigonometry.  This is a really important unit to master, as students will see it at some point in just about every math class at North after this one.  During class on Wednesday, we will talk about the Pythagorean Theorem and during class on Thursday, we will talk about the patterns that exist in special right triangles (isosceles right triangles and 30-60-90 triangles).