Since we are done with all of the new material for the year we will be focusing on review until the NCFE (June 6th, but we will meet for the last time on May 30th). We will focus on the major topics first with some mixed review, and will switch to mixed review exclusively in the last days of class before testing.
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We are finally in the home stretch! After completion of the probability unit test on Monday, students have completed the Math 2 curriculum. We will take some time this week to go over some standards from 8th grade because these students skipped over that course and will be missing that necessary knowledge for Math 3. We are only covering surface areas and volumes of solids from those standards, so we should be on to review for the NCFE by the end of the week.
Students will be taking a quiz on the topics from this week on Monday (but will not see these topics on a test). I will also be administering a review test so that students will also have another opportunity to impact their test grade for the quarter. There will be more information about the review test next week when we have completed the 8th grade topics. This week we will take the quiz on probability on Monday. We will continue working on probability this week with a focus on conditional probabilities. On Wednesday we will complete the last round of MAP testing. This time, in addition to earning dress down passes for individual growth, classes will have a chance to earn an ice cream party by being the class with the highest overall growth for their grade level.
Welcome back from break! I hope everyone has had a restful time and is ready for the final quarter. We are now starting one of our final topics from Math 2, probability. We will be learning about basic counting principles and how to calculate experimental and theoretical probabilities in a variety of situations.
Since our quiz was delayed (due to a large number of quizzes and tests last week) we will only be completing a quiz this week. The quiz will be on Wednesday and the test will have to wait until after we come back from break and have reviewed a bit for it. After the quiz on Wednesday we will be on spring break!
This week we will continue to explore the usefulness of the trigonometric ratios and their inverses to solve triangles, both in and out of context. We will have a quiz on Friday for the material covered so far in the unit, and we will be preparing for a test next Wednesday. This quiz and test will both be counted as quarter 4 grades as they are happening too close to the end of the quarter to allow for credit recovery.
This week we are preparing for at taking the unit test on triangle congruence (test on Wednesday). For the end of the week we will be continuing our new unit on properties of triangles by investigation triangle similarity and how it can be used to establish the trigonometric ratios. We will use the results of this investigation throughout next week as we use those ratios to solve right triangles and application problems involving right triangles.
This week we are finishing the unit on congruent triangles. We will start by taking our triangle congruence proofs one step farther to show that a particular pair of corresponding parts are congruent. Once we are able to do that we will learn some properties of triangles that can be shown through triangle congruence arguments. We will have the test on this unit next Wednesday (as the students informed me that they already had several other assessments on Monday).
This week we will be learning about the triangle congruence theorems (SAS, ASA, SSS, HL). Students will be completing an investigation activity to discover which configurations of congruent components allow us to conclude congruent triangles. Then students will use these theorems to prove that triangles in given diagrams are congruent. There will be a quiz this week on either Thursday or Friday (depending on how smoothly the introduction to these proofs goes).
On this short week we will spend some time reviewing for and taking the test on proofs and parallel line (which was postponed from last week to this Wednesday 2/21) but will focus the rest of our time on the new unit we started at the end of last week. We have explored the internal and external angles of triangles and we will move on to exploring what conditions determine a triangle so that we can prove triangle congruence. Being able to prove triangle congruence will allow us to prove several other properties of triangles that we will discover later in the unit.
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