Friday 8/30

Another week down... It was nice meeting your parents last night at Back to School Night.  The extra credit for this weekend is listed below.

Thursday 8/29

Today in class we reviewed for Common Assesmment #1, which we will be taking tomorrow!

Homework #12: Finish the Common Assessment #1 Preview sheet

Solutions: CA #1 Preview Key Front | Back

For those that might like to see the first ten problems worked out, here is a video clip of the amazing Mr. Martinez working through them:

Week # 3 

Warm - Up

Notes #4

Review #4

Notes #5

HW #6  Pyramid Math

HW #7  P.373

HW #8  Pyramid Math

HW #9 P. 48 and 377

HW #10  P. 383 

For those that missed back to school night, here is the PowerPoint presentation that was shown: BTSNight

Wednesday 8/28

Today we continued with the distributive property. We started multiplying polynomials by polynomials instead of just monomials by polynomials like yesterday.

Notes #5

Homework #10: P. 383 #1-37 odd  42 , 43, 53 , 55
Answer to #42 is 7.5x + 15

Tuesday 8/27

Today we looked at adding polynomials some more and you completed the pyramid worksheet. Then we combined all the things we have learned so far into the distributive property.

Homework Finish the #8 pyramid worksheet and check your solutions

HW #9: pg. 48 15 -43 odd
               pg. 377 1-11 odd, 27-31 odd

Monday 8/26

Today we learned to how to combine like terms.

Notes #4

#6 Pyramid Worksheet
Solutions

#7 Homework:
pg. 373 25, 27, 35 (Correct answer has 5y in it not 8y), 37, 39, 43, 45, 47, 49, 53
Check your solutions in the back of the book!

Friday 8/23

Two weeks down.  Here is this weeks extra credit.

Thursday 8/22

Today we reviewed for the Test that is tomorrow!

Preview Test#2

Solutions

Wednesday 8/21

Today we reviewed our exponent rules and talked about how multiplying and dividing exponents was very similar to multiplying and adding numbers.

Homework #4:
P. 361 #11-21 odd
P. 362 #43-53 odd
P. 363 #75-79odd and 95-105 odd
P. 364 #1 - 21 odd , 30, 33 -  39 odd
Solutions to P. 364, all other answers are in the back of the book

Tuesday 8/20

Today we continued working with exponents.  We learned how to raise a product to a power, how to divide with exponents, and how to raise a quotient to a power.  We also learned how to manipulate exponents to solve equations.

Notes #3

HW #3:    P. 348 #43-49 odd, 53, 55, 63, 65, 67

                P. 354 #43-49 odd, 53-59 odd, 69, 71, 79, 89 

Be sure to check your answers in the back of the book!!!

Monday 8/19

Today we learned four properties of exponents. Negative exponents, the zero exponent, multiplying two terms with the same bases and power of a power. Your homework requires you to know and use all of these properties.

Notes #2

Homework:

P. 331 #1-37 odd

P. 341 #7-21 odd

P. 348 #9-21 odd

Check your answers in the back of the book!

Friday 8/16

The real work starts on Monday. Here is this weekends extra credit.

Thursday 8/15

Today we learned how to fill in the "Magic X" in class.  A "Magic X" is completed by filling in the missing numbers so that the top is the product of the left and right sides, while the bottom is the sum of the left and right sides.

HW:  Complete the Magic X Worksheet given out in class Front, Back
Solutuons: Front , Back

Tomorrow will be our first test (covers the Magic X and the introduction from the first day).

Welcome 8/14

Welcome to Mr Martinez's Algebra I class.  This will be exciting year that will require hard work and dedication, providing you with the fundamentals that will carry you through high school.  This website will be used both to keep students and parents updated on the class well as a provide resources to review previous material. Videos of concepts, lists of homework, and some sample problems will be posted on this blog.  For a copy of the curriculum paper, click on the link below:

Mr. Martinez's Curriculum Paper

Looking forward to a great year!!!