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I will be assigning homework through here.

You will notice that I will provide links for each week/chapter. These links will take you to a website called Khan Academy. This website has videos that walk you through how to do similar problems you will see on your homework. IN ADDITION to these videos, I still recommend you read the pages right before the assignment as they will have examples that are exactly like the homework. This gives you two methods to learn.

TURNING IN
To turn in your assignments, write your answers on a Google Docs page and share it with me. Please make sure the "title" or "headline" is the date of the assignment WHEN it was assigned. If it is an assignment assigned on 3/23, title your document "3/23" please.

Assignments will be due before midnight the day listed next to "DUE".

If you have any questions, email me at trinity.mr.c@gmail.com

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BIG UPDATE
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I realized that today is technically a holiday and it would be wrong of me to require a mandatory Zoom meeting on a holiday. Therefore I am moving the Zoom meeting to TUESDAY @ 2 PM. Still Audio/Video required.

As of now, your grades on ThinkWave are up to date. I will email each of you separately with grades and if I am in need of something more/missing any assignments. Please remind each other about the Zoom change.

Enjoy the holiday! Tuesday through Thursday will be used to turn in any late or missing assignments for me (which you will find out in an email, so keep an eye out.)

-C

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Probably will be your last legitimate assignment from me.

CHAPTER 10 REVIEW

HOMEWORK: pg. 429 #5-16

Try your best to use the previous methods of factoring to come up with your answers. Follow instructions carefully.

DUE: 5/22 by 11: 59 pm

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8NGupUHOcs

READ: pg. 425 - 426

HOMEWORK: pg. 426 #1 - 8

DUE: 5/21 by 11:59 pm

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Here is an excellent video that will help this lesson. It is 15 minutes, please watch it!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjW1nGGXQ9I

NOTICE: It is very similar to last lesson except we are now adding a number at the very front of the equation that we want to factor. Last lesson, problems started with x^2. This lesson, problems now start with a coefficient in front of x^2, such as 5x^2... etc.

The video explains how to conquer this new challenge, but if you have questions or need help, please let me know.

READ: pg. 415 - 418

HOMEWORK: pg. 418 # 1-10

DUE: 5/18 by 11:59 pm

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Today we are looking at FACTORING Trinomials (equations with 3 parts).

Remember a trinomial typically goes in the form of:

ax^2 + bx + c

Where A, B, and C = numbers that act as coefficients in front of "x".

Here is a beginner video that will help you out with most of the problems.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4jANGlJRSY

However, if you want to take things a step further and add the coefficent of "A" that I mentioned above for NEXT LESSON TOMORROW here is another video to prep you as they flow well together. This method is a kind of "shortcut" and I LOVE shortcuts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkJGUvCIrNI

READ: pg. 409 - 411

HOMEWORK: pg. 411 #1-16

NOTICE: I don't want you to solve for the variable. Most of your answers will be in this form:

(a + blah) (a + blahblah)

Lets look at 1: a^2 + 8a + 15

We know to get a^2 we need to multiplay a together so:

(a     )  (a     )

is where we would start according to foil.

We also know, that the last number is 15, so we need two numbers that multiply to 15. However the middle number is 8, so we need to numbers that add up to 8 as well as multiplying to 15.

5 and 3 do this. Therefore:

(a   5)  (a   3)

So we have the multiplication down, now the signs on these two would determine what middle number we get. In this case we want a positive 8. So we need to add these two together, and therefore we want them both positive:

(a + 5) (a + 3) would be your answer for #1. Hope this helps as well!!!

DUE: 5/15 by 11:59 pm

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I believe this video should help adequately for the next lesson involving Chapter 10's Factoring Common Monomials. Let me know if you seek more material.

WATCH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05QwPhUjanE

READ: pg. 404 - 405

HOMEWORK: pg. 406 #7 - 15

DUE: 5/13 by 11:59 pm

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Day off while I figure out the most important lessons/chapters that I feel are able to be taught remotely for the end of the year.

Will be having a meeting with Mr. Fritsche regarding remainder of the year and what we both believe are important Math Lessons.

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No homework over the weekend. Please enjoy the time off and use it wisely to make sure you are caught up in other classes as well as mine.

Email if you have any questions. We will be starting again on Monday. Make sure you aren't missing anything!

-Mr. C

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Lesson 9.5 covers the use of "product patterns" and by that, I mean patterns in multiplying equations together.

If you read the introduction to the lesson, you'll know what I mean.

If I have (a +b)^2 that would end up being (a+b)(a+b).

Now I don't have a specific video to help with this lesson. Instead, I urge you to REALLY look at the 7 examples given to you in the reading. This chapter is covering the same material you already know, it's simply SHOWING you patterns that you can use to make some small shortcuts or recognize some other ways that those problems are shown. Try your best and if you have any questions, email me.

READ: pg. 390 - 392

HOMEWORK: pg. 392 #4-14
PS: Your answers won't be just numbers, they will be actual equations.

DUE: 5/8 by 11:59 pm

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This next lesson focuses only on multiplying binomials using FOIL method.  Which means if you watched the videos assigned on 4/27, you should be able to get through this assignment with no problems.

This lesson is important, therefore you will be assigned double the amount of problems, and given twice the amount of time than usual.

STILL read over the examples
READ: pg. 385 -386

HOMEWORK: pg. 386 #1-24

Pay special attention when multiplying to whether you get a negative or positive number. And then when you have negatives and positives, how to add/subtract them.

DUE: 5/6 by 11:59 pm

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I am very well aware of the use of outside sources for solving homework problems. I just want to make you aware that we are now in the realm of Math where all of this stuff you will use in a minimum of three separate years of your life after this class. You will subject yourself to three years of confusion if you do not take the time to LEARN THIS NOW.

Notice I gave you a lot of homework and videos to watch. You also have more than a day to do them all.

REMEMBER I HAVE ZOOM. If a group of you needs help, I'm happy to help. Just email me and say "Hey. I need help with these." Just make sure you DON'T SKIP the videos. I dont care how boring they are, you're in quarantine and have nothing better to do anyways, suck it up.

I'm always here to help, please make sure that after you complete your assignment, you can look at yourself and say "I know how to do this, easily." Because you'll thank yourself for years to come, I PROMISE.

-Mr. C

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Hey guys! Hope everyone is doing good!

This lesson many students see as being somewhat rough. It's a lot of information. Hopefully by now you know how to determine the difference between the different "-nomials" like Binomials and Polynomials. If not, go refresh yourself.

In this lesson, we focus on multiplying different types of polynomials together. This type of math and problems, in my opinion, are what most people think of when they think of Algebra 1.

There are two things I want you to remember for this lesson. Do not forget the idea of the "Distribution Property". Remember when you have a number outside of a parenthesis with nothing between it, it is considered multiplication and must be distributed to EVERYTHING inside the parenthesis. Let's do a quick simple example:

-4(x^2 - 10x + 2)

Distribute the -4 to everything inside the parenthesis and account for the negative that's tagging along with it:

-4x^2 + 40x - 8 would be your answer here.

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The next topic that you'll see discussed is the FOIL method:

NEVER FORGET: FOIL

F: first
O: outer
I: inner
L: last

Your videos will help you understand this method of multiplying between two binomials.

WATCH:
https://www.khanacademy.org/math/algebra/x2f8bb11595b61c86:quadratics-multiplying-factoring/x2f8bb11595b61c86:multiply-binomial/v/multiplying-binomials

https://www.khanacademy.org/math/algebra/x2f8bb11595b61c86:quadratics-multiplying-factoring/x2f8bb11595b61c86:multiply-binomial/v/multiplying-simple-binomials
(THIS ONE IS SIMILAR TO 1st VIDEO IF YOU NEED IT)

https://www.khanacademy.org/math/algebra2/x2ec2f6f830c9fb89:poly-arithmetic/x2ec2f6f830c9fb89:mono-by-poly/v/multiplying-monomials-by-polynomials

https://www.khanacademy.org/math/algebra2/x2ec2f6f830c9fb89:poly-arithmetic/x2ec2f6f830c9fb89:bi-by-poly/v/more-multiplying-polynomials

READ: pg. 379 - 381

HOMEWORK: pg. 382 #10 - 35 ALL

DUE: 4/30 by 11:59 pm

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Finish up the assignment.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE Let me know if you need help understanding. Don't cheat, just let me help.

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In this lesson, we will be looking at addition and subtraction of polynomials. Remember that you can only add and subtract LIKE terms. So that means 3a cannot be added to 3ab. 2x^2 cannot be added to 2x. The variable terms, must be the same. So 10xyz^2  + 2 xyz^2 would give us 12xyz^2.

No video today, but the examples do an amazing job of color coordinating and showing you how to tackle these simplifying problems.

READ: pg. 375 - 376

HOMEWORK: pg. 376 #1-12

DUE: 4/27 by 11:59 pm

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Today, I would like to take the time to give a short break in homework.

If you do not understand the most recent assignment, or assignments, I want you to EMAIL me at trinity.mr.c@gmail.com so that I can help you understand anything you may have fallen behind on.

If there is ANY concept during this remote learning that you feel “iffy” about or have questions on, I’ll be happy to help you over email or Zoom.

By giving you this day, it is my hope that you use your time wisely and get a breather to catch up in other classes if you need to. After today, there should be no excuse for not understanding something covered in the past few weeks.

Homework assigned on Friday is still due today, and late work will still be counted late.

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We will not be covering the last lesson 8.6. I do not like the setup  of the questions and lesson. And with how specific this lesson is, I feel the time spent in other areas of Algebra would be time better spent.

However, I do want to review some of the more important sections in the Chapter 8 Review.

FIRST: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zt2fdy3zrZU

This is a very good video reviewing one of the first lessons in Chapter 8. It reviews important aspects of Algebra, specifically with simplifying exponents with multiple variables.

Also, some of the questions want the entire answer in the numerator, which means moving variables with exponents to the TOP. When we do that, we change the polarization (negative/positive) of that variables exponent. If its "X raised to the positive 5"  on the bottom, move it to the top and change it to "X raised to the negative 5". If the question wants it left in positive exponential form, that means it wants all of the exponents as positive numbers, which means you will have some on top and some on bottom potentially.

HOMEWORK: pg. 366 #1-16, #21-25

DUE: 4/23 by 11:59 pm

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DUE: 4/23 by 11:59 pm

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Chapter 9 will be covering the much awaited "Polynomials". For starters, watch the following video for intro into Polynomials and try to remember each part and term that makes up Polynomials.

https://www.khanacademy.org/math/algebra/x2f8bb11595b61c86:quadratics-multiplying-factoring/x2f8bb11595b61c86:multiply-monomial-polynomial/v/polynomials-intro

In this lesson, you'll focus on classifying polynomials and keeping them in standard form.

READ: pg. 370 - 371 and take special note of the examples.

HOMEWORK: pg. 372 #1-20 EVENS

DUE: 4/24 by 11:59pm

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Today is a day that I am allowing any late-work to be turned in without repercussion. You should check that you have turned in everything, (count the padlet posts that have "Homework due" on them and make sure that you're good. I will not count any assignments turned in today as late.

You are fully capable of spending the small amount of time to double check yourself. I don't WANT to give zeros or 75's, hence why I'm giving you this opportunity.

If you are all caught up, send me and Email saying "Avocado" so I know you read this and for a free "100" homework grade. Otherwise, turn in your work that is missing. Since you have no homework today, this should be an easy task. Any homework that is not turned in today will be counted as a zero unless you email and tell me what you're working on and missing.

DUE: 4/14 11:59 PM (THATS THE SAME DAY)

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In my experience, the next two lessons can be confusing to many. I understand that. We are combining two confusing concepts together, Exponents and Functions then seeing how they graph.

Here is what I believe to be the best way to approach and prepare for these two lessons: I will assign you a section of videos to watch. In TOTAL there are 22 videos. A decent portion of them are "models" or examples. Feel free to use these examples or watch portions of the example videos.

Since there are many videos on this topic, I will allow you 2 days to get these done. All I need from you is the patience and discipline to maybe divide this into 10 videos a day for these two days in exchange for me not giving you homework. This IS your homework. Think of this like a class lecture for today and tomorrow. On Friday we will start the assignments.

https://www.khanacademy.org/math/algebra/x2f8bb11595b61c86:exponential-growth-decay
(22 VIDEOS)
NOTE: You do not need to take the quizzes or Unit Test on Khan Academy. If you WANT to, feel free.

HOMEWORK: Email me and tell what you thought of the videos. Do you think you have a decent grasp on the concept? Does this help more than reading the Chapter intros? What did you learn?

DUE: 4/17 by 11:59 pm

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DUE: 4/17 by 11:59 pm

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Hopefully by now you should have a decent understanding of Exponential Functions, as well as their Growth and Decay.

For this first lesson we are only looking at Exponential Functions in general. I suggest you read this chapter intro because its short and there are only 4 Examples. This might help solidify some information as the Examples in the book will be very similar to the ones on the homework.

REMEMBER: If you have any questions. EMAIL ME.

READ: pg. 350 - 352

HOMEWORK: pg. 352 #5-12
(You are completing tables in this section, easy, but remember, each problem will have 5 answers. A y-value for each x-value that is in the table.

DUE: 4/20 by 11:59pm

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The last few lessons were pretty difficult, and I apologize for that. The remaining lessons in that chapter involve graphs, and I dont want to do that to you over remote learning. I'd much rather wait to cover that later. So next we are moving onto Chapter 8.

WATCH: https://www.khanacademy.org/math/algebra/x2f8bb11595b61c86:rational-exponents-radicals/x2f8bb11595b61c86:rational-exponents-radicals/x2f8bb11595b61c86:exponent-properties-review/v/multiplying-and-dividing-powers-with-integer-exponents
(2 VIDEOS)

READ: pg 328 - 330

I REALLY want you to try to understand how they came to their answer on the EXAMPLES through their steps. Remember that variables with exponents can only be combined with same variables. So a^2 and a^3 can be combined since they have same variable "a".

HOMEWORK: pg. 330 #1-12

DUE: 4/7 by 11:59pm

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In this lesson, you'll start seeing the famous equations people show their younger siblings to brag about how smart they are. Because these problems look like random letters and numbers all thrown together. Really we are just adding division to what we did yesterday. REMEMBER, when you see division sign, it just turns everything into a big fraction.

I think that the way this lesson does the examples should be sufficient. Notice that they color code and section things off to make the problem look less jumbled and show you how they are doing it. Reading those examples is key in this lesson. REMEMBER: when you have a negative exponent, it moves up or down from wherever it was. Email for help if you need it.

READ: pg 333 - 335

HOMEWORK: pg. 336 #1-16

DUE: 4/8 by 11:59pm

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This lesson is going over scientific notation which also uses exponents.

WATCH: https://www.khanacademy.org/math/pre-algebra/pre-algebra-exponents-radicals/pre-algebra-scientific-notation/v/scientific-notation-old
(4 VIDEOS)

READ: pg. 338 - 341

HOMEWORK: pg. 341 #1-12

DUE: 4/9 by 11:59pm

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BACK TO GRAPHS!!
Luckily this one is easy. The one thing I want you to pay attention to on here is "TRANSLATIONS" meaning moving a graph up, down, left, and right. And what part of the equation tells us it moves. In this instance we are looking at Parabolas, which is the type of graph that variables with an exponent of 2 gives us.

Your biggest help will be the charts on pages 346 and 347. There are two. It's important to know what adding or subtracting in parentheses does as well as adding and subtraction outside of parentheses. All of this moves the graph.

READ: pg. 344 - 347

HOMEWORK: pg. 348 #1 - 8

DUE: 4/14 by 11:59pm

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While last lesson was using substitution, this lesson is using elimination.

HOPEFULLY you've already watched the videos assigned to you on 3/25. Here is the link in case you missed any: https://www.khanacademy.org/math/algebra/x2f8bb11595b61c86:systems-of-equations/x2f8bb11595b61c86:equivalent-systems-of-equations-and-the-elimination-method/v/king-s-cupcakes-solving-systems-by-elimination

It is not just one video, it is all the videos in that section titled: "Equivalent systems of equations and the elimination method"

If you watched them already, great! No need to do anything else besides the homework.

If you want more help or need more help, check the examples on pg. 295 - 297.

HOMEWORK: pg. 298 #5-10

DUE: 3/31 by 11:59pm
EMAIL: trinity.mr.c@gmail.com

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Both fortunately and unfortunately, this lesson puts everything together. It is good that this is a review, however your new challenge is to be able to identify which three methods to us: Substitution, Elimination or Graphing.

Pay specific attention to Examples 1,2,3,4 and 5. Yes, they do them for you, but on the right side it explains why they chose what they chose in numbered steps. Example 2, the first step says "Since solving for any of the variables would result in a fraction, use elimination. Therefore on your homework you should now know when to use elimination method.

READ: Examples on 300 - 303

HOMEWORK: pg. 304-305 #1-3, & #10-13

DUE: 4/1 by 11:59pm
EMAIL: trinity.mr.c@gmail.com

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Your assignment for today is to simply watch these three videos. Yes it's 30 minutes of math videos, therefore you're not getting any homework. But PLEASE keep in mind these are problems you will see on the PSAT and the SAT. Therefore as your math teacher, I feel the need to at least go over these and examples of these problems.

WATCH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4ff6KjPKHE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW9WDlcicxE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lwld1jfIzg

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READ: pg 308-310

HOMEWORK: pg 311 - 312 #19-29 ODDS

The answers are in back of book. Check yourself, try to figure out how they got their answer if you didn't get the right answer.

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Easy day today.

I want you to research what types of math problems you will end up finding on the PSAT/SAT test. Google it up. What percentage of questions will be algebra/geometry/other subects. How many sections are there?

Answer these in Google Doc and send me your findings or what you believe. Due by Monday. But might as well just do it today.

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WATCH: Three sections of videos over "Inequalities (systems and graphs)"

https://www.khanacademy.org/math/algebra/x2f8bb11595b61c86:inequalities-systems-graphs

READ: pg 269-271 PAY ATTENTION to the examples. They will show you how to do the homework problems.

HOMEWORK: pg 271 #1-4 & #9-16

DUE: 3/24 by 11:59pm
EMAIL: trinity.mr.c@gmail.com

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WATCH: all videos from both links
https://www.khanacademy.org/math/algebra/x2f8bb11595b61c86:inequalities-systems-graphs

https://www.khanacademy.org/math/algebra/x2f8bb11595b61c86:systems-of-equations/x2f8bb11595b61c86:systems-of-equations/x2f8bb11595b61c86:solving-systems-of-equations-with-substitution/v/solving-systems-with-substitution

READ: pg 278 - 281

HOMEWORK:  pg 281 #5-18

DUE: 3/25 by 11:59pm
EMAIL: trinity.mr.c@gmail.com

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For this day, I will not assign homework to turn in. Instead your homework will be to watch the all videos in the section linked below called "Equivalent systems of equations and the elimination method"

HOMEWORK: https://www.khanacademy.org/math/algebra/x2f8bb11595b61c86:systems-of-equations/x2f8bb11595b61c86:systems-of-equations/x2f8bb11595b61c86:equivalent-systems-of-equations-and-the-elimination-method/v/king-s-cupcakes-solving-systems-by-elimination

DUE: By next day, these videos will help on the next few lessons.

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WATCH: No new videos to watch. If needed, look back at the section from 3/25 for help on "Substitution"

READ: pg 284-286

HOMEWORK: pg 286 #5-16

DUE: 3/27 by 11:59pm

EMAIL: trinity.mr.c@gmail.com

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WATCH: No videos to watch. Look back at the section linked on 3/25.

READ: pg 288-291 look at examples closely.

HOMEWORK: pg 292 #11-28

DUE: 3/30 by 11:59 pm

EMAIL: trinity.mr.c@gmail.com