Links to Construction Videos for Class 11/20/14

Follow the links provided to video guides for each construction:

•      Copy a Segment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDnoX4MiJtc

•      Bisect a segment/construct a perpendicular bisector: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgxTeGmWPgE

•      Copy an angle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYB1i3kkyXU

•      Bisect an angle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDXrY8E3bFs

•      Construct perpendicular lines: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Kp4P0fje_k

•      Construct parallel lines: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFG02bUUyIU

•      Bonus Constructions:

•      Construct an equilateral triangle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-ZtoNhEYWQ

•      Construct a square: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAfGtCeBtrU

•      Construct a hexagon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmAfsK2n2rQ

•      Line Art: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2tmChdlmQA

Analytic Geometry - week of 11/17/14

This week is the week before Thanksgiving break - yay!  Here's the schedule for what to expect:

Monday 11/17 - Quadratic function transformations investigation (reviewing transformations of functions students learned in coordinate algebra & applying them to quadratic functions studied this unit); Complete Unit 5 Test Review that was started on Friday

Tuesday 11/18 - Unit 5 Test; Test Review is due today (as has been announced every day since last week), as well as warm-ups & closings for this unit (and has also been announced)

Wednesday 11/19 - Students will be going to the media center to take a practice EOCT made available via the state platform so students can become familiar with the online functionality and tools available; they will also be watching videos & practicing geometric constructions

Thursday 11/20 & Friday 11/21 - The iPad cart will be brought to class so students can start on an assignment to prepare for the EOCT, which will be Tuesday & Wednesday, December 2nd & 3rd, when we return from break.  The assignment is not due until we get back, and students received a bright yellow handout with details, but I want them to have the opportunity to begin in class.  It is via the website USA Test Prep.

Analytic Geometry - week of 11/10/14

This week in Mrs. Mackie's geometry class should look something like this:

Monday 11/10 - special case of factoring quadratics, called Difference of Squares (or D.O.S.), plus starting application problems of real-life uses of quadratic functions

Tuesday 11/11 - more application situations for quadratic functions, and beginning to graph quadratic functions

Wednesday 11/12 - continuing to graph quadratic functions, and looking at transformations of quadratic functions - what happens when you start shifting, stretching, compressing, and flipping the graphs?

Thursday 11/13 - completing the square method to solve quadratic equations and to transform quadratic functions from standard form to vertex form

Friday 11/14 - more completing the square and begin reviewing for the unit 5 test, which is scheduled for next Tuesday, 11/18/14.

The Unit 5 Test is currently scheduled for Tuesday, 11/18/14, but it's never too early to start going back and reviewing your class notes to study!

First 100 factors

Analytic Geometry - week of 11/3/14

This week in Mrs. Mackie's geometry class, the schedule will be as follows:

Monday 11/3 - Factoring polynomials with a GCF (greatest common factor)

Tuesday 11/4 - no school for students

Wednesday 11/5 - Solving polynomial equations with GCF's by factoring, and factoring trinomials where a = 1.

Thursday 11/6 - Solving quadratic (trinomial) equations where a = 1, factoring quadratics when a/= 1, and solving quadratic equations when a /= 1.

Friday 11/7 - Practicing all of these factoring and solving skills we have been learning all week!

Notes & examples will be a key component of class this week, so students should keep up with those in class (and should get them from a class mate if absent).  As soon as possible, supporting documents will be made available here electronically, but they will always be made available concretely in the classroom.