Friday 8/30

Three weeks are now in the books, and it's time for a well-deserved three day weekend! Enjoy your Labor Day, everyone!

Next week we'll move even more deeply into the world of algebra as we tackle expressions and polynomials. If you want to preview a bit of what we'll be looking at, give this website a shot.

Parents: If you weren't able to make it to last night's Back-to-School Night, here are some of the materials we used last night when talking about our class:
Back to School Slide Deck | Thursday Preview Sheet Sample
Friday Homework/Notes Quiz Sample | Friday Test Sample

Here is this week's extra credit.  Remember, it is due by Tuesday morning before school.

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 #5

Notes #6

Notes #7

HW #9  P.331

HW #10 P.341 and 348

HW #11 P.345 

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

Wednesday 8/28

Today we continued working with exponents and covered the last of the exponent rules. We learned:
1. When dividing two terms with the same base you subtract the exponent

2. When raising a quotient to a power you raise both the numerator and the denominator to that power.

To find these rules put in to practice click on the link for today's notes: Notes #7

HW #11: P. 354 #1-11, 21-35, 43-49, 53 odd

Here's a great website to help you practice your exponent skills. Try all three difficulty levels!

Tuesday 8/27

Today we continued working with exponents with notes #6. We reviewed three key principles to help us simplify and evaluate problems involving powers:

1. When multiplying two terms with the same base you add the exponent.
2. When raising a power to a power you multiply the powers.
3. When raising a product to a power you raise each piece to that power.

Homework #10: TB pg. 341 (#7-21 odd, 31-39 odd)
& pg. 348 (#9-21 odd, 33-39 odd)

Please check your answers in the back of the book when finished. Here are some of the homework problems worked out.

Monday 8/26

Today we began reviewing zero and negative exponent rules with notes #5. Exponent rules are essential to algebra and will be a main focus of our upcoming common assessment #1 (this Friday).

Homework #9: TB pg. 331 (#1-37 odd)

Please check your answers in the back of the book when finished.