Wednesday, December 15, 2010

get off the internet.

if you are on my homework site right now, then you are sitting at a computer. if you are sitting at a computer, you are most likely not studying!!!

so get away from your computer and start studying. finals are tomorrow and friday. that means you better be studying like crazy. study your UNIT 3 review. you need to know it!! also, don't forget to get a parent signature on it.

2nd period: i'll see you tomorrow morning from 8:10 - 11:30.

1st and 3rd period: i'll see you friday.

tutorial: tomorrow before school and after school.

Thursday, December 9, 2010

notebook check.

the last notebook check of the semester is tomorrow. make sure all of your UNIT 3 papers are in order! you should have copied down the table of contents during class.

exam schedule for next week:
thursday: 2nd and 4th
friday: 1st and 3rd

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

classwork to homework.

if you did not finish the classwork today (parallelogram worksheet), you need to have it finished by class tomorrow. you will be turning it in for a grade.

tomorrow is the very last day to get points for the class competition! bring in cannned food for points AND come to tutorial for points as well!!! it's a close race to the finish!

Monday, December 6, 2010

no homework this week :)

due to a lot of you having EOCT's this week in Biology and Literature, we will not be giving homework assignments.

take this time to practice whatever math concepts you're struggling with. i have helpful websites listed on the right. click on these to get extra practice! also, you can google any concepts to find additional resources.

you have until thursday to bring in cans for the canned food drive. remember, for each can you bring in, i'll give you 2 stickers towards the class competition.

Sunday, December 5, 2010

four centers.

on friday, we talked more about the 4 centers of the triangles: centroid, incenter, circumcenter, and orthocenter.

study your flashcards because on monday you will have a "pop quiz" over these terms!

Thursday, December 2, 2010

new vocab.

homework...10 flashcards of the following vocabulary words:
median
angle bisector
perpendicular bisector
altitude
centroid
incenter
circumcenter
orthocenter
incircle
circumcircle

front of flashcard: word/picture
back of flashcard: definition

study for your "show me what you know..."!!! this is our 2nd to last quiz of the semester!

congrats to 2nd period for winning this week's competition. you brought in over 25 cans for the food drive!!

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

prove it.

today we learned how to write a two-column proof! we learned the most basic way to write proofs. as you get into harder math classes, these proofs will get much more advanced.

homework...in your textbook: p. 254 #15 and 16
write the reason for each of the statements of the proof.