These dates are all tentative for now!!!
UNIT 1 ANALYTIC GEOMETRY - 12 days
Slope, Pythagorean Thm, Linear Equations - P. 68 #1-6
Distance between 2 points - p.79 #3ace,5ac,6,8iv,9i,ii,10a,15 and Handout "Discussing the Big Ideas"
Midpoint - p.89 #1,2,5a,6-9,11
Applications - P. 101 #1-5
Equation of a Line p.96 #2def,3ace,4,5,8
Medians, Altitudes and Perpendicular Bisector - P. 104 #1,2,3
Verifying Geometric Properties - P. 105 #5 - 10, 12
In class Assignment
Equation of a circle - P. 109 #1-6, 9
Review P. 112 #1-3, 5-9, 11, 14, 16, 18 + 2 handouts
Test - Thurs Sept 24th
UNIT 2 SYSTEMS OF EQUATIONS - 12 days
Solving Systems by Graphing - p.124 #1,3,4ab,5,6,7 and P.126 # 8-10,17a + 3 handouts
Substitution method - p.132 #1,3e,4,6,8,10,14c
Elimination method - p.142 #1ac,5ac,6cf,8fh,9h,11,14bf
Classifying Systems - Handout
Word Problems requiring systems
p.149 #1,3,5,7,9,15
p.150 #10,11,12,14,17
Worksheets of more problems
Distance from a point to a line
In class assignment
Test - Friday October 9th - MUST be written before the long weekend
UNIT 3 - FACTORING & RAT'L EXPR-14 DAYS
EXPANDING & FACTORING
Distributive property & common factoring - P. 215 #9, 12 and P. 217 #1,2,3,6 + puzzle "Girl Mushroom"
Multiplying binomials & special products - P. 225 #2, 6-9 and P. 227 #17 + puzzles "Girl Melon" and "Stick of Gum"
Factoring simple trinomials - P. 235 #2, 6-8 (first column only), 18 abc, 19 abc, 21 abc
Factoring "tricky" trinomials - P. 244 #5 - 9 (bdf only for each), 10, 11, 13 - 15 + puzzles "Boarding House", "Dracula", "Zling"
Difference of Squares, Perfect Squares and trinomials with 2 variables - Lots of puzzle pages and handouts + P. 248 #3,4
RATIONAL EXPRESSSIONS
Simplifying and restrictions - DH Section 1.5 #1-6, 8
Multiplying & Dividing - DH Section 1.6 #1-6 (left side), 7ac, 8ac, 10, 11
Adding & Subtracting - DH Section 1.6 #6fh, 7f and Section 1.7 #1-5 (ace... for each)
DH Section 1.7 #6ace, 9, 11 and Section 1.8 #1-7 (ace for each)
DH Section 1.8 #8-10, 14 (ace for each)
Review
Test -
UNIT 4 - QUADRATIC EQ'NS & COMPLEX NUMBERS 14 DAYS
Solving by factoring - Ex.5.6 p.255 #1-8ace,11, handout "Solving Quadratic Equations"
Simplfying Radicals - DH Simplifying Radicals #1-9aceg
Working with Radicals - DH Working With Radicals #1-12ace
Solving Quadratic Equations using Square Roots, Completing the Square - Ex.5.7 p.261 #1-2af,7-8ace,10
Quadratic Formula, practice - Ex. 5.8 p.271 #1-6 #8-11,12a
Nature of the Roots - DH Discriminants, etc. #1-3ac,6-10ac,13
Complex Numbers, Quad. Eqns with no Real Roots - DH 4.3 #1-2aceg,4,5ace,7ace,10ace
Complex Number Arithmetic - DH 4.4 #7aceg...,13-15aceg...,21
Word problems requiring quadratics - handout Quadratic Equation Problems
Review
Test -
UNIT 5 - QUADRATIC FUNCTIONS - 14 days
Difference Tables - Handout + Ex.6.1 p.291 #1,2,5
Graphing y=a(x-p)2+q - Ex.6.3 p.306 #1,3,5,6,8,11 + Handout
Graphing Parabolas using Zeroes - Ex.6.2 p.297 #1ab,2ac,3ab,6ad,7b-f,8
Graphing Parabolas using y-intercept - Handout #1-5
Determining equations of parabolas - Handout "Equations of Parabolas"
Completing the square - Ex.6.4 p.314 #2abc,5abc,7abc,8abc,10,11
Ex.6.4 p.314 #12,13ace, handout "Matching Equations to Graphs"
Review of Graphing - Summary - see Text P. 198 - 199 for notes
Quadratic regressions - Ex.4.2 p.178 #7, Ex.4.3 p.184 #1,7,10
Ex.4.5 #1,2,4,5
Word problems using max / min - Ex.6.5 p.321 #1ab,2ab,4,7,8,9,10
DH "Applications of the Parabola"
Portfolio Practice Assignment - 1 day to work in class, due Dec 14th
Review
Test -
UNIT 6 CONGRUENT & SIMILAR TRIANGLES - 6 days
Congruent triangles - Preparing for Chapter p.341 #2-5
Ex.7.1 p.346 #2,3,4,5,8-15
Investigating similar triangles - Use Ex.7.2 or handouts to guide
Properties of similar triangles - Ex. 7.3 p.361 #3,4,7,11,14
Sufficient conditions for similar triangles - Ex.7.4 p.369 #5,6,12,14
Applications of similar triangles - Ex.7.6 p.378 #2,3ab,4-14
Quest -
UNIT 7 - TRIGONOMETRY - 13 days - starting Dec 15th
Introduction, SOH CAH TOA - Ex.8.1 p.399 #1,3,4,7,9,10a
Ex.8.2 p.409 #1,3,5a,6a,8
Find Missing Angles, Reciprocal Trig Ratios - Ex.8.1 p.399 #6,10b,11,12,13
Ex.8.2 p.409 #4,5b,6b,7,9
Solving triangles, Applications with one triangle - Ex.8.1 p.400 #14,15, 18
Ex.8.2 p.410 #10,11,14,16
Ex.8.3 p.419 #3ac,4ac,5ac,8,11
Applications with two triangles - Ex.8.3 p.423 #16, Ex.8.5 p.429 #1c,2c,4-8,10,11
Ex.8.5 p.431 #9,12-16
Sine Law - Ex.8.8 p.447 #1ac,2ac,3,4
Ex.8.8 p.448 #7-10,13,14
Cosine Law - Ex.8.9 p.455 #1a,2a,4,7,8,9
Measuring inaccessible objects - Handout
3-D Trig Applications - DH 3D Trig Word Problems
DH More Trig Word Problems Including 3D
Review
Test -