Archive for February, 2009

MONDAY MARCH 2

Posted in Uncategorized on February 28, 2009 by wdmacewen

As discussed last week the quiz will be held on Monday. We will continue with simplifying rational expressions on Tuesday. To do these questions you must know how to factor.

Factoring types:

1. Remove common factor

2. Simple and other trinomials

3. Difference of 2 perfect squares

4. Sum and difference of 2 perfect cubes.

5. Grouping for difference of squares

6. Grouping for a common term.

Practice sheet has been handed out for work Tuesday and on this weekend.

TUESDAY FEB 24th

Posted in Uncategorized on February 24, 2009 by wdmacewen

Maybe finally in class!!

OBVIOUSLY, test must be delayed, will write quiz on FRIDAY this week. Assignment #2 is due today in class and we will do the SHAPES SURVEY for the first part of class. Then we will wrap up section on solving radical equations.

for Monday Feb 23rd

Posted in Uncategorized on February 22, 2009 by wdmacewen

Assignment #2 is due today…review of material on radicals and exponents. Prep for the quiz on Wednesday.

THURSDAY FEB 19th

Posted in Uncategorized on February 20, 2009 by wdmacewen

Assigned booklet page 14 as homework page. This covers exponential equations.

Friday we will be working on solving various types of radical equations. Next Wednesday we will have a quiz on radicals and exponents.

for MONDAY FEB 16th.

Posted in Uncategorized on February 15, 2009 by wdmacewen

The problems in booklet on radicals should be finished for <onday. With the storm day this should be now completed by Monday. On MOnday the handout sheet will be considered as ASSIGNMENT #1. We have done p261-2 on handout and the other page should be passed in for WEDNESDAY. On Monday we will go over any problems experienced with the booklet pages especially the geometry problems. We will also then procede through the booklet and start problems on exponents. After the exponent second and a correspponding assignment we will have our first quiz. TUESDAY our class and Mr Wynne’s class will have a presentation by Grant Canvin from Holland College.

Hope Feb 14th was “heart-warming”.

Feb 10-13 Math 521B

Posted in Uncategorized on February 11, 2009 by wdmacewen

This week we are working on radicals. A worksheet was passed out and we did p261-2 to date. We have done p1-5 of the Radical Workbook and will proceed in this workbook over the next week. Wednesday is a work day and both Tues and Wed nights, 1/2 h of time should be spent. We will finish exercises in their entirity through to the start of exponents.