Feel free to work at the suggested pace below or at your own pace provided you complete all assignments by 11:59 PM Sunday. Monday: Desmos Exploring the Graphs of Polar Equations - Go to student.desmos.com and type the class code 1st hour 87N6JP , 2nd hour AE85B6 Tuesday: Visit my website/blog for a video and to take notes on Graphing Polar Equations. Do the matching worksheet. [...]
Honors precalculus assignments for the week of May 4 – May 8, 2020. Feel free to work at the suggested pace below or at your own pace provided you complete all assignments by 11:59 PM Sunday. Monday: Visit my website/blog for a video and to take notes on an Introduction to Polar Coordinates Tuesday: Go [...]
Honors precalculus assignments for the week of April 27 – May 1, 2020. Feel free to work at the suggested pace below or at your own pace provided you complete all assignments by 11:59 PM Sunday. Monday: Review 10.2-10.4 with the Conics Review Tuesday: Visit your teacher’s blog/website to check your assignment with the key. Wednesday: Go to student.desmos.com and type the [...]
Honors precalculus assignments for the week of April 20 - 24, 2020. Feel free to work at the suggested pace below or at your own pace provided you complete all assignments by 11:59 PM Sunday. Monday: Hyperbola Investigation in Desmos Go to student.desmos.com and type the class code 1st hour PGTGE3, 2nd hour B8N554 Alternate Hyperbola Investigation in Geogebra – print out this handout, [...]
Feel free to work at the suggested pace below or at your own pace provided you complete all assignments by 11:59 PM Sunday. Tuesday: Link to ellipse investigation https://www.geogebra.org/m/fewezAfz handout https://drive.google.com/open?id=15EqtamkU16ZtxM1D5qUnsN4-xWuOCgjP Visit the calendar to watch the video and/or view the notes over the new material. Notes for Ellipses Go to student.desmos.com and type the class code: 1st hour Y7E5MB , 2nd [...]
Feel free to work at the suggested pace below or at your own pace provided you complete all assignments by 11:59 PM Sunday. Monday: Optional but recommended assignment – visit student.desmos.com and type the code in for your class period. 1st hour - 58C8RG 2nd hour - BUBV2N Tuesday: Download the Notes Sheet for Parabolas. Visit the class website to watch the [...]
A Nebraska National Guard helicopter maneuvers Saturday morning to place sandbags near a city of Lincoln well on an island of the flood-ravaged Platte River. State of Nebraska, Courtesy photo I avoided making a nuisance of myself by not driving out to see the 2019 Nebraska floods devastation personally. However, I have spent [...]
My honors precalculus students saw the slope hexaflexagons my geometry students were using and asked when they would get something like that. I promised when we reached our trig unit, I'd whip something up. Below is the result as well as a video explaining how to assemble a hexaflexagon. My hope is that my students [...]
I bought and read Jo Boaler's "What's Math Got To Do With It?" last summer. She really gave me food for thought regarding grouping by ability and gender differences. I also read "Mathematical Mindsets" this fall. As a high school math teacher, I set a goal to make my teaching more visual, delve into the [...]
