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At a later date, we might start using this blog more actively. Stay tuned!

Tuesday:
No homework except corrections to the 12-1/12-2 worksheet if you want to improve your grade on it.

Wednesday:
We worked on Box and Whisker plots today. Please practice these by doing problems 5-12 (all) on p. 619-620.

Thursday:
Finish your Take Home quiz on sections 12-1, 12-2, and 12-3. You should try the quiz first without any help to see how much you have already mastered. Then you may look in your book or notes to refresh your memory if you need to. Please do not consult with any other person…this should be your own work.

Friday:
P. 626 problems 12 and 14 (for which you make histograms) and then 15-20 (questions analyzing histograms)

I apologize for forgetting to update this blog for the beginning of this week. Here it is!

Monday:
P. 605 problems 1-18. Also complete your Chapter 11 Test corrections by tomorrow.

Tuesday:
Work on your project.

Wednesday:
Work on your project.

Thursday:
Work on your project. It is due tomorrow!

Friday:
Your projects are wonderful. I know they took a great deal of time (maybe more than we thought!) and you rose to the challenge. I look forward to looking at each one carefully as I grade them. Enjoy your long weekend without any math homework…you’ve earned a little vacation!

Monday and Tuesday:
Complete the Chapter 11 Study Guide. Study for Wednesday’s test. If you still owe quiz or homework corrections, they are due by Wednesday, too.

Wednesday:
No homework.

Thursday:
Don’t forget that your WebQuest project is due on April 6. Hopefully you have gotten a great start on it and perhaps even finished the model or the paper. Take a break from math for Spring Break, but make a plan for completing your project in the week after you get back to school.

Your Chapter 11 test will be Wednesday, March 21. We will spend time in class on Tuesday reviewing and you will get a study guide on Monday. The test will cover 11-1 through 11-6 (but not 11-7, which we will look at later).

Monday:
Practice finding the surface area of pyramids and cones for one more night! Quiz tomorrow. Do p. 580, problems 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, 13, and 17. Also, complete any corrections you still need to do for the 11-4 Quiz or the Chapter 10 test.

Tuesday:
Bring in a pie for tomorrow’s Pi Day! Extra participation points will be awarded, and the whole class will be grateful. Yum!!

Wednesday:
No homework.

Thursday:
P. 586, problems 3-10, 12, and 14. Also, complete your 11-5 quiz corrections.
**Blogger’s bonus: Problem 9 is tough! One way to do the problem is to convert all the model measurements into meters (to get .6 m, .42 m, and 3.5 m). Then use the cubed version of the scale factor because you are looking for volume. The other is to find out how big each side of the real building is (1 cm = 1.5 m) and multiply length times width times height. Either way the answer is the same. Good luck. We will go over this problem first thing tomorrow!

Friday:
Remember that Monday is the next deadline for your WebQuest project. Be ready to tell me what familiar object you are using for comparison to your structure and the computations you did to figure out how many of your object fit into one of the dimensions of your structure. Also, bring all your dimensions with you to class on Monday so that you can use class time to do the scaling for your model. If you have already figured out your scale, bring in your computations on a piece of paper to show me.

Monday:
P. 571, problems 10-19 all. Quiz tomorrow on volume of cones and pyramids. Don’t forget to keep working on your WebQuest project. Your first deadline is a week from today.

Tuesday:
P. 576, problems 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 11, 13, 15, 16, 17.

Wednesday:
Complete the 11-4 Practice sheet. Put your work and answers on a separate sheet of paper.

Thursday:
No homework.

Friday:
Your summary paragraph (which is your intro paragraph for your paper) is due on Monday. This is a rough draft and does not need to be typed, but needs to include the name of your structure, where it is, why it is interesting to you, and all the dimensions that you have been able to find. Doing this assignment is not hard, but by doing it you assure me that you are well on your way to starting your project! I don’t want you thinking you can wait until the last minute on this one!

We are starting our Semester 2 WebQuest. You will be working on this project over the next six weeks. Intermediate due dates are March 12 and March 19 and the final project, which includes both a paper and a model, is due on April 6. The project hand-out, which you got on February 26, is attached below.

WebQuest Project

Monday:
Read your WebQuest packet. Be ready to answer questions about the project in a FLEX quiz…in other words, use the document to teach yourself about the project…don’t wait for me to use class time to repeat what is already in writing. Need to see the packet? Check out the WebQuest alert above.

Tuesday:
P. 559, problems 3, 5, 9, 13, 15, 17, 19, 23, 25. First period class, you don’t know this because I announced it after I dismissed you, but problem 21 is a Kodiak Scholar problem because it involves doing some research on a painting that contains polyhedrons. Do the problem for K.S. credit, but skip it if you aren’t interested in K.S.

Wednesday:
P. 565, problems 3, 4, 5, 11, 14, 16, 17, 19, 21, 22. Kodiak Scholar, do 27 and 28. Don’t forget to be researching a structure for the WebQuest project when you have some time.

Thursday:
Complete the 11-2 Practice sheet using a separate piece of paper. Show your work!