Last Day of the 3rd Term! This Weekend's Home Nugget is the 1st of the 4th Term

Home Nugget #1 of the 4th Term
Assigned on Friday March 5, 2010
Due on Monday March 8, 2010

From 8-6 Practice Sheet

# 1 - 6, 7 - 17 odd, 19 - 29

From 8-6 Word Problem Practice Sheet

# 1 - 6

ALSO

Given that we are at the end of chapter 8, there will be a 100 point summative assessment coming up this week. Use this weekend's home nugget in conjunction with your class notes to look back over all the connections we made in regards to factoring polynomials and how useful it is when it comes to solving equations.

Perfect Square Trinomials - Our Very Last Topic of Exploration in Chapter 8

Home Nugget #32 (last nugget of the 3rd term!)
Assigned on Thursday March 4, 2010
Due on Friday March 5, 2010

Page 458 # 13 - 23 odd

Page 459 # 24 - 32 even

ALSO

Your last assessment of the 3rd term will be tomorrow! A 50 point quiz on the most recent set of SAT questions we discussed that were assigned over the Feb. break)

Cementing our Ability to Factor Trinomials and Recognize Difference of Squares

Home Nugget #31
Assigned on Wednesday March 3, 2010
Due on Thursday March 4, 2010

Page 451 # 23 - 34 and 37

Page 463 # 39 - 45

The Factoring Journey Continues...Factoring the Difference of Squares

Home Nugget #30
Assigned on Tuesday March 2, 2010
Due on Wednesday March 3, 2010

Page 451 # 11 - 21 odd

Practice Sheet Lesson 8 - 4
# 2 - 30 even and 31, 32

(Students agreed that this amount of practice is simply necessary given the challenges posed by factoring certain trinomials)

Reaching Towards "New" Material in Lesson 8-5 (But Realizing that It is Actually Quite Famiiar)

Home Nugget #29
Assigned on Monday March 1, 2010
Due on Tuesday March 2, 2010

Read through and make sense of pages 447 to 450. It will likely occur to you that the content is very familiar as you work through the material.

Attempt problems 1 - 10 on page 450.