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.