Jem's Post for April 5, 2011

Hi guys, if i haven't welcomed you guys yet .. welcome back! Right when class started Mr.Backe reminded us about everything due on Friday. Then everyone was busy.

1. Chapter 7 ; Self Assessment
   Problems of the Week # 1, 2, 3
   Eg ; For #3 we had a little lesson on the Fibonacci sequence like Emmanuel explained "The Fibonacci sequence, is a pattern where a number plus the number before are added together to get the next number 1,1,2,3,5,8 ... etc"
   Polynomial Puzzle Sheet
2. Chapter 8; Foldable ( Attach your chapter 8 Self Assessment to Show You Know)
   Problem of the Week # 3, 4
   
   

For today's class that's all he went through, unless of course you need to ask him questions. Then the rest of the class was working period, GET YOUR WORK DONE GUYS!

For more information visit Mr.Backe : Room 5 (morning, lunch, and afterschool)

Jem's Blog for March 22, 2011

Hello 9-05 and hello world,

So yesterday for math class our test was posponed, due to lack of understanding questions and how to solve them. Anyways, to help us understand the "hard" questions Mr.Backe went over questions with us, and made sure that we understand what the questions mean, and how to solve them.. Lets begin :

1. 4 - 6 = 7 +2
   ___ ______ ( Solve what you can and need to first )
   x + 2 2( x - 4 )

- 2 9
___ = ______ ( From here you can now cross multiply )
x + 2 2x - 8

-2 ( 2x + 8 ) = 9x + 18 ( Now you solve what you can and need to again )

-4x - 16 = 9x + 18 ( Then you gather all the like terms )

-16 - 18 = 9x + 4x

- 2 = 13 x
____ ____ ( Last step is to isolate the variable )
13 13

-2
_____ = x
13

1. B scored 78% on its test. B had 11 correct answers. What was the test out of?

We always start with what we know. We know that he scored 78% and got 11 right, we can make the equation and just solve for x.

78 = 11
___ ____
100 x

78x = 1100
____ ____
78 78
x = you'll get an ugly number so just round the number.

Then we did other questions, that are similar to those. So just make sure you understand if not GO TO MATH HELP PLEASE. Good luck guys!

Mary Jane's Scribepost for March 21, 2011

In today's math class we were given back our Equations Test. We went over the test and Mr. Backe also gave us some more equations to solve.

Test Questions:

Equations:

For some of the equations, we had to find the common denominator and the lowest common multiple.

We also have another equation test coming up on Wednesday.

That's all we did today. THANK YOU FOR READING AND PLEASE COMMENT !

Allysa's Blogpost for March 8, 2011

Our class today, involved the beginning of Chapter 8.
It started off with this:Next, we went over some of the textbook questions on 8.1 that we didn't understand.










CLICK TO ENLARGE IMAGES.

STASH IT CHAPTER 7:
- Self Assessment
- Problem of the Week
- Polynomial Puzzle Sheet

HOMEWORK:
- All the textbook questions in 8.1 & 8.2
- 8.1 & 8.2 Homework Book

Thanks for reading my blog! Before you go, please leave a comment!

Noelle's Blog Post for Feb. 28th, 2011

What did we learn today?

Turning a trinomial into a binomial:

Trinomial ---> Binomial

How do you do it?

To get from a trinomial to binomial you have to find the product of each term and seperate them into the two terms of a binomial.

Here's the tricky part; The constants in your binomials must add up to the constant or coefficient in the middle term, but multiply to get the constant or coefficient in the last term of the trinomial.

Make sense? Here are a couple examples to show how it works:

x^2 + 7x - 18 --->Binomial

(x+9)(x-2) = Binomial

(+9)(-2)=(-18)

9+(-2)=7

y^4 - 3x - 18 --->Binomial

(y^2-6)(y^2+3)

(-6)(3)=(-18)

(-6)+3=(-3)

This is what we learnt, and then we played TUTPUP!

Aight, that was basically all we learned. I choose EMMANUEL to do the next blog post because he didn't do it on thursday.

Brayden's Blog Post for February 16,2011

Today in class we continued to learn about multiplying polynomials.







Ex.


2x(3x+7) = (2 x 3 x) + ( 2 x 7 ) This is called distributive property.


= (2 3 x x) + (2 7 x) You then put the like terms together.


= 6x^2 + 14x Then you simply multiply the terms to get your answer.





Here is another example of multiplying polynomials





-2x(3x+2y-1) = ( -2 x 3 x ) + ( -2 x 2 y) + ( -2 x -1)


= ( -2 3 x x ) + ( -2 2 x y ) + ( -2 -1 x )


= -6x^2 +( -4xy) + 2x


= -6x^2 -4xy + 2x








After that the teacher showed us how to model equations.



This equation is 3x (2x+1)



The lone number is the number you multiply by and the 2 numbers are the numbers being multiplied.


This is our homework.
Read Pages 264-268
CYU 2+3
Practice Odd + Evens
Any 2 Apply
Extend 19+20 or 20+21
Homework book 7.2
Extra Practice 7.2


EMMANUEL is doing the next blog

Darnell's Blog Post for February 14, 2011.

Hello class. Today we learned more about the information on chapter 7 monomials.

First we learned about Distributive Property.

It's a process where you distribute the negative one (monomial) over the binomial.

Example:

-(6x+7) = -1 (6x) + (-1) (7)

= -6x-7

The negative turns into a -1.

We did some questions and did both pictures and work in class.

You can tell the answer is right

in the picture if the first factor ( the left side ) and the second factor ( the top side ) are matched up with the shape thats in the middle of the graph.

Next we tried it with fractions. In this case we had something that helped. Anything over itself for example like 12/12 or X/X, the answer is 1.

For homework we have:

7.1 Extra Practice

7.1 Homework Book

7.1 254-259 CYU 1 & 2

Practice odd or even

Apply All

Extend

7.10 Monomial Division