Announcements

• Test today!  If there’s anything you’d like me to go over, please let me know before we get started.  Calculators are not allowed, but you can use your integer reference sheet I handed out at the beginning of the semester.
• Clarification on cell phone policy
• During lessons – put away
• While completing work – for music only (or calculating if given permission)
• If done everything – unrestricted use
• If you did not get information in your email to login to the website, I have a slip of paper for you with that information.
• If you were away on Friday, make sure you copy down the lesson from somebody who was here

Agenda

• Last chance for questions and clarifications about the test material
• Test
• Next worksheet – common factoring

Homework

• Greatest common factor worksheet

Announcements

• We will be having a short test tomorrow on the grade 9 skills review.  Calculators will not be allowed, but you can use your integer reference sheet.
• Course website, accounts, and passwords
• If you were away on Friday, make sure you copy down the lesson from somebody who was here

Agenda

• Mad Minute
• Recap of Friday’s lesson (FOIL) – We’ll take up some questions
• Test Review Lesson
• Handout – Test review questions

Announcements

• General observations after two weeks
• I will need to sign you out a textbook today if you don’t already have one
• Second set of quiz results, and A, B, C groups

Agenda

• Quick refresher on some algebra rules
• Take up some questions from yesterday
• Note – The “FOIL” method
• Textbook work
• Have a good long weekend!

Homework

• Group A: Page 286 – Do at least 8 questions from #1-4 that you haven’t done yet, this time using FOIL.  Then, try #9, 10, 11
• Groups B/C: Page 286 – Finish at least 8 questions from yesterday using area models, then 8 other ones from #1-4, using FOIL.

Announcements

• We will have a test on the grade 9 review unit next week.  I want to give people a chance to improve on the algebra first.
• If you’ve finished the algebra sheet handed to you yesterday, please hand it in.  I’ll be coming around to some of you to see how you’ve been doing on it.
• If you were away yesterday, you will get your textbook today, and an algebra sheet to start working through.

Agenda

• New Lesson – Multiplying two binomials
• Textbook work – at this point I’d like to check some of the algebra from yesterday
• Algebra Quiz – Second try!
• You can grab a puzzle sheet if you’re done everything early.

Homework

• Page 286 – #1-4; #6 [left column only]
• You can use algebra tiles for 1a, 3c, and 4a

Agenda

• Yesterday’s quiz results, and levels for further algebra review
• Take up quiz
• Adding exponents when multiplying variables
• Algebra sheet to work on
• Textbooks distributed

Homework

• You should show me you’ve made a good start on the sheet I gave out yesterday (at least 8-10) questions.

Annoucements

• If you have a scientific calculator on your phone you’d like to use, please let me know.  In some circumstances (ie, if I have yet to catch you misusing your phone in class!), I will let you use it.
• Homework check today – “What should you not do if you want to help get rid of grafitti?”, at least up to question #7.
• Please hand in yesterday’s homework if it’s done.

Agenda

• Review of algebra for today’s quiz
• Quiz
• Lesson – Factor trees
• Time to work on factor trees handout
• If time – “Integer Golf”

Homework

• Factor trees

Announcements

• Make sure you have a calculator with you, starting Monday
• Hand in your algebra sheet from yesterday if you have it done
• Thanks for a great first week!

Agenda

• Take up the quiz, and any questions you would like to see from yesterday’s handout
• Mad Minute
• Next handout – Expanding and Simplifying
• Time to finish questions on handout

Files

Note – Expanding and Simplifying

Announcements

• Reminder: By next Monday, make sure you are bringing a calculator to class
• If you have not entered your email address into my computer yet, I’ll get you to do that today

Agenda

• Review – What is on today’s quiz
• Quiz
• A refresher on the algebra taught yesterday
• Time to finish the sheets handed out yesterday

Homework

All handouts so far.

Announcements

• Our first quiz will be tomorrow, on adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing integers.
• Please hand in your sheet from yesterday if you are done.
• If you haven’t entered your email into my computer yet, I’ll get you to do that today.

Agenda

• Policies/Procedures Disussion: Cell Phones, Homework, Quizzes
• A quick look at yesterday’s handout
• Mini-lesson: Integer multiplication and division, mental math
• Worksheet on above lesson (~15 minutes to complete)
• Lesson: Collecting like terms in algebraic expressions
• Worksheet on collecting like terms

Files

• Mental Math #1
• Collecting Like Terms note

Homework

• Complete yesterday’s handout, and continue to work on the first one from today.  I’ll give you some time tomorrow to finish up today’s handouts.