Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Algebra (Class 79)
Announcements
Next Test-- date TBA (the calendar has really thrown us off our regular testing schedule).
Lesson Title
Counting Handshakes
Overview
The Warm-Up for today continues to focus on distance and time relationships-- slope, equations of lines, making predictions using equations. The lesson for today picks up where we left off before the CST-- with counting handshakes and seeing how this situation gives rise to a quadratic pattern of change.
Textbook Sections
Supplemental
Connected Math: Frogs, Fleas, and Painted Cubes- Problem 3.2: Counting Handshakes
Vocabulary
rectangle
area
perimeter
maximum
quadratic relationship
parabolas
function
symmetry
line of symmetry
x-intercepts
roots
y-intercepts
parabola
expression
factored form
expanded form
standard form of a quadratic equation
quadratic formula
first difference
second difference
Key Attitudes
Math is about investigating and confirming
Key Ideas
Quadratic patterns of change arise from many different situations.
A table can be used to determine if a pattern of change is or is not quadratic.
All quadratic patterns of change have a second difference that is constant
Key Skills
I can recognize and continue a pattern.
I can make a table of values to represent a pattern
I can use a table of values as a tool for describing a pattern.
I can use a table of values to predict values not in the table.
I can recognize a quadratic pattern of change and write a quadratic equation to represent this pattern.
Turn-In (#78)
No Homework
Handouts
No Handouts Posted
Assignment
ACE p.44 #1, 9, 17-22, 26-28, 32-35
Disclaimer- The assignment as stated in class is the official assignment. Every effort is made to keep this posting accurate, but you should refer to what was stated in class as the final word.
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