3rd Six Weeks Assignments

11-15-2010 thru 12-17-2010
1. Section 6-1 Work-sheet / Front and Back
2. Section 6-7 Text book pg. 357 /#10- 28 all
3. TEST / Holiday Take Home
4. Project / 1000 Origami wish!
5. Quiz / Section 6-7
6. Square Roots Packet
7. Inverses Worksheet
8. Section 8-3 Text book pg.460 / #1- 28 all
9. Quiz / Section 8-3
10. ACP review packet

Origami Project

There is a legend that says: Any person who folds a thousand paper cranes will be granted a wish!
So we will make a thousand origami-s as a group.
Our collected wish is: “This is our cry. This is our prayer. Peace in the world.”
You are to make 6 origami cranes or swans or stars-
On one side you will write your wish (only one personal wish) on the other side you can have a print or a design.

how to fold an origami bird base from josey on Vimeo.

How to fold an origami paper crane from josey on Vimeo.

how to fold an origami lucky (puffy) star from josey on Vimeo.

How to make a paper Crane

Second Six Weeks Assignments:

10-4-2010 thru 11-5-2010

1. Section 5-2 Text book pg. 249 /#1 - 13 all
2. Section 5-3 Text book pg. 256 /#1 - 46 all
3. Section 5-6 Text book pg. 281 /#15 - 30 all
4. Quiz Section 5-6
5. Section 5-7 Text book pg. 290 /#13 - 32 all
6. Chapter 5 Review
7. TEST Chapter 5

8. Section 6-2 Text book pg. 323 /#42 - 51 all
9. Section 6-4 Text book pg. 335 /#1 - 35 all
10. Quiz Section 6-2,4
11. Blog- Math-Art Connections

Using TRACE! By: Caroline Dingwall

Using TRACE Feature

1. The TRACE feature is a wonderful tool for understanding the various characteristics of a graph. For illustration purposes we'll use the graph . Enter this equation as Y1 on the Y= screen.

2. Then use the GRAPH key to graph the function. In this case please graph the function on the standard window by hitting ZOOM 6.

3. After pressing ZOOM 6 the graph should appear. To use the trace feature press the TRACE key. A cursor should appear on the graph at the y-intercept (0, -5.625).

4. We can walk the cursor along the curve in either direction by using the arrow right and arrow left keys.

5. Because the location of the cursor is constantly displayed as we move, finding intervals where the function is positive or negative is simply a matter of watching the sign of y. Use this feature to find the x and y intercepts or points of intersection and more! (Helpful website) http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0073022845/student_view0/calculator_keystroke_guide.html Caroline Dingwall ♫♫♫♫

First Six Weeks Assignments:

8-23-2010 thru 9-3-2010

1. Work-sheet Review Lesson 12
2. Section 2-1 Text book pg. 62-63 /#1 - 24 all & #35 - 39 all
3. Quiz 2-1
4. Section 2-2 Text book pg. 69/#28 - 33 all & #31 - 38 all
5. Section 2-2 Extra Practice Work-sheet
6. Section 2-3 Text book pg. 75/#14 - 36
7. Composition Book Check / Notes from 2-1 to 2-3

9-7-2010 thru 9-17-2010

8. Section 2-4 Text book pg. 82/#1 - 30
9. Quiz Sections 2-3, 2-4
10. Section 2-5 Text book pg. 88/#1 - 5 Graphing Calculator .
11. Quiz Section 2-5

9-20-2010 thru 9-25-2010

12- Section 5-1 Text book pg. 241, 242/ #22- 36 all

Welcome Back 2010 / 2011 !

The website, www.greatschools.org, has named Booker T. Washignton HSPVA one of the BEST schools in the Dallas metro area with a five star rating and a perfect "10" rating.
BTW students and staff have been spotlighted and recognized in numerous local, state and national publications for their work in the arts. Spotlights articles on students and staff can be found in the summer issues of the Dallas Morning News, Southwest Airlines Spirit Magazine, Texas Monthly, and Dance Teacher Magazine.
Students from Booker T. participated in some of the best summer enrichment programs across the country at some of the most prestigious colleges and universities including Columbia University, Southern Methodist University, Julliard, Alvin Ailey, Harvard University, and Interlochen just to name a few!

Luck vs Probability by: Alexander Phengsakmueang

Luck vs. Probability

by: Alexander Phengsakmueang (Click here to see the entire blog)

They say there is no such thing as luck. All outcomes are based on a thing called chance or probability.For example, they say there is a fifty percent chance that you will land heads with a quarter. There is a 0.19230769230769230769230769230769 percent chance that you will draw an queen of hearts from a standard deck of playing cards. And this is the simple version. All of these statistics exist, whether you know them or not. All these little facts come together to create a 100 percent chance of something to happen, we just don't know what outcome that belongs to.

6th Six Weeks Assignments

5-3-10 thru 5-19-10
Section 8-6 Text book pg. 484/#6 - 20 Evens Only
Section 9-2 Text book pg. 514/ #1-12 and #23-47 All
Section 9-4 Text book pg. 532/ #22-49 All
Section 9-5 Text book pg. 540/ #18-42 All

by: Luke Garrison 5th period

Journalist Steven Strogatz of the New York Times poses us with the question that has puzzled human beings since the dawn of counting; What exactly is mathematics, and why has become such an important aspect in our every day lives? It has generally been accepted by most of the scientific community of today that mathematics is defined as the study of patterns. This can be patterns of nature, patterns of the cosmos, of behavior, electric fields, etc. But where we see patterns arise most frequently are within numbers. Numbers: The tools we use to calculate everything from buying candies from the local foodstore to tracking the path of satellites sent to Saturn. They are everywhere in our daily lives, following us like lost children, or, in our day and age, like ghosts. There is a fear of numbers that is growing in society. But why is this?

It's really not that difficult to figure out why people are afraid of numbers. Strange Arabic symbols taking the place of abstract concepts dealing with quantities? Of course you're going to have an uncomfortable audience full of head-scratching, nail biting, and tugging of shirt collars. Numbers can be compared to post-modern art. Pollock, Rothko, Mondrian (neoplasticism); the average Joe is often set into a fit of rage at these giants. What makes splattering paint over a canvas so brilliant? What do giant blocks of color have to do with my life? What is so great about a bunch of lines with primary colors? Each piece of artwork tells a story of firey passion, sadness, excitement... much the same way that numbers try to tell the heart-wrenching story of our universe. Ellaborate formulaes of infinite series, elegant equations merging gravity and electromagnetism, the math behind fractals! All of it is just a peek into a strange, fascinating world we call home. God is a painter, and numbers are the medium. They hold the key to a hidden truth.



"To most outsiders, modern mathematics is unknown territory. Its borders are protected by dense thickets of technical terms; its landscapes are a mass of indecipherable equations and incomprehensible concepts. Few realize that the world of modern mathematics is rich with vivid images and provocative ideas."
~Ivars Peterson

5th Six-Wks Assignments

3-1-10 thru 3-12-10
Section 8-3 Text book pg. 461/#14-28 all
Quiz- Section 8-3
Section 8-4 Wk-sheet/Study guide/ 1-12 both sides
Quiz- Section 8-4
Section 8-3 Wk-sheet/Horizontal Asymptotes/ 1-9 all
Test- ACP Review Pkt

Almost Pi Day!
3-12-10

From Fish to Infinity / NY Times

Steven Strogatz is a professor of applied mathematics at Cornell University.
He is the author, most recently, of “The Calculus of Friendship,” the story of his 30-year correspondence with his high school calculus teacher. In this series, which appears every Monday, he takes readers from the basics of math to the baffling.
NYTimes
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/from-fish-to-infinity/?hp

Where exactly do numbers come from? Did humanity invent them? Or discover them?
A further subtlety is that numbers (and all mathematical ideas, for that matter) have lives of their own. We can’t control them. Even though they exist in our minds, once we decide what we mean by them we have no say in how they behave. They obey certain laws and have certain properties, personalities, and ways of combining with one another, and there’s nothing we can do about it except watch and try to understand. In that sense they are eerily reminiscent of atoms and stars, the things of this world, which are likewise subject to laws beyond our control … except that those things exist outside our heads....

ALG II PreAP / 4th Six-Wks Assignments

01-20-10 thru 01-29-10
Section 6-2 Text Book pg.323/#21-36 all & 48-51 all
Section 6-3 Text Book pg.329/#13-30 all
Section 7-1 Text Book pg.388/#1-9 all
Quiz- Section 7-1

02-01-10 thru 02-05-10
Section 7-2 Text Book pg.395/#10,11,16-35 all
Section 7-5 Text Book pg.413/#18-25 all AND Sec. 7-6 pg.419/#1-8 all
Section 7-7 Text Book pg.425/#11-28 all (#20:Bonus)

02-08-10 thru 02-19-10
Test- Sections 7-1, 7-2, 7-3
Section 8-1 Text Book pg.446/#1-15 all, 21 & 44. #5 Bonus
Quiz- Section 8-1
Section 8-3 Text Book pg.460,461/#1-8 all 13-32 all