Algebra 10-12 assignment; March 18/19

These days are designated HSPE testing days, so not all the classes meet each day.  We continued our work with multiplying polynomials today, as we got more work in with the FOIL method, as well as with the grid method of working with polynomials.  Larger exponents and polynomials with leading coefficients other than 1 were worked on together today before the students got started on their homework.Assignment:  Multiplying Binomials worksheet...

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Geometry assignment; May 27

After the long weekend, we went back to work today with our second coordinate transformation.  We worked on reflections today, identifying the line of reflection first and then making the necessary image from the original.  We went over several examples together in class before the students got started on their homework.Assignment:  Reflections worksh...

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Algebra 10-12 assignment; Feb. 13

We went through some SMI testing in class today.  After finishing test, the students worked on a review worksheet that we will use as we start the next unit. Assignment:  inequality worksheet  do all questions except #2, 7, 17, 18,...

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Saturday morning catch--glory

Some Saturday mornings just about all I can find out here on so much flatland is a broad morning sky--which is not to say that a broad morning sky, one as multi-hued as this one, is chopped liver. This one was an immense kaleidoscopic showpiece. I sometimes think of landscape photography out here on the plains as if a what I record is a story. In this broad world, sky is always basically setting, like this. It's what's always there--a big, colorful dawn.But really good stories require more than setting, right?  So what goes in front of that an immense morning sky is character. That's...

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Book Review--Rez Life

This particular chapter of the job was a little racist. I was writing a book about members of the Christian Reformed Church in North America, and the publisher told me that I could choose the subjects myself but I had to include some New Mexico Native. I don't remember him saying that I had to have a real Indian, but I understood the requirement.I called the reigning head of the CRC mission, a white man, a preacher, who let me know in no uncertain terms that he wasn't going to hand over a Navajo because he was, quite frankly, sick and tired of easterners like me coming around and asking to take...

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Algebra 10-12 assignment; Jan. 27

We spent some time today reviewing solving systems of equations by graphing with our entry task.  We then continued to study how to solve systems of equations by substitution.Assignment:  Substitution worksheet;  #1-15 odd, 17, 18,...

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Remembering Frederick Manfred--1912-1994 (x)

At his burial service up in the cemetery on the hill above Doon, his daughter read a story that was read again, later, at a memorial party he had himself ordered up, a story that later aired on National Public Radio, albeit altered a bit. That story epitomizes the relationship Frederick Manfred maintained with the faith tradition from which he’d come. You can read it for yourself in his daughter’s memoir, A Daughter Remembers, but I’ll summarize it quickly. When the doctors discovered a rapidly growing brain tumor, Fred was scheduled immediately for surgery. An hour before, a...

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Sunday Morning Meds--Destiny

“If the LORD delights in a man's way, he makes his steps firm.” Psalm 37 Thus saith the NIV. The rough logic of verse 23 of Psalm 37 is not that difficult to understand:  when—if, even—the Lord likes what he sees in a person, he’ll give the guy or gal a break. Sounds fair. That’s the kind of God I can deal with. He’ll love us if he determines we’re worth his investment. I can deal with that.Listen to this: “The steps of a man are established by the Lord,” says the New American Standard; “and he delights in his way.” Or how about the KJV: “The steps of a good man are...

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An American story

In middle school, he played on a traveling basketball team, one of those who goes from burb to burb, later on even played a little high school football. His mother often sat in the stands. You couldn't miss her--she was the only one in the hijab. The kid was no star, but he had a great laugh and the rest of the guys thought he was a scream, a fun guy to be around. Truth be told, he and his family--his father was a Palestinian, his mother a converted Irish-American--lived in a quiet, gated Florida community. They were not poor. That's no answer here. They weren't poor at all. Some reports maintain...

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Circling the wagons

Even before yesterday's Supreme Court ruling in the Hobby Lobby case, Jonathan Rauch, in an article in the new Atlantic, warns evangelical Christians against what he calls "secession" from a world that's much wider than their own fellowship community. Rauch says evangelical Christians probably won't listen to anything he's saying anyway since he is, he says, a homosexual and an atheist; but he claims that if Christians "hunker down," they'll be taking a wrong turn.  When Christians create institutions set apart from the rest of society, he says, it effectively takes them out of the conversation,...

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Geometry assignment; Feb. 6

We continued working on similarity among right triangles today, going over how to use the geometric mean to solve problems with right triangles.  The three formulas that involve the geometric mean were introduced and used for the first time.Short quiz tomorrow on perfect squares and working with radical expressions.Assignment:  page 288;  section 8-1;  #16-26 ...

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Geometry assignment; March 11

We continued working with arcs and chords out of section 9-4 today.  We also did more review for the quiz tomorrow.  The key concept today dealt with determining the chord length once the distance from the center of a circle is known.Assignment:  section 9-4;  page 347;  #1-13 all;  page 349;  Self-Test 1;  #1-3, 5,...

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Algebra 10-12 assignment; Feb. 10

We went over our quiz from last Friday to start the period today.  The systems of equations test will be Wednesday this week, so we will be going over several more word problems before then.  We reviewed three different types of word problems today before getting to work on our homework.Assignment:  Word problem worksheet  # 2, 5-6, 10-11, 12, 16Test on Wednesday of this we...

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Algebra 10-12 assignment; May 7

After going over the homework and an entry task together, we spent time reviewing the various topics we had covered during our unit on radicals.  After going over several problems together, the students then worked independently on their review sheets.  Most the students finished and checked their work before leaving class. Test on radicals tomorrow.Assignment:  radicals units review sh...

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View from the Pew

What's it like for a town guy to live in the country?  Everything comes in spades--heat, cold, and, Lord have mercy, wind. But the skies are so abundant, so eternal, never once the same.Sometimes scary, often breath-taking--sometimes more than a little gaudy. Always towering. Most mornings and most evening, humbli...

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Geometry assignment; 9/8

We reviewed a couple of problems dealing with the midpoint and distance formula before taking the quiz today.  The students had the period to work on the quiz, and when they finished they got started on their assignment.Assignment:  Segment Addition and Midpoint worksh...

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Algebra 10-12 assignment; Feb. 21

We went over our homework today and did a final review before taking a quiz today on graphing linear inequalities.  After the quiz, the students then got a start on their homework assignment for the weekend.Assignment:  Graphing Linear Systems worksh...

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Remembering Frederick Manfred, 1912-1994 (xi)

Frederick Manfred was dying, even though he didn’t believe it himself. Harold Aardema, his long-time friend from Doon, called me and asked if I’d like to ride up to Luverne with him and visit, so we did. On the way up, Harold told me that he’d been a bit disappointed with Fred because his youngest brother, Ed, a life-long resident of Doon, a man who was as people once said, somewhat "slow," had recently died after a long illness. Harold lamented the fact that Fred hadn’t really paid significant attention to his younger brother during that time, hadn’t visited him as he should have. I could...

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Geometry assignment; 8/27

We went through out first lesson in the language of geometry today, taking some notes on several different word definitions and drawings that are needed to work through geometric problems.  The students then got started on their homework towards the end of the period.Assignment:  section 1-2;  page 7-8;  1-20 all, 21, 22,...

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