2-5 (Solving Literal Equations) (9/23)

Today, we literally solve literal equations! (ha!)

First we did a warm-up that involved reviewing solving equations with variables on both sides when the answer is either "all real numbers" or when it is "no solution." After going over that and the homework, we started in on the last lesson of this unit, "Solving Literal Equations."

By the way, a literal equation is just an equation that has more than one variable like: A=lw or m-n=5.

The students all had a chance to start on the homework which is....

Due Monday: page 109 #2,3,4,6,9,10

PS- I'm going to be unable to be at school on Monday due to my grandmother's funeral services. I explained to the class that while I am gone, they are to be doing review work in order to prepare for their test. Thanks for the thoughts and prayers!

2-4 Part C (9/22)

Guess what we did today? We solved equations! (big surprise) :)

The warm-up covered solving equations with a variable on one side with fractions in the problems. The lesson mostly covered a couple more examples of "no solution" and "all real number" -type questions as well as a couple of word problems. The end of class was spent practicing the skills by working on a worksheet.

Due tomorrow: The ODD problems done from the 2-4 practice worksheet

Short (9/21)

We did a warm-up on integers, went over homework, did 2 questions for a practice quiz, and then started to do two examples of something new.

Classes were shorter today because of the seminar, and behavior in all 3 classes today was horrible. Students will need to be in a much better frame of mind tomorrow to get this solving equations thing done!

Due tomorrow: page 103 #10,12,13,24,32

Steppin' it Up (2-4-Solving Equations with Variables on Both Sides) (9/20)

Today, we did a warm-up we had to solve three-step equations. After going over the warm-up and homework, we did a lesson on section 2-4 from the textbook. This was the first part of 2-4. We'll do more tomorrow.

Practice! page 103 #2,4,6,8,9,16,20,23,26

Due tomorrow: (The practice questions listed above).

Practice Makes Perfect 2-3 (9/19)

Today, we needed to go over some more examples of solving multi-step equations. The quizzes were okay...but they weren't as good as they could have been!

We covered about 10 more examples of types of questions you could see when solving equations, and then did a whole lot of practice!

Practice Problems: p96 #5,6,12,21,22,24,26,29,30,32,33,36,38,40,49

Due tomorrow: all of the above practice problems

Some more 2-3 and a Quiz (9/16)

Today, we went over some more examples from section 2-3 (Solving Mult-Step Equations). We went over the homework from yesterday and any examples that people had a question about before the quiz. The class took a short quiz that covered sections 2-1 to 2-3. After the quiz, we did the calculator activity that we didn't get to do yesterday.

Due: NOTHING. No homework for the weekend! What? Crazy...I know. ;)

2-3 (Solving Multi-Step Equations) (9/15)

Today we did a warm-up covering order of operations. After going over the warm-up and the homework from the day before, I taught a lesson on section 2-3 from the book. This involved solving equations with more than one step.

In some classes, we finished the lesson and did a calculator activity. In other classes, we just finished the lesson (and we'll do the calculator activity tomorrow).

Due tomorrow: page 96 #2, 4, 8, 10, 11, 14, 16, and 19. Also, any test corrections from the Chapter 1 test have to be turned in by tomorrow!

Quiz on 2-1 to 2-3 is tomorrow as well! Study and be ready!!!