Week 2: August 29 - September 2, 2011

Monday: No School (Power Outage due to Hurricane Irene)

Tuesday & Wednesday Objectives:
Students will find the mean, median and mode in order to describe the central tendency of a set of data.
Students will construct and analyze box-and-whisker plots in order to summarize data and draw informed conclusion.

Thursday & Friday Objectives:
Students will investigate and analyze data that uses statistical methods in order to determine the advantages and disadvantages.
Students will define a simple random sample in order to identify possible sources of bias in other types of samples.

Homework will be given daily. Please be sure to review class notes as you study and prepare for each day in class.

Useful Websites:
Free Online Graphing Calculator
Analyzing Data (be sure to review the concept and problems 1, 2 and 3)
The 5 Number Summary - Learn about the quartiles, etc.
Box-and-Whisker Plot instructions (great review if you're still having some trouble.
Measures of Central Tendency - a rap students might enjoy

Great Start

Greeting Students and Parents:

Thank you for a great first week of school. This week we covered Lesson 1 of Unit 1 (Data Analysis and Probability). Students learned to (1) write matrices given a word problem or table, (2) add and subtract matrices and (2) solve matrices using scalar multiplication. The important terms of this lesson were: matrix, dimension, element/entry and scalar.

Algebra 1 CT Course Syllabus

Greetings Students, Parents and Guardians:

Course Syllabi are not being printed this year. However, I have made the course syllabus available to you electonically. To access the syllabus, click the link below.
Thank you for your continued patience, support and assistance as I strive to work to help your child reach greater levels of success in Algebra 1. (T)ogether (E)veryone (A)chieves (M)ore!

Course Syllabus (Click this link).

Course Syllabus

This year the course syllabus for Algebra 1 CT will not be printed and distributed. The syllabus will be uploaded as a Google Doc for you to access at any time. Please contact me via e-mail at lenora.scott@pgcps.org for instructions on accessing the syllabus.

Welcome!

Welcome Students, and parents, to Algebra 1 DL Co-Taught. This year you are in for some excititing adventures in mathematics for which you may have not one, or two but three teachers to guide you through the experience. We will teach you many concepts and help you develop many skills in Algebra from solving basic algebra problems (including word problems) to challenging Data Analysis and Probability problems. No matter what we are covering, you will have a lot of help to get you started and to keep you going.

Please check this blog regulary, at least twice a week, to learn about the things we will be doing in class. You may contact me should you have any questions or concerns at any time by calling 301-513-5700 or by e-mailing me at lenora.scott@pgcps.org.

We are so happy to have you in our class. Your co-teachers for this course will be Ms. Lenora Scott, Mr. Larry Rafferty and Mr. Douglas McNamara. We are dedicated and committed to helping you succees so don't be shy about asking us for help. We love our profession, we love working with students and we love watching students succeed.

We look forward to working with you and your child this year. Thank you, in advance, for you time and support in helping us help your child succeed.