What+We+Did+Each+Day


 * **Date** || **What We Did in Class** || **Homework Assigned** ||
 * Sept 7 || Course Introduction || "Mathematic Intro Quiz" given out in class, questions 1 to 5. ||
 * Sept 8 || Review of Grade 9 || Page 4 and Page 17 ||
 * Sept 9 || Work Period (Rosh Hashanah) || - ||
 * Sept 14 || Substitution (Section 1.2) || Study for Substitution Quiz ||
 * Sept 15 || Review Substitution + Introduce Elimination ||  ||
 * Sept 16 || Parallel and distinct lines vs. equivalent linear systems || Page 32 ||
 * Sept 17 || Elimination (Wrote Substitution Quiz) || Page 40 ||
 * Sept 20 || Word Problems involving points of Intersection || Page 46 (Study for Elimination Quiz tomorrow!) ||
 * Sept 21 || We wrote a quiz on elimination and worked on review. || Page 48 ||
 * Sept 22 || We continued to work on review and I will gave one-on-one help to whoever wanted it || Page 50 ||
 * Sept 23 || We worked on the assignment that I gave out in class on Tuesday (10 word problems) || Hand in the assignment for Friday! ||
 * Sept 24 || We reviewed lines/slope in class || Page 54 (have it for Tuesday Sept 28)...but more importantly.... study for the test on Monday! ||
 * Sept 27 || **CHAPTER 1 TEST** || Have the required questions from Page 54 completed for Sept 28 ||
 * Sept 28 || We learned about midpoints and medians || Page 66 on the homework sheet, up to and including #13 ||
 * Sept 29 || We learned about right bisectors and lengths of line segments || Page 66 #16, 19, 20, 22, 28 and Page 77 #1b, 2ad, 4, 5, 6 ||
 * Sept 30 || We reviewed right bisectors and worked on yesterday's homework || Finish yesterday's homework! ||
 * Oct 1 || We reviewed why we've been studying slope/length/bisection/medians, and decided we could apply it to solving geometry problems (i.e. proving something is a square) || Page 88, Up to and including #9 on the homework sheet ||
 * Oct 4 || Today we took up the homework, wrote a quiz, and took up Test #1 || Correct your Test ||
 * Oct 5 || Today we took up the quiz that we wrote yesterday, had a lesson on the shortest distance between a point and a line, and worked on the homework. || Page 88 #10, 17, 20, 25. Hand in #10 tomorrow! ||
 * Oct 6 || Today we did the equation of a circle || Page 96 on the homework sheet ||
 * Oct 7 || Today we did significant review and wrote a quiz about the shortest distance between a point and a line || Page 100 on the homework sheet, up to #11 ||
 * Oct 8 || Today we did significant review, preparing for the test on Wednesday || The last 5 questions on Page 100 on the homework sheet ||
 * Oct 12 || Today we reviewed for the test (the test is tomorrow!) || Be able to do questions 7 and 11 from Page 104. STUDY FOR YOUR TEST! ||
 * Oct 13 || CHAPTER 2 TEST || - ||
 * Oct 14 || Today we reviewed some basic geometry and the content from the past two chapters. New unit starts tomorrow! || Page 108 on the homework sheet ||
 * Oct 15 || Today we learned about the centroid of a triangle, and the homework will involve finding the orthocentre and the circumcentre. || Page 114 on the homework sheet ||
 * Oct 18 || Today we extended our knowledge of triangles, applying it to the co-ordinate plane || Page 124 on the homework sheet ||
 * Oct 19 || Today we learned a few things about quadrilaterals || Page 134 on the homework sheet ||
 * Oct 20 || Today we extended our quadrilateral knowledge to the co=ordinate plane || Page 142 on the homework sheet ||
 * Oct 21 || We did a tiny bit of work about chords in circles, but it was a short class (Shaw Festival Field Trip) || None ||
 * Oct 22 || We did an in-class assignment about slopes, lengths, midpoints and geometry. || None. Start reviewing for the Chapter 3 test, which will take place on Wednesday. ||
 * Oct 25 || We began review for our Chapter 3 Test || Page 152 on the homework sheet. ||
 * Oct 26 || We reviewed for the test tomorrow! Best of luck! || None, but Page 154 on the homework sheet is great practice. ||
 * Oct 27 || **CHAPTER 3 TEST** || None ||
 * Oct 28 || Today we did some review of Grade 9 stuff! || Page 162 and 166 from the homework sheet ||
 * Oct 29 || Today we: took up the homework; took up the Chapter 3 Test; got refreshed about first differences and second differences || Correct your Chapter 2 Test ||
 * Nov 1 || Today we learned lots of stuff about parabolas! || Page 178 on the homework sheet ||
 * Nov 2 || Today we reviewed parabolas and are getting set to learn something SUPER important tomorrow (factoring!) || Page 185 on the homework sheet ||
 * Nov 3 || Today we learned about FACTORED form of quadratic equations, which is SUPER IMPORTANT from here to the end of highschool! || Page 192 on the homework sheet ||
 * Nov 4 || Today we took up yesterday's quiz, reviewed Factored form, and worked on our homework, which is review. || Page 202 on the homework sheet ||
 * Nov 5 || Today we learned about negative- and zero- exponents || Page 199 on the homework sheet ||
 * Nov 9 || **CHAPTER 4 TEST** || None ... if you want a warm-up for next unit you can do Page 208 on the homework sheet ||
 * Nov 10 || Multiplying Polynomials (Binomials in particular)...FOIL || Page 217 on the homework sheet ||
 * Nov 11 || Multiplying "special" polynomials ... if in doubt, use FOIL || Page 225 on the homework sheet ||
 * Nov 12 || Common Factors .. GCFs and the beginning of factoring || Page 234 on the homework sheet (not 6, 11 or 13) ||
 * Nov 15 || Factoring "simple" polynomials (ax^2 + bx + c) || - ||
 * Nov 16 || Factoring (continued) || Page 240 on the homework sheet ||
 * Nov 17 || Factoring by Decomposition || Page 246 on the homework sheet ||