Teacher S Name: Holly Mccarty

2011-2012 LESSON “SNAPSHOT”

Teacher’s Name: Holly McCarty Week of: 9/26/2011 - 9/30/2011

Course Title and Periods Taught: Pre-AP Pre-Calculus 1st & 4thUnit Title: Functions/Polynomials

List daily lesson topic and Depth of Knowledge: / List learning target
(related to Core Academic Standard): / Briefly outline daily lesson activities/agenda: / Check all that apply each day:
Monday / No School / Bell ringer
Formative Assessment
Writing to learn
Writing to demonstrate learning
Cooperative Learning
MI/DI
Student technology use
ACT/CATS-like assessment
Live-Scoring
Reading Strategies
Lab
Tuesday
Lesson Topic: Real Zeros of Polynomials
Critical Vocab:
Rational, root, zero, x-intercept, solution, variation in sign, end behavior, Descartes Rule of Signs / I can determine the end behavior of the graph of a polynomial.
I can state all of the possible rational zeros of a polynomial. / Automaticity Bell Ringer
Homework solutions
Notes
Assignment
Pg. 287 State the end behavior on every problem. # 1, 3, 51-55(odd), 9, 13, 17, 19, 23, 28, 31 / Bell ringer
Formative Assessment
Writing to learn
Writing to demonstrate learning
Cooperative Learning
MI/DI
Student technology use
ACT/CATS-like assessment
Live-Scoring
Reading Strategies
Lab
Wednesday
Lesson Topic: Real Zeros of Polynomials
Critical Vocab:
Rational, root, zero, x-intercept, solution, variation in sign, end behavior, Descartes Rule of Signs / I can determine the end behavior of the graph of a polynomial.
I can state all of the possible rational zeros of a polynomial. / Automaticity Bell Ringer
Homework solutions
Notes
Assignment
Pg. 287 State the end behavior on every problem. # 37, 39, 43, 46, 65, 67, 75, 77, 79 / Bell ringer
Formative Assessment
Writing to learn
Writing to demonstrate learning
Cooperative Learning
MI/DI
Student technology use
ACT/CATS-like assessment
Live-Scoring
Reading Strategies
Lab
Thursday
Lesson Topic: Complex Numbers
Critical Vocab:
Real part, imaginary part, complex number, pure imaginary number, conjugate, principal square root / I can add, subtract, multiply, and divide complex numbers.
I can solve an equation that has complex solutions. / Automaticity Bell Ringer
Homework Solutions
Notes
Assignment
Pg. 298 # 11 - 37(odd), 43, 45, 51, 53 - 59(odd) / Bell ringer
Formative Assessment
Writing to learn
Writing to demonstrate learning
Cooperative Learning
MI/DI
Student technology use
ACT/CATS-like assessment
Live-Scoring
Reading Strategies
Lab
Friday
Lesson Topic: Complex Zeros and the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra
Critical Vocab:
Multiplicity of k, zeros, conjugate / I can factor a polynomial completely.
I can find all of the zeros of a polynomial.
I can state the multiplicity of each zero of a polynomial.
I can find a polynomial with integer coefficients if I am given the zeros of the polynomial. / Automaticity Bell Ringer
Homework corrections
Notes
Assignment
Pg. 307 # 11, 15, 17, 20, 21, 25, 33, 35, 36 / Bell ringer
Formative Assessment
Writing to learn
Writing to demonstrate learning
Cooperative Learning
MI/DI
Student technology use
ACT/CATS-like assessment
Live-Scoring
Reading Strategies
Lab

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