Algebra II Assignments
for 2002 - 2003 for
Southwestern's Algebra II Text



Day # Date Assignment
1 08/26/02 Printing Press Number
Merry-Go-Round Number
Ten Wins
2 08/27/02 Section 2.2
Types of Numbers
Trichotomy Property
p. 65 (1, 3, 6, 8,9, 12, 15, 16, 18, 22, 24, 25, 26, 42)
3 08/28/02 Properties of Real Numbers
The Number 0
The Number 1
Order of Operations
p. 71 (1 - 23 odds)
PEMDAS Worksheet
4 08/29/02 Properties of Equality
Solving Equations
p. 78 (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9)
Magic Square
Properties
5 08/30/02 Quiz on Sections 2.1 - 2.4
Section 2.4
Equations Review Puzzle
           
  09/02/02 Labor Day Holiday
6 09/03/02 Properties of Inequality
Solving Inequalities
p. 79 (11, 13, 14, 16, 19, 20, 22, 24, 29, 31, 40)
Extra Credit: Transitive Puzzle
7 09/04/02 Section 2.5
Absolute Value and Extraneous Roots
p.85 (Practice 2 - 26 evens, 31, 32, 34, 54)
8 09/05/02 Review for Test on Chapter 2
9 09/06/02 Test on Chapter 2
           
10 09/09/02 Functions / Domain and Range
p. 116 (1, 4, 5, 8, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23)
11 09/10/02 Linear Functions/ slopes
p. 124 (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9)
12 09/11/02 Slopes of parallel and perpendicular lines
p. 124 (6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
13 09/12/02 Scatter plots
p. 125 (19)
Worksheet on graphing lines
14 09/13/02 Quiz on Section 3.3
Sink The Ship Game
           
15 09/16/02 Absolute Value
p. 126 (2abc, 37, 38)
p. 85 (5, 7, 13, 15, 17, 21)
16 09/17/02 Review for Test
Review Sheet
17 09/18/02 Test on Sections 2.4, 2.5 3.2, 3.3
18 09/19/02 Symmetry
p. 108 (13, 14, 18, 19, 20)
p. 132 (6, 11, 36abcd)
19 09/20/02 Section 3.7 Composition of Functions
p. 147 (1, 4, 5, 8, 15, 17, 18, 19, 22, 34, 38)
           
20 09/23/02 Finish p. 147 from Friday
21 09/24/02 State Testing -- Short Class
22 09/25/02 Section 3.6 Inverse Function
p. 140 (1, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, 15, 18, 23, 26)
p. 148 (23, 24, 27)
23 09/26/02 Section 3.8 Direct Variation
p. 154 (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
24 09/27/02 Fall Day
No formal classes
           
25 09/30/02 Review for Test
26 10/01/02 Test on Chapter 3
27 10/02/02 Section 4.1 Systems of Equations
p. 165 (1 - 32) with a partner
28 10/03/02 Section 4.2 Solving systems of Equations
p. 172 Practice (1 - 10, 17, 24, 28, 29)
29 10/04/02 Section 4.3 Solving systems in 3 variables
p. 180 Practice (5, 9, 10)
           
30 10/7/02 Section 4.4 Augmented Matrices
p. 187 Practice (1, 2, 4, 5, 8)
31 10/8/02 Section 4.4 Matrices
Quiz on systems
p. 187 (3, 9, 10, 11)
32 10/9/02 Section 4.4 Matrices
p. 187 (12, 15, 22)
33 10/10/02 Section 4.5 Multiplying Matrices
WorkBook p. 44 (1 - 13 odds)
34 10/11/02 Section 4.6 Identity and Inverse Matrices
Workbook p. 46 (1 - 10)
           
35 10/14/02 Section 4.7 Solving Systems using Inverse Matrices
Workbook p. 48 (2, 4, 5, 8, 11)
36 10/15/02 Section 4.8 Determinants and Cramer's Rule
p. 214 Practice (1 - 6)
37 10/16/02 Section 4.8 Determinants and Cramer's Rule
p. 214 Practice (9, 10, 11, 12, 16)
38 10/17/02 Review for the test on Chapter 4
NO CALCULATORS
39 10/18/02 Test on Chapter 4 (No calculators)
           
40 10/21/02 Calculators with matrices
p. 187 Practice (1, 8, 11, 13)
p. 200 Practice (7, 8, 10)
p. 213 Try These (12, 14, 15, 17)
p. 214 Practice (13, 14)
41 10/22/02 Calculators with Linear Regression
p. 193 Practice (6, 7, 11, 16)
p. 124 Try These (18)
p. 124 Practice (8, 9, 10)
p. 125 Practice (19)
42 10/23/02 Test on Calculators with matrices
43 10/24/02 Section 4.9 Graphs
Worksheet on Konigsberg Bridges
End of the Nine Weeks Grading Period
  10/25/02 Teacher Work Day
           

 

Day Number Date Assignment
44 10/28/02 Section 5.2
Polynomials and Properties of Exponents
p. 238 Try These (1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 14, 15, 18, 19, 20, 22)
Worksheet on Exponents and Polynomials
45 10/29/02 Section 5.3 Factoring (Diff. of 2 Squares, Trinomials)
p. 246 Practice (1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 11, 17, 18, 21, 24, 27, 28, 30, 34, 36, 37, 38)
46 10/30/02 Section 5.3 Factoring
p. 247 (14, 24, 25, 29, 32, 42, 45)
Worksheet -- Cross Factor Puzzle
47 10/31/02 Section 5.4 Factoring
Sum and Difference of 2 Cubes
Factoring 4 terms by grouping
p. 251 Try These (8, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15)
p. 252 Practice (1, 3, 4, 6, 9, 11, 15, 16, 17, 18)
48 11/01/02 Quiz on Factoring
Methods of Factoring
Factoring Review Puzzle
Game of Bingo -- Factoring
           
49 11/04/02 Factoring Cut Outs
Factoring Review Puzzle
  11/05/02 Teacher Work Day
50 11/06/02 Tic Tac Times Factoring Game
Workbook p. 58 (1 - 10, 13, 15, 16)
51 11/07/02 Review for Test
I Have ... Who has ... cards
52 11/08/02 Test on Factoring
           
53 11/11/02 Section 5.5 Solving Polynomial Equations by Factoring
p.258 Practice (1 - 18, 23, 26)
54 11/12/01 Section 6.1 Completing the Square
p. 277 Try These (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
p. 278 Practice (12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
55 11/13/02 Section 6.1 Simplifying Radicals
WorkBook p. 64 (5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 14)
56 11/14/02 Review for test on Chapter 5 and Section 6.1
57 11/15/02 Test on Chapter 5, Section 6.1
           
58 11/18/02 Section 6.2 Translation, Dilation, Reflection
p. 282 (1 - 38)
59 11/19/02 Section 6.3 Graphing Quadratic Functions
p. 292 Practice (1, 2, 3, 5, 13, 14, 16, 17)
60 11/20/02 Section 6.4 Quadratic Formula
p. 300 Practice (1 - 7)
61 11/21/02 Section 6.4 Quadratic Formula and Nature of Roots
p. 300 Practice (8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
62 11/22/02 Play Factoring Bingo
Workbook p. 63 (1, 4)
Workbook p.65 (2)
Workbook p. 67 (3, 4, 5)
           
63 11/25/02 Review for test on quadratics
64 11/26/02 Test on Solving Quadratics
65 11/27/02 Play Contig
  11/28/02 Thanksgiving Holiday
  11/29/02 Thanksgiving Holiday
           
66 12/02/02 Section 6.4 Sum and Product of roots
p. 300 Try These (1, 2)
p. 300 Practice (3, 6, 13, 24, 30, 31)
67 12/03/02 Section 6.5
p. 306 Practice (1, 5, 8, 10, 15, 17)
68 12/04/02 Section 6.5
p. 306 Practice (2, 6, 18, 19, 22, 24, 25)
  12/05/02 Snow Day
  12/06/02 Snow Day
           
69 12/09/02 Review for test on chapter 6
Semester Exam Review Sheet
70 12/10/02 Test on Chapter 6
Work on Semester Exam Review Sheet
  12/11/02 Snow Day
71 12/12/02 No class because of Choral Assembly
Work on Semester Exam Review Sheet
72 12/13/02 Review for Semester Exam
Work on Semester Exam Review Sheet
           
73 12/16/02 Review for Exam
74 12/17/02 Semester Exam
75 12/18/02 No Algebra Class
76 12/19/02 No Algebra Class
77 12/20/02 No Algebra Class
           
  1/06/02 Snow Day
78 1/07/02 Section 7.2 System of Linear Inequalities
p. 327 Try These (2, 3, 5, 6)
79 1/08/02 Section 7.2 System of Linear Inequalities
p. 328 Practice (2, 3, 6, 8, 10)
80 1/09/02 Section 7.3 Quadratic Inequalities
p. 335 Try These (1, 2, 9, 10, 12, 15)
81 1/10/02 Quiz on Sections 7.1 and 7.2
           
82 1/13/03
Section 7.3 Quadratic Inequalities
p. 336 Practice (1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 9 ,10, 14)
83 1/14/03 Section 7.4 Graphing Quadratic Inequalities
p. 342 Practice (1 - 9, 13)
84 1/15/03 Section 7.6 Linear Programming
p. 354 Practice (1, 2, 4, 7, 9, 19)
85 1/16/03 Section 7.6 Linear Programming
p. 354 Practice (3, 5, 11, 12, 20)
End of the semester
  1/17/03 Teacher Work Day
           

 

Day Number Date Assignment
86 1/20/03 Review for test
87 1/21/03 Test on Chapter 7
88 1/22/03 Section 8.2 Rational Exponents and Radicals
p. 377 (1, 4, 6, 7, 9, 12, 13, 15, 17, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 28, 30, 33, 34, 45, 47, 48, 49, 52)
89 1/23/03 Section 8.4 Properties of Radicals
p. 388 Try These (9 - 14)
p. 389 Practice (1, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19)
90 1/24/03 Radical Cut Out
Worksheets on Irrationals
           
91 1/27/03 Section 8.4 Conjugates and Radical Sums
p. 388 Try These (1, 2, 16, 17)
p. 389 Practice (22, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 31, 33, 37)
92 1/28/03 Quiz on Section 8.4 (Simplifying radicals)
Workbook p. 86 (4, 7, 10, 12, 13, 16, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23)
93 1/29/03 Section 8.5 Solving Radical Equations
p. 396 Practice (1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 9, 14, 15, 31, 36)
94 1/30/03 Section 8.5 Solving Radical Equations
p. 396 Practice (21, 22, 23, 25, 27, 28, 30, 34)
95 1/31/03 Section 8.6 Complex Numbers
p. 403 Practice (1, 4, 5, 7, 10, 11, 13, 14, 16, 17, 19, 20, 25, 27, 30, 31)
           
96 2/3/03 Section 8.6 Complex Numbers
p. 403 Practice (15, 21, 23, 32, 33, 34, 37, 38, 40, 42, 43, 45, 46, 48, 49, 50)
97 2/4/03 Section 8.7 Operations with Complex Numbers
Worksheet -- vocabulary puzzle
p. 408 Practice (1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 10, 12)
98 2/5/03 Section 8.7 Operations with Complex Numbers
p. 408 Practice (4, 11, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20)
99 2/6/03 I Have ... Who has ... cards
Review for test on Chapter 8
  2/7/03 Snow Day
           
100 2/10/03 Section 10.1 Long Division
p. 477 Practice (2, 3, 6, 7, 9, 10)
101 2/11/03 Test on chapter 8
102 2/12/03 Section 10.1 / 10.2 Synthetic Division
p. 477 Practice (13, 14)
p. 483 Practice (1, 2, 4, 5)
103 2/13/03 Section 10.3 Graphing Polynomials
p. 486 (1 - 39)
Quiz on division of polynomials
104 2/14/03 Section 10.4 Rational Roots Theorem
Fundamental Theorem of Algebra
p. 497 (1, 4, 6, 7)
           
    2/17/03 Snow Day
    2/18/03 Snow Day
    2/19/03 Snow Day
    2/20/03 Snow Day
    2/21/03 Snow Day
           
105 2/24/03 Section 10.4 Conjugate Pairs Theorem
p. 497 (2, 3, 8)
106 2/25/03 Review for Test on Chapter 10
    2/26/03 Snow Day
107 2/27/03 Section 11.1 Rational Functions
p. 513 (1 - 31)
    2/28/03 Snow Day
           
108 3/3/03 Section 11.2 Graphing Rational Functions
P. 521 Practice (1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16, 17, 21, 22, 23, 24)
109 3/4/03 Test on Chapter 10
110 3/5/03 Section 11.3 Inverse / Joint Variation
p. 528 Practice (1 -13)
111 3/6/03 Section 11.4 Simplifying, Multiplying, and Dividing Rational Expressions
p. 534 Practice (1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22)
112 3/7/03 Section 11. 5 Adding and Subtracting Rational Expressions
p.539 Practice (1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 20, 21, 22)
           
113 3/10/03 Quiz on Section 11-4
p. 535 (29, 30, 32, 33)
p. 540 (16, 18, 19, 23, 40)
114 3/11/03 Section 11.6 Simplifying Complex Rational Expressions
p. 545 - 546 Practice (1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 10, 12, 13, 15)
115 3/12/03 Section 11.6 Simplifying Complex Rational Expressions
Finish p. 545 - 546 Practice (1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 10, 12, 13, 15)
116 3/13/03 SOL Droodle Review
117 3/14/03 Section 11.7 Solve Rational Equations
p. 552 Practice (1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 11, 14, 16, 19)
           
118 3/17/03 Review for Test on Chapter 11
119 3/18/03 Test on Chapter 11
120 3/19/03 Section 12.1 Midpoint and Distance Formulas
Section 12.2 Intro to Conic Sections (Disectible Cone)
p. 570 Practice (1, 2, 4, 6, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
121 3/20/03 Section 12.3 Circles
p. 578 Practice (1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12,13, 21)
122 3/21/03 Go over p.578
Lab -- Tracker
Finish SOL Droodle #1
           
123 3/24/03 Section 12.4 Ellipses
Ellipse Paper
p. 584 Practice (1, 2, 4)
124 3/25/03 Section 12.4 Ellipses
p. 584 Practice (3, 8, 9, 5, 6, 7, 12)
125 3/26/03 Section 12.4 Ellipses and eccentricity
p. 584 Practice (10, 13, 14, 15, 17)
126 3/27/03 Review Ellipses
Go over p. 584
127 3/28/03 Quiz
Video "The Stand Up Conic"
End of Nine Weeks
           

 

Day Number Date Assignment
128 3/31/03 Section 12.5 Hyperbolas
Hyperbola Paper
p. 590 Practice (2, 4, 7, 9, 10)
129 4/01/03 Section 12.5 Hyperbolas
p. 590 Practice (5, 6, 11, 12, 15, 16)
130 4/02/03 Review for Test
131 4/03/03 Test on Sections 12.1 - 12.5
132 4/04/03 Section 12.6 Parabolas
Parabola Paper
p. 594 Practice (1, 2, 4, 5, 11, 12, 13)
           
133 4/07/03 Section 12.6 Parabolas
p. 594 Practice (7, 8, 12,4, 15, 16, 17, 18)
134 4/08/03 Section 12.6 Parabolas
p. 594 Practice (9, 10, 20, 21, 22)
135 4/09/03 Section 12.7 Identify Conics
p. 601 Practice (1, 2, 3, 4, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18)
136 4/10/03 Section 12.8 Quadratic Systems
p. 607 Practice (1, 2, 4, 5)
137 4/11/03 Section 12.8 Quadratic Systems
p. 607 Practice (3, 6, 9)
           
138 4/14/03 Review for Test
Circle / Parabola Activities
139 4/15/03 Test on Chapter 12
140 4/16/03 SOL PRETEST
  4/17/03 Spring Break
  4/18/03 Spring Break
           
141 4/21/03 Section 13.3 Arithmetic Sequences
p. 637 Practice (1, 2, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
142 4/22/03 Section 13.3 Geometric Sequences
p. 637 Practce (4, 5, 7, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20)
Camera f-stops (geometric sequence)
143 4/23/03 Section 13.4 Arithmetic Series
p. 643 Practice (1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 9)
Gauss and the Sum of an Arithmetic Series
144 4/24/03 Section 13.4 Geometric Series
p. 642 Try These (8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 16)
145 4/25/03 Section 13.5 Infinite Geometric Series
p. 650 (8, 10, 11, 17, 19, 23, 25, 26)
Geometric sequences Puzzle
           
146 4/28/03 Turvy -- Review sequences and series
147 4/29/03 Review for Test
Sequences Puzzle
148 4/30/03 Test on Chapter 13
149 5/01/03 Map Coloring -- The Four Color Theorem
  5/02/03 Apple Blossom Holiday
           
150 5/05/03 SOL Review
151 5/06/03 SOL Review
152 5/07/03 SOL Droodle Review
153 5/08/03 SOL Review
154 5/09/03 SOL Review
           
155 5/12/03 SOL Review
156 5/13/03 SOL TEST today!
157 5/14/03 Section 13.6 Pascal's Triangle and the Binomial Theorem
p. 656 Practice (1, 2, 3, 6)
158 5/15/03 Factorials and Combinations
Pascal's Triangle
Worksheets
p. 656 Practice (13, 14)
159 5/14/03 Quiz on Binomial Theorem
           
160 5/19/03 Exponential Functions
Chain Letters and Pyramid Schemes

M&Ms Activity (Exponential Functions)

161 5/20/03 Section 9.2 Exponential Functions
p. 432 Practice (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 20)
162 5/21/03 Section 9.3 Logarithmic Functions
p. 439 Practice (1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 15, 16, 29, 30, 31, 32)
163 5/22/03 Section 9.4 Properties of Logarithms
p. 446 Practice (1, 4, 5, 10, 11, 13, 14, 17, 18, 20)
164 5/23/03 Section 9.4 Properties of logs
p. 446 (12, 19)
           
165 5/26/03 Section 9.5 Definition of e
Change of Base Theorem
p. 451 Practice (1, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 21, 22, 23)
166 5/27/03 Section 9.6 Solve Exponential and Log Equations
p. 457 Practice (1, 2, 5, 6, 10, 11, 13, 17, 18, 20)
167 5/28/03 Log Equations
Cut Out Puzzle
Finish p. 457 Practice (1, 2, 5, 6, 10, 11, 13, 17, 18, 20)
168 5/29/03 Compound Interest and Effective Annual Yield
p. 461 (1 - 15)
169 5/30/03 Senior Final Examination
Video on Exponential Growth
           
170 6/02/03 Senior Final Examination
Log Worksheet -- piano
Log Worksheet -- problems
171 6/03/03 Review for test on Chapter 9
172 6/04/03 Test on Chapter 9
173 6/05/03 Section 14.1 Permutations
p. 675 Practice (1, 2, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 16)
174 6/06/03 Algebra Definitions
Card Trick
Last Day for Seniors
           
175 6/09/03 Section 14.2 Combinations
p.682 Practice (1, 2, 4, 8, 9)
176 6/10/03 Review for Exam
177 6/11/03 Final Examination
178 6/12/03 No Algebra Class
179 6/13/03 No Algebra Class
           
180 6/16/03 No Algebra Class
           


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