Algebra, Period 3

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Location: Eugene, Oregon, United States

Tuesday, June 01, 2010

Bye, Bye Textbooks

Students returned their textbooks today. That means the rest of the work we do this school year will be experiential and worksheet-driven. To that end, students learned how to identify exclusions on expressions that include a variable in the denominator. Then, using the idea of cross-products, students solved algebraic proportions to discover values for the variable that would make the statements true.

Tonight's Homework: Odd problems on the cream colored worksheet. There are three parts for each problem: Identify excluded values, if any. Solve for the variable (show work). Show the check step(s) by inserting the value(s) obtained for the variable into the original equation.

P.S. I need to borrow your Barbies! No harm will be done to them.