Respect yourself, your peers and me as your teacher. Do not engage in any activity intended to annoy, ridicule or intimidate any student. Any behavior I deem to be aggressive towards others will result in your removal from the class.
There will be complete silence when I am teaching. You will be removed from the class if I determine that your actions are disrupting class work. I will be the sole judge of what constitutes disruptive behavior and I will not discuss or argue the point.
Cell phones and other noise-making electronic devices should be turned off in class. Otherwise, they will be collected from you and turned over to the dean.
Your math textbooks are new. Please do not deface these books by writing on/in them.
Come to class ready to study, quietly take your seat and read the activities for the period on the white board or the overhead display.
Curriculum
1st Semester Aug 09-Jan 10--
Percents: Students will study
Meaning of percent
interchanging percent and decimals
changing fractions to percents
fractions, decimals, percents
Simple and compound interest, commissions, net amount, solving multi step problems.
Operations involving fractions--addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
mixed numbers and ratio and proportion
Linear graphs and fomulae
Graphing perpendicular and parallel lines
Slope intercept form of the straight-line equation
Formal OGT prep continues with plane coordinate geometry, exponents, probability, conversion of units graphs functions, trigonometry and linear equations.
Semester 2 : Jan 11 - Jun 4, 2010
1. The meaning of fractions
2. Equivalent fractions
3. Common denominators
4. Adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing proper, improper fractions and mixed numbers.
5. Data analysis and statistics.
6. Measures of central tendency: mean, median and mode.
7. Quartiles and percentiles.
8. Box and whisker plots
9. Bar graphs
10. Histograms, scatter plots
11. Probability, counting techniques, experimental and theoretical probability.
12. Angles, polygons, triangles and quadrilaterals.
13. Perimeter, circumference
14. Unit multipliers, unit conversions
15. Absolute Value, Addition of signed numbers, subtraction, multiplication and division.
16. Opposite of a number, areas of triangles, circles, composite figures, paralellograms
17. reciprocal and multiplicative inverses, multiple symbols of inclusion
18. Evaluation of algebraic expressions.
19. surface areas, volumes, evaluation of more complicated algebraic expressions, exponents, powers of negative numbers
