What's Going On? November 14th through November 18th

 Thought for the Week




















Checking In with the EMPT and Starting Unit 4: Systems of Equations and Inequalities

We will start off this week by checking in on our progress on the EMPT.  We will complete a practice EMPT assignment that contains 12 questions that we might see on the Early Math Placement Test that we should have mastered so far based on our learning from Quarter 1.  This assignment is meant to provide students with valuable feedback on what concepts they have mastered and what concepts still need some attention prior to taking our math placement test for college.

After this is complete, we will move on to our fourth unit of the year.  For the first part of the unit, we will focus on solving systems of equations and inequalities.  In the past, students have learned how to solve a system by graphing, using substitution, and linear combination / elimination.  We will spend some time reviewing each of these methods and helping to determine when we should use each.  Once we have worked with this in terms of two variables, we will spend the rest of the week focusing on how to solve a system of three equations.







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