What's Going On? February 20th through 24th

Snow Day!

I'm sure that you have heard by now, but we will not have school on Thursday, February 16th.  Enjoy your snow day!  I will see you again on Monday.


Thought for the Week





Wrapping Up Quadratics (Unit 6) and Beginning Rational Functions (Unit 7)

Due to our unexpected snow day, students will spend Monday's class completing the paper EMPT check-in summative assignment.  For this assignment, students will have 8 questions to answer based on some of the major concepts that are included in the EMPT (math placement test).

For the rest of the week, we will begin unit 7 where we will explore rational functions.  We will learn how to simplify rational expressions.  For the rest of the week, we will focus on how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide them.



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