Showing posts with label 8th Grade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 8th Grade. Show all posts

Sunday, October 12, 2014

This week - 8th grade



Monday:  factoring trinomials with a leading coefficient of 1 lecture, notes, guided examples and practice



Wednesday: factoring trinomials review and activity

Thursday:
Practice and review of factoring
Quiz 3, Factoring GCF, Perfect Squares, Trinomials
Quiz Retakes during class when Quiz 3 is finished

Friday:

Return Quiz 3
Lecture, notes and guided practice on factoring trinomials with a non-zero leading coefficient,


8th graders - dividing a polynomial by a monomial



All of you need to practice this skill.

Here is a Khan Academy video explaining the steps to simplifying this type of expression.

My advice is that when you see this type of problem written like (4x^2 - 5x + 10) ➗2x convert it into fractional form with a numerator and denominator:

4x^2 - 5x + 10
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         2x