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Wednesday, November 16, 2005 

Quadratic Formula

Today's activities:
Check and collect #29
5.5 Cont.
• Complete the square
• Solve by completing the square
HW: #30 page 287 #55-71 (o), 85, 86, 101-105 (o)
5.6 Quadratic Formula
• Formula (The story of the Radical House)
• examples
• Discriminant and what it means
HW: #31 page 295 #33-63 (o)
Check out the song, too!
Quadratic Formula.mp3
Reminder: Benchmarks 8.2 and 8.3 (solving quadratics by completing the square and quadratic formula) will be on Friday! Come prepared!

The Quadratic Formula song is well.... um... Interesting?? *Is sort of scared that somebody actually sang a song about math* But I really enjoyed the story and it helps me remember it!! This section is more difficult than everything we have done so far, I think because it has more steps. See you tomorrow Mr. Fjelstrom!

The quadratic formula is sort of difficult, but the story helps me remember the fomula.

I agree with you meaghan! [haha] It scared me too. Mr. Fjelstrom should of sang it. :) The story was very funny and it helped me out. I remember it now! My previous teachers never made this stuff easier for me and I'm happy you make it easier with songs etc. Mr. Fjelstrom. I think the quadratic formula makes it a little bit easier than the other way we learned it. A lot more steps in these problems. I'm studying a lot more so I can get all those steps etc. down better [plus raise my grade too] :)

In class we took notes and the 5.5 is hard to me but we also learned the quadratic formula and to me its actually easy (so far)and the story for the quadratic formula was funny but you should of sang it, then we got HW.

In class we took notes and the 5.5 is hard to me but we also learned the quadratic formula and to me its actually easy (so far)and the story for the quadratic formula was funny but you should of sang it, then we got HW.

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