Grade 11 Functions and Applications: 2012

Thursday, 20 December 2012

Exam Review

Here are the packages that contain the exam review and all the possible Oral Exam questions.

Exam Review

Dec 20 Class

Today we discussed annuities: regular payments that earn interest.

Here is the handout: Annuities: Future Value

Here are the notes:

Homework: P. 498 #1-6, 9, 12, 14

Wednesday, 19 December 2012

Dec. 19 Class

Today we discussed how to use a TVM solver to solve financial problems.

First off, some answers from the homework:

Handout: TVM solver

Here are the notes:

Homework: P. 486 #1-3, 5-8, 14

Tuesday, 18 December 2012

Dec. 18 Class

Today we talked about how to calculate Present Value of an investment.

Here are the handouts:
Compound Interest Problems
Present Value Problems

Here are the notes:

Homework: P. 476 #1-6, 9-14

Monday, 17 December 2012

Dec. 17 Class

New Unit!

Unit 8: Financial Applications

Today we looked at the difference between simple and compound interest and looked at formulas used to calculate each type of interest.

Handouts:

Homework: P. 459 #1-8, 11, P. 468 #1-10, 12, 14, 15

Wednesday, 12 December 2012

Dec. 12 Class

Today was a work/study period to prepare for the test tomorrow.

Thursday: Part 1, Knowledge and Thinking
Friday: Part 2, Application and Communication

Good luck!

Dec. 11 Class

Congratulations on completing the quiz! It should give you a good idea of what you need to study for the test.

Here is a copy: Unit 7 Quiz

And here are the solutions:

Monday, 10 December 2012

Dec. 10 Class

Today we did more word problems on exponential growth and decay. Tomorrow we will do a quiz and the test is on Thursday/Friday.

Handouts:

Notes:

Homework: P. 437 #4-9, 11, 12

Thursday, 6 December 2012

Dec. 6 Class

Today we looked more closely as exponential functions.

Handout: Exponential Functions

Notes:

Homework: P. 423 # 1–4

Extra Practice on Exponent Rules

Some people have asked me for extra practice on exponent rules. Here are a few resources you can look at:

Handout: Exponent Rules Practice

Websites:
http://math.uww.edu/~mcfarlat/141/expo2.htm

http://www.themathpage.com/alg/rational-exponents.htm

Have fun!

Wednesday, 5 December 2012

Exam Schedule

All exams at 9AM

Jan. 24 Period 4

Jan. 25 Period 5

Jan. 28 Period 1

Jan. 29 Period 2

Jan. 30 Period 3 --> Math Exam

Jan. 31 Exam Review Day

Then we played a game where we dropped cards on the table. People with face up cards stayed in the game. People with face down cards were eliminated. We graphed the number of people left and got the following:

After paying the game twice, we got essentially the same graph... why?

Then I told the story of a man who asks the Emperor for rice. The man asked for a chess board and 1 grain of rice on the first square. On each square he asked to double it, by the time the board was half full, the Emperor had run out of rice, and there were many more squares to go! We graphed it and examined the shape of the graph.

These two graphs are examples of exponential graphs.

We then graphed a function with x in the exponent and examined features of that graph. This is the base graph that we will study in the coming days.

Homework: Copy “In Summary” p. 393 into notes

p. 394 #1-3

p. 419 #1-8

Tuesday, 4 December 2012

Dec. 4 Class

Here are some solutions from the homework problems:

Handouts:

And here are notes from class:

Homework: P. 415 #1-19

Monday, 3 December 2012

Dec. 3 Class

Today we talked more about exponents, specifically, how to rewrite exponents so that they have a different base. We also spent some time to discuss how brackets can effect the answer when you evaluate exponents.

Here are the handouts:

And here are the notes: