Thursday's class (4-3-08)

Presentations began today. After each presentation, students filled out a journal entry about each presenter. These were the journal questions:

1. Did the presenter have a clear objective? (1 - 5 points )

2. What the graph useful in helping the presenter accomplish their objective? (1-5 points)

3. Did the presenter give a good presentation? (1-5 points)

4. What was most memorable or beneficial to you about the presentation?

After the conclusion of presentations, students had to answer the following four questions about linear equations:


1. Write an equation for the line that passes through the points (2, 11) and (5, 20).


2. Write and equation for the line that has a slope of 4 and y-intercept of 7.


3. Write the equation of a line that has a slope of 7 and passes through the point (2,18)


4. Write the equation of a line that has a y-intercept of (0,5) and passes through the point (4, -11)

The scribe for Friday's class is ......

Excel Day

Today we learned how to use Excel to find the line of best fit.