Class Notes (5-08-08) Thursday

Here is a sample of one of the graphs from today's class.

Class Notes (5-07-08) Wednesday

Here are the notes from today's class.

Class Notes (5-1-08) Thursday

Here are the notes from today's class.

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.

March 27, 2008

The graph above is the graoh from today classwork. It includes answer on the question:
1) Draw a line of best fit
2)Find the slope and y-intercept
3) Come up with a story to describe this graph
4) Before graphing, what would you hypothesis have been?

After working on the "Do Now" we worked on our Benchmarks and recieved help if we needed any.

Scribe Post 3.26.08

So the day starts off with the usual “do now” and Mr. Rochester says that the questions will be just like the benchmark. Then after the kids decide to quiet down he goes around and observes some kids and how they are doing with the “do now” and while he was doing that Mr. Lehmann comes in to discuss matters about calculators and ordering them. After he finishes talking to Mr. Lehmann he waits a few minutes and then explains the “do now”. Now he has explained the answers for us and says that to do something good for the benchmark we need common sense…and Ozzie was singing Taylor Swift’s “Tear Drops on my Guitar”. Now after Ozzie sings, Mr. Rochester tells us to upload the classwork and one graph from our benchmark and that we can work on it now. Soon he decides to example a graph and explains “the line of best fit”.