Mr. Burke's Math Page A Resource for Students and Parents

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New Class Webpage! You can help decide what it looks like	Recent Classwork Photos	April Student of the Month! Who will it be? Who should it be?
Welcome to all my new Algebra and Geometry students. This class page is open to everyone. Homework and assignments can be posted here along with other resources. There is a static page, which means it only changes when I update it. You cannot write on it. If you need to contact me, use Pupil Path, or the class blog. (We don’t have a class blog at the moment – should we have one? THE CLASS BLOG In the past, before we had Pupil Path, I had a class weblog. I haven't updated it because students were not using it, and it was taking too much of my time to maintain it. If students want to participate in class in this manner, I will use it again. THIS IS YOUR PAGE, TOO! If you have anything that you would like to post on this page, or if you would like to help redesign this site, let me know. I can use, and would appreciate, the assistance. Thank you.
”Anyone can know. The point is to understand.” -- Albert Einstein

The following calendars predate the current Common Core, but may be used as a reference until more recent files can be uploaded.

Here is the Integrated Algebra Term 2 - Calendar of Lessons.
Here is the Geometry - Calendar of Lessons.
Some modifications will be coming.

Algebra The vacation assignment has been posted. Download it. It is due when we get back. Friday, April 7, 2017 Mr. Burke was back from Jury Duty today Today's topic revolved about 4 vocabulary words: qualitative data quantitative data univariate data bivariate data Qualitative data was descriptive in nature. Quantitative data was numeric and measurable. Univariate data concerned one variable and was used to report data, but didn't care about cause and effect. Bivariate data concerned two variables and was used to find relationships in data, such as cause and effect. Thursday, April 6, 2017 Mr. Burke is on Jury Duty today Work was left in class about Box-and-whisker plots. Box and whisker plots show a summary of a data set. To create one, you need to know the Minimum number, the Maximum number, the Median, and Q1 and Q3, which are the Lower Quartile and the Upper Quartile. All of these can be found can be found on your graphing calculator using the 1-Var-Stats function. The worksheet you were given is due on Friday, whether I am there to collect it or not. (If I am not there, I will collect all the papers after school on Friday.) Geometry Your vacation assignment will be posted soon. Friday, April &, 2017 Mr. Burke was back from Jury Duty today Today's topic was intersecting chords and secants which intercept arcs of circles. We saw that if two chords intersect each other inside a circle but not at the center, the measure of the angle they create is equal to the average of the measures of the two arcs. In other words, add up the two arcs and divide by two. If two secant lines intersect outside of a circle, the procedure is similar. Instead of adding the two arcs together, subtract the smaller from the bigger, then divide the difference by two. That will be the measure of the angle created by the two secants. You can find a copy of the assignment, p302 here along with some notes from the lesson. Thursday, April 6, 2017 Mr. Burke is on Jury Duty today Today's topic was inscribed angles within circles. In particular, if an inscribed angle intercepts an arc, then the size of the inscribed angle is half the size of the central angle that intercept the same arc. If two or more inscribed angles intercept the same arc, then those inscribed angles must be congruent to each other. You can find a copy of the assignment here.