Wednesday HW! (Practice for Friday's Test)

Tonight please complete the 7 "Verify Trig Identities" problems provided in class after STAR (or below)! 

• Do your homework! This is practice for our TEST FRIDAY!
• You will have some classwork practice tomorrow before our test Friday!
• Do these on separate paper! Remember the focus/grading is based on how you show your work, so don't sloppily squeeze this on the half sheet--that type of work wouldn't get you an A on Friday!

Tomorrow in class I'll provide a key and then we'll do some practice before Friday's test! See you there! Have a great afternoon!

Tuesday = Finish any outstanding homework!

Remember we have the STAR TEST TOMORROW! Head straight to the LIBRARY LIT LAB! Be on time!

• Proficient on STAR = 100% on a quiz
• Proficient on STAR = seniors need an 80 or above to be exempt
• You also must be proficient on STAR to be proficient for your SLE rating on your report card!

Seniors (HW): 

• Seniors must complete the "Trig Identities Puzzle" (Friday's sub work) for tomorrow!
• This will be collected and graded as a quiz
• Be sure to neatly and clearly show all of our work--remember, I'm grading your process (your work), not your final answer!
• Feel free to do this work on separate paper! Just # every problem and be neat/organized/clear!

Otherwise if you have any outstanding homework with identities you can show it to me tomorrow for full credit! No makeup homework will be accepted after tomorrow! However, I'm not going to tell you if you're missing something--you have to check the gradebook and use the blog to find any assignments!

After STAR tomorrow we'll do some identities classwork on Thursday, then it's test time Friday! Be ready!

Monday HW!

Tonight please complete the "Verifying Trigonometric Identities Quiz" worksheet provided in class (or below)! (This is going to be checked/scored as homework, not as a quiz)

• Remember, verifying identities is all about SHOWING YOUR PROCESS
• You MUST SHOW EVERY STEP
• Work must be organized and clear so that I can follow your reasoning
• If it's not...no credit!
• "The answer" is given to us! This is all about neatly and clearly showing how we can make one expression match another
• Pay attention to exponents
• Pay attention to the variables!

This is a big week for us! Here's a breakdown of the week:

• Tuesday = more verifying identities practice/notes
• Wednesday = STAR Testing (in library Lit Lab)
• Proficient on STAR = 100% on a quiz grade!
• Proficient also means seniors need an A OR B to be exempt from the final!
• Thursday = identities classwork/practice
• Friday = Verifying Identities Mini-Test!
• (It's only "mini" because it's based on one chapter)
• First, you will have to derive the Pythagorean identities into at least 5 forms--the same as our quiz
• Then you will have a variety of identities to verify based on our practice throughout the week!

Thursday HW!

Seniors--be responsible tomorrow! If/when you miss class for "signing day" come get the classwork from the sub and do it over the weekend! Otherwise I'll have to give it to you to do as homework on Monday night!

Tonight, please simplify each of the identities below for homework--this will be check on Monday (when I'm back) along with your unit circle homework!

• Skip questions 2 and 3--we did this as our stamp today!
• Here are the questions: do 1, 4, 5, 6, 7:
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• And here are the answers so you can check:
• 1.) cot^2(x)
• 4.) 1
• 5.) sin(x)
• 6.) 1
• 7.) 1

Tomorrow I will be out! Your sub work will be collected and graded, so be on top of your game! After you finish some identity practice you will have a unit circle to complete--we can't forget about that!

Weekend Homework:

• Complete the unit circle provided by the sub
• Fill in all angle measures in radians and degrees
• Label all coordinates
• Do this without copying the answers from your book or an old unit circle--that's not going to help you LEARN this and PRACTICE! 

Have a great weekend and I'll see you all on Monday!

And remember, on Monday I'm checking the unit circle and the 5 identities above (in blue)!

Wednesday HW!

Tonight's homework:

• Please complete questions 9-14 on the "Worksheet--The Basic 8 Trig Identities" provided in class (or below).
• #14 is pretty tough! Here's some help...
• To start, let's just deal with the fraction--we'll worry about the "+1" at the end...
• First, use a Pythagorean Identity to substitute for the numerator of the fraction...
• Next, factor this numerator--we have a difference of two perfect squares! (If you don't remember how to factor a difference of squares, look it up!)
• After we factor this numerator we can now "cancel out" one of the "terms in parentheses"
• Now we should be left with (secx -1) + 1...
• Combine like terms and we get secx!
• And here are the answers so you can check yours:
• 9.) 1
• 10.) sin^2(x)
• 11.) sin^2(x)
• 12.) sin^2(x)
• 13.) cot(x)
• 14.) sec(x)

Tonight's Homework:

Tomorrow (Thursday) in class we'll keep working with identities--with a quiz?!

Then on Friday I will be out--you'll have some more identities to complete (sub work) that will be collected and graded; then, it's back to the unit circle--after you finish your identities you'll be given a blank unit circle to fill out!

HW and Quiz Tomorrow!

Tomorrow we will start class with a quiz--you will have to derive the Pythagorean Identities!

• Quiz = write the Pythagorean Identity in at least 5 different forms
• Your 5 forms must reference all 6 trig functions!

Tonight's homework:

• Please complete questions 1-8 on the "Worksheet--The Basic 8 Trig Identities" provided in class (or below).
• Want a head start on tomorrow's homework?
• Tomorrow's homework is to complete numbers 9 - 14! (14 involves some kind of factoring...)

Tonight's Homework:

Tomorrow (Wednesday's) Homework:

Monday HW!

Tonight please complete the following in your textbook:

Page 345: 

• 15-18 (for these matching questions ignore options c and e; you will use a,b,d,f)
• 27, 29, 31, 51, 61
• Be sure to check your answers in the book!

Some other reminders...

• We will start class with a quiz on Wednesday! You will have to write the "original" Pythagorean identity then derive it into different forms!
• Your various forms will have to reference all 6 ratios...look at our class notes!
• We will have another quiz on Thursday--12 matching questions with trig identities!
• And finally, I will be out Friday--but your classwork with the sub will also be graded as a quiz, so come focused!

See you all tomorrow for some more (and more challenging) identities!