Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving! You all have been working hard this year....take this well-deserved opportunity to rest up, relax, and enjoy some time with your friends and family! We'll get back to the hard work as we discuss "holes" in rational functions and review for a unit test when we get back!

Until then, please complete the take home test (provided in class) for homework! Don't forget!

If you lost yours or you were absent (or you want an electronic copy), just send me an email (carofano.fm@easthartford.org) and I'll reply with a copy of the test!

And in the spirit of Thanksgiving, check out this fantastic Stove Top Stuffing commercial!

Enjoy the break! See you all on Monday!

Extra Credit?

We're halfway done PreCalc!

And there's no homework tonight!

Tomorrow (in class) we'll finish up our matching activity and then we'll finish up our unit! How exciting! And we'll get a take home test! Yay!

Great work today in class! Keep it up!

Oh, and here's an extra credit homework assignment (this can get rid of a homework 0!). This will only be accepted if you have it tomorrow:

Page 148: 7-12 (matching), 23 (only part c, complete the table), 35abc

Do it! Even if you don't have a homework 0....then you'll have one to "waste" in the future!

Wknd HW!

Great work today with those graphic organizers! Hopefully you're starting to feel more and more confident about graphing rational functions. On Monday we'll do some more practice with a matching activity, and then on Tuesday we'll learn the last pieces about rational functions. When we're back from Thanksgiving we'll do a little review and then have a test on rational functions!

This weekend, please complete the following in your textbook (the paper I gave you in class was just a photocopy of the book page):

Page 149: 13, 15, 17, 19 (just do part (b) of the directions; find the vertical and horizontal asymptotes for each function)

Page 149: 31, 32, 33, 34 (find the x-intercepts for each function without a graphing calculator)


Enjoy! Have a great weekend...enjoy the warm Sunday! I'll see you all Monday morning!

Thursday...

Tonight, please complete the following in your textbook: (you know I'm checking)

Page 157: 10, 15, 19

• Graph the rational function for each
• If you don't do 10, no credit! (because then you probably just copied from the book!)
• For full credit, I expect to see the asymptotes, intercepts, and some additional points plotted
• Your work should convince me that you didn't just copy these from the back of the book!

Also, remember your signed grade report is due tomorrow. This counts as a double homework! It should be an easy 100%!

And in case you need some help, here are a bunch of youtube videos you can watch about graphing rational functions!

Tomorrow in class we'll finish up 2 more graphic organizers (for a classwork grade)! On Monday we'll keep practicing, and on Tuesday we'll talk about holes! Wooo!

Enjoy your Thursday! See you all in the am!

Wednesday HW!

You have two homework assignments to worry about...

1. Please complete the graphic organizer for the rational function we started in class
1. You have to find the coordinates of 9 additional points (3 to the left of the VA, 3 between the VA's, and 3 to the right of the VA)
2. Then, sketch the graph!
2. Get your grade report signed! This is due by Friday and counts as a double homework!

We'll spend the next few days practicing graphing rational functions to get ready for a test on Tuesday! Wooooooo!

Enjoy your "hump day." See you all in the morning!

Rational Functions!

DO YOUR HOMEWORK! Our quiz grades clearly show who has and who has not been working hard outside of class. If you want to improve in this course you have to put in work when you leave...and that means doing your homework! This course will only get more and more challenging as time goes by...if you're just sitting back and being complacent your grades are going to suffer!

Tonight, please complete slides 1-4 on the handout provided in class. I'm checking...do it! If you lost yours you can find the questions below...

Quiz Tomorrow!

Tonight--study! Tomorrow we have a quiz on graphing rational functions!

• The quiz is similar to problems from this past weekend's homework and today's stamp problem!
• Here's an outline of what you need to know to "ace" the quiz:
• Find x-intercepts of a rational function
• Find y-intercepts of a rational function
• Find the vertical asymptotes
• Find the horizontal asymptotes
• Describe the end-behavior of a rational function
• Find additional points (choose a couple x-values on either side of the VA; then, sub these in for x to find y; now you have the coordinates of some points to plot!)
• Use all of the above information to graph rational functions
• Define the domain and range of a rational function

Enjoy! Use your homework/answer key, stamp problem, and your notes to study!

After our quiz we'll learn some more about rational functions, and start to graph more and more complex ones! Yayyyy!