Your packets were passed out this week for our MCAS preparation work in class.  Please do your best!  If you would like to view additional test question, please vist the DESE’s website at http://www.doe.mass.edu/mcas/testitems.html.

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Welcome Students!

Here you will find important information you need for your class.  Click on your class above in the green bar, after that you can select the Syllabus, Homework, and Projects page for each class.  Please use this site to check for past and upcoming assignments in my class.  Also, feel free to email me altierik@lynnschools.org if you have questions about your homework!
 

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Fun & Challenging Problem of the Week!

Use your knowledge of algebra to simplify the expression below. 

(Remember:  Please share your enthusiasm for the quest for the answer with your friends, but do not share the answer itself!) 

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Upcoming Quarter 3 Project:  “Basketball and Polynomial Functions”

This quarter will we use polynomial functions to determine the velocity, reach and height needed for a basketball player to make a slam dunk.  In the mean time, check out the infamous slam dunk below.  Who knows…with a little practice, this could be you!    

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Is our 24/7 wired world causing us to lose as much as we’ve gained?

Frontline recently ran a fantastic documentary highlighting the complex issue of our ever-changing digital nation. Today’s students are truly the first generation that are always digitally connected and constantly multitasking online and between digital devices. Watch for yourself as students, who are referred to as “the fallout from the digital revolution”, from MIT and Stanford University are studied carefully for the effects of this multitasking. What do you think?  How are we each impacted?

View the remainder of this Frontline Documentary at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/view/?utm_campaign=viewpage&utm_medium=toparea&utm_source=toparea