Marks Available on TeachAssist

I will now be using teachassist to record your marks.  For your most up-to-date mark, please log in and have a look.

The site is: http://ta.yrdsb.ca/yrdsb/   (Link also in right column)

User name: Your student ID number.
Password: Your last name (Please change it once you log in)

Let me know if there are any discrepancies and if you have any questions about your mark.

Math Help Room Open

A math help room is now available where peer tutors can help you out with math homework if you need it.  Here are the location and times:

Room G4

Tues, Wed, Thurs during P3

Tues, Thurs during P4

You can always look on the right hand column of this page to see these times.

Oct. 5 Class

Congratulations on completing the second unit test today!

Have a happy and safe Thanksgiving weekend!

(Don't forget to do the handout from yesterday: Quadratic Relationship Review)

Oct. 4 Class

Today is the first official day of the new unit!  But most of you were more concerned about studying for the unit test tomorrow.  Here anyways is some material for you to start working on reviewing for the next unit.

Unit 3 Daily Plan 

Quadratic Relationship Review

You should work on these as soon as we complete the unit test tomorrow.

Good luck in your studies.

Oct. 3 Class

Today was a work/study period for you to review and ask questions about this unit.  Reminder: the test is on Friday!

Here are a couple more practice sheets I handed out today:

Multiplying and dividing rational expressions

Alternate quiz

And here are the solutions!

Multiplying and dividing rational expressions Solutions

Alternate quiz Solutions

Good luck in your studies.
There will be an extra help session after school today.

Oct. 2 Class

Learning Goals: Understand how to add subtract and simplify rational expressions.

Today I handed back the test from Unit 1.  If you have any questions about your mark or concerns about the rest of this course, please come see me.

There will be an extra help session today after school and tomorrow after school.

We completed a formative quiz today and here are the solutions:

For the communication questions here is one possible solution:

I would factor the numerator and the denominator.  Then find the restrictions by excluding all values that would make the denominator zero.  Next I would simplify by cancelling any factors that are in both the numerator and denominator.

Up next we will do more review and have the next unit test on Friday.

Homework: P. 132 # 1-16.

Oct. 1 Class

Learning Goals: Understand how to add and subtract rational expressions.

We began with a review of how to add fractions, something you should all know from grade 9!

For example, look this:

Easy?  Let's break down all the steps we used to get to the final answer.

1. Find the lowest common denominator.
2. Rewrite the numerators.
3. Add the numerators.

Now we need to apply this to rational expressions.

Example: Add the following, .

The lowest common denominator in this case is 3y.

We rewire the numerators as,.

Now we add the numerators,

And we're done.

Example: Add the following, .

We treat the denominators as factors.  In this case the lowest common denominator is,

LCD: (x+2)(x–3)

Rewrite the numerators, .

Add the numerators, 

And you get the solution: . Restrictions: x ≠ 2, x ≠ 3.

A few things to remember:

• You should always try to simplify.
• Don't simplify until the end when everything is in factored form.
• You cannot simplify when there is still adding and subtracting to be done.