Unit+1

**1.1** **L**ist the math classes you have taken during high school. Write a few sentences describing your feelings toward math and why - either a good experience or a bad one. Think about what type of learner you are describe the best methods teachers use to help you understand the topics. Please describe your goals after this year - do you need this class to graduate and you are a senior, are you here for MCAS reasons, or what math class or classes do you plan on taking next year?

Last year, I took Geometry honors and with that I had a really bad experience. I have always and will love algebra. It is my favorite topic in math that I fully understand and something i could do all day. Something that kept me not succeeding my goal was lots and lots homework. Everyday I would have 3 sheets of math homework only that I didn't understand how to do so I would try it but still I wouldn't fully understand how to do it and then I would fail most of the tests. Hopefully this year I will understand the concept and not try to learn it myself. Next year, I want to be in honors pre calculus.

1.2 Look at the following, which is an example that has been worked out step by step. Explain in full sentences each step that was taken in the problem and why that step was chosen. Be clear about the step you are looking at, for example "going from line 1 to line 2, ..." All these steps should be written in your online journal.

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exponents equations || # recopy equation
 * i see it means ||
 * fractions
 * 1) find common denominator
 * 2) subtraction
 * 3) subtraction
 * 4) division
 * 5) solving
 * 6) plug in
 * 7) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%;">solve
 * 8) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%;">check ||

1.3
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">After spending time in class and at home solving a variety of equations, identify the type of problem that is the easiest for you to solve. Also identify the type of problem that you struggle with the most. Why is this type of problem the most challenging? Where do you make your errors most often? What tricks or reminders should you write here (in a different color) as a reminder to prevent that error in the future?

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">In math class and at home there is noting to easy or nothing to hard. I find simplify very easy but one thing I get confused on is when there is no equal sign and if I combine like terms. I know I have to combine like terms but I always forget but I feel more comfortable with it. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">A reminder of an error is when I put the correction in a different color I think what it is and then I check why I made that mistake.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Linear Function- functions that have x as an inpuit =variable
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Relation-related
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Domain- coordinate y
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Range- an area which something can act in
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Increasing- something going up
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Decreasing- something going down
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Slope-describe steepness of the line
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Intercept- where 2 points meet
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Degree- unit of measurement


 * __ 1.6 Journal Response __**
 * __ couldnt do it because it didnt work. __**


 * __<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 21.3333px;">1.7 Journal response __**

1. graph b 2. **__graph__**
 * __3. graph d__**
 * __4. graph a__**
 * __5. graph c__**
 * __6. graph b__**



1.9 the coordinate points go up by .5 and the line are parllel.