Mr. Smiley's Math Page

"The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated,
but to make complicated things simple"

"Very often in mathematics the crucial problem is to recognize
and discover what are the relevant concepts;
once this is accomplished the job may be more than half done."

Please, keep these couple of sentences in your mind. This may help you a lot.

Question is is not "Do we have homework? " but "What do we have for homework"

Grade	*Homework Days*
8B Grade	Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
8C Grade	Monday, Wednesday, Friday
9th Grade (Geometry Only)	Friday
10th Grade	Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday

Course Title:	Algebra and Geometry 10^th Grade (MTWTF 1st Period)
Course Purpose:	The 21^st Century needs highly-educated, self-motivated people having strong mathematical background. In this course, each student will be able to understand Quadratic equations and inequalities, their solutions and graphs Exponentials, properties exponentials, Exponential Interest and Growth, Quadratic parabolas, Metric System, Similarity and equivalence in Triangles, Metric Relations in Right Triangle and Analytic Circle
Textbook	Prentice Hall Algebra and Geometry. You will have some extra documents during classes.
Materials and Equipments	Notebook (grid lines, 80 pages), pencil, eraser, calculator. Expect daily use of calculator. This device will not take place of your brains. We use it as a tool to study harder calculations plus expect lots of problem solving. For Geometry ruler, protractor and triangle will be used.
Assignments, Homework, Exams	3 times in a week (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) you will have homework . Late homework will be evaluated as half of original homework. There will be 2 (two) exam s in each quarter, in the middle and at the end. Exams can be either test with 25 questions or usual examination with question and answer style. You may have a make-up exam with same kind of questions in the same week. If you missed any exam, you have to have a reasonable explanation submitted to Dean of Students. Anytime you may have Pop quizes J
Grading	30 % Homework 20 % In-class assignments and note taking 40 % Midterms 10 % Pop quizzes _________________ 100 % Total

Course Title:	Geometry 9^th Grade (Thu, Fri 4th Period)
Course Purpose:	The 21^st Century needs highly-educated, self-motivated people having strong mathematical background. In this course, each student will be able to understand and improve concept of point, line, line segment, ray, half line, plane, space, position of points and line w.r.t each other, angles, measure of angles, classifications, types of triangle, relationship between its sides and angles, similarity, Pythagorian Theorem and Euclidian Relations in Right Triangle
Textbook	Prentice Hall Algebra and Geometry. You will have some extra documents during classes.
Materials and Equipments	Notebook (grid lines, 80 pages), pencil, eraser, calculator. Expect daily use of calculator. This device will not take place of your brains. We use it as a tool to study harder calculations plus expect lots of problem solving. For Geometry ruler, protractor and triangle will be used.
Assignments, Homework, Exams	You will have homework 1 time in a week (Friday) Late homework will be evaluated as half of original homework. There will be 2 (two) exams in each quarter, in the middle and at the end. Exams can be either test with 25 questions or usual examination with question and answer style. You may have a make-up exam with same kind of questions in the same week. If you missed any exam, you have to have a reasonable explanation submitted to Dean of Students. Anytime you may have Pop quizes J
Grading	30 % Homework 20 % In-class assignments and note taking 40 % Midterms 10 % Pop quizzes _________________ 100 % Total

Course Title:	Pre-Algebra and Pre-Geometry 8^th Grades (MTWTF : 8B 2nd 8C 3rd Period)
Course Purpose:	The 21^st Century needs highly-educated, self-motivated people having strong mathematical background. In this course, each student will be able to understand basic concepts in measurement and statistics, real numbers, ratio proportion, factorization and basic identities. In Geometry, students will learn the concepts of , polygons, and Quadrilaterals.
Textbook	Prentice Hall Algebra and Geometry. You will have some extra documents during classes.
Materials and Equipments	Notebook (grid lines, 80 pages), pencil, eraser, calculator. Expect daily use of calculator. This device will not take place of your brains. We use it as a tool to study harder calculations plus expect lots of problem solving. For Geometry ruler, protractor and triangle will be used.
Assignments, Homework, Exams	You will have homework 3 times in a week For 8B Graders: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday For 8C Graders: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday Late homework will be evaluated as half of original homework. There will be 2 (two) exams in each quarter, in the middle and at the end. Exams can be either test with 25 questions or usual examination with question and answer style. You may have a make-up exam with same kind of questions in the same week. If you missed any exam, you have to have a reasonable explanation submitted to Dean of Students. Anytime you may have Pop quizes J
Grading	30 % Homework 20 % In-class assignments and note taking 40 % Midterms 10 % Pop quizzes _________________ 100 % Total

Mathematics Club	*Tutoring*
Tuesday 2:50 - 3:50	Monday 3:00 - 3:50
	Tuesday 3:50 - 4:30

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