Mr. Brzenskis math class

go here to find the real website

mrbrzenskismathclass.blogspot.com

Coolest site of the YEAR!!!!!!!!!

http://www.wolframalpha.com/

Go here and type in what you want. Whats the square root of 5694948594.2342? Type in your birthday and see what happens. Type in disctance around the sun. This thing tells you everything really nicely. Much quicker than Google. Have fun.

Just of note, I have been alive now for 10,559 days. or 9.123 x 10⁸ seconds

Wednesday 5/27/2009

There is no homework for any of the classes today or for the rest of the week. periods 4,6,7 should be working on their book projects and finishing those up.

Everyone has until June 3rd (Wednesday) to turn in any late work or missing assignments. I will be grumpy about telling you what you are missing. I make this website so you can look up old assignments and do them. If the date has a worksheet listed, write down what the worksheet is, and I will print it out. If you don't know, find out. I do not have time to research everyones missing assignments and print them out.

Friday 5/22/2009

For periods 1,2,3
Finish the book project. The project is due at the end of Tuesday when you come back

For periods 4,6,7
You have 1 extra day past the 8th graders, it is due Thursday 5/28.

Here is a link to the requirements and the grading rubric if you do not have them

Thursday 5/21/2009

Homework for all periods
Work on the Booklet project.
8th graders are due on Tuesday 5/26/2009

7th graders are due on Thursday 5/28/2009

Wednesday 5/20/2009

Homework for period 4
No homework. We start a project tomorrow.

Homework for periods 6,7,1
Work on Book project.
Brainstorm ideas for the comic, or the story/song/poem

Tuesday 5/19/2009

Homework for periods 1,2,3
There is no homework, work on your Book project

Homework for periods 6,7
No homework, we will begin our book projects.

Monday 5/18/2009

Homework for periods 1,2,3
Work on your book project.

Homework for period 4
There is no homework today for period 4

Thursday 5/14/2009

Homework for periods 4,6,7
Finish page 80, problems 1-12. Multiply using your head or using the box method.

Homework for period 1
No homework, we finished Movie Friday.

Wednesday 5/14/2009

Homework for all classes:
I was not here so for periods 6,7,1,2,3 finish what the substitute said to finish, the search-and-shade from the back of the classwork.

Tuesday 5/12/2009

Homework for period 1
Factor the 10 problems from class
1) 8x^2+10x+3
2) 9x^2+24x+16
3) 3x^2 + 7x + 2
4) 5x^2+11x+6
5) 2x^2+3x+1
6) x^2 + 11x + 5
7) 2x^2 + 19x + 9
8) 12x^2 + 13x + 3
9) 7x^2 + 17x + 6
10) 4x^2 + 8x + 3

Homework for period 2
No Homework

Homework for period 3
Factor the 6 equations from the end of class

Homework for period 4
Factor the problems at the bottom of Practice 13-7

Monday 5/11/2009

Homework for period 1
Solve the 6 equations from class
1) x^2 + 5x + 6 = 0
2) x^2 + 9x + 18 = 0
3) x^2 + 2x + 1 = 0
4) x^2 + 7x + 12 = 0
5) x^2 + 7x + 6 = 0
6) x^2 + 4x + 3 = 0

Homework for periods 2,3
Solve the 10 problems from the board

Homework for period 4,7
Solve the 10 problems from practice 13-7

Homework for period 6
Solve the last 7 problems from practice 13-7

Week of May 5-9 2009

There will be no homework this week AGAIN! The schedule messed up everyone, and 4 classes need to catch up to the other 2. No homework this week.

Wednesday 4/23/2009

There will be no homework for ANY classes until the week of May 4th because of CST testing.

This is a good tie to do extra credit, or catch up on any of the missing assignments you may have from previous weeks.

Tuesday 4/21/2009

There is no homework for the classses today.

You should be relaxing, remembering, and preparing for the CST tests tomorrow and Thursday.
Remember to eat breakfast, use the bathroom, and relax. You know all that will be on the test.

If you need another copy of the CST help sheet, look to the right and find the link. REMEMBER::Whatever you write down DURING the test you can use on the test.

Monday 4/20/2009

homework for periods 1,2,3
Page 418 #17-24

Homework for periods 4,6,7
Finish finding the surface area and volume from the classwork.

Friday 4/17/2009

Homework for periods 2,3
page 422 and 423, do the multiples of three (problem 3, 6, 9 12....)

Homework for periods 4,6,7
Finish the Pythagorean take home exam. Be sure to show all your work for full credit. It will be worth 10 points.

Here is a link to the exam if you need a new one.

Thusday 4/16/2009

Homework for period 4,6,7
Finish graphing the triangles and finding the missing sides using the pythgorean theorem.


Homework for period 1
Page 422, do the multiples of 3. Thats problem 3, 6, 9..... on both page 422 and 423

Wednesday 4/15/2009

Homework for periods 6,7
Finish page d-74. It is worth 6 points because we started it in class

Homework for periods 1,2,3
Page 422 #16-26

Practice writing down the things from your CST help sheet. Whatever you can remember, write it down, and practice, so you can write it down during the test.

Tuesday 4/14/2009

Homework for periods 1,2,3
Page 402 #1-10. review of exponents.

Homework for period 4
Finish page d-76. be sure to bring it back, it will be worth 6 points.

Monday 4/13/2009

Homework for periods 1,2,3

Do problems 1-8 on practice 13-7


Homework for periods 4,6,7
Finish page d-73

Make Up work

For those of you who have been absent in the last two weeks, I have been lame about getting you the old assignments. I have made a packet of the last homework for the last 2 weeks for each grade. Click the appropriate link, do the appropriate pages.

Grade 7
Page 739 #2-30 Even
D-32 (2mb pdf)
Page 329-330 #18-21, 22-25, 30-35
D-33 (2mb pdf)
Page 445 #1-5
Page 729 #2-20 Even
Write 5 rational and 5 irrational numbers
D-34 (2mb pdf)

Grade 8
Page 414 #1-30 even
Page 280 #8,9,11,12,13,17-22,25,26,33,34
Page 104 #6-16
Write 5 rational and 5 irrational numbers

3/30/2009 - 4/1/2009

Sorry, I have been out for a few days.

There is only one day of homework this week for most people. Period 4 has 2 days of homework, and are the only ones with tracking sheets.

For periods 1,2,3
Finish problems #2, 4, 6, 12, 20 on practice 7-5.

For periods 4,6,7
#2-30 on page 739
Do just the even numbers



There will be no homework over Spring break. Enjoy yourself, as we have 2 weeks to study before the CST test.

Friday 3/27/09

Homework for periods 2,3
On page 483, #2-30 Even. (Only do the even problems 2, 4, 6, 8.......)


Homework for periods 4,6,7
The backside of the worksheet for today. Page d-31.

Thursday 3/26/09

Homework for periods 4,6,7
Finish the activity 26, finding the missing angle of the triangles.

Homework for period 1
Page 414 # 1 - 30 even
Simplify, move the variables, then solve the equations.

Tuesday 3/24/09

No homework for periods 1,2,3,4 because we took the benchmark exam in class

Thursday 2/19/09

Homework for period 1
Graph the 10 equations from the classwork

Homework for period 4

22 - 29 on page 338

Homework for Periods 6,7
#1-9 on page 338

Wednesday 2/19/09

Homework for periods 1,2,3

Do the 4 reflection graphs of the SD logo.

Homework for periods 6,7

Finish the reflection graphing page.

Wednesday 2/19/09

Homework for periods 1,2,3

Do the 4 reflection graphs of the SD logo.

Homework for periods 6,7

Finish the reflection graphing page.

Tuesday 2/17/09

Homework for periods 1,2,3
On page 104, #6-13
Please show all the steps for the work


Homework for periods 4
Page #338, #1-9
Show all your steps. We will go over some of them tomorrow in class, and we will keep doing these all week, so don't worry if you do not get it all right away.

Friday 2/13/09

THERE IS HOMEWORK TODAY!!!!!!!!!

Homework for Periods 2,3
Page 418 in the book, #1-16

Homework for periods 4,6,7
On page 711 do #19-30


Grades will not be updated until next week, owing to the fact most people are doing poorly in the class. NOW is the time to be doing good. Small things now really affect your grade. It will be tough to start with an F and work up from that.

Thursday 2/12/09

Homework For 4,6,7

Finish the practice test. Answers are in the post below. There will be a test tomorrow that looks just like the practice test, just different numbers.

Homework for Period 1
Do #1-16 on page 418

Chapter 6 Percents answers

The answers for the quiz are as follows.

1) c 2) a 3) d 4

Chapter 6 Percents answers

The answers for the quiz are as follows.

1) c 2) a 3) d 4) b 5) c 6) b
7) a 8) b 9) d 10) a 11) c 12) b
13) c 14) a 15) c 16) c 17) c 18) b
19) c 20) d

Wednesday 2/11/09

Homework for periods 1,2,3
Finish the practice test. I will put the answers up in the post above this so you can check your work. The test Friday will be exactly like this but different numbers.

Homework for Periods 6,7
Finish the Percent house. Make it look nice. Add door and furniture and such.

Tuesday 2/10/08

Homework for all periods:

Everyone has some sort of Percent house to finish. You can make it however you like, just make sure the rooms are the correct size. Make the house look nice, add doors, stuff inside, anything you want. Make sure the rooms are labeled.

FRIDAY 2/6/09

Homework for periods 2,3
Finish page e-17, e-19. Many finished in class and have been stamped.

Homework for periods 4,6,7
Change the following fractions to a percent.
1/2, 1/3, 2/3, 1/4, 2/4, 3/4, 1/5, 2/5, 3/5, 4/5, 1/8, 3/8, 5/8, 7/8, 1/10, 3/10, 7/10, 9/10.

Use any way you know how.

Thursday 2/5/09

Homework for Period 1
Finsih the two sides of page e-17, e-19

Periods 4,6,7
Do #7-30 on page 312. Decide which of the many ways we use is needed to solve the problem. You do not have to show work. Just write questions and answers.

Wednesday 2/4/09

homework for periods 1,2,3
Finish page E-33, use the IS/OF = %/100 method to find the answers. Or, use any other way you can.

Homework for periods 6,7
On page 320 do # 7-12

For markup, you add to the price. For discount, you subtract from the price.

Tuesday 2/3/09

Homework for Periods 1,2,3
Do page 274, #17 - 21. Find the percent discount, then SUBTRACT that from the original price

Homework for periods 4,6,7
Page 320 # 7 - 12.
Find the discount or mark-up, then add or subtract that to the original price. Be sure to tell me the final price.

2/2/09

Just a friendly reminder: Any time you do not turn in a tracking sheet, a phone call home will be generated AUTOMATICALLY!!! The first calls went out today if you forgot your tracking sheet. Do your homework!!!

For all periods today:
Finish page E-25, finding percents. Be sure you show your work on the back or on another sheet of paper.

Friday 1/30/09

For all periods
Finish page E-29. Find the percents any way you can. I showed you how to find 10% and 5% and use those in different ways to find the given percent.

Thursday 1/29/09

Homework for periods 4,6,7
Find 5%, 15%, and 25% of 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, and 70

Find 10% first, then you can find 5%, and use that to find 15%, and 25%.

Homework for period 1,

Finish the page E-29, finding the discounts.

Wednesday 1/28/09

Homework for Period 6,7
No homework because we were doing the benchmark.

Homework for Periods 1,2,3
On page 258 #8-17. Find 15%. You can do this by finding 10%, then taking half of that for 5%, then adding them together.

Final grades will be the grades reflected in ParentConnect as of tonight.

Tuesday 1/27/09

There is NO HOMEWORK for periods 1-4, because we were doing benchmark testing. Thanks you to all classes for trying your hardest on the problems.

I will try to go over some of the problems tomorrow or the day after in class.

Thursday and Friday we will be auditing our folders and making sure all the appropriate grades are in each of our reports. I will print progress reports and you will check them with work you have in your folders to make sure I have put the correct grade in. With 6 classes, and 40 assignments, and 180 students, I probably made SOME mistake in those 5000 grades. So we will check to find them.

Monday 1/26/09

Hello to all. Just a reminder, the grades will be done by the end of WEDNESDAY. Please have any late work or extra credit done by that time.

Homework for Periods 1,2,3
Page 198 #6-9
Page 192 #2-5
Page 114 #1-4
Page 109 #1-6


Homework for Periods 4,6,7
Page 200 #3-13
Page 206 #1-9

We are doing review for the benchmark tomorrow (or Wednesday for some of you).

Grade changes

The grades are posted and are current for 1/23/09. The format is different. I was unable to put up the full spreadsheets because each class was approaching 1MB and that was too much for people to have to download. So now there is just your ID number, your grade, and how many points you have in the class.

If you want more detailed info, come see me after school and I can print out your entire grade.

The grading scale is as follows.

A > 90%
B > 80%
C > 70%
D > 60%
F < 60%

citizenship varies, but A/E, B/G, C/S, D/N, F/U. This can go higher for extra effort, or lower for excessive tardies (see tardy policy).

Friday 1/23/09

Homework for periods 1,2,3
Finish the page E-33, changing fractions to percents, and percents back into fractions

For periods 4,6,7
Finish the T-charts.
To find 10%, move the decimal 1 place to the left. Then use that 10% to find 20%, 30%... and so on

For 80
10% = 8
so
20% = 16
30% = 24
40% = 32......

Wednesday 1/21/09

Homework for periods 1,2,3
Finish page E-20 on changing decimals to percents. Some students finished in class, so they will have a stamp showing that they finished.

Homework for Periods 6,7
Finish page E-33, finding the percent of numbers.

Use "IS"/"OF" = %/100

Sorry for lagging behind in the posts and grades and the calendar but my son has been sick at home and my wife has been working more, so I am swamped when I get home. Hopefully this week I can catch up and make everything up to date.

Mr. B

Tuesday 1/20/09

Homework for periods 1,2
There was none. We watched the inaguration of Obama and there was no homework for those two classes.

Homework for period 3
Page 247 #1-15. Do not write the questions but show your work.

For periods 1 and 2
There will only be 2 days of homework this week for those classes.

Friday 1/16/09

Homework for periods 2,3
Finish page E-10, make sure you do your work on a separate sheet of paper. I want to see how you set up your proportions.

Homework for periods 4,6,7
Finish page E-33. Do your work on the back or a separate sheet of paper. The proportion to use is

"IS/OF = %/100" Which number is next to "IS", which is next to "OF".

If that doesn't work, decide which one is closest to each word.