Getting ready for the Regents
This month we began our Regents review. Students focused on binomial expansions and probability.
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Circuits
Christmas lights opened our discussion of series and parallel circuits. Students explored these two circuits using voltmeters and ammeters.
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Advanced Geometry
Students have been working with right triangles. They have used the Pythagorean Theorem to find the sides of a triangle. They have also used trig functions to find angles.
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We did it!
After much effort students were able to graph and write equations for sine, cosine, and tangent functions.
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String Waves
Students had fun creating standing waves on a string. They were able to calculate the wavelength of their wave.
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Advanced Geometry
Geometry students have been exploring scale drawings with the use of proportions and ratios.
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Making Graphs
Students studied conic sections this month. They learned how to graph circles, ellipses, hyperbolas, and parabolas.
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Pendulums
Physics students have been exploring the pendulum this month. They studied the effects of varied string length, angles, and materials.
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End of the Year
We enjoyed our last few classes together, as we reminisced about how fast the year went and how much fun we had, we also reviewed the major themes and events to know for the Regents and practiced the thematic and DBQ essays. We brought in snacks to share to make the intense study sessions a little more bearable. But, they paid off, as students did very well on their Regents; several students were just one question away from a perfect score!
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Current Events
Seniors worked on their final exam projects, which involved reading up on the news and finding an article related to economics. After finding something of interest, students wrote a paper explaining an economic concept that we studied and then relating it to the current event that they researched. Students turned in a variety of projects: on the oil spill and supply and demand, on New York City cupcakeries and candy shops and the free market, on the NBA and absolute/comparative advantage, on Microsoft and monopolies.
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