5/18/09 – 2nd Block May 19, 2009

Today in class we reviewed over Monomials & Polynomials we reviewed over this at the beginning of school in september and we also learned about this unit in Algebra 1. We learned in class about the exponent rules applied in Monomials & Polynomials. One important thing that was noted in our notes that we took in class was when we are doing Monomial problems and if there are negative exponents involve the negative exponetns make the term flip and it becomes a fraction. Refer back to the notes that we took in class mostly example number 2. After we completed taking notes on monomials students got to choose a practice activity which was either a worksheet w/ practice problems or board race w/ practice problems. After that we took notes on Polynomials we reviewed on how to solve them and concepts of them also. When we are doing a problem which deals with a Monomial * a Polynomial we use the distributive property. When we are doing a problem which deals with a Polynomial * a Polynomial we use the FOIL concept. – John Joseph