Mr. Burke's Math Page A Resource for Students and Parents

Mr. Burke's NEW Weblog (Good responses are worth extra credit on your next test.) Homework Grading Policy Mathwords.com is an online dictionary of math terms. Refdesk.com is an online reference desk, good for help with all of your subjects. Send an email message to Mr. Burke. Please include your name and class in the message.

The links below are for the Spring 2007 class schedule. Period 2 and 9 Class Page Statistics and Probability Vacation Assignment Here is your Vacation assignment. It is a MS Word file and is formatted to be printed on legal-sized paper. If you have to, reformat it for letter paper OR you can edit the file with your answers and email it back to me. You can make the Box-and-Whisker Plot using the tools in MS Word or you can design the using a paint program (such as MS Paint). Presentations Venn Diagrams Periods 4 and 8 Class Page Math A Term 2 Presentations Zero and Negative Exponents Writing Systems of Equations from Word Problems Linear Inequalities Parabolas Online Polynomial Practice with Answers Adding Polynomials Subtracting Polynomials Adding and Subtracting Polynomials Together Period 6 Class Page Math A Term 2 Presentations Zero and Negative Exponents Writing Systems of Equations from Word Problems Linear Inequalities Parabolas Online Polynomial Practice with Answers Adding Polynomials Subtracting Polynomials Adding and Subtracting Polynomials Together Question: How does the co-efficient of the x-squared term affect the shape of the parabola in a quadratic equation?

0	Homework was not done at all
U	UNSATISFACTORY Directions not followed Incomplete (not attempting some problems or problems are not finished) Major mistakes Sloppy or unclear
N	NEEDS IMPROVEMENT Attempted procedure resembles solution Procedure contains many errors or is incomplete Examples are not labeled with page and problem numbers
S	SATISFACTORY Procedure resembles solution Contains 2 or more mistakes Examples are not labeled with page and problem numbers
G	GOOD Majority of problems are solved correctly Work is shown but missing minor details Examples are not labeled with page and problem numbers
E	EXCELLENT Exemplary work that goes above and beyond what was expected Procedure is correct and all details are shown in work All problems are completed, labeled correctly with page and problem numbers and no errors Correct answers are circled, underlined or boxed Solution is accompanied by a sentence

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