Don't miss your chance to work with UCI graduate students and professional engineers on fun projects like building a catapult, measuring how much air is in a room, making rubber balls, building bridges AND launching a rocket.  It all starts Thursday, November 7 at 2:30 p.m in Mr. Petrie's room, room 1205.

This week, students will develop new connections between multiple representations of patterns and identify rules for these patterns using the y = mx + b form of a linear equation.  Students will then apply their understanding of m as growth factor and b as Figure 0 or the starting point of the pattern to write a rule from a graph and to create a pattern based on a linear rule, then apply their understanding of growth, Figure 0, and connections between multiple representations to situations where they are presented with disparate pieces of information and must generate a complete pattern.  

This is getting to the meat of Algebra!  How exciting!!!! 

We are starting a new chapter -- Chapter 4 -- Multiple Representations.  In this chapter, we will learn how to change nay representation of data (such as a graph, pattern, rule, or table) to any of the other representations.  We will also learn how to find the point where two lines intersect.  And, we will use the connection between graphs, tables, rules, and patterns to solve problems.