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By now you are well aware that the mid year exam is next Tuesday. To prepare for this important assessment you were provided with a list of questions that you should review. (You can also download a copy of this list here.)

In addition I have just uploaded solution to the relevant exercises in chapter 5: A Gallery of Graphs. These include selected questions from 5A Rectangular Hyperbolas, 5C y=SQRT(x) and 5D Circles and semi-circles.

The review questions can also be used as revision (but complete the above revision first). Additionally Ms Day is running a review class after school on Thursday.

Prepare well, which means your focus this weekend should be your exams. If you have a highly social immediately before exams then you cannot really say that you are making your best effort. Your exams should take priority if you are serious about doing well. Of course you know that is an obvious thing to say!

As you are aware, the next SAC is happening next Monday May 24! This SAC is based entirely on Chapter 4 (Quadratics), which we commenced on March 22 (last week of last term). You have been set Ex 4A to 4M to complete during these past 9 weeks, so you should be close to completing them.

You may bring in to the SAC ONE A4 sized sheet of paper, written on both sides, as support material.

As a review for the SAC it is recommended that you revisit the following questions:
Ex 4A quest 6;
Ex 4B quest 4, 5
Ex 4C quest 3,
Ex 4D quest – all
Ex 4E quest 1, 2
Ex 4F quest 4
Ex 4G quest 3, 5
Ex 4I quest 2
Ex 4J quest 1
Ex 4L quest 4 to 13, 16, 17
Ex 4M quest 1 to 9

Make sure you re-do these questions (yes even if you have done them previously – which you should have done by now)

Complete worked solutions have been on the Wiki for some time now. These show you how to do these questions if you have forgotten. Please use this resource well – it is there to support your learning.
https://kambryamathsmethods.wikispaces.com/

You may also complete the review section at the end of the chapter.

We have now completed the theory for the next SAC. As you already know this SAC is based upon Chapter 4 – Quadratics. You should make sure that you have completed the exercises for Chapter 4. Complete and detailed solutions to all exercises (4A to 4M) are available on the Wiki in both Smartboard (Notebook) and PDF formats.

How can you do all you can to prepare for this SAC?

1. Complete all exercises
2. CHECK your answers careful and USE THE SUPPORTS AVAILABLE TO YOU on the Wiki

3. Ask for assistance if you are still unsure
4. Use class time efficiently. Discussing the latest games or what you did on the weekend my be interesting by there are no questions about these things on the SAC. Be productive in class or you are just hurting yourself.
5. Do the extension work at the end of the chapter.
6. BE PROACTIVE

But really, these things are obvious aren’t they?

There is still about a week and a half left so make sure you use the preparation time wisely.

Some of you have told me that you cannot use the Smartboard software (won’t load or crashes) on your home computers. I am not sure why this would be the case as students have been successfully using this for the last three years now. In any case, I have converted all the Chapter 4 files into Adobe Acrobat (pdf) files so that they are now available in both formats. Adobe Acrobat Reader must be installed for you to open these files.* I will progressively convert the other files that have already been uploaded to the Wiki.

If you do not want to access these files through the Wiki then bring your USB drive to school and I will transfer them in class. Except if you do not have a computer at home, there is no reason why any student would be unable to access this resource. It is there so that you can get assistance when you are at home and stuck on a problem.

Let me know if you need further clarification or assistance. Be proactive – don’t just sit in silence if something is not working for you. You too have a responsibility to make sure you TAKE every learning opportunity that is offered to you.

*The program is readily available on the Internet and has been commonly used globally for many years now. You probably have this program already installed. If not search for Adobe Acrobat Reader and you will easily find the site from which you can download and install it. (Something I found on the site was that it offered to install additional software. I ended up with a nag screen about updating security software. It was harmless but annoying, so I suggest you ONLY install Acrobat Reader and nothing else that is offered.)

I have uploaded to the Wiki the complete solutions to the exercise we began today in class. We have only two exercises remaining now before we have completed this unit, which we will cover next week.

Please make sure that you have this completed by Monday. If this is difficult for some good reason, try completing at least every second question so that you have a good sampling of easy to hard types of questions.

Solutions to most of the questions in this exercise have been posted to the Wiki.

Most of you have made a parent-teacher interview time for next Wednesday. For those who had to confirm the time and get back to me, you can post your confirmation, or request a different time, by replying to the post.

Simply click the “Comments” link and write your first name and the interview time as a confirmation, or indicate the alternative time you would prefer. I will do my best to accommodate appointment time changes as long as they do not clash with times that I am seeing other student’s parents.

Solutions for Ex 4H (Iteration) and 4I (Problems using the discriminant) are now posted on the Wiki.

The complete solutions for Ex 4F and 4G are now on the Wiki. Please do your best to be up to date by Monday as we need to keep moving to be ready for the mid year exams. Remember what I said about studying strategies. It is preferable that you complete all the exercises, but as a MINIMUM, do every second question (ie for example if there are 10 questions then do 2, 4, 6, 8 10, NOT 1 to 5. That way you will be exposed to easy and harder questions and be better prepared for the exams.)

Solutions, showing detailed working out, for Ex 4A, 4B, 4C, 4D and 4E have been posted to the Wiki.