May Board Report

By Richard Thatcher

Our off season middle school program is progressing well. We temporarily stopped lifting weights due to the prom and related activities. We should begin again this week. We are working with several students whose grades were well below average at mid-term. Most of them have improved their grades significantly.

My Algebra II classes have just finished working with quadratic equations. Ffollowing the test we will be working with exponents to finish the year. We have missed 10 classes this semester due to all of the testing that is mandated for juniors. The honors students presented their Power Point presentations to the class. Joli O’Byrne and Marissa Elias did a particularly good presentation.

In my Algebra classes, we are working on exponents and now on polynomials. Several students have shown significant progress since the progress reports were sent home. The 8^th grade Algebra class is performing well. Since we downloaded an electronic copy of the Algebra book to the student’s laptops, they have been able to find definitions at a much faster rate. This year’s freshmen will have to pass Algebra II in order to receive their diplomas.

In my Math-Lab, We are using the Plato software program. Our students are working on becoming proficient in the areas of their math weakness.