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Algebra 1 

   The Algebra 1 teacher is Mr. Olsen who has a child, and adores teaching algebra. He can be very strict with his rules such as the water bottle rule; if you have a water bottle out on your desk he will warn you to put it away. However, if you take it out again and forget to put it away he will give you a detention. Also, he doesn't want anyone to be late to his class because a minute late is a minute of education lost, and if you're late he will give a 15 minute detention. His grading policy is very simple, but very strict as in you must show work on a separate piece of paper so it's neat and organized. He needs to see the work because it proves to him that you did the work, and not copy off of a friend. He will sometimes collect the notebooks that have the do now on, which should be simple because after five minutes class has begun he will go over the do now and answer it. He would grade his quizzes on how many numbers there are on the questions. For example, recently there was a quiz that had 48 questions therefore he counted each one as two points.
     In addition, I expect to learn about functions equations, linear system, polynomials, and statics. All of these things I expect to learn during this course is all on Mr. Olsen's schedule for the year which can be found here. However, in class we have learned about the different properties such as commutative, associative, identity, and distributive property. Also, he has taught us the difference between expressions and  equations, and plans to give us a test based on all the things we have learned about in class soon.
   Finally, an example of technology used in his class is his ipad which is connected to the projector. He also has us use khan academy - a website that helps understand algebra, and we can go to other levels that progress harder as we go on. The interesting aspects of the class that I enjoy are the projects even though we haven't started any of them yet, hearing from my other peers who have had him they say it's always simple and fun. To add on, Mr, Olsen never gives pop quizzes, and let's you know ahead of time when projects are due or tests are coming up.      


Here are examples of what we are about to learn.