Welcome to Ms. McGuire's and Ms. Zomer's Informal Algebra 2 class. We hope you all have had a great summer and are ready to get started in a new school year. We have a lot of new and some old things to share with you.

Let's begin with what you will need for class. This year you will be required to keep a 3 ring binder. I would recommend dividers to keep notes and homework seperated. I would also recommend keeping a pencil holder in your notebook. You need to use pencils in class, NOT PENS!! Also make sure you have plenty of paper.

Something new we are going to do this year is to keep a math journal. You can do this 1 of 2 ways: you can either keep a notebook in class or a section in your binder or you can keep a blog online. We will go over blogs more in class. If you choose to keep a paper journal, you can keep your journal in class. I will give you a place to store them.

Calculators are a must for class. You can get one at Walmart for about $10 that will do what we need you to do. Any scientific calculator will do. A good one is the TI-30x. A graphing calculator would be nice but is not required. Good graphing calculators are the TI-83 or TI-84.

We will be using this blog to help post homework and other news that you may need, along with some help.

I look forward to working with each of you this year.