St. Gabriel School, Louisville, Kentucky

Mrs. Sheryl Kremer

Education	Experience	Biography
Homework/Chapter Notes	Other Assignments	Other Links

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Mrs. Rhonda Cusick

rcusick@stgabriel.net

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Education:

Masters Degree in Technology Education with K-12 Endorsement, Spalding University
Bachelors Degree in Mathematics with KY Secondary Certification, Bellarmine University

Experience:

High School Math Teacher, 1973-1975, Sacred Heart Academy, Louisville, KY
School Technology Coordinator & Computer Teacher, 1986 - Present, St. Gabriel School
Algebra I Teacher, 1994 - Present, St. Gabriel School

Biography:

Mrs. Sheryl Kremer heralds from Columbus, Ohio, where she attended St. Agatha Elementary and Bishop Watterson High Schools. She came to Louisville to pursue her Bachelor of Arts degree in Math (High School Certification) at Bellarmine University (which was then a mere “College”). Years later she earned her Master of Arts in Technology Education degree from Spalding University. Mrs. Kremer taught Algebra I & II and Geometry at Sacred Heart Academy for two years, then took eight years off to start a family, before landing and sticking at St. Gabriel, in 1986. She is the technology coordinator / computer teacher for grades K-8, and the Advanced Algebra I instructor for some of the eighth graders.

Since arriving at St. Gabriel, Mrs. Kremer has taken a very active role in the community, having served as a parish lector & Eucharistic minister; the parish summer picnic chicken dinner head cook; the PTSO Halloween chili & spaghetti suppers head cook; a Girl Scout Assistant Leader and Cookie Chair; the PTSO Vice-President, Faculty Rep and Card Party Chair; the editor of “The Herald”, the once-school newsletter; a member of the parish’s most recent Building Committee; a St. Gabriel Volleyball coach for grades 5/6 and 7/8; the SHINE School Coordinator and a SHINE Instructor, the Faculty Rep on the School Board from its inception; the Quick Recall Coach / Moderator for the teams at Grades 4/5, and 6; a member of the Algebra Curriculum Committee for the Archdiocese; involved in various roles in Governor’s Cup, Judge’s Cup and the Derby Classic Festival; and a Computer Merit Badge instructor for the Boy Scouts.

Currently she still remains quite active at both the local and Archdiocesan levels as a member of the Technology Steering Committee for both the parish and the Archdiocese; a member of the Technology Curriculum Committee for the Archdiocese; the STLP (Student Technology Leadership Program) Coordinator for the school; and the Web Page Administrator for the school portion of the St. Gabriel web site. Awards include writing the grant proposal that named St. Gabriel a "SMARTER School" for which we received $30,000 worth of hardware and software related to SMART Boards, receiving the CEF Teacher Award for St. Gabriel School in 2005, which included a $500 gift for the school, a $3,000 and a $5,000 Louisville Community Foundation Grant (now Aegon) one to purchase a SMART Board and TI-84 graphign software for the Advance Algebra program, and one to fund a program on robotics, an Apple Core Good Will Ambassador Grant, a Bellsouth Net Day Grant which helped wire the school building with CAT/5 wiring, an Archdiocesan Fund for Excellence Grant worth over $60,000 which enabled all 8th graders to have a Pocket PC at their disposal for both personal and school use, and a Woodrow Wilson Foundation Grant. She attends the IFL (Imagine the Future of Learning) and KTLC (Kentucky Teaching & Learning Conference) held in Louisville, almost yearly, and has traveled extensively to attend or present at various conferences including: the National Catholic Education Association (NCEA) Conference in Atlantic City, New Jersey and New Orleans, Louisiana; the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) in San Antonio, Texas; the Texas Instrument T³ Institute for Algebra, in Columbus, Ohio; and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) workshop in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Sheryl and her husband, Dan, are members of St. Gabriel parish. Last year they welcomed her parents to Louisville from Columbus, Ohio, and they also became parishioners. Sheryl's mother, Mary Spall, volunteers in the school office every day to assist with medication dispensing and injury repairs from the playground. The students know her as "Grandma Medicine". The Kremer's three grown children, Laura (Class of 1993), Neil (Class of 1995) and Krissy (Class of 1997) are all shining products of St. Gabriel School and catholic high school educations. All graduated from college, two with teaching certifications in music ed and special ed, and the third with a degree in IT. Laura will marry in December, recently finished her Master's degree from U of L, and is employed by Assumption High School in the recruiting and public relations department; Neil is engaged and working for Humana in the IT department; and Krissy is teaching special needs in Oldham County.

While “free” time can be scarce, Sheryl enjoys reading murder mysteries, cooking, especially when entertaining friends and family, working out at the gym, and relaxing on the water or in the family home at Barren River. Says Sheryl, “I truly love what I do. I get up every morning looking forward to teaching Algebra and computers at St. Gabriel. In choosing a profession, I think teaching chose me rather than the other way around, and I couldn’t be happier! My husband says I’ll never retire; that they’ll have to drag me kicking and screaming from this place. . . He may be right.”

Algebra Meeting 11-20 (pdf)

Algebra Meeting 11-20 (Smart Notebook)

Parents!!

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Algebra Homework:

All homework is done in a notebook or on loose leaf. Unless problem is meant to be a “mental” problem, all work should be shown.

If assigned the alternate evens, do these problems:

2, 6, 10, 14, 18, 22, 26, 30, 34, 38, 42, 46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 70, 74, 78, 82, 86, 90, 94, 98, 102, etc.

Chapter 6: Linear Equations

Section 6-1: pgs.286-289 : 2-50 alternate evens; 54-60 all; 62-70 evens - Slope
Section 6-2: pgs. 294-296 : 2-82 alternate evens; plus 56, 68, 76 – Slope-Intercept Form
Section 6-3: pgs.301-302: 2-62 alternate evens; 36, 47, 48, 57, 63 – Standard Form
Section 6-4: pgs.307-309 : 2-62 alternate evens; 56, 60, 61, 63, 64 – Point-Slope Form
Section 6-5: pgs.314-316 : 2-70 alternate evens; 31, 52, 57, 59, 64, 72 – Parallel and Perpendicular Lines
Section 6-6: pgs. 320-323: 2-20 evens, not 18, do 17 – Line of Best Fit
Section 6-7: pgs. 327-329: 2-38 alternate evens, 11, 19, 24, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33, 35, 36, 37, 39, 40, 41 – Absolute Value
Chapter Test: pg. 334: 1-37 all – Extra Credit due day of Test

Chapter 5: Graphs & Functions

Section 5-1: pgs. 238-240: 2-8 evens; 9; 11; 12; 13; 14; 16; 18-21; 22 all
Section 5-2: pgs. 244-245: 2-48 evens
Section 5-3: pgs.249-251: 2-46 alternate evens
Section 5-4: pgs. 256-258: 2-34 evens
Section 5-5: pgs. 264-266: 2-50 alt evens
Extra Credit (due day of test): Chapter Test: pg. 278: all except #27-32

Chapter 4: Probability

Section 4-1: pgs. 185-187: #14-30 alternate evens; #32-36 evens; #50 & 51; #54-60 evens; #62-66 all; #70, #72-75 all
Section 4-2: pgs. 192-194: #4, 6, 8, 9-11 all; #23, 29, 30, 32, 33, & 36 all

Chapter 6 Notes / Terms

Slope: rise / run = for any two ordered pairs (x₁, y₁) and (x₂, y₂) on a line :

slope = (y₂ – y₁)/(x₂-x₁)
slope = rate of change

Slope-Intercept Equation Form of a Line: y = mx + b where m = slope and b = y-intercept
Standard Equation Form of a Line: Ax + By = C where A, B and C are integers; A & B are not both zero
x-intercept: (x, 0); the point at which a line crosses the x-axi
y-intercept: (0,y); the point at which a line crosses the y-axi
Point-Slope Equation Form of a Line: y – y₁ = m ( x – x₁) where (x₁, y₁) is a point on the line and m is the slope
Parallel Lines: lines with the same slope
Perpendicular Lines: lines with slopes that are negative reciprocals of each other; product of their slopes is –1.
Line of Best Fit: given a set or ordered pairs (i.e. scatter plot), the line of best fit is the line that most closely aligns with / passes through the points on the graph
Correlation Coefficient: a value that ranges from –1 to 1 that determines how well the line of best fit fits. The closer the value is to –1 or +1 the better the fit or correlation; the closer the value is to zero the less correlation there is between the line and the points
Absolute Value Equation Form: y = a | x – b| + c where a determines the direction the graph opens (pos = up; neg = down); the point (b,c) is the vertex (turning point); b shifts the graph left or right; c shifts the graph up or down
Translation: the shifting of a graph caused by changing numeric values in the equation of the graph (i.e. the affect a, b & c have on linear, absolute value and quadratic equations in standard form)

Chapter 5 Notes / Terms

Relation – Any set of ordered pairs
Function – Any solution consisting of sets of ordered pairs (domain, range) such that no member of the domain is paired with more than one member of the range [i.e. (2,3) and (2,-3)]. Visually, the graph of functions will pass the “vertical line” test or "mapping test".
Domain - The set of all x-values in a relation (Input)
Range - The set of all y-values in a relation (Output)
Mapping Test - Visual representation of a relation, placing all the x-values one time in a left column and all the y-values one time in a right column, using arrows to indicate which x value is paired with each y value. It is used to determine if the relation is also a function. Any mapping that results in a "<" opening to the right indicates a relation that is NOT a function.
Vertical Line Test - Visual determination of whether a graphed set of ordered pairs, taken from a given relation, is also a function. If a vertical line can pass through more than one point anywhere on the graph, then the relation fails the vertical line test and is NOT a function.
Direct Variation - Function rule which follows the form:

For all real values of x & y; y = kx, where k is the constant of variation.

Function Notation - Algebraic notation used to define a function. May appear in one of three forms:

y = Example: y = 3x + 5
f (x) = Example: f (x) = 3x + 5
g: x --> Example: g : x --> 3x + 5

* Note: All examples above would produce the same results.

Functions can be evaluated for various values of "x" [ f(3) = , g : 5 -->]; have operations performed on them [ f (2) + f (3), 3*g (x) ]; or be nested [ f ( g (4) )].

Function Rule - An algebraic equation written in one of the three function notations that defines the relationship between the x-values and the y-values in the function

Chapter 4 Key Terms

Ratios – any numeric relationship that can be expressed as a fraction (written a/b or a:b)
Proportions – two or more ratios that are equivalent (a/b = c/d or a:b = c:d) – solvable using cross multiplication or by eliminating the denominator using multiplication property of equality by the LCD.
Similar Geometric Figures – Two or more figures with the same shape, whose sides are in proportion to one another. Denoted by the “ ~ “ symbol.