Monday, April 30

Today we started the class off with another mental math quiz. If anyone wants to see it, just ask and I can put it up later.

Our wiki assignment is due Friday, May 4th and Mr. Max has a challenge for us. For bonus marks or a credit of some kind we can put in multimedia of some kind such as video, audio, a powerpoint, slideshare, and etc....

Another thing that is due is our accelerated math, we have to be done up to 56 objectives by Monday, which is the end of the geometry unit.

Today was a work class to get caught up on all of our assignments, but one thing that Mr. Max did bring up was about the cell phone banning in schools.

In my opinion, I don't think that would be the smartest idea because as a student I don't think that many students would even listen to that rule. Teachers would just be getting frustrated all day about telling the kids to put away their phone. I know that I would probably still bring my phone to school even though they were banned. If anyone has any thoughts or opinions about this topic, leave a comment and we can talk about this subject more.

April 26, 2007

Today I have to do the blog….it s been awhile. So I think I will review some of the geometry we have been learning for the past week or so.

There are a total of 7 circle theorems.


Other relevant information include the following. These are a few geometry words and there meanings.

Congruent: Same size and shape

Equal: Refers only to quantities or amounts (measurable by number)

Bisect: To divide into 2 congruent parts

Supplementary: To have a sum of 180*

Complementary: To have a sum of 90*

The homework assignment we were assigned is either do today or if you need the extra time you may hand it in on Monday.

April 23,2007

Ok, today Mr.Max is back so we started the class off with mental math. It was based on the 7 circle theorems we are learning. After that we discussed the importance of keeping updated on our blog. If you want to start a feedburner or blogger account you can do that to keep updated. After that we had the rest of the period to work on whatever we wanted. The 7 theorems are due on Thursday.
Here are some definitions we are supposed to know…

Round- Spherical or Globular shape

Chord- A line segment that connects two points on a curve.

Diameter- the longest distance from one end of a circle to the other.

Circumference- the distance around the circle.

Arc- A portion of the circumference of a circle.

Inscribed Angle- An angle placed inside a circle with its vertex on the circle and whose sides contain chords of the circle.

Secant- a line going through two points of a circle and keeps on going

Central- in, at or near the middle

Segment- one of the parts of a divided area

Collinear- Points are collinear if they lie on the same line.

Congruent- Figures or angles that have the same size and shape.

Perpendicular- Two lines are perpendicular if the angle between them is 90 degrees.

Tangent- when a line touches a circle in a single spot

Equilateral- having all of the sides of lines even in length

Origin- the center of the circle

If you want any other words defined go to..... http://www.math.com/school/glossary/glossindex.html
it is very useful becase the terms are in "math language"

Here are some useful websites that can be customized to whatever you want and keep you updated. Just create an account.
http://www.protopage.com/ http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/home http://www.aeonity.com/ http://members.freewebs.com/ http://www.blogger.com/home

7 Theorems

Hello Fellow ClassMates,


The day started out with Mr. Maksymchuk giving us an introduction to circle geometry, we watched him construct the 7 theorems on Euklid. Neat Stuff I tell ya!



Here is a look at Theorem 1

If an angle (inscribed) in a circle intercepts a semi circle (or semi-circular arc), then the angle inscribed is a right angle.

Theorem 2

If two angles inscribed in the same circle intercept the same arc, then the angles are congruent.

Theorem 3

If an inscribed angle and a a central angle in the same circle intercept the same arc, then the measure of the central angle must be twice the measure of the inscribed angle.


Theorem 4

If in a circle, a radius or diameter intersects a chord at a right angle, then chord is bisected at the point of intersection.

Theorem 5

If a line is tangent to a circle, then the tangent line is perpendicular to the radius/diameter at the point of tangency.

Theorem 6

If tangent lines to the same circle intersect at a common external point, then the segments created from the circle to the common external point are congruent.

Theorem 7

If a quadrilateral is cyclic, then opposite angles in the quadrilateral are supplementary (have a sum of 180).

Those are the 7 Theorems we were told to know, I hope this post is helpful to everyone. Thankyou for your time.

Captain Kolan

Hey everybody, sorry im a couple days late, this is supposed to be wednesday. Today we didnt really do much just worked on learning geometry and acellerated math...anyways mr max is supposed to be back sometime next week...and thats all i got to say.

Free Homework Check Marks

Add a comment to this post and I'll give you your only homework check marks of the week....

Please answer these questions...

1. What did you do this week without your teacher? (i.e. How much of the assigned work have you completed?)

2. What have you got left for homework?

Have a great weekend, folks...RM

So today is are first day with out Mr Max. For next whole week we will be doing accelerated math and teaching our self circle geometry. When he gets back we need to be done up to 56 objectives by sometimes next week. If your done both circle geometry and the objectives you can do your wiki assignment on the objective you picked last week. If you don't know what objective you picked don't worry its on the wiki which objective you've picked.

Here are some website that might help you on your circle geometry:

http://members.shaw.ca/ron.blond/Circle.Geom1.APPLET/index.html

http://math2.org/math/geometry/circles.htm

there is a quiz on circles if you wont take it, on the link below.
http://library.thinkquest.org/20991/geo/circles.html

http://jwilson.coe.uga.edu/EMAT6680/Brink/6690/instructional.html

Here is the link to the wiki assignment

http://appliedmath.wikispaces.com/

April 16

At the start of class Mr. Max suggested to us that we should check out Tylers post on the Uganda woman on thursday, it was very informative. After we got that out of the way Mr. Max explained to us how this week is going to work with the substitute.

We are going to have to teach ourselves Geometry using old notes from previouse semesters, and using the block 5 Wiki from last semester. To find notes from last semester go to my computer- course work- Maxs math stuff- block 5 senior 3 applied.

Max gave us our assingment for the week on geometry Theorems due when he gets back next wenesday.

Canadian Food Grains Bank Presentation

In class on Thursday we were given the choice to either go to a presentation, or stay in the class and work on accelerated math. I was one of the students who decided to go to the presentation.

The Canadian Food Grains bank was putting on the presentation. The guy spoke for a few minutes telling us how it originated and how it is currently being run. After he was done talking another presenter, Nestar, began to talk. She was born in Uganda. The area that she lived in has been experiencing civil war for the last twenty or so years. Many lives in Uganda have changed due to this. People have been taken from their homes in fear of the rebels. These people are put into IDP camps. The people in the IDP camps mainly rely on foundations like the Canadian Food Grains bank. Being taken away from their land and having few ways to make money, they need food from these donation groups.

Children in Uganda have it way harder then we do. They walk twelve kilometers, twice a day, to get from their home to where they must sleep. Kids must do this because if they don’t they may get kidnapped, and become sex slaves or rebel soldiers. The children here also may not go to school. This is because most families can’t afford supplies, and even the kids who do get to go to school don’t have good learning conditions.

Nestar also talked about how Uganda is only one of the countries that is like this. Many countries in Africa are like this, along with countries like Afghanistan that are troubled by war. She also talked about how our government has promised to help cut hunger in half by 2015, and since hunger is going up, encouraged us to talk to our government officials about this problem.

Nestars home country of Uganda

hello,

First we watched a video on water buffalo. www.xe.com is the currency converter we used to see what a canadian dollar is in uganda. it was like 1546 or something like that. The wiki site is http://appliedmath.wikispaces.com/ The wiki assignment must be done by may 4th, at 3:40 pm....Also make sure that you dont put your last names or anything like that on the wiki or blog.

april 10th

Well today was a work class so there isnt much to say about the class. For one thing remember that 45 objectives are due by friday. Since i am supposed to put something useful on here i figured i might as well show everyone a trick Mr.Max showed me for a question on objective 37/38.

The question is :

Find the product (1-(1/2))(1-(1/3))(1-(1/4))....(1-(1/96))

Well it is simpler then it looks!!!

First: 1-(1/2)=1/2

1-(1/3)=2/3

1-(1/4)=3/4

If you didnt notice there is a pattern (1/2) x (2/3) x (3/4) x (4/5)...and it keeps going all the way to 1-(1/96) which equals 95/96. You can just eliminate the numbers all the way from the start of the question to the end so it everything gets cancelled out except for 1 on the top and 96 on the bottom. So the answer is 1/96.

If it is explained well enough then you can jsut ask me in person but i tryed my best to do it on here so i hope it helps.

April 9/2007

Sorry about being late my gosh darn thing ddnt want to tork at home sorry about that but here it is we were working on a wiki thingy and it looks like it should be fine as long as nobody becomes dumb about screwing it up. thats another thing how do u think we could stop people from doing that or figuring out who did it???? It's not going to be a trick question just hink about it how we going to control that? On another note we are suppose to have 45 objectives complete before this weekend???Does anybody think thats lots or is it just me? Hope everybody had a good easter and that nobody was to rough after the weekend? anyways keep pon working hard in class and we all should get this credit. Max is a good teacher and he teach's all of us well we just have to pay attention to him! MAINLY ME! Anyways thats enough of that hope you all have a good semester and pass...OH ya how about that wiki should be a good thing but its just like another blog so i dont know do you guys think we should do this thing if its just another blog??

April 9/2007

Sorry about being late my gosh darn thing ddnt want to tork at home sorry about that but here it is we were working on a wiki thingy and it looks like it should be fine as long as nobody becomes dumb about screwing it up. thats another thing how do u think we could stop people from doing that or figuring out who did it???? It's not going to be a trick question just hink about it how we going to control that? On another note we are suppose to have 45 objectives complete before this weekend???Does anybody think thats lots or is it just me? Hope everybody had a good easter and that nobody was to rough after the weekend? anyways keep pon working hard in class and we all should get this credit. Max is a good teacher and he teach's all of us well we just have to pay attention to him! MAINLY ME! Anyways thats enough of that hope you all have a good semester and pass...OH ya how about that wiki should be a good thing but its just like another blog so i dont know do you guys think we should do this thing if its just another blog??

April 9/2007

Sorry about being late my gosh darn thing ddnt want to tork at home sorry about that but here it is we were working on a wiki thingy and it looks like it should be fine as long as nobody becomes dumb about screwing it up. thats another thing how do u think we could stop people from doing that or figuring out who did it???? It's not going to be a trick question just hink about it how we going to control that? On another note we are suppose to have 45 objectives complete before this weekend???Does anybody think thats lots or is it just me? Hope everybody had a good easter and that nobody was to rough after the weekend? anyways keep pon working hard in class and we all should get this credit. Max is a good teacher and he teach's all of us well we just have to pay attention to him! MAINLY ME! Anyways thats enough of that hope you all have a good semester and pass...OH ya how about that wiki should be a good thing but its just like another blog so i dont know do you guys think we should do this thing if its just another blog??

Work Day

Hello once again it my turn scribe. I landed on a work day so to carry on with Tyler’s conversation. I think Mr. Maksymchuk has a good point about the homework over weekends. I think it should be compulsory we should get extra marks for doing homework or else I wouldn’t bother to do it. I don’t mean 40 questions a night I mean between 5 and 10. Just enough to do for half an hour and should be checked every other day. It also is a good way to see if we understand because some students are to nervous to ask questions to see whether students understand the lesson. Also don’t forget we have to have in the mid 40s in accelerated math by the end of next week. Ponty your scribe on Monday.

April 4th 2007,

We started out this class by doing mental math, Mr Max talked to us a bit about homework and why he assigns it to us and we talked for a bit about Tylers post.
We then got into the work that was assigned to us yesterday

We continued linear Progamming and looked at some examples on the sheet that he gave us on monday.

Mr. Max showed us which formula you should check.. he said that you should use the formula that you were given in case you made any mistakes.

He then showed us how to know which side to shade, by taking the original equation and choosing a point on the grid that isnt included on the line, the substitute the points in for x and y. After you have figured out the (?>=?) or (?<=?). If it is true then you shade in direction that you chose.

Heres an example ^... so then the graph would look like....

We looked at more problems in the hand out

We were assigned #4 on page D-9 for homework tomorrow.
Dont Forget

inequality graphing

Today in class we learned about 2-D inequality graphing, graphing rules, and the basic 1-D number line graphing

The picture below is the 2-D inequality graphing and also the graphing rules...





This is the 1-D number line graphing.. Mr. Maks showed us how to do them and how to figure them out on a graph with out using technology



You can do these kinds of questions of graphmatica, this is how it looks...


This is how you can figure it out just on paper and with this question we found out that "0" will not work because "0" is not greater then then 6... so then you would have to shade the boundary away from the origin




And this was the homework that Mr. Mak's had assigned us to do...

Test Day!

I'm going to start off by apologizing to my classmates. This post is really late, and there probably isn't a really good excuse for it. I just forgot about it entirely, and I feel bad about that. So yes, I’m sorry.

Well on the day I was supposed to scribe we wrote a test. It was a unit test on Systems of Linear Equations. As you all know on a test day you are supposed try to come up with something useful, and meaningful for our blog. In class we had a small discussion about whether or not homework over a break, such as Spring Break or Christmas Break, is worthwhile. Certain people have certain opinions about this topic. I searched the internet for some opinions, and here are some that I found.

http://www.toddseal.com/rodin/2006/01/homework-during-break/

The link above takes you to a site where a teacher has made a post about their preference not to give homework over breaks. The teacher backs this up by saying how most students do not do their work until the last minute, or even attempt their work. He also goes on to talk about how he himself doesn't like to do very much work over breaks himself, so how can he force his students too? Other teachers have commented with their opinions, along with some other interesting people who thought it was necessary to leave some pretty moot comments.

http://stophomework.com/the-case-against-homework

This second link is actually an article about a book that has been written about homework. It tells a little about the book and talks about too much homework possibly being connected to obesity, and a reason why kids are not as active anymore.

My final part of this post will be to leave you with this poll. The question is "Do you think the homework over a break is worthwhile? Please give me your input, and feel free to leave comments as you please, keeping in mind that this is a class blog and must be appropriate for school.

Homework Over A Break?

Do you think that homework over a break is worthwhile? Yes No view results

Once again I would like to apologize to my classmates about this post being so late, but I hope you guys will take a look at it, and participate in the poll.

Monday,April 2

At the start of class, we did the 14th mental math quiz. Here are the questions and answers for the quiz:

Today we started a new unit on linear programming. The big idea of this unit is to use graphs and technology to solve problems involving inequality relationships, always having to find the best solution for each problem.

Here is the example that we did in class:

A zoo is given a sum of money to spend on monkeys and rabbits. The zoo must spend at least $2000 on the purchase to qualify for the grant. At least 14 animals must be bought. Each rabbit costs $40.00 and each monkey costs $400.00.

c) What is the best way the zoo can spend the money?

d) Suppose that it costs $1.00 per day to feed a rabbit and $5.00 per day to feed a monkey. Write the cost equation. How much will it cost to feed all the rabbits and monkeys they purchase?

40x+400y>=2000 Therefore the answer is 4 monkeys and 10 rabbits

40(10)+400(4)=2000

5(4)+1(10)=30 Therefore the answer is $30 to feed the monkeys and rabbits.

We verified on graphmatica that our answer was correct because it was the most critical point.

This unit is mostly going to be solving problems with skills that we may already know, but just improving on them.

To find the absolute value on your calculator, you press 2nd, then zero, and it is the first one on there-abs.
In graphmatica you just type in abs and put the letter or number in brackets.

On tuesdays Mr. Max is here until 4:30 for extra help if needed!

The objectives that have to be mastered are 32-45ish.