December 19th

Today wasn't a very eventful day in math. We started off with our usual mental math and then went on to working up to our 48 objectives, which are due by the end of FRIDAY. Mr. Max also went around and finished checking our 2D/3D projects spreadsheets. That was about it for today, Merry Christmas!!

today in math class

Today in math class we had a sub. We worked on our excel spreadsheets and we worked towards our goal of 48 objectives in accelerated math.

Math Class: Monday, December 17th

Today we began with Mental Math (#41), as usual. After completing Mental Math, we were then reminded by Mr. Maksymchuk two things:

1. Today is the last day to get your 2D/3D Projects Spreadsheet checked and marked by Mr. Maksymchuk.
2. There are 48 objectives due before the Christmas break (Friday, December 21st). Also, Mr. Maksymchuk will be marking us out of 37 objectives the Thursday just before the 48 objectives will be marked.

The rest of the class was given to work on Accelerated Math, or finish up your Spreadsheet.

Notes:

What do you think of Mental Math? Is it too hard? Is it even useful? Does it help you learn? Do we do it too much? Leave a comment on this post saying what you think about Mental Math - but keep it clean, please.

Do you have a hard time understanding some words/terms found in math class? Well a great website, http://www.mathwords.com/, can help you with just that. Just click on the link, click on whatever letter your unknown term begins with, search for and click on the term/word and it will give you a definition, picture, example, etc on that term. This website is great when doing 2D/3D Projects in Accelerated Math.

Thursday, december 13th

On thursday we had mental math, then worked on accelerated math all class for our goal of 48 objectives.

Today we had Mr. Buckner as a substitute because, for some unknown reason, Mr. Maksymchuk was not here. So we worked mainly on our Accelerated Math and were able to scan things this time. Also, the Excel Formula Spreadsheets are due on Monday if you didn't get them checked on Thursday. Have a good weekend!

Today in Class...

Today in class Mr.Max started off the class as usual with mental math. Then he gave us 5 minutes to prove a sloving probem that he gave us all last night for homework. Then for the rest of the class we did are accelerated math hoping to get 48 objectives before the christmas holiday break.
Good Luck Everyone and Merry Christmas!!
by: tyler

Here are the notes we took in math yesterday for the people who didn't write them down while Mr.Maksynchuck was teaching at the front of the class. This stuff is very confusing and hard to do.

Tday is nov. 15! Mr. Max started off the class with mental math then well....... I couldn't really tell u guys cause tday is Dec. 7 so sorry guys but i really don't no what we did!! :) just be happy.. that i did something :)!!

December 6,2007

Today in class we started out with mental math number 34. Then Mr.Max told us to do our test corrections from our test on coordinate geometry. We were supposed to hand them in at the end of class. If we did a good job on the corrections he said he would give us an extra 5%! Our 37 accelerated math objectives were due yesturday. Well I think that just about covers it. Have a good night.

Special Note: Math Tutoring

Monday: Mr.Buchanan
Tuesday: Mrs.Larson
Wednesday: Mr.Max
Thursday: Mrs.Larson
Friday: No Tutoring

ANOTHER SPECIAL NOTE VERY IMPORTANT!!!!!!!!!!!1

MR.MAX WANTS TO KNOW IF WE WOULD LIKE HIM TO COME IN DURING THE CHRISTMAS BREAK SO WE CAN SCAN STUFF FOR ACCELERATED MATH, BECAUSE THERE IS GOING TO BE 50-60 OBJECTIVES DUE FOR THE END OF THE YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!

MR.MAX WANTS ME TO NOTE THAT HE ISN'T ASSIGNING HOMEWORK FOR THE BREAK, BUT HIM COMING INTO THE SCHOOL IS AN OPTION, SO YOU CAN GET YOUR OBJECTIVES DONE EARLY SO YOU CAN USE THE TIME IN JANUARY TO STUDY FOR EXAMS!!!!!!!!!!!

SO HE NEEDS YOUR OPINION ON HIM COMING IN FOR A COUPLE OF DAYS DURING BREAK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1LEAVE COMMENTS SO HE CAN READ WHAT YOU THINK!!!!!!!!!

Today in class Mr.Max taught and discussed the Law Of Cosines with us untill shortly after three O' clock. He then gave us the rest of class to work on Accelerated math. During the lecture he quoted, "Never use the law of cosines in the same problem more than once!!!!"

scribing

Today on wednesday the 28th of november it was a working class and therefore doesn't give me much to type about, but i can still say these random words:library, fish, bucket, and dynamite

November 27th

Today all we did was program our exel spreadsheets to do trigonometry.

Today was interesting. we learned the "Law of Sines".

It was definetly confusing in some parts so hang on!

This here PARAGRAGH, is the definition for the "Law of Sines".

This is a question that Mr. Maksymchuck came up with.we started with picking an "unknown" to solve for, which you can see on the image.

The second step was the "set up of the ratios" Mr. Max told us a pretty.... reasuring way to do this

He then showed us how to use one whole equation on how to figure out how to figure out that "unknown".

On this image, Fuddy showed us a way on how to figure out the whole thing with something he(and a bunch of the other kids) learned last year called the "fish"

The answer we got was right, but Mr. Max told us that this won't work every time, and you can't show your work by doing this.

November 22, 2007

Today Mr. Maksymchuk gave us some notes on how to solve trigonometry word problems. He drew us some ugly pictures (his words, not mine), to show us what to do. Here are some of the pictures.

This picture shows a stick-man and the angle of elevation (or inclination), and the angle of depression (or declination). Do not get the two mixed up.


Here are some more pictures of EUKLID and angle of elevation/depression

Today we we going to start with mental math. But Mr.Max did not have any sheets for it. So then he told us that we could have a work period. Then we worked.

November 20th

Today we were going to start off with Mental Math, but we don't have our new sheets so we started off with a lesson. With these notes, we saw how it would work putting it on excel, in the pythagorean theorum section.

Nov. 15 scribe

Today we worked on Accilerated Math the whole period. He let us have the whole period to work because on friday we don't have a math class..(fresh i.e concert instead).

Today, November 13th, we started off with mental math. When we were done, Mr. Maksymchuk taught us Pythagorean Triples. The notes are on things we have to memorize. After that we worked on accelerated math for the rest of the class.

Today Nov 9th in math we wrote a coordinate geometry test, which I thought was difficult. The people that didn't write it should talk to Mr.Max as soon as possible. Remember to work on your accelerated math!

calculator programming

Today November 12 th we did mental math then Mr Maksymchuk gave ous some notes on programing our TI-83 plus calculators. Then he told ous how to program them. Here are the notes that he gave ous for programing the calculators

Today in math class

Today we had a sub. There was no mental math today. The two things that we could do were work on accelerated math. The other was to add some formulas to our excel spreadsheet. DON"T FORGET THE COORDINATE GEOMETRY ON FRIDAY !!!

The New Computer Schedule...

As of now, and continuing until Friday, November 16th, the NEW COMPUTER ASSIGNMENT SCHEDULE is in place, so please check the North Green Chalkboard in the classroom for your assigned machine....Ashley/Tanya have been assigned computers in the resource centre for this assignment period. "Your" computer will continue to change approximately weekly for the rest of the semester.



On an unrelated note, check out the posts below (especially Logan's and Lizzy Bee's). Logan has quite effectively demonstrated an answer to the question "What does a typically good blog scribe post look like?", and Lizzy Bee effectively demonstrated that even if you forget to scribe on the day you're assigned, you can quickly recover and contribute meaningfully to your class. Good on both of you. Your class is lucky to have you and your efforts to improve learning, so on their behalf, thank you to both of you...

RM

Math Class Nov. 6th

The class started off with Mental Math, as usual, then we proceeded to do another quiz question to prepare us for the Coordinate Geometry Test this Friday.

The question gave us a linear equation and a point (x,y) and asked us to find the slope (m) of the line parallel to that line. First we solved the linear equation to y=mx+b. So then, because the slope was 2/3, the slope of the parallel line was also 2/3. Slopes of parallel lines are the same.

The next step was to use either slope y-intercept form or point-slope form to find the linear equation of that parallel line with the x, y coordinate on it. We chose to use slope y-intercept form and substituted our x and y values, and our slope (m) to find out the y-intercept (b). So once we worked out what b was, we put our slope and y-intercept in slope y-intercept form (y=mx+b) and came to a correct end result.

Here is a visual representation of the quiz question we did today on graph paper.

This is a useful piece of information about all Standard Form Equations and will help you with a few questions in the parallel and perpendicular lines section in Accelerated Math.

After we completed the practice quiz question, we were given the rest of the class to work on Accelerated Math.

Math Class Yesterday...

Yesterday in math we began by doing some Mental Math as usual. We then found out that we have a TEST this week on FRIDAY. It will be about coordinate geometry. Mr. Maksymchuk then proceeded to teach us about writing formulas in standard form, point form, y-intercept, etc. While learning these things, we had a practice quiz.

Friday was just parent teacher....so we did not do anything. :)

Oct 22

Today we had a sub we did A.M all class

Today in Math Class

Today in math class we didnt do very much we just did a mental math quiz and then he just let us work on accelerated math for the rest of the class. NO NOTES!!just accelerated math. Thats about it!

Yesterday in math class everyone in the school went on a Moga Madness walk. This walk was to raise money for food for people in Africa. People could buy a grain bag that was $2 a bag. Everyone had to think of a way to bring there bags of grain to the grain tower. Overall there was many studends who went on this walk and thought of many different ways of bringing the grain to the tower.

Today Mr.Max went away for the day. We did Accelerated Math all class. We also did the Spreadsheet Assignment. We didn't do any mental math today. We use a program in class called graphmatica. I found a site that has a free downloadable version so you can use it at home. The site is http://www.soft20.com/download-6-7052.html. I think thats all that we did today. Have a good weekend.

October 25, 2007

Today started out the same as most other days. We did a MM#22. We then started on a new page in excel. It was on Area Formulas For Shapes. For the rest of the class we were aloud to work on our Accelerated Math.

October 23rd/07

Today we had started off with mental math #21. Then we worked on our Everything Spreadsheet. We learned more about the Pythagorean Theorem. Then we had the last 20 mins to work on Accelerated Math.

Today Mr. Max wasn't feeling good. We got a class to work on accelerated math. He helped people the whole class. We have to have 21 objectives done for next week some time. At the end of class he printed everyone the tests they could do. Thats about the way the day went.

oct 18th stuff

Today Mr. Max showed us the second and third linear form on his computer. The two forms were the Point-Slope Form, and the Standard Form. He then very simply showed us what Graphmatica program is used for. For the rest of the class he let us work on Accelerated Math.

Going to this link will teach you how to download Graphmatica to your PC for your use at home.http://block307.blogspot.com/2007/10/graphmatica-download.html