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