words i've learned

z score

bell curve

box and whisker

conjecture
standard form
y intercepts
functions
slope
indirect variation
directio variation
domain
range
linnear equations
graph


Wednesday, October 13, 2010

sep 24th Fridays plan blog post

1. How did you approach the class this week vs. last week?....did you change anything? not really almost everything is just review

2. What are the benefits of using technology to learn vs. the standard classroom that we grew up to?

technology is alot faster and more organized

3. Think about the program Wolfram that I linked over to you OR think about your graphing calculators. What are advantages and disadvantages to having the answers provided for you all of the time in mathematics without having to figure them out? How could you use the answers to extend your understanding of mathematics further?

its really good that we have all these different utensils now instead of just having paper and pen

4. What is your favorite part about this class thus far and WHY?
its in the morrning and it goes by sort of fast

5. Imagine you are a teacher. If you were teaching the class, what changes would you make to the learning environment? What would you do to have your students get excited about math?

give out more worksheets instead of using edmodo because it would be faster

6. What are the 5 steps to solving equations?
mulitiply, divide, add, substract,

7. Why do mathematicians show their steps when solving formulas?
to prove their answer

8. What are some common mistakes that you make when solving equations/formulas?
dont show work

9. How do you find the correct answer of an equation by looking at a graph?
find the x,y and the slope

Friday, October 1, 2010

my grades..

What were your goals for school at the beginning of this year? passing this class

What can you do to keep your grade up? turn in homework and other assignments
Are you doing everything you can to achieve the goals that you set for yourself at the beginning of the year?i keep forgetting to do the assignments
What did you learn this week in class?it was sort of like review with all the inequality stuff.
How could you take the Little/Big Giant lesson and apply the idea to the real world? not sure
Do you feel you understand everything that we covered?yes
If you did not understand something in class or were finding yourself making mistakes, what opportunities did you take for yourself to learn the material? (learned at home on the internet, asked a friend, practiced some more......)




i really don't understand how edmodo works that well because i keep forgetting to check it and finding assignments, i dont see why we just dont do worksheets instead  and save time and it more easier to keep track of

What grade would you give yourself this week?  A+++++ What grade would you give your teachers this week? F+

2nd blog

What did you like/dislike about this project?it should of been an easy projectt because of all the roles we had in a group.
What did you find challenging about learning this way?nothing
Were there opportunities for you to learn inequalities?yeah it was pretty easy
Do you feel that you took advantage of the opportunities to learn? yes i did
Thinking back on your project, what would you keep the same and what would you do differently? the poster was good but we just need to add a couple of more things like a bell curve , etc...

Thursday, September 16, 2010

in math...

What i learned so far in math is standard deviation and z scores. We reviewed box and whisker plot, graphs, mean,median, and mode.  We took some notes on standard deviation than the next class we had a project.  We had to show a box and whisker plot, and we had to show how to do standard deviation on a set of data, and we had to do a bell curve. a bell curve basically helps people with percentage of a certain data. it's shaped like a hill.

how does this math class compare to my other math classes?/ well it's sort of the same at the years before..
sicne its only been 2 week i can't really say much about this class...

How well do i know the material we learned so far?? i think im okay with it, only struggle i'm having is with the z-scores. it would be nice to do more class work on it.

How do i feel about the project?? 
I think we did a fair job on the project. we needed more time on it because we didn't finish it but i think it deserves at least a C. i think our group did even amount of work on the project. we procrastinated a bit but at least we got work done.