Halloween Math

Today in math we had a halloween mental math. It was still hard but a nice change. Mr Max also told us about a new species of spider that makes webs about as big as a human finger. After that he showed us his twitter page and showed us how many people replied on why twitter is a good thing. Thats what we basically did today. Happy Halloween

Today to start class we did mental math. It was the tenth one so we had to find our averages by throwing away the worst two. Then we handed them in for marks. After mental math Mr Max gave us some time to finish up the driveway question and start on one about a picnic table. After this Mr Max showed us how to do the driveway question on a spreadsheet.

http://www.mulch-mart.com/calculator.html simply a yard calculator you can get diffrent ones at google as well i just found this one.

Today, after O'Canada, Mr.Max read out the daily morning announcments and would like these links: www.parentinterviews.com/swanvalley to make appointments for parent teacher night/day on Thursday, November 5 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm, Friday, November 6 10:00 am – 1:00 pm and http://www.myfishbowl.ca/ for resource material for canadian high school students, Check It Out! so here they are. Next we did Mental Math #18. We then had a conversation trying to decide if we should start a Facebook Group for our math class to help all of us study and to remind each other about upcoming tests etc. It is like our blog, but we all use facebook way more so we would most likely benifit more from a facebok group then the blog. Mr.Max is still undecided. We then watched a video all about how media literacy is taking over the world asking how long it has been since we read a newspaper and how in 25 years the internet will be able to fit in blod cells. Crazy! Kellen then decided she was starting the facebook group for our math class. We then looked at the Driveway question which was homework from yesterday and Mr.Max showed us the steps how to solve the question.

This is how Mr.Max helped us in solving the driveway question. He then let us work on the question for the rest of class and if we finish he will assign another question for homework. This was Tuesday October 26th, 2009 class. Kellen started our facebok group page for this class so make sure you join to keep updated with the rest of the class! We also got a speech on MOGA Madness so make sure buy a grain ticket. Enjoy the rest of your day!!

Spot check test

For today, we must hand in "Spot Check-Sequences/Series & Personal Finance" test. Also, Mr.maks has planned for us to design and measurement portfolio.

NOTE: parent teacher interviews coming up. NO SCHOOL FRIDAY. Next friday is moga madness.

C.I.D.A- Canadian International Development Agency.
What is CIDA? Click this link to find out!

http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/acdi-cida/acdi-cida.nsf/eng/NIC-5313423-N2A

By participating in Moga Madness you will contributing help to the following countries thanks to CIDA:
-Americas : Bolivia - Caribbean Regional Program - Colombia - Haiti - Honduras - Peru Asia : Afghanistan - Bangladesh - Indonesia - Pakistan - Vietnam Eastern Europe : Ukraine North Africa and Middle East : West Bank and Gaza Sub-Saharan Africa : Ethiopia - Ghana - Mali - Mozambique - Senegal- Sudan - Tanzania

Design and Measurement Portfolio:
This is not really a portfolio; it's a work booklet. We are to do question 2 A with a partner. Ways you can do it could be on about several peices of graph paper and count or you could use your calculator and a peice of sketch paper. If you know how to use any of those programs like google spreadsheets or anything like that, feel free to use them.

October 19th, Daily Blog.

In todays short block class the assignment was simple. It is to complete a 8.5' by 11' formula sheet that we would use on a test. The rules are the same for this as any other test. It must be 8.5' by 11', you must create it, and it can be double sided. This particular formula sheet should consist of any material you think you may need from the Sequences and Series unit, and/or the Personal Finance unit.

This is only an example formula sheet.

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Question Seven..

Today Mr.Max explained how to do question seven. He informed us of the differences between a house, condo, and an apartment. We learned how to complete this question on our calculators and excel. Also, Mr.Max got a new camera on which he records himself. Very neat.

The Partridge Family Finances

Today Mr Maksymchuk revealed his crush on Mrs. Partridge. After that the class did a finance question for the Partridge family and we came to the conclusion that Mrs. Partridge needs to get a job.

Media Literacy is a 21st century approach to education. It provides a framework to access, analyze, evaluate and create messages in a variety of forms — from print to video to the Internet. Media literacy builds an understanding of the role of media in society as well as essential skills of inquiry and self-expression necessary for citizens of a democracy.

Crotchety Definition:
1. given to odd notions, whims, grouchiness, etc.

Personal Finance Questions

Today we started off class with a homework check from Fridays assignment of doing questions 3&5. Only 23% of the class actually did some homework and Mr.Max wasn't too happy with that so we were given time to try and finish the questions. After we had some time to work on the problems we went over question 5.
We still have a chance to get the questions done for homework until tomorrow.

This was question 5: we had to figure out which option was better for Sally.
The analysis for what Sally should do is going to be finished tomorrow.

Working on Personal Finance

Today at the start of class we did mental math, #12. We then had a discussion/lecture about our math blog and how we can make each post better. Putting proper labels on the blogs is important along with spelling and capital letters. Also, interaction between the scribe and the audience is a key element to making the blog useful. Posting screen shots, recorded lessons and other such visual/audio media is important. When posting, DO NOT put in dates for titles and/or labels. We were then given 15 minutes to finish question 8. We then went over and corrected question 8. For the weekend we have to do questions 3 and 5 in the personal finance review booklet.

oct 8 th

Today we are extending the corvette question we made yesterday but on excel. the example will be saved to the trans drive under the name corvette buy . remember when making payment plans to go to your financial function. and click PMT it just like using your calculator but easier (no writing).

For home work today we have to do question 8.

If you want to look at the excel part I cant up load it so go to J drive and course work then click on math and our class then click on payment plan

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wensday october 7

today we went did mental math. then handed it in for marks. after we moved on to a new topic which is personel finance. we are now supost to surf the web to find things about personal finance until he gives us our qestions probly for homework.

New Unit- Personal Finance

In this unit we learnt about interest rate, finance, and length of time to borrow. This can be calculated using excel, web applets and TVM solver. Mr. Max showed us everything we need to know if we buy a car through the bank. Which includes your down payment, interest, and monthly payments. We have an assignment that comes along with the lesson, which is just one question for practice.

Sequence in Class Quize

Today we started off with Mental Math like always! Remember if you are going to be late CALL .. So we finished Sequences and so we had to come up and write up 2 of those questions and had them in as our quiz.

October 5th/09

It was post-secondary day today and the people who got sent out were the ones that got to attend. It was nice to get information on different universities and colleges.

Friday, October 2.

Today in class we are finishing up the questions from yesterday (questions 2,3,4,8,10,11,13,14,15,16 and all of the multiple choice questions from the sequences handout). Aslo The Friends of Rachel group is collecting food items for the Swan River Food Bank; so everyone should bring a can of tomato soup, or primo, or soemthing.

Work Period

Today was a long block and we started off with mental math. We then went over question #7, which was assigned homework yesterday. To solve this question there are four different methods which we went over. (calculator, excel, sequencer, and on paper) After we went over all the methods we got to choose 5 questions from the booklet "sequence review questions",(from questions 2,3,4,8,10,11,13,14,15,16). We also have to complete all the multiple choice. Due for tomorrow!