Sorry, Amy...

for deleting the previous post that was on here for about a day...but you're either guilty of:

a) not having read the whole thing, and therefore just not being thorough

OR

b) REALLY bad judgment if you had indeed read the entire thing...see me for clarification. Remember, folks, this is an extension of our classroom, and our classroom is in a school....

Behave accordingly.

Thank you.

RM

Four more days...

First of all I'd like to let ou know I had typed this up last thursday when I was scribe but after checking our blog sight today I noticed It saved under draft instead of publishing it. Sorry for the inconvenience but last week we didn't really learn anything new anyway. So anyways here's what I had typed up.......

Well hello.. Its only four more days until the math exam and I wish everyone luck. Today was another work/study period where we got to work on whatever you figured you need to perfect before the exam. We got a chance to complete our review exercises up to 50 and also finish accelerated math.

Since the exam is so near we didn't learn anyting new so instead here's a joke to lighten the mood..

Top ln(e^10) reasons why e is better than pi
10) e is easier to spell than pi.
9) pi ~= 3.14 while e ~=2.718281828459045.
8) The character for e can be found on a keyboard, but pi sure can't.
7) Everybody fights for their piece of the pie.
6) ln(pi^1) is a really nasty number, but ln(e^1) = 1.
5) e is used in calculus while pi is used in baby geometry.
4) 'e' is the most commonly picked vowel in Wheel of Fortune.
3) e stands for Euler's Number, pi doesn't stand for squat.
2) You don't need to know Greek to be able to use e.
1) You can't confuse e with a food product.

One day a mathematician decides that he is sick of math. So, he walks down to the fire department and announces that he wants to become a fireman.The fire chief says, "Well, you look like a good guy. I'd be glad to hire you, but first I have to give you a little test."
The firechief takes the mathematcian to the alley behind the fire department which contains a dumpster, a spigot, and a hose. The chief then says, "OK, you're walking in the alley and you see the dumpster here is on fire. What do you do?" The mathematician replies, "Well, I hook up the hose to the spigot, turn the water on, and put out the fire."
The chief says, "That's great... perfect. Now I have to ask you just one more question. What do you do if you're walking down the alley and you see the dumpster is not on fire?" The mathematician puzzles over the question for awhile and he finally says, "I light the dumpster on fire."The chief yells, "What? That's horrible! Why would you light the dumpster on fire?" The mathematician replies, "Well, that way I reduce the problem to one I've already solved."

Jokes From http://www.workjoke.com/projoke22.htm

Thanks,


Gregoir

More Exam Review

Here's the example study sheet Mr. Max gave us a few days ago. To gain more assignment marks, we have the option to make 8 of these (one for each unit) or study sheets of some sort for Friday. Basically the idea is to go through each learning outcome (from the Manitoba curriculum sheet) and put examples or references to examples. If you know you are well-versed in that particular outcome, you can put a check mark or some such symbol.

Class today was more preparation for the exam. We also spent a fairly significant amount of time discussing how to find a superconductor for Cindy. Because she misplaced hers. Here's a picture of one in action.

http://www.chemistryland.com/CHM107/AirWeBreathe/Comp/superconductor2.jpg

It was a fairly productive class I suppose, especially for Anna who made the most of the whole 10 minutes she decided to bless us with her presence.

I guess that's it for now. Our class is getting a little loopy.
(concluding comment courtesy of Amy)

The end is near......

This guy knows it...

and this little dog is about to find out....

the end is in sight...we're almost done!!


Well, I am sad to say that I think this is my last SVRSS Grade 12 Pre-Calculus Math blog post ever. Also this is our last week of grade 12 math.. ever.


Anyways, today was basically a work period, to ask him questions if you need, although some us took the time rather to reminise on our high school experiences while trying to fill out those wonderful things(sarcasm).... or watch ufc.. boys..


For the important stuff, 59 accelerated math objectives are due on the 19th, exercises 48 49 50 are due on Friday.


Exam June 9th!



So I guess this is it, farewell classmates, it's been good learning with ya.



Max's face when we leave.

For anyone that is going to re-write that test(from forever ago)...when should we do it?

Well class started out with our last test being officially handed back today and a quick lesson on what could possibly be a good way to make our study sheets. The study sheet is also now worth marks for in the assignment category if done before Friday. Also we now have our blog evaluations in our hands but they aren't due until the tenth. Well that pretty much explains class good luck to everyone on the exam next Monday.
PS: sorry this is late I forgot that the resource centre was closed for exams

Study tips 101

Somebody went under the dock, and there they saw A ROCK....... But it wasn't a rock............ It was a rock LOBSTER!!

I went to the beach, everybody had... matching towelsss

Infinite Geometric Series

We continued on today into the next lesson on geometric series; infinite series.

Max started of by giving on a few notes and we got yet another handy little equation.

After the notes we went through some examples.We were assigned exercise #47, questions 1-9.

Towards the end of class we went through the "Blog Cleanup". (Mainly Labels)

Well after a few people(who will not be named...) came to class late, Mr. Max got right to teaching us Geometric series. The newest update to our greek alphabet fluency was the "sigma":

Then, after a definition, we went on to some examples:

And then Finite Geometric Series:

These examples, however, were skewed by some off topic discussions about ethics and vocabulary. We decided we should all be a little more like Marc and Craig Kielburger, the brothers from Thornhill, Ont., who formed Free the Children, an organization that builds schools in developing countries. We also talked about words that mean something that is not quite a theorem(not sure if that makes much sense) like conjecture, hypothesis, philosophy, educated guess, etc.

And finally, the homework....yaaaay. Ex. 46, 1-11

Oh! One more yay!(this one not so sarcastic) There is only one more day of new stuff to learn! Then its review until the exam.

Amy

Exam Countdown: 12 Days

Marc and Craig Kielburger

http://www.albertc.on.ca/Portals/0/mar28_07_014.jpg

May 26th

Hello,

Today Mr Max started off the class my explaining that there is no accelerated math deadline for this weeks Friday. There will be a deadline for all accelerated math to be done though so keep working hard on it..

After hearing that good news, Mr Max continued into a new unit of Geometric Sequences. First of all he described to us what a geometric sequence was. He did this by explaining what they were recursively and explicitly.. see the below slide for more info

If this doesn't make sense to you.. it is just that a geometric sequence is a line of numbers that are generated by multiplying the previous number by a common ratio. For example, take a gander at the slide below and it should help you out.

By this time in my post I am starting to become extremely irritable because stupid blogger doesn't put my pictures where I want them.. or in the right order.

Anyways, the next three slides are perfect examples of what the formulas are, what each variable means, how formulas are used to find each term in a geometric sequence, or how to find the rate at which you are multiplying them.

Below are three more slides of how to use the formulas that are given, in the proper way. Mr Max showed us how to take the question given and use all parts of it to set up ratios that helped solve the problem. As you can see.. you may need a calculator to do some of the arithmetic so beware.

So.. the assignment today is Exercise 45 #1-7.

Remember there is a homework check in the near future so be sure to have all of the cumulative exercises done!

Keep working hard on accelerated math.

Thanks,

(signature here)

Cramer

Yet Another Eventless Scribe Day...

Once again, I am forced to scribe on another eventless day as Mr. Maksymchuk has to supervise the students taking the Applied Math Pilot-Exam. As such, today's period is a free one; however, Maksymchuk strongly encourages you employ this period to learn about geometric sequences from the Math 40SP website and/or work on subject material you have a poor grasp of.

It would probably also be prudent to practice for the Final Exam.

Oh yes, and one last thing: badgers!

-I.B.

Concluding Probability

The first example we saw was a continuation from yesterday. Here are two more solutions, one using a combination and one using a permutation.

Here's another example showing how to use permutations to find probability. The reason it is a permutation is because the order matters in this case.
This example is a similar question, but order doesn't matter, so we used a combination.
We also received the key for the pretest, so don't forget to prepare for the test tomorrow. Remember that we will be using calculators.

Tuesday, May 20

So we meet again... First off I hope everyone had an enjoyable long weekend and I also hope the Rugby girls that missed today are having fun kicking butt.

So we began todays class by making a schedule for the rest of the classes leading up to the exam. Not a whole lot of learnin left until we begin review.. Time flies! Anyway the calender below shows what we have left and that we will still be having a test three days before the exam and hopefully 5 days of review can be squeezed in.

Remember... Do not bug Mr. Max for your results until at least the week after.. Then bug him all you possibly can.
The last of the probability examples were shown today as Max showed us some conditional probability problems.

Here are the final cumalitive exercises on probability assigned. And he has yet to do a homework check on exercises 39-41. So make sure you're up to date on all your assignments and be sure to look at your pre-test as we have a test coming up!! If your not quite sick of math yet then there are also the old exams which I strongly encourage everyone to take a peek at.

Farewell! Until next time...

Complementry events

Sorry about having this post up a bit late but when i came down in fifth block the resource centre was closed. Mostly all we did on Friday was get some more examples on the board for probability and scramble to get as many accelerated math objectives done as possible.

Thursday, May 15

Hey! Yesterday was *Darlene day* and i was hoping to scribe for you all. I didn't have a chance but I noticed no one else had so I'll post it up now... Better late than never eh?



Well anyway yesterday we continued probability and learned about dependent and independent events. Indepent means if two or more events occur, the first one has no effect on the second event.
A dependent event means the outcome of the first event will effect the outcome of the second event.


Two events are known to be mutually exclusive if there outcomes have no common elements.
Two mutually inclusive events can happen at the same time.


Remember to do your homework on exercises 40 and 41. Chances are there'll be a homework check in the near future. Also accelerated math is due Friday so try and master 49 objectives.

Sincerely yours...
Gregoire

Probability

Hey todays my day to scribe!....He began by telling us the two types of events that can occur in probability.

Then he showed us an example using a fair die:

Then he went on to show us the Addition Law and Multiplication Law with some examples:

Then he drew us a nice picture of a sample space that cooresponds with the example above to show how he got the answer (20/36).

and finally the homework that is due sometime soon:

max also enlightened us about the "Barber's Paradox"...how the barber cuts everyones hair in town but not his own..... cindy.






ANNA