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

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

Conics Again...

Happy Friday Everyone!. Today Mr. Max started off by handing back our tests. Then we dived back into the world of conics. Here are some screenshots of what we did:




Just a couple more examples. Here are some general formulas that he gave us for the four conic sections:











These should get us on our way for the conic excercises. These are Ex.36,
1-10; Ex.37, 1-10, and Ex.38, 1-10. Mr.Max won't be checking homework on Monday, but there will be one eventually for these 3 excercises. And Don't forget that due today at 3:40 is 39 Objectives for Accelerated Math. On that happy note, Have a good weekend everyone!


***P.S I know it is Monday today. Me, being the ditz that I am, wrote a blog post on Friday and forgot to post it. So I apologize for this being late....hope it didn't ruin anybody's accelerated math or anything...






Amy

Well, yesterday was a *Darlene* Day, so I will put up the screenshots of what Mr.Max did.

The Homework Argument

Tagging along on Cindy's idea, I have found a couple more articles that talk about the pros and cons of the infamous "homework". Here are links to two articles that have been published in Maclean's:

Homework Hysteria
http://www.macleans.ca/article.jsp?content=20071128_96876_96876&source=srch

Interview with Alfie Kohn, author of 'The Homework Myth'
http://www.macleans.ca/article.jsp?content=20060911_133063_133063&source=srch


And finally, here is one I found on the website for The Washington Post:

As Homework Grows, So Do Arguments Against It
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/11/AR2006091100908.html

So, for anyone who would like some extremely good points to tell teachers next time they assign mounds of homework( I do believe a couple of teacher's names were brought up...)check these out. Maybe our school board will decide to restrict the amount of homework(unfortunately, probably not in our final few months here).

LOGs

Hello everyone. Today Mr. Max taught us about LOG's. We defined them and wrote some notes about the properties of LOG's. Here are the screenshots from today:

Seems like it won't be too terribly hard. He also reminded us that doing the cumulative excercises really does help.

He also gave us a game plan for the week:

Monday(today)-define LOG's

Tuesday-Law's of LOG's

Wednesday-Solving LOG's with theorems

Thursday-Natural LOG's("i")

Some notes about Thursday:

-Mr.Max is planning on teaching a lesson, so if you haven't signed up for "Team Stuff Day", DONT!

- 19 Objectives are due on Thursday at 3:40! Don't leave it till the last minute(like I tend to do...)

Well, since there will be more people than just me putting stuff up today, I'll keep it short and sweet. You can hear what they have to say. Later!

Amy

Better Late Than Never

Well, I finally figured out how to do these examples! I may not get marks for them, but I guess the main thing is that I know how to do them.

Example One: Determine the exact value of sin135
sin(90+45)=sin90 cos45 + cos90 sin45
= (pi/2)(sqrt.2/2) + (0)(sqrt.2/2)
=(sqrt.2)(pi)/4

Example Two: Simplify: sin6xsin4x - cos6xcos4x
= -(cos6xcos4x-sin6xsin4x)
= -cos(6x+ 4x)
= -cos10x


Amy

Aloha, everyone. Today Mr. Max assigned Excercise #17, 1-12; and Excercise #18, 1-16. We get all of today's class to work on them and study for tomorrow's test.







He also told us that the test will be the same as the pre-test, but with different numbers. Since the whole pre-test idea seems to be liked by the whole class, we will continue to get pre-tests before each of our real bi-weekly tests.







One last thing-The latest due date for Accelerated Math is March 27th with 19 objectives.







Well good luck on the test tomorrow everyone!







Amy






from my.opera.com/offspring/blog/show.dml/359734

Well, I wasn't here yesterday so I'm not exactly sure what I should be writing on here. It looks like you talked about reciprocal functions.

Piece-wise functions were also mentioned. Good luck on the test tomorrow! Study hard!

Amy

Goals!

www.estlouis.stclair.k12.il.us

Goal-Setting!

My goals for Grade 12 Pre-Calculus are:
1) Get at least 75%
2) Study at least one hour for each test
3)I won't get distracted by others or by games on the computer

A decent math help website is:
http://www.webmath.com/
Some helpful goal-setting tips are found on:
http://www.mindtools.com/page6.html