Math test

What did everybody think of the math test?

WARNING -Monday's Scribe

Sierra, lucky you! Christian picked you to be the scribe in Math class on Monday. Good luck! Tee hee.

Chapter 2 Review

Hey I've got the thing right. So as I was saying today we corrected the Chapter Review and some people had some trouble with number thirteen. We did not do as much work in math as Tuesday.

For some people who missed Tuesday math, this is number 13 A. A fridge monthly cost is $12.11. Its been on for 240 hours. $12.11/240 hrs
$0.05/ 1 hr


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MATH TEST TOMORROW!!!!!

The guy from The Tell-Tale Heart?

Please remember that when you blog, you should include:

- a Title for each entry
- a label for each entry (either Scribe or Reflection)

Trivia: Who wrote The Tell-Tale Heart? (First to comment to this post before the Math test tomorrow gets one bonus mark!)

What is a scribe post?

A scribe post is basically like you are teaching the class again, but this time in your words in a way that other people can understand it. You can also recap other important things that we talk about in class (like planning for our Halloween party on Friday) so that if someone was away in our class, they would know what they missed. Also don't forget that when you scribe, you get the power to choose the next scribe.

Chapter Review

Hi, this is Drew

Today in Math we set a date for the test which is on Thursday, October 29th.

We also did the chapter review on pages 70, 71 (due up to #15) and a quiz on the smart board to prepare for the test.

Mr. O explained that you can solve a question using a unit rate, in which the bottom number is reduced to 1, by dividing the top and bottom number by the same amount (ex. divide the numerator and the denominator by the denominator)

ex. if 5 cans of soup cost $3.00, how much is one can worth?

$3.00/5cans - so when you divide both the numerator and denominator by 5 the answer is $0.60/1 or 60 cents for one can.

The other way is using a proportion, which you set up with the two rates side by side with the unknown number represented by an X. You then multiply diagonally the two numbers that don't have an X and then divide the product by the remaining number to find the value of X.

We also learned that only ratios can have a percent. You get this by adding all the numbers in the ratio together and then dividing one number into the total number to get a percent ex. ratio=5:10, 5+10=15, 5/15=33.3..............%.

Baby steps

Learning, learning, learning. About this blog stuff. Mostly through experimentation.

Today's goals:

• learn how to let others (ie. students) access and contribute to my blog
• explain to more students what this blog is all about
• continue to play and learn.
  

And ahh, here we go!

Alrighty then.

First post of my new blog.

Inspired by the BlogFather. I'm willing to give it a shot and join the modern world, at least to some degree (I am still holding out on the cellphone situation.)

The goal of this blog is to help my students best understand the Math that we are covering here at VJH in 2009-2010. Simply sitting around class listening to me (while occassionally entertaining) just is not going to cut it. Time to let the students become the teachers.

Each day, I am going to assign one student to take notes on the lesson(s) we covered that day in Math. That student should will best understand the lesson if they are able to put it into their own words. Once they have prepared notes for their day, the student will post their notes on this blog for the rest of the students to review.

Obviously, the student inputting the notes needs to know their stuff in order to teach that lesson to the rest of the class. Also, the rest of the students will benefit by being able to go and read the blog in the words of one of their fellow classmates - rather than the textbook which can be confusing at times.

Every day, we will choose a new student to be the "scribe" for the day. With 25 students in class, it will take 5 or 6 weeks before any student has to do the job for the second time.