October 29th/09

We handed in our mental math sheets today, and i had an average of 65% this time. Mental Math is not my strong point, but I'm sure I'll get better as the year goes on. After that, Mr. Max showed us how to do a question from the design and measurement portfolio. It was a driveway problem on page 6 of 6. He used excel to figure it out and showed us how to do it that way.

October 28th/09

Since I forgot to blog for a few days, I thought I'd summarize what we have been doing. We started working on this booklet called the Design and Measurement Portfolio. It has a bunch of different problem solving questions...just my type of questions! NOT. I really dislike these Design and Measurement questions. This will be something that I will need to study and understand for the exam. I am sure it is easier once I understand how to break it all down and do it by steps. Hopefully by the end of this week I'll be able to do these questions and fully understand how to work it out. 1 cubic yard = 27 cubic feet.

Oct. 20th/09

Today we had a "spot check" quiz on Sequences/Series and Personal Finance. Both of those units I don't understand, so I found it quite hard. I went to tutoring at 4 today and Mr.Max did help me understand some questions that I didn't get.

October 19th/09

Well I wasn't here on Friday because I was gone to Winnipeg. I heard there was a quiz type deal that got everyone anxious and worried, and I'm glad I wasn't apart of that. haha. He didn't take it in for marks, so that is good!

Anyways, as for today, Monday, October 19th, we did mental math, and then he gave us a white piece of paper and this was supposed to be our formula sheet. There is an up coming quiz one of these days this week, so we had to make one up and show him before leaving. I really hope its after tutoring tomorrow, I need more time to look over sequences and series and actually understand personal finance.

Oct. 13th/09

Today we went over some practice questions on Personal Finance. I don't really understand this unit. Its hard for me to know what to enter into the calculator and understand what the questions are asking.

Oct. 8th/09

I wasn't in math class today because I had a student council meeting all morning.

Oct. 7th/09

We started a new unit today, which is called Personal Finance. We can use three differnt machines to use to solve these problems. Excel, TVM Solver and Web Applets. I remember learning some of this stuff in grade 11. I remember that I didn't really enjoy it, but maybe I'll get it this year! He is going to give us a practice question to work on tonight and lets hope I can do it.

Oct. 2/09

Today it was a day 2 so we worked on our Sequence and Review questions, they are due for Tuesday.

Oct. 6th/09

Today we had a quiz on Sequence and Series questions. We had to pick two of the questions from the review booklet that he gave us and then hand them in.

Oct. 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. I plan to go to CMU next year and I hope that it is a great experience for me!

Oct. 1st/09

Today he assigned some questions for us to do from our Sequence and Series review questions. We are to do five of them. I think I might do more because I really don't understand this stuff.

Sept. 30th/09

Today we learned that there are 4 methods to solve Sequences and Series. 1. Calculator 2. Excel 3. Shodor 4. Sequence Mode. I find this unit to be harder then matricies and hopefully I'll be able to understand it.