Tuesday, January 20th

well, today was the first part of the exam, hope everything went well!! In class today, we just did a brief summary of everything we've done over the past semester and things to look for on the second part of the exam tomorrow. Units on the exam tomorrow will be: Matricies, Vectors, Sequences, Probability, Statistics, and Personal Finance. We will have 2.5 hours to complete the Written Test.

GOOD LUCK!! Drive safe, eat a nutritious breakfast, and use the facilities before enterring the class

A video will be uploaded in due time!

Personal Finance Continued, Jan. 19, 2009

Today we continued learning about personal finance. We talked about interest, the advantages and disadvantages of buying and leasing, and useful spreadsheets. Of these speadsheets, the important ones are the net worth, GDSR, and DE ratio.
These spreadsheets can be found on he coursework drive under "stuff we can use on the exam". Tonight at 7 :00, Mr. Maksymchuk will be at the school willing to help us with any left over questions or concerns regarding the exam.
Remember to relax and sleep well tonight.

lew

Personal Finance

There are now four days till the provincial math exam which everyone is looking forward to. yay. And if you don't know, the exam is in the morning of both days and the first day is on periodic functions and design and measurement and the next day is on everything else. For anyone who is interested mr.maks is going to be at school monday and tuesday night at 7:00.

January 14th
In class we went over example questions from the Sinusoidal Data Exam Booklet. We did not learn anything new just some more, needed, practice. :)

January 14, 2008

Tue. 13th of January

We started off today's class with correcting one of the 3 questions assigned. #5
5.36 sec in *how to print a graph*
-press the button 5th from left
- this saves it to windows clip board
- next open up word right click paste
-you should be able to see your picture black and white then.. print away!
what to write on it after: x and y (time measured, in this case seconds)
hight of reflector in cm, minimum of 2 revolutions
accurisy on exam should be within 2 decimal places

Next question #10
Sinreg to get a,b,c,d
on calculator
press stat, go over to calc,
find press enter and put in L1,L2,
go over to vars, thenYvars, function and enter Y1
your equation will show up in the y= press graph


Next question #7 .... ahh we need more time, .... to be continued ... i guess

Monday January 12th- Periodic Functions

Today in class we started a new unit called periodic functions. We will be doing this unit today, tommorow and wednesday. Then we will be starting personal finance on thursday and friday.
For this unit graphmatica or your calculater can be used. If you are using graphmatica remember that you can change your grid range by clicking view, then grid range, and then adjusting it to you liking. Also you can change your graphpaper style by going to view, graphpaper, then to trig or rectangular. Trig will give you the pi amounts.

lew

Friday Jan 9

Hey everyone today we had our test on stats. We start our new unit on Monday- Periodic Functions. Hope everyone did well on there test!

Stats Test Review

Gooday folks! The stats test is friday and we did a bunch of review today

we focused in on the central tendancy terms, normal distribution, binomial distributions, and confidence intervals. the video will have it all including sample questions so good luck and study hard.

January 7, 2009

Hello Everybody!!
So Mr. Max was sick today so we had a work period to continue with the Confidance Intervals. You can look on the cource work drive for notes and then work on some questions in the old exams.
The test is also postponed till Friday!

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

To start the day, we had a quick homework check and were told the answers to each question. Mr. Maks than went through question 8 and 10 with us, for those who were having trouble.

Reminder, we'll be doing a test review tomorrow, to prepare for the test on thursday!

Binomial Distributions

Well, today is the first school day in the new year. Happy New Year!! There will not be any more mental math for the rest of the semester. We started into Binomial Distributions today, with Confidence Intervals being done tomorrow.

Here are the notes for today:

The other formula you need to know is this

standard deviation = square root of number of items times probability of success, times probability of failure

Remember Stats test Thursday, and the 12 questions in the handout are being homework checked tomorrow

December 18 and 19, Is a distribution normal or not, Grouped data

So 6 more days till CHRISTMAS!!!! YEAH I hope everyone is getting excited I know I am!! And something even better!!! 2nd last day of school!! And here's hoping tomorrow is a snow day!! Than even an extra long holiday!! It'd be so nice!






So for today i see that Mr. Mak's is putting on the head phones!! Ssssoo that means we are recording today!

OK so there is noone that is supposed to blog today so i will just tell you what we did for the last day before CHRISTMAS holidays!! So we just got done all our A.M math objectives and we finished up the multiple choice in our standard deviation booklets! If you guys missed out on today with out a good reason you will be receiving a zero on both assignments!

Have a GREAT holiday and see you guys after in the new year!! YEAH here comes 2009!!!

Dec 17- Work day

Today we just did work. We found out that the test is put off till we get back from the holiday's.

Monday, December 16

Today Mr.Max was away so we had a sub. The work assigned from the sub was so have all of the Normal Distribution Questions complete for tomorrow's class ( including the multiple choice questions).

**Also a reminder that the 13 A.M. Objectives are due before we leave for christmas holidays**

Friday December 12, 2008- Z-Scores

Good afternoon everyone!!!


Today we started off the class with our 43rd Mental Math. I would like to take this time to thank "chevy" for blogging yesterday. We need more people to step up like this. Anyways, a homework check followed M.M. on Question #2 from the Statistics Review booklet.


Mr. Maksymchuk corrected the question in the following slides showing how to figure out the test mark that the board should use as the cut for identifying gifted students.

The green under the graph represents the 48,000 students that will be tested. There is a 1% chance that if selected randomly from the 48,000 students, they will be gifted. (480 in total)


Using the "invnorm" technique, you can figure out the test score.


Type the following into your calculator:

invnorm (.99, 100, 15); and you will receive an answer of 134.9.

This answer means that 134.9 is the test score that will indicate the 480 gifted students.

Using the ronblond.com website and using the normal distribution program will also help you answer this question.



Next we moved onto a lesson on "z-scores."




We also did an example to involving "z-scores."



Homework for this weekend: Questions #8, and you can work on the rest of the multiple choice pertaining to z-scores, but they aren't necessarily for homework.

Mr. Maksymchuk recorded himself during this lesson on "z-scores". Listen to hear a full recording of the lesson on this topic.

Have an awesome weekend everyone!!

Thursday, December 11th

To start today's class off, we did a brief homework check on the three questions that were assigned to us yesterday.

If you haven't read Mr. Maks' post that he published yesterday, than i recommend you do so. The things he said, encouraged me to contribute to our class today and blog. Also, I want to take this time to say thanks to Huckelberry for stepping up and blogging yesterday, even though you didn't want to, you still ( being the great person that you are:) ) did it.

Anyway, to carry on... We than corrected the three questions from yesterday.

FOR Homework: question number 2 and all the multiple choice ones.
--- for the remainder of the class he gave us the option of working on these questions, our essay, or our accelerated math

It Takes All Kinds...

In my opinion, one of the most worthwhile things that students can learn while in the public education system is that the world is full of different sorts of folks. Everyone comes at each situation with different sets of priorities and all of the other pieces that define us as people and as a society. I think Huckleberry hit on something really interesting and important in the post below this one, if you take the time to read the first sentence...


Why did she think that it was important enough to scribe yesterday, even though obviously she (and others) felt that it maybe should have 'been someone else's turn'?

Was that fair?

Will most of the rest of your lives be 'fair'?

I personally feel that her classmates are extremely lucky to have a classmate like Huckleberry, but it bothers me a little that I'm talking about her contribution like it's the exception to the rule, rather than the norm...

Should I lower my expectations about students? ....how about doing the right thing just because it is the right thing? Is it ever OK to just sit back and wait while someone else does what maybe you should have done? In the 'real world', outside classroom walls, I believe that this happens all the time. In the world of work, who do we reward? Who advances up the corporate ladder? Who makes the most money? Who 'wins'? Will you?

One of the worst things, again, in my opinion, that we do in public education is to shelter our students and encourage some silly idea that everyone has the right to this, and the right to that, and the system 'owes' me because 'I'm special' and 'I'm unique'....(which I won't actually dispute at all, because in a very real sense, I do believe in the power of the individual to bring about greater good among the many, but that's another post.)...However, rarely do we discuss the responsibility to ourselves, to others, and to society in general that we as individuals have to somehow be proactive in our approach to make the world even slightly better than we found it. If everyone asked a question like "What can I do to help?", and contributed just a bit, instead of feeling like "What do I get out of it?", wouldn't the world be just a bit better on a regular basis? Of course it would, but how do we encourage that kind of shift in thinking, because currently, it can certainly be argued that things are going a different direction...

At risk of trying to sound like JFK, or Gandhi, or Garrett Hardin, or John Lennon (who were all great people, in my opinion), I'd prefer to leave this post with a couple of my favourite quotes. The first is actually probably my all-time favourite, by a respected American anthropologist, Margaret Mead, who said,


"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."

For the record, you guys (and every class that I've ever taught), are that group.

The other quote that I like a lot (and probably have thrown out in class), comes from 'Uncle Ben', as advice to young Peter Parker in the Marvel comic series, Spider Man.

He says, "With great power comes great responsibility."
I know it's from a comic, and I know some people think it's corny, but so is my sense of humour..... I'll leave this last question....What is your power? Will you use it wisely and responsibly? I hope so...and I believe in you.



Anyone have a comment? I dare you...


Cheers, and I wish you all peace for the holiday season....










RM



photo credits: via Flickr.com 1. http://www.flickr.com/photos/liz/205980480/
2. http://www.flickr.com/photos/48006461@N00/2357873315/