Friday, Feb. 19th

Today there was almost nobody here so Mr. Max gave the few of us the period to work on Accelerated math and whatever else we needed to do. Kinda nice to have on a Friday. If you want you can visit This interesting uh... wiki on Math.

Daily Post

Today, we have started our class off with Mental Math #6. Then as a result of yesterdays class we went over the Question that Mr. Maksymchuk had assigned us. As a class we have looked at a page for it was very interesting to us all. A school was failing and there was a 5 to 2 agreement that 100 staff members got canned from their jobs for the school was failing. So that is one reason why we as classmates we can be happy that we go to school here. Following that Mr. Maksymchuk was talking to us all about going back and edit our posts. By that he wants us to put labels, and do our best in all of our own posts. In our work lesson today, we went over the first two methods, which was using the calculator. Following that we went on to the other using Excel, and using the internet.
Our homework for today is Question 4 & 9
We have corrected our homework and it has only taken Mr. Maksymchuk 10 minutes to do all the work on the bored.

BeccaC72

One Week - Sequences and Series

We started off the class with a mental math quiz, which we hadn't done in quite a while. Before we started our lesson on sequences and series, Max told us the liquid nitrogen story about a prof who froze a computer and smashed it to show his students not to use their computers for things other than school in class.

Next we had a lesson on Sequences and series. The lesson showed us an exam question, and how to solve it.

TEST !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

On the 18 th of feb. We had a test on matracies. I belive we all did pretty good.

Test Review

Mr. Maksymchuk gave us good news. It is that he is giving us all the test questions as a review today. The test questions are going to be questions from old math exams. He showed us how to answer them to recieve full marks. Then he broke down what he thought we were supposed to learn by now.

Wednesday, February 10

Mr. Maksymchuk was out of class today. Mr Gorchinski was the substitute. The class worked on accelerated math and exercise 6, questions 1-4

Feb 11 / 2010 Fight Day

I guess there was a fight in the front hall which every kid in the school had to go see making it MORE! popular than the Pep rallies! so Mr. Max was not here right away then, we started the class by doing Mental Math as usually. We started doing a lesson on Networks (Direct vs. Indirect). Exercise 7 1-6 was assigned to us.

Daily Post

Today, we have started our first mental math. Following that we had our homework checked by Mr. Maksymchuk, right after that we had found out that the answers to the homework was actually on the network. Even though it's there you still should show your work, because that is what really count on the exam. As every other day during the daily lesson, we watch in amazement at the awesome drawings that go with the learning. Eventually we worked our way to the lesson for the day. Matrix Multiplication. Within the matrix modelling we have learned about the two-finger method. The homework for tonight is Exercise 4, questions 1 & 2, next Exercise 5, questions 1 & 4. That shall be looked at on Monday. The lesson that we have covered is all below.

Here is an example of the finger method as shown in class today. Click Here

Matrix Modeling - Continued.

To load numbers into a matrix you hit:
2nd x^-1
Go over to edit and hit enter
# enter by # enter
then just plug in all the numbers of the matrix.

When adding, equal dimentions in matricies will add corresponding elements. Subtracting works the same.
Adding has commutativity but subtracting does not.

Scalers multiplication - think distrubutitve method. It is commutitive.

Elcie

The Daily Post

We went over the class policies and there is a slightly higher tolerance for Cell Phones as long as we are not distracted by them.

Along with the class policies he showed us a blog that lists relief kits and how to make them that you can make and send to the people who are in need of relief in Haiti.

Mr. Maksymchuk gave us our Mental Math sheets but we didn't do a mental math quiz, we just jumped into our first lesson: Matrix Modelling.

Our first assignment is to figure out which of these matrices can be added and subtracted to each other and write down the results.

Here is the teaching video:

Here is a website i found on Adding and Subtracting Matrices

Haiti Relief What Are You Doing?

My Native Studies class and I would like to help the people of HAITI. We need your support to make a difference. We would like to challenge all SVRSS staff/students to make a difference to show the people of Haiti we care. Following is a list of items that can be placed in a shoebox as a kit. These kits will be sent to Haiti on February 28, 2010. The deadline to submit your kit is Wednesday, February 24, 2010. Please drop off your completed kit with Ms. Munro. Thanking you in advance for your anticipated cooperation on this matter.


SCHOOL KIT
ü 4 spiral notebooks
ü 4 unsharpened pencils
ü 1 ruler (flat, flexible plastic, with cm/in)
ü 12 colored pencils ( in package)
ü 1 large pencil eraser


RELIEF KIT
ü 4 large bars bath soap (in package)
ü 1 plastic bottle shampoo (380-710ml/13-24 oz)
ü 1 squeeze tube toothpaste (130ml/6oz; leave in box)
ü 4 adult size toothbrushes (in package)
ü 4 new bath towels
ü 2 wide-tooth combs
ü 1 fingernail clipper
ü 1 box bandages (minimum 40; assorted)
ü 1 package sanitary pads (18-24 thin maxi)


HEALTH KIT (NEW items only)
ü 1 toothbrush (adult size)
ü 1 squeeze-tube toothpaste (130ml/6oz)
ü 1 large bar of bath soap
ü 1 fingernail clipper
ü 1 hand towel


NEWBORN KIT (NEW items only; 3-9 months)
ü 2 gowns/sleepers
ü 2 undershirts/onesies (short or long sleeves)
ü 4 cloth diapers
ü 1 receiving blanket
ü 4 safety pins (5cm/2in)
ü 1 large bar mild soap
ü 1 pair socks
ü 1 cap