Oct 21 Daily Recap.

Today we did not do mental math and got a handout that is called the portfolio booklet. Mr Maks ashured us that it is not a mathimatical portfolio though! He assigned us for to do question 2 A) which was pretty complex and included replacing ceiling tiles. There was no real way to evaluate the question with a calculator or computer resource. The way i did it was with a pencil and paper and arithmatic. The calculator was used for the simple add, subtract, divide and multiply scenarios to speed up the question. And a simple, ugly diagram helped VERY much in the completion of this question!

Oct 08 Daily Recap

Today we futhered our new knowledge of finance. We went through the same question and did all the same math, but this time on microsoft Excel instead of the Calculator like yesterday. I like the Excel way of completing these type of questions.

Oct 07 Daily Recap.

Yesterday we began a new unit. We started the finance unit, and Mr Maks showed us how we could calculate the payments of buying a corvette for about $34 000 over 5 years.

Oct 06 Daily Recap

Yesterday in the short block class, everyone was back after post secondary day and Mr. Maks assigned a quiz like assignment due for Oct 07. The quiz consists of 2 questions from the handout that was assigned before. Just make sure the questions are answered correctly and clean them up.

Oct 05 Daily Recap.

On Monday we had basically a free class. it was post secondary day and there was only about 4 of us in class. This gave me a chance to do most of the questions required in the sequencies handout.

Sept 30. Daily Recap.

Today we went through the third and fourth method of solving these sequences. The first method was the Shodor method, which was an online method and is very simple. The last method was on the graphing calculator and it is done by changing the mode on the calculator. We were then assigned question number 7 of the handout.

Sept 29 Daily Recap.

Today we began a new unit called sequences and series and Mr Maks thinks it will take us about 4 days of class to finish these lessons on this unit. He breifly explained the unit and then gave us a handout and began doing an example question in number 9. He showed us two ways to do this problem, using the Calculator (Home screen method) and Excel. Or homework he assigned for us was to find the remaining two methods.

Sept. 28 Daily Recap

Yesterday we finished up the last part of our test with the sub. I felt most of the test was fairly easy and understandable. I don't think there is a part of this unit i don't understand now, and i feel i'm ready to move on.

Sept 24 Daily Recap.

Today was a short block class that was used as a review. We skipped Mental Math and Mr. Maks jumped right into showing us examples and questions throughout the unit. We basically reviewed about 2 weeks of math as much as possible within the 45 minutes that we were working.

Sept 23, Daily Recap.

Today we did a very tough mental math with a few questions that really made us think!!! Once again we had a homework check and i didn't have it done... So I am going to have to work on it later today some time. The majority of the class consisted of a lesson/ question example done by Mr. Maks on the board. He did number 5 of exercise 8. He then assigned question 7 of the same exercise for homework.

Sept 22. 2009 Daily Recap

Today Mr maks succesfully angered many of the students by doing the Direct and Indirect Networks by hand, which took about half an hour!!! And then he pulled out the graphing calculator and showed us that using that piece of technology, it takes as long as it does to punch it in to complete the matricies. We ended the class with an assignment from our handout which consisted of doing questions 2, 3, 4, and 5 of exercise 7.

Sept 21, 2009 recap.

Yesterday we had a homework check on questions 2 and 4 of exercise 6. Mr. Maks then corrected question 2 for us. I decided to do question 3 and 4 to complete the homework assignment for Tuesday.

Daily Recap For Sept. 17

Today we did exercise 5, question 3 of the hand out as a class and then were assigned question 2 of the same exercise. Shultz and i worked together and after a few errors of not making the matricies the correct dimensions we came up with the correct answer and the right dimensions. For the A part of the question I ended with a 1 X 2 matrix which is 170 and 240.
The B) is a 1X1 matrix and the number ends up being $783 000.

Daily Recap For Sept.16

Yesterday in the short block class Mr Maks created our class blog and i was unable to become a member. And we also went through our assignment and then furthered our knowledge about matrix multiplication.

Daily Recap For Sept.15

Yesterday we had a simple day. There was a sub and we worked on a booklet of matrix problems. The problems consisted of addition, subtraction, scalar multiplication and matricies multiplication. If we finished the booklet or understood enough to move on, we were to search the web for information on matricies and then create the daily blogger post if time allowed it.

Daily Recap For Sept.14

In this class we went through matricies and what we can do with them. Quickly we learnt how to add them and subtract them, then to scalar multiplication, and finally matrix multiplication. The class then ended with a handout of an assignment that we can work on the next class.

September 2009 Goals

1. To achieve 80 percent or higher in grade 12 applied.
2. Have a school average of 75 percent or higher throughout the year.
3. Attend post secondary education within 3 years of high school graduation.