Design and measurement project topic choice

I chose a shoebox.

Last Days!

This week is the last week of school! Next week is exams. So exciting! I hope everyone did well on the exam, I wish everyone luck! I hope you have a good last week of math class. It was a good semester, I learned alot and I had alot of fun. Make sure you have handed in your portfolio, and if you havent get it in ASAP. Have a good last week classmates! Thanks Mr. Maksymchuk for being such a good teacher and helping me whenever I needed help!

June 3rd (Cont. Exam Review)

Today we continued on with Exam Review. We reviewed the last chapter, Design and Measurement. There wont be much Design and Measurement on the Exam, Mr. Maksymchuk said at the most 2 questions. Make sure not to study the things you know and focus on the chapters that you have trouble with and maybe don't understand. Today is the last day before the exam. Good luck. Have a good weekend and study hard.( No partying).

June 2nd Post Exam Review

Today we started off by watching a video on youtube, then started the exam review on Personal Finance on all explorations. Then after we reviewed Goverment Finances on all the explorations. Tomorrow we are reviewing on more chapters and explorations.


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May 31st

Mr. Maksymchuk talked to us about what will be on our exam. He told us that it's on personal finance, goverment finance, investments, statistics and design and measurement. Our exam is on June 7th in our math class, at 9am. Our portfolios are also do as soon as possible and there is re-tests possible but you have to talk to Mr. Maksymchuk if you are interested. Also, you can still hand in notebook assigments from any explorations. We are also going over on how to do a tax return.

Today in class we started a new chapter, which was chapter 5 Preparing income tax returns. We pretty much just had a work period, and learned how to do an income tax form. Kinda. There was no homework given but there is only five more days until the exam and looking over the material would be good I suppose.

Recognizing Variation

Today Mr. Maks talked about how to recognize what types of graphs go with what formulas.

may 21, 2010

today in class we received two old exams one from June 2009 and one from January 2010. we had the option of studying for our exam or our test coming up on May 27Th on Variation and Formulas. the questions the test may look like some of the questions from the text book on chapter 6.

have a great weekend everyone

May 17th Monday 2010

Today we went over the lesson on Direct Variation. We figured out formulas and how to work the graphs. we have to finish the notebook assignment on page 285 to 295. If you finish the notebook assignment then you should know what to do tomorrow. We also talked about the late assignments that are due such as, design and measurement project and our career portfolio. These need to be handed in throughout the course of our last 3 to 4 weeks.

May 12th Post

Today in class we talked about moving the test to friday instead of tomorrow, then we talked about debte quity ratio part of the investments unit. Then talked about blogger marks and to explain why we deserve to get full marks for blogger posts.


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Monday, May 10th

At the beginning of class Mr.Maksymchuk said that our statistics/investments test will now be on Thursday, May 13th. He will go over what will be on the test on Wednesday. We then did notes on "How financially healthy are you?" And differences between assets and liabilities. We also talked about liquidity: measure of how quickly/easily you can get cash out of an investment without loss of principal. Mr.Maksymchuk also did a spreadsheet on Statement of Net Worth.

Budgets

Today like most days we started with mental math. Mr.Max taught us about budgets such as housing, food, transportation, etc. We went over what percentage each is and how much we would have to make to cover those expenses.

Investment Choices

Today we did Exploration 3 in Chapter 4. Then Mr. Maksymchuk decided to take a break and go and surf eBay, we looked at collectibles, it was crazy, beanie baby were priced for as much as 7 thousand dollars, then we continued with the lesson. Here are the definitions from Exploration 3:

Capital gain - money earned in an equity investment
Capital loss - money lost in an equity investment.
Debt investment - an investment that involves lending money to a company.
Equity investment - an investment that involves part ownership in a company.

The notebook assignment is assigned # 1-10
*#11 is also due. (Mr. Maksymchuk claims its the best notebook question of the year)

Scribe Post. April 29, 2010

Today our lesson was on Investments in exploration 2, Investegating The Stock Market. Mr. Maksymchuk explained the main parts of a stock market and how it works. The notebook assignment is on pages 186-187.
Stock - The outstanding capital of a company or corporation.
Shares - Represent pieces of ownership in a company or organization by the share holder.

Also there was news for us! The announcement was that we have a guest lecturer next Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Mrs, Barboura Stevens will be talking to us and helping us work on our Life Career Project for those three days. We are heavily influenced not to miss any of these three days!!!! And Mr. Maksymchuk will be doing Absolutely nothing with us for these three days! Also our Statistics test may be next week.... A class discution will determine the final date of this test.

*ThInKiNg.AbOuT.tHe.FuTuRe*

To in class we started off with mental math as usual. Then we did something different we started out the Investments Unit by running over the first exploration with Mak in class. The question were about goals and values.

Goals-a plan that is intended to achieve,

Values-something that is treasured

He asked us question like what are goals and values were, what they would be in 10 yrs, 25 yrs, and so on. He asked us to set some goals also. It helped us kinda start to think about what we might have to deal with and what we might want to be doing to maybe help us financially in the future.

April 20th

today in class we started out doing mental math. i was late so didnt really know wat it was about, but mr maks talked about normal distrubution and a frequency polygon. he also talked about the percentages in this polygon

April 19th

Today at the beginning of class we got our tests back. For the rest of the class Mr. Maksymchuk showed us how to use spread sheets better. He did one on everyones height in the room.
-ST. DEV. Measures the variability in a data set: If st. dev. is large lots of variation between numbers. If st. dev is small, approaching zero. Little (less) variation between numbers.

Today we started class with mental math then moved into working on the project again. Mr. Maksymchuk gave us about a week extension luckily because everyone did need help or to fix things up and today we just finished it up again.

Today we are still going hard on our project things that we have been working for the past couple days

Statistics

Today we learnt a new unit in Statistics(chapter 8). Mr.Max explained statistics as being numbers with meaning. The first exploration deals with percentiles which is written in a formula of PxR=B+0.5E/n x 100.
B being the number of scores below a given score.
E the numberof scores equal to a given score.
N is the number of scores in total.

*My computer wouldn't work to put the notes up.

Scribe Post. April 5/2010

This is my Scribe post for yesterday, Monday April 5th. It was basically just a work period on our class project which is due Next Monday at 3:40! We will have 3 more classes to work on it; Thursday, Friday, and next Monday as well. A quote to remember during these classes is "Don't look at the clock in an hour and think, what did I just waste that past hour on!". Good Luck.

Rugby Goal Post

a dog house!

a dog house!

For our project....

I call doing a "TABLE"

I Call Building The Center Of The Universe...

birdhouse

I am going to do the tree house for my project..

Thursdays Goodies*

Today in class we are starting off the day with NO mental math! We are going to start brain storming for our end of the chapter project. Some people have already called dibbes on some of the objects they plan on doing it on. I think that im going to my project on a desk shelve. We'll probably just work on our projects for the rest of the class.

project dibs

one two three nose game no challenge on a hunting blind :p neya!!! GOLDEN

Wednesday March 24/10

Today we went over our big project. Mr maksymchuk showed us examples on how to create a project such as; Speadsheets and plywood. We were also givin a Prezi Presentation, as an option to create our project. We brainstormed as a class on what we can build, also whoever posts what theyre on the blog, has the right to claim that design. It is due April 12th at the end of the day around 3.40pm. Our explorations from 1-6 are due at the end of our break, based on the measurement chapter. We did not do any mental math today.

Project

I'm going to do a jewellery box.

Project Pick!

Richelle choice will be a fireplace....

im going to do a ice fishing shack

That project

Hey, so i'm going to do the bookshelf. Sorry if that ruins anything for anyone.

Choice for project

T.V. stand

Dibs!

I call dibs on making a Deck.

Project

IM DOING SUB BOX

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Tuesday March 23/2010

Today we did mental math then we started off talking about our explorations we have to finish. There is only one question in exploration 5 that is due for tomorrow and it is on quilts. Right now we are learning about Cost Estimation of Materials. We are doing notes, examples and analysis.

Types of drawings march22

Today mr. maksymchuk talked about different types of drawings such as Isometric and Oblique. He also described the two different types of oblique drawings such as cavalier and cabinet.

Types of Drawings:
ISOMETRIC
-edges closest to viewer
-triangular

OBLIQUE
-fact(s) are not closest to the edge
-rectangular paper
-x y z plains depth perseption

Obliqe drawing types:
CAVALIER
(cavalier oblique drawing/projection)
"deeper"

CABINET
(cabinet oblique drawing/projection)
"shallower"

Today in math class we started by doing mental math number 18, then we looked at Expolsion view diagrams and we then did an example of how to explode a box.

March 18th Post

In todays class we started off with a mental math then we reviewed notebook assingment 1. And our assingment today is notebook assingment 2.

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one and two point perspectives

today we started math class out with mental math. then maks showed us two videos about technology in modern day. after that he went on to the nxt lesson about one and two point perspectives, vanishing points and the difference between the two. this lesson seems pretty easy, but i suck at drawing so may be difficult for somebody like me who has drawing skills of a two year old. K BYEEEEE!!!

Tuesday, March 16

At the beginning of class we started out with mental math. We then talked about the project we spent the last three classes working on. Our class project will be due from April 19th to 26th. Our written test is on June 7th and the portfolio is due prior to June 7th. For the project that we handed in on Monday we talked about the title page, introduction and conclusion that should have been added. We also took a vote on what days the we should work on our next project, Thursday, Friday and Monday is what was decided. We also decided that we will have a project instead of a test.

Scribe Post, Thursday March 11/2010

Today in class we are pilotting our class project. I can't go into detail about what we did because it is completely confidential. we will have only three classes to finish our projects it will be due at the end of mondays class. we did not do mental math today and that concludes todays class.

My Thinking Game

so obviously this is a thinking game... BecausE! i dont know how to play it. After a couple tries i realized i probably wont get it.
But maybe someone else will.
http://www.turbulence.org/spotlight/thinking/chess.html

Weigh the Wangdoodle

Okay so I'm not sure if this will link but this is pretty much a sweet game i'd say. This is the website at least -> http://www.mathplaygroung.com.wangdoodles.html/ I think it's kind of hard, but I know Mr. Maksymchuk will get it fast; but if you're not that bright like me it'll take a while. What you have to do is figure out the weight of the wangdoodles to make all of them balanced on all three scales.

Math Games

Try this one! Bet it's too "Trippy" for you to get through every level as quick as you can without clicking at least one wrong ball!
http://www.coolmath-games.com/0-colorballs/index.html

Tower of hanoi

http://www.superkids.com/aweb/tools/logic/towers/

Hey Mr.Maksymchuk.

Most of us are glad to hear that the test is postponed. That's a good thing.

Thank you, and we look forward to seeing you on Monday!

I hope you also have a good weekend.

The Good News and the Bad News

The bad news is that with my schedule being what it was...I wasn't able to get the tests to the substitute to return this week, so your Personal Finance tests will have to be returned to you on Monday. Having said that, I also told you that I wouldn't give you another test until I returned the first one, so I'm postponing Monday's test until Tuesday. That was the good news.

During Monday's class, I'll hand back your tests, and I'll help you to prepare for Tuesday's test on Government Finances. As it has been discussed below, if you're studying, I would sincerely encourage the use of the archived provincial exams on the Dept. of Ed. website here. Link from here or from the main links set on the right of this post.

Enjoy your weekend!

RM

Scribe Post: March 03/ 2010

Today was basically a work day. We had a substitue and our list of tasks to do was on the board.
They were:
1) Explorations #6 and #7, Notebook assignments SOON.
The test has been moved to Monday the 8th now. It is on chapter 3, Government Finances.

2) Blog-->Vocabulary onto your personal blog from sample problems from the chapter.
Study for the exam through the old archived exams! Follow the link on the blog. Mr Maksymchuk stated the test will be the same as the first one. The questions will come straight from those exams.

*just another day

Today we started off the day with mental math as usual. Mr Mak then told us that we were all going to be joining a ning that we could all chat on it in class.

Next he started the lesson about property taxes

This lesson didnt really makes sense to me, and I honestly didnt really know what was going on. I will probably have to get some help on this. But for the other people who may have understood it more... here is the pictures of the work that Mr. Mak did.

Wolf Ram Alpha Link

This is a Link/Site name for the search engine Mr. Maksymchuk showed us on Monday, March the 1st. The web site is a search engine pointed towards a mathematical point of view.
The site is:
http://www.wolframalpha.com

Tabacco and Fuel Tax Rates