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.