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