Speaker

Yesterday, the First Nations speaker was at our school. He spoke about...

1.) the tornado hitting all the houses down except the teepees. 

2.) he spoke about singing. 

3.) he talked about his religion and their culture doesn't have a bible

4.) he talked about how the moon is really important because it taught them how they used to tell time

5.) it is important they don't make teepees from measuring tapes because the children must learn

6.) he wanted to have great grandchildren.

7.)he knows woman are very important

8.) he believes in jesus

9.) he likes to sing

10.) he wants his children to do everything traditionally. 

Math Choices

Our future is huge and we have to make our decision right now. Since I was in Grade 8, I knew what I wanted to be. I wanted to be a radiation therapist. Why? I have done quite a lot of research and I know what I'm coming up against.

5 things I have learned are ...
1) there are 2 pathways
2) this decision makes up your future
3) you have to choose in grade nine
4) workplacement is about everyday things
5) foundations and pre calculus is about algebra etc.


My choice for the math will be foundations and pre calculus. For my career, I will need to take that math. I'm not taking both maths because I feel I don't need to. I'm very excited to take this math!!

Math groups #11

Math groups in the class are very fun! I love being in groups and try to solve the problem. My favourite game to play in math groups is the order of operations because we have to work together to find the solution. 

I also liked listening to the math videos because you can answer questions about the video after. I have a lot of fun doing that and being really into the video. I love a math groups and I hope we do it more often (: 

Blog #10 Mathletics

Mathletics is such a great online "helper" for math! 3 things Mathletics has helped me with is doing math equations quickly and knowing them faster than other people. This is called live Mathletics and there a series of levels. It also has helped me because there are tons of questions and they are in a series under categories. You can pick integers decimals and so much more, you can pick which ever one your not too good at or pick a more challenging one! Lastly, to make math more fun, you can make an aviator so you can use the coins from the levels to use for your aviator. It makes you enjoy math better than usual so you can be happier when you finish levels!

2 things I enjoy about this app is the competition, you can face people from all over the world :) It makes it more challenging, so you have to try your best! I love facing people from all over the world because you can test your knowledge on other countries around the world. Another reasons I think mathletics is pretty amazing because you can also play people just in your math class. This makes it so you can be competitive with your classmates. I love playing my friends because its really fun.

1 thing I would change about Mathletics is that I would make it have more levels. There are tons of levels but not enough for some categories! Some are very easy and not challenging what so ever! If they changed that,  I would totally be SO HAPPY about mathletics.

I love Mathletics a lot and I enjoy playing the levels and other things Mathletics has to provide. I will be very happy the next time we will do Mathletics. (: 

The struggles of math

I relate to a lot this guy has to say. One of the many things he said about what. Kids struggle most about math. I can totally relate to the NEATNESS part because I have very messy writing towards math. I have no clue why but I like to be messy and use my space to the extreme. Another term, I agree with is the space compartment. This is very important for some students because they need a lot of space because fractions require tons of room to figure out the problems. I completely agree for what he has to say, hands down. H

Fractions!!:)

My opinion on fractions is very very simple. I sometimes forget to make it neat so I can read my handwriting. I make errors like that. If I can make it neater then I will be great with fractions! I understand finding common denominators and flipping the reciprocals. 

MARKS.

Our marks are on a website called home logic. They used a item called weighted percent, they use it to "weigh" things heavier than others. Items out of 100 are gonna be weighted than something out of 5. They use this to make sure bigger projects are getting more marks then small quizzes.