Monday, October 22nd, 2007

-Today is Day one, which means we have a long block of applied math. We started the class by finishing up the video that Mr. Max showed us on Friday on iTunes called TED Talks by Ken Robinson. The videos topic was about "Do schools kill creativity?" The video took 20 minutes of class.

-Next we dicussed about what is happening about accelerated math. We dicided that any 25 objectives will be due October 31st, 2007.

-After we discussed accelerated math, the remainding of the class was a work period.

-The scriber for Tuesday is now Duchesne.

Unit Two, Text Reveiw

Our Unit that we just finished studying is called "Non-linear functions".

We learned about:

*Linear Functions
- x^1 - is a straight line.
* Quadratic Functions
- The form is: y-k=a(x-h)^2.- x^2
- has one curve.
* Cubic Functions
- The form is: y=ax^3+bx^2+cx.- x^3
- has two curves.
* Quadratic Functions
- x^4
- has three curves.
*Quintic Function
- x^5
- has four curves.
* Exponential Functions
- The form is: y=a*b^x.

We also learned about:

* Domain
- The domain is all the x values.
* Range
- The range is all the y values.
* Function
- When the function passes the vertical line test. Which means it can only have one point vertically.
* Relation
Every straight line is a relation.
* Maximum Value
- The maximum value is the highest point on a parabola. When there is a maximum value this means that the parabloa opens downwards.
* Minimum Value
- The minimum value is the lowest point on a parabola. When there is a minimum value this means that the parabola opens upwards.
* Axis of symetry
- The axis of symetry is the middle verticle line on a parabola. ( x=h )
* Vertex
- The vertex is the highest or lowest point on the parabola.
- a>0 - opens up.
- a<0>1 - narrow parabola.
- a<1 - wide parabola.

Friday, December 7th, 2007

Todays Class was an interesting class. First it was Day One which means that it is long blocks. We came into class and and Mr. Max said that we weren't going to have a mental math, instead we had to take wooden blocks and played the "Tower Game". The tower game is a game where there is three rows and you have to move the tower of wooded blocks to make the same tower in another place. But you can't have a bigger block on top of a smaller block. For example:
1 block = 1 move
2 blocks = 3 moves
3 blocks = 7 moves
4 blocks = 15 moves
5 blocks = 31 moves

We tried to figure out how many moves for the amount of blocks we had for the majority of the class. Then we got on a topic of billionaires. We had a discussion about are veiws of billionaires and if they are selfish or not. Then for the remainding of the class we had to research "The Bill And Melinda Gates Foundation". There is no homewrok assignment.