Tuesday, November 9, 2010

1st Trimester Reflections

I am proud that I can do equations really well now because I used to not understand them at all and it brought my grade down. I wish I could do better on long division. I think I'm okay with long division but I think there is room for improvemet. Algebra has not been that challenging for me but there were a few things I struggled on like mixture problems, percent of change, and a little bit of long division. I feel that I have mastered equations, percent of change, and literal equations. My goals for next trimester is not to rely as much on corrections (meaning I get more things right the first time around and do less for corrections) and if I don't understand something I should go to Mr. Thornton strait after class instead of waiting for acedemic workshop. The way I should complete these goals is that I should work really hard on homework and email Mr. Thornton if I need something and go strait to Mr. Thornton if I don't understand something.

Service learning and Math

For service learning my Koinania is partnered with an orphanige/school in Africa. Apparently they make amazing sock monkeys but I haven't seen them yet. My koinania is going to make and sell some sock minkeys to raise money for our partner. Their preschool like crumbled or something like that. We don't go anywhere to make the sock monkeys, we just stay in school. Math relates to our service learning partners because we have to buy materials as well as make enough money to send something over to our partners. We have to even out our profit with the cost. We have to make sure it doesn't cost more than the money we raise.

Chapter four vocab

For Chapter four Vocab click (here)