Blog Title: Pre-Cal 20S

The Adventure Continues ...

Our adventures in blogging continue....

Watch for 3 new blogs going live February 3, 2006 ...

• Applied Math 40S (Grade 12)


• Pre-Cal 40S (Winter '06) (Grade 12)


• Calculus 45S (Grade 12)

Coin Hunt Committee

Long time no post...

Anyway, for those who put up their names in the Coin Hunt Committee, we have a meeting on Monday, at lunch. I think it's in Mr. K's room, so I'll see you all there.

Cheers!

So Long ...

I'm so glad we've had this time together,

Just to have a laugh or learn some math,

Seems we've just got started and before you know it,

Comes the time we have to say, "So Long!"

So long everybody! Watch this space in February for pointers to new blogs for each of my classes.

Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Adieu, and all those good bye things. ;-)

Helloo ..

I'm sure you all thought you wouldn't be hearing from me again, after my last blog, but I felt that there were a few things that I wanted to say.

It has been an amazing semester. I have met a lot of special, and talented people in this class. My fellow peers were amazing. We helped each other through each of our individual struggles. We laughed more than I thought possible in a student teacher environment, which is always a pleasant surprise.

I really believe that we as students, and Mr.K, have learned more than just formulas and sequences, but we have learned something much more valuable. We as a class have learned how to communicate, how to ask questions, and take the most of of the opportunities that are handed to us. We now can take these things with us to future courses, and wherever our lives may take us. This has been a really fascinating experience, and I am really glad I got to experience it with all of my classmates, and Mr.K.

Mr.K, keep up the good work! (I sound like a teacher, don't I?). It's people like you that show that high school teachers can really care about their students and their learning. The way you interact with your students, and how you go out of your way to help us succeed, well, this just astounds me. Your determination and willingness to succeed is a refreshing characteristic that not all teachers have. You inspire me, as a student, and as a person. You make me strive to be the best I can be, and to always "Go for Gold".

Thanks for all that you have done, I am so grateful. More than you know.

And to my class : I will miss you all. I know I have pre cal with some of you next semester, and I can't wait to get back into the math groove again. And for those of you that I cannot share this experience with next semester, this is a shame. But I wish all of you the best of luck on your exams, and future endeavors.

Congratulations to all of you! You have gone for gold!

Message in a Podcast

We had our last class on Thursday and made a podcast to celebrate! We left ourselves a "pod capsule" in instead of a "time capsule."

Here is our Message in a Podcast (10 minutes, 31 seconds). Please leave any questions, concerns, complaints, compliments, confusions, uncertainties, anxieties or other inquiries in the comments to this post.

This isn't our last post yet -- I've got at least two more I want to get out before the end. ;-)

AND THEN, THERE WAS ONE

......Im the last scribe....hmmmmm..... what should I say. It seems as though i shouldnt just sum up today's class but the whole year....but because im lazy thats not going to happen.

Well lets see, today we didnt do much accept get back our factoring test and have half the class scream into a microphone. I'd have to say it was pretty weird today knowing that it was the last class. Usually im used to it being summer before the class says goodbye. But today it wasnt really a good-bye for the summer or forever, it was more like a good bye untill next week when we meet up in Malandrakis' class.

I feel obliged to be the last scribe and you know what the say, save the best for last =p. But I digress and I have to say that to any of you who dont pass the course ( or me) I will miss sharing time with you after lunch for an hour or so and sometime or another ill probably see you in another class.

And to Mr. K, I'd just like to say something upon my behalf and it is the complete truth. When we first started this thing I thought it was a complete waste of time, especially since I dont have a computer at home and I would have to spend extra time finding a computer that I could use. But at the end of the year I realize that the blog is for every student that has ever looked down at their paper and said "what the heck (i know how dumb it sounds) am i doing". The blog is something you can resort to when you need help, or need someone to explain something to you.

Well I would just like to bid everyone an adu (is that how you spell it?) and say it was fun well it lasted. And I have an honor that none of you will ever taste ............................................................................................ The scribe for tommorow is....

THAT'S MISS SCRIBE TO YOU!

In the beginning of class, Mr. Kuropatwa handed back our, "GO FOR GOLD" assignments to students who have not picked them up yesterday after school. Mr. Kuropatwa set up the PODCAST for us to try out. He gave us the following questions for us to answer:

#1. "If you could go back in time to visit yourself in the beginning of September, what one bit of advice would you whisper in your own ear to help you in this class?"

#2. "Any closing thoughts for this message in a PODCAST?"

Make sure you have the questions answered by tomorrow (Thursday), and that's when we'll start the PODCAST.

How intense this used to before, when someone was picking a scribe. Well the scribe for tomorrow is, StevenF. And I'll pick you because, I can. :D

Have a nice day!
PS: EVERYONE START STUDYING NOW! AND DON'T WAIT TILL SUNDAY NIGHT! ^______^;

First off I want to apologize for messing up this scribe stuff, I wasn’t really aware.

This is for Thursday, Friday and Monday.

Thursday: This class was kind of a free class to work on our “Go for Gold”. It was going to be our test day but Mr. K moved it to Friday so we would have more time to study. Even though our class was stressing, and louder than usual we all tried to help each other out with questions in our booklets.

Friday: We had our “Sequence and Series” Test, our last test of the course. It was also the last day to hand in our “Go for Gold”, Mr. K extended it to 3:30pm.

Monday: Mr. K handed out a practice exam to get us ready for ours on Monday. (Diyaa I think your wrong. It’s NOT tomorrow). Well the practice exam had questions we learned through out the year, I don’t think we have to hand it in but we should take advantage of it.

-We well be getting our last two test this Thursday and if your forgot to pick up your Go for Gold you can do that tomorrow or anytime soon.

Exam:
Monday, January 30th , 2006
Starts 1:00pm
In the gym
*Pink paper
*Dictionary’s should be handed (we can pick it up one week later.)

Things to bring (some if you want to):
1+ pencils
EASER
Calculator (NO GRAPHING CALCULATORS)
Ruler
Geometry Set

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Blog post

Today we talked about how to study for the exam. There were some good tip's that would work for some of you guys. Some tips are Re-writing your math dictionary pick a group of questions from your notebook or your exorcise book and sort it out into two groups, one would be for questions you understand and the other group would be for some questions you have problems on. Another tip is to get in a study group of 2 or 3 people who are not close friends because you may get off topic, you can make two groups again of questions and study the group you don't understand with the 2 or 3 people you are with. This last tip is excellent because one person may know a topic really well and you may know a topic really well, so you help each other because you may have trouble with the topic your partner knows so your partner may help you with that topic that they are good at.
The EXAM is tomorrow at 1:30 pm in the gym so come early perhaps at 1:00 pm. So don't forget to study and don't be nervous about the exam. YOU CAN DO IT
The scribe is going to be T-SA.

Sunday Punting Practice

Like sokoban the target is to push objects (in this case punt-discs or 'pucks') around a maze to cover various targets. In a punt maze however the pusher slides forward tilt-style until it hits an obstacle, and a puck that gets struck will be punted forward a matching distance.'

'Aim: Use the black cross as a pusher to 'punt' the yellow pucks onto the blue targets.
Movement: Use the arrow buttons provided to move the pusher (black cross). The pusher will run in a straight line until it hits a wall or a yellow puck. If it hits a puck the puck will be punted forward a matching distance.'

Are you ready to play?

(Thanks again to Think Again!)

Last unit test for the course

Its the last test... the semester went by so fast. Well the last unit is about sequence and series. It wasn't hard yet it wasn't easy for me, somewhere in the middle. The pre-test was okay... Anyways i want to say good luck to everyone and hope they all get 100% in the GO FOR THE GOLD!

Last Post

The time has come for the last entry prior to the exams, the unit swept by fast if you look at it now same goes for the course. This unit was alright, not much but what intrigued me was fibonacci sequence, how various species divided such as the rabbits. This unit was however a good way to end the course because it was not to hard. What I learned that i thought was cool was the forumla for finding differnt numbers in the sequence as it might help some bit if taken with science. Maybe last day someone can bring a digi cam and take a picture of the whole class? That would be cool for those who would miss it. GL and HF on the test tomorrow.

FOR THE TEST ONLY

Hi every body!!!

Tomorrow is very big day for our class, because we have to hand in, GO FOR GOLD and have to get 100%, and also the last unit test. The unit was good and fun, i wish i took longer but :(
I don’t have any thing else to say just GOOD LUCK! On the test.

We sure will miss the class, blog before the test, and Mr. K.

Need my time to work with GO FOR GOLD;)

Blog...BuLOG

this unit is all about sequences ............ but we only focused on two sequences (arithmetic and geometry sequence) this is the last topic for PC20s this semester this week we also need to hand in our go for gold assignment i hope we'll get our GOLD and to get it we need to get at least a 100% .............that's all and and thank you to all of you !!! .........................PEACE!!! .

Test Blog

Don't I Look Good!!!

My last blog post

WOW this is my last blog post for the semester! I didn't even notice that it was the end of the course! this semester went by really fast!

the last unit we did was on arithmetic and geometric sequences. I found this unit pretty easy because I could understand it easily. but for some reason on the pre-test yesterday I blanked out and forgot everything. if I remember the formulas then I'll be good.

THANK YOU to everyone for everything. I really had fun with all of you. one thing that I liked about mr. k's class was all the laughter that we had, thanks mr. k. hope to see some of you in some of my classes next semester.

and....good luck to everyone on the test tomorrow and on the exam!! and that ends my last blog post. =D YAY!!

Last pre test post!

It's so sad, it's our last pre test blog. This class went by so fast and when I think about it, we learned so much in such a short time. At first I was really afraid of what's to come in advanced math. But I made new friends and all of them are smarty-pants! I'm intimidated by all of you. And thanks to the people that helped me when I needed it. It's seems more like a reflective blog of the whole semester then a pre test blog.

This unit didn't take very long and I enjoyed it. I actually understood almost everything, just some things I get mixed up with. I get answers wrong when I miss read things and not analyze the question properly or well. I also mess up when I rush things, sometimes I just got to slow it down and look over my work. I should get into the habit of looking over my work.

Everything was great, I liked the work we did in class. Sometimes it seems so easy in class, but once I get started on my homework, I don't understand like 20% of it. Later on when I talk to other people in our class, they help me out and I understand what I did wrong and where. The test is tomorrow, after the test comes our exam. We better review in class! Oh, and my muddiest muddiest point is..... The graphing unit. I need help there! Well, see you all tomorrow, and I hope you all do well on the test.
-SAMUS

My last blog post! :(

I'm sad to say this is my last post for this course:(.
Well this unit went by really fast, much like the whole course did. I think this unit was fairly easy, but like all the other times, I could be eatting my words. I really liked this unit, it was easy! I thought it was going to be hard, because I never did well with patterns, but it was actually gReat! Hope you all do good on the test tomorrow!
I'm gonna miss this class. I really liked this class, althought a lot of times were confusing I think we all helped each other in one way or another to grow and stuffies. We had some REALLY good laughs. I wouldn't trade it. well I hope we all talk after this class. Cya. Have a good semester 2 =)

Alright lets get this out of the way. It everyone’s last post! i'm really going to miss this class.

Pre cal 20s was such a great experience. Everything we learnt well be useful. Well this unit was fun. On our exercise homework I would sometimes be stuck on stupid questions, and all I needed was to look in my math dictionary. At times I would forget the formula, but now I think I’ll remember. Today’s pre test was a good heads up for what I should study, like the last question. Hmm I hope everyone does well on the test, and exams.

BYE!

My last and only pre-test blog

Wow....I cant believe that this is my first pre-test blog and it will be my last. This year went by fast and I learned a few things (besides math). I learned that being in a class with 20+ people, you're not going to get the teachers attention every time you want. This being said, it is often useful to come in at lunch at pick up what you did not understand in class. Through the year I also found the curriculum to be easier and easier to understand. At first it was complicated and a little fustrating, but in the last month or so its really lightened up and im beginning to comprehend a lot more. Also too, I find that as a class we've learned to help eachother when we get stuck in a certain area. This has a been a good sem and hopefully next sem will be just as good or better.

Wow. Last Blog Post. Didn't even realize it.

Well, this is the last post that i will have to do in this semester at least. What can I say? This unit had it's ups and downs. Near the beginning of this unit, I was really enjoying all the sequences, and patterns. The homework was pretty easy, and I seemed to be cruising right along. I don't remember specifically when the tables turned, but I know it was somewhere when we learned about the little boy with all the numbers, adding one to one hundred.The transition was hard for me, and I don't think I fully made it. Which is why I will be studying like mad tonight, to remember those formulas and what not.

I must say that I have really enjoyed working on Go for Gold for the most part. I was worried about it for a long time, but things changed today when I gave my assignment to mr.k to look over, and he said that the majority of them were right. I felt a lot better about that, and that gives me that little push that I needed to finish and pass this assignment. I think I'm going to be ok!

This whole course has definetly had it's ups and downs as well. Sometimes, I fly through the homework, and sometimes, it takes some more thought, and others, I have a hard time not getting frustrated, because it seems tso far beyond my reach. Many times I wanted to give up and drop out of the course, but I stuck to it. I may not pass thi course, or I may not pass by much, but I know that i am happy with the work I did, because I know I stuck it out, and tried my best. If I happen to fail, I am going to try the course again next semester hopefully, and I am going to have a head start on the learning that will be happening. So thanks to you Mr.K. For not helping me, but teaching me how to help myself, if that makes sense.I will take that with me to further courses, along with my math dictionary, of course, haha.

Well, thats about all for me. It's been a great semester, and I hope to have some classes with some of you in the years to come.

As Mr.K says,
Cheers.

My Finale

This is my last post and I can't think of anything to say. This semester flew by fast and I was almost left behind. But I found a way to cope with my surroundings. Our last test is tomorrow then we move onto exams. Sort of a bring down. We finish a semester with a series of tests.

I bid you all a farewell. (Dramatic Exit)

My last blog post

Well what can I liked this unit a lot. Are last unit was arithmetic/geometric sequences.
I found the unit pretty easy until I got to the last homework exercise. I thought that geometric sequences were a bit confusing compared to arithmetic sequences that the unit was fun. I thing that out of all the units that we did this one was by far the best. I understood the whole unit and get the problem solving too. I'm so proud of myself.
I just hope that I remember all the formulas for the test.
Well I'm confident about this test,that I'll do alright
well got to go study good luck to everyone on the test and be confident

This semester has been great though sometimes it was really tought and I wanted to give up I didn't. It's been fun hanging with you guys. I wish everyone all the best for the rest of the year hope everyone does good on the exam.
See you good luck=)
bye everyone

My last pre test blog!!

Well well well.. it's our last test which means last pre test blog. Our last unit was arithmetic/geometric sequences. It was a little hard at first to grasp the idea. I only really got the whole idea recently, I wasn't sure when to use the specific fomulas. Not like there are many fomulas, only two this unit. I never would have thought that this would be considerd a unit and actually use it, but it's pretty interesting.

Well it's been a good semester even though that it was difficult at times. We had a good time and I would like to wish everyone goodluck in their exams and the upcoming test. Have a good rest of the year!!

final bloging

well i think that this unit has gone by pretty fast. what i think that most people had worked on is the "go for gold" assignment. well i see that alot of people in our grade are working together and working very hard on the "go for gold" assignment, which is a good thing. cause everyone in our class is going to get 100% am i right? or am i right? =)

i don't remember very much about the beginning of this unit but im pretty sure that i thought this unit was going to be tough. what i now think is that i think this unit was easy. thats only if i payed more attention. (tsk tsk on me) anyways, i would always be behind the class but somehow i would try and catch up. i think we'll all see how i do tomorrow on the final test. i still have some difficulties on the words and remembering the formulas but today i will write all the formulas down over and over again so i won't forget.

GOOD LUCK ON THE TEST TOMORROW. MAKE ME PROUD! =)

by the way. today in class... was great. i was so happy because of the talent show and then i got more happy because mr. k annouced that on friday we will get time to work on our "go for gold" and i was extremly hhappy and then everyone was laughing at me or laughing with me and i couldn't stop laughing and i started to cry because i was extremly happy. anyways this is it. GOOD LUCK. BYE BYE AND THIS IS THE ENDDD OF THE COURSE. HIP HIP HURRAYY!!! ... don't get all h appy now. we still have the exam to do. =p
p.s. i hope this colour blinds you LOL.... MUAHAHAHA yes yes im evil... t-sa... MADE ME =(