Toolkit Tutorial Reflection

    You know that my tutorial is somewhere in this blog if you go to the label "1:1 Toolkit" or "Tutorials", so I won't put it here.  If you check, it's about formatting options on G-Mail.  Anyway, I think I did a fine job on my tutorial.  My toolkit teacher, however, thinks differently.  I'm not in his head and don't think I did so bad.  Of course, he might think since it's just video, and the audio is bad, that might be why.  But for just being a video, I don't have a Mac computer, and there is no program on my laptop (or in the store) where I can add transitions and stuff.  As for the audio, the microphone is in the computer, so every time the screen moves, the audio freaks out.
    Anyway, here are the reasons I think I did good.  I had an appropriate message for school.  A healthy lunch.  Another thing with the message, it gave a chance to show how to use the kinds of lists [bulleted, numbered].  Also, I explained how to use most of the features of the Formatting Options button.  I used coloring, highlighting, the quote option, the lists, the alignments.  The one thing I didn't show, are the options of the numbered list.  I should have.

Science - Quarter Reflection

    Last quarter in science was fun.  It was exciting to mix chemicals and use all the tools and stuff.  But it was challenging as well.  Smelling chemicals was... different.  You could barely smell them the if you smelled them right.  And I did break a test tube.  Anyway, something I did well on last quarter was arriving to class on time.  I expect to do this every day in all the rest of the school year.  That shouldn't be too hard.
    Two core values I need to work on are Inclusive and Reflective.  I didn't work well with other students last quarter, so that made me not an Inclusive student.  And for Reflective, I usually just do, and don't reflect.  I just did the experiments, answered the questions and recorded the results, and then didn't reflect.

I hope to do better next quarter!

Orchestra Song / Reflection

My orchestra class played this song all together in the class.  It's called "Song For Christine".  This time we did it, SmartMusis assessed it to be 100% accurate!  Here it is.

I think playing song as a class helps us learn because it shows us what it sounds like when everyone plays together, and if it doesn't sound right, then someone's doing it wrong.  Also you can compare what you are playing to what the others sound like to improve your playing.

Where am I gonna use this??

1. What fraction of the white cookies are not in the jar?  What percentage?
2. What fraction of the black cookies are in the jar?  Out of the jar?
3. What percentage of the cookies are white?  How many are black?
4. If there were 3 times as many white cookies, and twice as many black cookies, what percentage of the cookies would be black?  What percentage would be white?
5. If Heather eats 2 black cookies and one white cookie, but doesn’t want any cookies on the table, what fraction of the white cookies are in the jar?  what fraction of black cookies are in the jar?
6. If my mom wants 5 cookies, and she wants it so that if she multiplied the numbers of each type of cookie together it would equal 6, how many black cookies could she have taken?  What amount of white cookies fit with that amount of black ones?
7. Let’s say there were also 6 wafer cookies in this picture, and 2 thirds were in the jar.  What percentage of the cookies would be out of the jar?  What fraction?

First Quarter Reflection

Some characters of a good mathematician are thinking of math problems for things they see.  They can think of questions to go with a filing cabinet, a keyboard, tiles.  Another is writing down what they are calculating in their head.

One of my strengths as a mathematician is subtracting fractions from a whole number.  I look at the problem and an answer just pops into my head.  Same thing with subtracting decimals from whole numbers.  I believe` that the process is that I add the fraction of decimal left to equal a whole, and then do regular subtraction.  I think this is a bit useful, because if you have 4 whole somethings, and you need to get a big amount of it, while still having a decent amount left, you might want to see all the possibilities before deciding what amount to take away.