Thursday, Jan 15/09

No school yesterday because the buses weren't running!

Tuesday September 9th, 2008

We did not do Mental Math today because Mr. Maksymchuk wanted to talk about the blog and the posts for the "Book Reports" on the T.V.M solver and give us more time for the Book Report posts. Mr. Maks talked about referencing the sources on the T.V.M solver and about plagiarism. Don't just copy and paste things into your blog, especially words you do not understand. Type it in your own words please.
In 1991, Mr. Maks talked about a student who cheated, the student had found a journal and wrote out a paper for an assignment and did not reference the sources, he was kicked out of University and banned from going to other universities for a while. Plagiarism in high school wouldn't result in such a punishment of getting kicked out and banned from schools, it just goes to show that you shouldn't copy anyone elses work without referencing it first. An assignment in high school that is plagiarized will result in a 0 mark on that assignment. The Internet is a great source for information and is greatly used today. Please do not plagiarize!


With great power comes great responsibility. - Uncle Ben Parker, from the 1st Spiderman Movie!

We have until the end of today to work on the "Book Reports" and post them to the blog.
Budget things can still be checked by Mr. Maks, etc.
Mr. Maksymchuk put on some Christmas songs on for us to enjoy. I found the music annoying, sounds like some old Fuedal era music... Well not anymore, thats good.
8 More classes left until Christmas break.
16 Days until Christmas from today! Yeah!!!!

Friday, Nov.14/2008

Today we didn't do mental math. But, we worked on a chicken McNugget question and we had to find the maximum number of chicken nuggets that you couldn't buy in McDonalds, the number of chicken nuggets that you can buy are 6, 9, 20.

Tuesday October 21, 2008

Today in class we started with mental math. After that we worked on our Accelerated Math. Mr. Maksymchuk reminds everyone to bring graph paper, and also encouraged everyone to bring headphones to listen to the videos on the blog or listen to music while you work. Mr. Maks also mentioned a formula to use on graphmatica, y=sqrt

Selection Reflection

To help me study for the Grade 11 Applied math exam.
The first thing that we worked on was "Systems Of Linear Equations," we did alot of graphing for that with that Graphmatica program and using our Graphing calculators.
The next thing we learned was about was how to solve Linear Equations algebraically by a method called the "Substitution Method" which was pretty easy once you get to know how to do it correctly. Then Mr. Maksymchuk showed us another method called, "Addition/Subtraction" method which was alot quicker to solve problems with.
We learned about the names of the different systems, "Inconsistent," "Consistent," and "Dependant." Later on we started Accelerated Math, I found this alot easier to use because it was multiple choice xD. We learned about solving "Word Problems" and various ways to solve them, I wasn't so good at these "Word Problems" so I should look back on them, I don't know how to use that excel program for them either... All of the work we do on the computers and using graphing calculators is new to me because I never took a grade 10 Applied math course, I took grade 10 precalculus twice :P. I hope to do well in this class and pass it. I hope this post will help me in the future, when I look back on this. Yeah!!!

Friday, Sept.26/08

Today, since Mr.Maksymchuk isn't here, we worked on Accelerated Math for the whole block. There is a quiz on those joke sheet things soon, so yeah. I hope I did good on that test.

First blog post