If I could dO anything in math class To improve my learning it would be the ability to look at a problem and just know how to solve it. I think that would just be the neatest thing. It would make for so much less stress when I miss math class And am gone the next day. Also for tests and quizzes if I did not know the answer it would help me tO solve those tough ones. It is also nice to get that good feeling that you can pick up what's going in math class before the teacher even gets to it.

Journal Entry

I am sitting in the library of our school right now and there are many shapes around me! The clock in the room which is a circle. The shape of our keyboard is a rectangle. Our mouse pad is a circle. The bottom of our study hall chairs are blue squares. The little purple flower thing on the wall is held in a cone like shape as the bottom.  So many shapes!

journal entry nuber 31

I believe that there are many things that I can do in class to be more productive. On some days I do not feel like taking notes and participating in class and other days I find it to be easy. So I can always work on being more productive and focused while in class. I learned that in order to understand something for the most part I just have to be able to see how it is done. I have a hard time just learning by hearing the math problems worked out instead I like to see them being done right in front of me. I will have to keep that in mind for the future because for college I’m sure they will do either  one not both so I will have to learn to be able to work out problems by just hearing them.

I would probably start the same way you start our classes right now. I would have the class do two warm up problems one with a review of what we did yesterday and the second one as an introduction to what we are doing that day. Next I would verbally give the definitions of direct variation inverse and others and if they wanted to write them down they could do so. Next just as you, start off with the easier problems and gradually progress and get harder while doing and checking examples on the way. Lastly when I felt they understood it I would give three problems and have them do it in there notebook and have me check them and then they could work on their homework.

I would probably start the same way you start our classes right now. I would have the class do two warm up problems one with a review of what we did yesterday and the second one as an introduction to what we are doing that day. Next I would verbally give the definitions of direct variation inverse and others and if they wanted to write them down they could do so. Next just as you, start off with the easier problems and gradually progress and get harder while doing and checking examples on the way. Lastly when I felt they understood it I would give three problems and have them do it in there notebook and have me check them and then they could work on their homework.

This week we started direct variation It is such a complication. After we find x What comes next? We come to the conclusion that we need to find a solution. That was easy and fun now lets do another one.

poem

Once upon a time I was asked to write a poem for math.
However my writing skills are not the best.
I figure if everything will rhyme.
I will be fine.

We started direct variation this week
since I am not a geek
I tend to be quite weak.

Using rational equations is something new
I am finding to have a whole new view
on what do to.

I hope you thought this poem was fun.
However I have to be done
Study hall is over and I must be on a run.