Tuesday, October 02, 2012

Tuesday's Blustery Proportion homework

Today we corrected yesterday's work.  Today you were assigned pages 18 and 19 in your homework book.  Here is your warmup


Casey and Mary on the Ferris wheel 1467    By marymactavish

How tall is the Ferris wheel? How much taller are the trees behind the Ferris Wheel? 

 

Leave a comment:)

Monday, October 01, 2012

Ratio Rate and Proportion Post

Welcome to your blogs.  Your first post will be a wrap up of your proportion unit.  You need to have a review of all the work you have done.  None of this will be new.  Consider it the first chapter in your exam review!! Yep I said the "E" word EXAM!! It will also remind you of all the fantastic things you can do to make a blog post pop instead of being boring.

Setting up the post
Title your post _______'s Proportion Post
Label your post username817 (Bif817, Mortimer814 etc) and proportion post (two words lower case)

In the body of your post please include the following parts:

Part 1 

Please define
  • ratio
  • rate
  • proportion
Good definitions have pictures, words and examples.

Part 2 
Copy these questions into your post.  Answer them using proportion statements.
  1. 5 hours to travel 360 kilometers is about _____km/h.
  2. Emma saves 28 cents of every dollar that she earns.  Emma earned $75 last week.  How much money did Emma save last week?
Part 3
What are the three ways you can prove that equivalent ratio statements are true?
3/4 = 12/16  or 4/9 = 16/32

Part 4
Find a video about using proportion and embed it in your post.  Make sure you select the small size of the video. (Bonus Marks if you make your own video about proportion and embed it)

Task 5

We are starting to engage in discussions about social justice.  What do you think about this image below.  Use the link to copy it into your post.  Then answer the questions


  1. Does this seem fair? 
  2. With what you know about proportion look and read what is in the image above.  Does it seem just and fair? 
  3. Why have you made this choice? 
  4. What would you have done if you were the judge?


Due Date Friday October 14th

Monday Proportion Homework

Here is your warm up and Proportion Questions.  Please solve each question 2 different ways.  Do not forget Manga High and your first blog post will be posted tomorrow.




 







Bonus Question!! How tall is this statue. 

Proportion by By Shemer

Leave your answers in the comments and bring them to class tomorrow.

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Rate Homework for tuesday

Here is the multiply divide and Krypto for today.  Remember the numbers in the Krypto can have positive or negative values now. 

The Numbers in the Krypto are the quesitons that need to be completed on pages 59 and 60. 

Do not forget this weeks Manga High.  Lets get in the 1op 10 for September  after only 10 Days.



Friday, September 21, 2012

Ratio and Rate for a long weekend

Here is your homework for the long weekend.





Please do pages 12 to 16 in your homework book.  Manga High will be over for this week midnight on Sunday.  Please make sure you have done your 3 assignments.

Enjoy your 3 days.

Harbeck

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Quiz tomorrow Homework today!!

Here is your homework today.  Study for you   quiz tomorrow, multiply divide, multiply with decimals, Krypto, rate and ratio.


Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Ratio and Rate Homework

Here is your homework for today.  You will have to do some searching to figure out what rate means.  Good luck.


Calculate the unit rate for each



What is the best buy for OJ? (Julius better get this one right:)

Remember your decimal rules here.  Good luck and get this all done.  Quiz on Thursday.

Harbeck