Good morning all..Today was once again a work class to catch up on any unfinished work and to get our portfolio's complete, which are due on Friday. Note..Monday and Tuesday of next week, we are not in class for class..Class (confusing)will be held downstairs. That's about it for today.

Today's class was a work class for portfolios, they will be due on Friday June 5th..Other than that there isn't much going on except the exam, which is scheduled for Wednesday June 10th..have a good weekend.

Today we had a short overview of what is due and when..The chapter 8 unit "Statistics" test is scheduled for Thursday May 21..This class was just a work class so you could catch up on any assignments you missed or haven't done yet..That's about it for today, enjoy!

May 12th 09

Today we did alot of sitting back and listening to Mr. Max teach. We started into the new unit Statistics ( Chapter 8

In the above, percentiles are explained.

The 90% on the grid shows the size of a certain childs head. According to statistics that have been kept, there are 70% that have a smaller head and 10% that have a bigger head.

The Following are the slides that we did. I won't comment on them because they explain thereselves.

monday moring math class

Today Mr. Maksymchuk was telling and showing us what we are going to do the last few months of school. So what we will be doing is reviewing over what needs to be finished up for the semester.

Thursday, may 7th

Well Mr.Maksymchuk is not here today. hmmmmm, seeing as we just had our chapter six - variations and formulas test yesterday, so today we will be starting to work on chapter 5 - Preparing Income Tax Returns.

Wednesday May 6 2009

On wednesday we had our Variation and Formulas test (Without the formulas).

Today we began the class with a lecture on lessons from chapter 6(variation and formulas) from the text book. The lecture was mostly on Inverse variation and we kind of reviewed what Direct, Partial, and Direct squared Variations are. Mr. Max set a date for the test(Wednesday May 6th) which could be changed depending on how the week goes.That's about it for today other than the rest of the class was a work period..here are some notes from today's lesson.

Today we started the class off with mental math #29. After mental math we had more a less a work period and being there was only a few of us, Mr. Max wasnt sure if there was a point in teaching new material in this next unit. He checked over some of our previous assignments so we could get marks for them and for the rest of the class we basically just worked into the new chapter #6 variation and formulas.

Monday April 20th 2009

On Monday we started our project and the first day was just brainstorming, both Tuesday and Thursday would be work days for the project.

Good morning all, today's class was quite interesting, Not being here yesterday i learnt that Mr. Max had an interesting experience with learning that his students will make an issue out of forgetting to shut off his cell phone in class ha ha jk..anyway so today's class started out with a discussion about the fifth exploration titled Net Worth. We talked about the different assets you can have such as liquid, semi-liquid, and non-liquid assets. We also discussed short term and long term debts in this class..This took roughly half of the class and for the rest it was a work period to get ready for the "Investments" test on Friday.

April 14th 2009

Today

*Props to Mr. Maksymchuk for enduring Karma of telling us to shut our cell phones off*

We did Mental Math

Make sure to have Exploration #3 on Investments up to date

Looked over monthly budget forms on what the percentage it take to divide your income up to live on a particular salary.

Went over the 5 steps:

Today we learn all the term that see above

April 08/09

Today we were on the net looking at stocks, we went on and made a fake account in which we could buy stocks but we werent playin with real money. The website is http://www.tsx.com/. If you were not in class click on the link and sign up, find some stocks and have some fun watching them. The assignment for the day is Exploration 2 on pg 186, #'s 1-7. Also a reminder that the test will be next Thursday April 16th.

math class

we started the day by doing mental math then we started talking about the home work that we had told us to last night for home work. for out next lesson we will be looking at stocks and markets here is a wed sit you can look at www.tsc.ca

Wendsday march 25/09

Today we went over the chapter review and had our final day to work on our career project. Tomorrow is the test and the last math class before SPRING BREAK! Party at mr. Maksymchuk's place!

Today's class was a work class. There was no mental math and no further assignments. The work period could be used to catch up on explorations 5-7 and chapter review on the Government Finance unit or you could work on the Life Career Project. If you are done all these assignments you could study for the Government Finance unit test which will be coming up on Thursday March 26th.

Thursday March 19

Today we went over Mental Math. Next we talked about Exploration 4: Provincial/Territorial Revenue. We went over where the Federal/Provincial money comes in from and also where it is spent.

Thursday March 19

This isn't that great of a picture, but at least you can some what see what Turkish money looks like.

It also has the front and back of he bills plus front and back of coins at the bottom.

In today's class we did Mental Math #17 and Mr. Max taught a new lesson on the government finance unit..We discussed the difference from our Canadian dollar to (for example) the Japanese Yen. Their money is broke down as of..Coins in 1 Yen, 5 Yen, 10 Yen, 50 Yen, 100 Yen and 500 Yen, and their "paper" money, or notes are in 1,000 Yen, 2,000 Yen (very rare), 5,000 Yen and 10,000. This is about it for this class but there are some notes below for further information..

Monday March 9th 2009

Today we had our drawings and measurements TEST.

Friday March 6th/09

Today we had mental math, but instead of a chapter review today we were given a day to catch up on our other explorations and career project. The test has been moved from Monday to Tuesday.

Thursday, March 5/ 09

First things first,

M.M #13

Monday, March 9th is the test . . .DONT FORGET

We did a summary of exploration #4 on the Oblique Drawings and Caninet, examples of these can be found in the J: drive

Good morning all, today we started the class out with mental math #12 and worked into explorations 4 and 5 of the design and measurement unit...we learnt about a new technique of using isometric graph paper here are some notes bellow.....


Well thats about all for today except for a reminder of the Design and Measurement TesT taking place Monday March 9th.

Wednesday Feb, 25th/09

Today we started out with mental math as usuall. Then we were looking on the web for information about a career life project. we had the choice to stick to book work or surf the web. Mrs. Simpson took the time so have us come down as individuals to talk to us about career projects.

links for the life/career project

helpful links for the life/career project.

http://www.apparelcareerkit.ca/cc/careers/quiz.en.html

http://leap.ubc.ca/get_started/self_assessment_quiz/

http://www.quintcareers.com/career_assessment.html

http://mb.jobfutures.org/iquiz/iquiz.cfm

Monday February 23rd 2009

On monday we had our test, it was also the last day to work on previous assignments.

February 24th 2009

Today's Agenda:

Mental math
Life/career Project
DUE DATE: THURSDAY MATCH 26Th 2009


For starters, we did all the regular everyday things, like "Oh Canada" and the usual. We also completed mental math number 8.
Most importantly Today we went over what was expected for us for our life/career project. We went over chapter 7 which starts on page 355. We were told what was expected of us for this project. We also went over everything that is expected to be in our complete project and here is the "notes" were written down (well at least i wrote them down). =]

today we went over the test reviews for the test and questions from the website http://www.edu.gov.mb.ca/k12/assess/archives/index.html

Feb 18th/ 09

Todays class was mostly a full class of learning. Mr Max covered Exploration 5 thoroughly.

In the notes below, an explaination is givin to what is covered by property insurance.

The following few pages are the notes in which we did today.

Test on Monday and the assignment is Exploration 5, all ?'s.

There is a recording of all the stuff that was taught at the bottom of the page. You can click on it to listen to the full lesson.

Tuesday Feb. 17/09

Completed Mental Math #6

Review Takes Place on Thursday, Have 7 Chapter Notebook Questions done on sections Exploration 5 on property tax and Housing Costs

Also Make Sure to have vocabulary questions completed by the test on Friday.

On the Network Drive will show the Affordibility charts we did as examples to question 4 and 6 on page 53

February 13/2009

Today we went over Exploration 3: Exploring Mortgage Payments questions 2c with the spreed sheet. We then went over Exploration 4: Gross Debt Service Ratio.

All of the questions in Exploration 4: Gross Debt Service Ratio are to be done.

Hey todays class started out with mental math #5 and lead into basic notes on the personal finance unit. Mr. Max went through a lecture on Gross debt service ratio (G.D.S.R)...Exploration #4 is the homework assignment ...Have a good one!!

Feb 11th/ 09

Today the class started out with the usual Mental Math. There was a huge class of 3 people in total that were here for it. Mr. Max mentioned that there would be more of the pattern questions in the future so take note of it so that your prepaired for the next one.

Homework Check Was on: Notebook Assignment, pg 32, #'s 1-7

Assignment for the day: Notebook Assignment, pg 41, #'s 1-4

click here http://www.hsbc.ca/1/2/en/calculators/mortgage-payments-calculator , this is a tool that you will need to do the questions that were assigned. Just put all the info in thats needed and it will calculate it for you.

Project Presentation

By the end of this chapter project we should be organize by having the materilas that we have researched or made up into a paresentation.

February 6th, day one

Here is the list of things we did today (located on the side board by the door):
Mental math
Blog Scribing Rules
Life insurance.

Today we pretty much started off with a little explanation of how to do mental math. Then we jumped right into it. The mental math took us about over fifteen minutes, just because we are just getting into it. (pictures of the mental math wont always be in the blog, i just thought that since it was my first blog i would include it so i can figure out how to do it =] )

here is the mental math that we did today, just thought that i would add it in here

After mental math we got a handout for the blog scribing and we just read through it. It pretty much gave us all the rules on how to do a scribe. The handout also laid out the ground rules as to what exactly is expected of us while posting a blog.

The above picture is the "notes" that we could have taken (notes only have to be written if you feel that you learn better doing so). They basically just told us what was needed to be done in each chapter of the text book. It just made it clear as to what was expected to be done throughout each chapter. We also have the option of working ahead and finishing all the vocabulary that is in each chapter on the first page of each exploration(located in the blue boxes at the bottom of the page). We can do the assignments as we go along, or all at once, that option is left totally up to each of us.

ASSIGNMENT- Chapter 1 - Life insurance.

Page 22

Numbers 1-7 due for Monday February 9th 2009.

Other Features

Other Features of the text book are helpfull in many ways.
They include: New Terms, Hints, Technology, Mental Math, Problem Analysis and Games. These seven points are all very important in the learning of math.

As Per Instructions (How To Use Your Textbook)...

Here's what you're doing...

Explorations

Every topic in the math book is separated into catagories called explorations which describe the task at hand. It will show you step by step how to go about solving problems. You may find that these explorations contain activities for practice what was learned.

Case Study

Case Study- Each chapter has one of these at the end. It gives you extra practice to apply all you have learned in the chapter

TEXTBOOK ANSWER KEY!

So pretty much the way you use the answer key for the grade 12 consumer math text book is, you look for the page mumber that your questions are on, question number and the chapter that you are working in. You then go to the back of the book (answer key) located on page 435 to page 477. The chapters are clearly labled at the top of of the page in a big blue box. The answer key is used to check to see if your answers are correct or to see what the answer is so that you can try to figure out how to actually do the question...

chapter introduction

A chapter review is a explanation of an assignment (ex. taxes,banking,ect). It will tell you what to expect in the chapter.

Chapter Review

The Chapter Review is at the end of every unit. We cover the Chapter Review to help us better understand the topics that we went over during the whole unit. To put it in simple terms we use the Chapter Review simply as a helpful reminder of what we have learned before our test/quiz.

It Begins Again....

This semester, we'll use this blog as a place for notes, thoughts, links, and anything else that makes learning better, easier, etc....Welcome, and I sincerely hope that you enjoy learning from and with each other....

RM