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