Excel Day

Today we learned how to use Excel to find the line of best fit.

March 27, 2008

The graph above is the graoh from today classwork. It includes answer on the question:
1) Draw a line of best fit
2)Find the slope and y-intercept
3) Come up with a story to describe this graph
4) Before graphing, what would you hypothesis have been?

After working on the "Do Now" we worked on our Benchmarks and recieved help if we needed any.

Scribe Post 3.26.08

So the day starts off with the usual “do now” and Mr. Rochester says that the questions will be just like the benchmark. Then after the kids decide to quiet down he goes around and observes some kids and how they are doing with the “do now” and while he was doing that Mr. Lehmann comes in to discuss matters about calculators and ordering them. After he finishes talking to Mr. Lehmann he waits a few minutes and then explains the “do now”. Now he has explained the answers for us and says that to do something good for the benchmark we need common sense…and Ozzie was singing Taylor Swift’s “Tear Drops on my Guitar”. Now after Ozzie sings, Mr. Rochester tells us to upload the classwork and one graph from our benchmark and that we can work on it now. Soon he decides to example a graph and explains “the line of best fit”.

Sinnea Scribe Post 3-24-08

Today we went over the Do Now Graph that Mr. Rochester assigned.

leeann scribe

all we did on march 13, 2008 was we did a graph and took notes. We talked about slope and y- intercept. we did some example. We also talking about what we doing for our benchmark.

Anthony Harley Scribe 3/12/07 Wednesday

IN todays class we learned how to find the slope. The slope is how you get from one point to the next
Example: Rise/Run

Y2-Y1/X2-X1

Example: 2,7
3,9
rise2/run 1


Example: 4,11
1,5 rise/run = Down 6/ left 3


-6/-3=2

Next Scribe LeeAnn

Emily Maggiano SCRIBE 3-10-08 Monday

In class we first started with a journal which we were to find the formula used for the x & y input and output of each chart. Then we graphed the coordinates on the same graph using "Sketchpad". If we finished that in class we were to complete a worksheet using similar problems from the journal and graph them as well on a separate page using "Sketchpad." We were told our benchmark in class and that a proposal is due 3-12-08.

next scribe: Anthony

Scribe for Friday's class 03-07-08

Today in class we worked on a Warm-Up. It was a review from Thursday, just to see if we remembered what we had learned.

This was the warm-up

If last years population was 12,000 people and the previous year was 3% less than that. What was the population last year.

So the equation would be

12,000/x = 103/100

And you multiply 12,000 by 100 and x by 3 so you'd get

103/x = 1,200,000

You divide 103 by 103x and 1,200,000 by 103

x=11,650

We also did a classwork sheet.

Emily is the scribe for next class

Scribe Post for Friday 2/29/08

Class Discussion

Today in Algebra we had a class discussion revolving around the use of certain words within the SLA community. Their was an incident that occurred involving the use of the word "Gay." Words such as "No homo" or "Gay" are being ban from the SLA community because it offend others within the SLA family, "It will be seen as a hate word and those who use it will be punished" says staff members Ms.Weinraub & Ms.Hull. After this announcement there and uproar of controversy occurred over the ban on these words. We discussed in the class as to whether words such as "No homo" or "Gay" should be used or not. Some students disagree with the banning of such words ",They can't tell us was to say" an SLA student protested. Others believe that their "Stepping on eggshells" just to please on group and or minority. Some have protested that if you wish to use these words (No homo or Gay) "Why not pull out other words, the "N" word or Cracker..."

For more information or opinions of the baning of these words check the forum on SLA talk "What is o.k to say."

Kamille is the scribe for the next class

Charles scribe post thursday 28

The next scribe is Ashley W

Scribe Post By Desiree 2/25/08

Monday's algebra class started out slowly. Then We had to complete a math dominoes worksheet version A. This was worked on all class period. Mr Rochester with the help of student put equations on the board to help us if we were to get stuck and to help complete work. Also Mr Rochester made the announcements that the protions test (room scale drawings) are due friday 2/29/08.
Kimme is the scribe

Scribe for 2-20-08 (AMBER)

Today we went over the classwork for Friday 2-15-08 which was the Dominoes Sheet. We also responded to a journal on moodle in the Algebra forum entitled "Basketball and Percents (2-20-08) Wednesday".
The homework is posted on moodle and is as follows:
Homework
1. Notebook check tomorrow
2. Respond to journal entitled "What assignments do you have?"
3. Return progress report signed with parent email address
4. Work on Ratios test

If you were absent you need to fill out the absent sheet as well.

The scribe for tomorrow is Desiree

Scribe for Friday , Feb. 15

Today we worked on a sheet with problems a - s. The problems contested on percents and ratios. After that if we got done on time we worked on our benchmark drawings and that was all we did today.

Scribe for Thursday Feb. 14

Today the class was working on their sketches of the class for their project. different groups split up and went around drawing and measuring different parts of the class. After Roch. handed out the homework and class work assignments, people eventually started working on them, too. the program that we used to do part of the homework was called Sketch Up. It helps us and allows us to view and construct 3D figures. This is what consumed most of our period during class.

The scribe for the next class is Andrew

Brandon's Post For Monday 2-11-08

Today in class we had a quiz. The quiz was based on all the previous classwork and homework assignments we had on the previous week.

Next Scribe: Graham

Randell's blog post for Thursday

Mr.rochester went over the homework and did extra credit paper.which is posted on moodle.

A,J.'s Scribe post 2-4-08

Today in class we talked about the test and got notes on percents and fractions. Some noes were "A percent is a ratio that compares a number to 100."
"Percents, just like fractions, describe how many parts out of a whole."
"Of in mathematics means multiplication."
"Is in mathematics means equals."

The next scribe is Cam.

Mary Altamuro - Friday's Scribe Post [2-1-08]

Today in class Mr. Rochester did not talk much. We averaged our second quarter grades to start off the class. Then, We did our class work and homework (if we had time), which were posted on moodle. We had a moodle chat going on in class. Instead of Mr. Rochester helping us with everything, we helped each other.
[and by the way, if Mr. Rochester starts another chat for us again, do not "beep" anyone. It is highly annoying and distracting.]

Class lesson for 1-28-08

Ok well today we were given a little trivia test on how to use and what things stand for on blogger. The test was really easy and consisted of basic question about blogger and what went on in class today. We also learned how to use goggle docs.
Today we also learned where to find the class blog and class notebook. Mrs.Rochester showed us how to stop all mail for Moddle to go 2 our mail box.

Scribe: Matt O'Toole

1/25/08

1/25/08 U3 scribe post

We checked the classwork and homework and went over them. We learned about Similar Figures which is the relationship (ratio) between the corresponding sides of two figures are equivalent. For Example compare two rectangles

1st rectangle: length of 2, width of 4
2nd rectangle: length of 4, width of 8

then we had to complete classwork
he showed us an example of #6 on the class work
He showed us that when you want to check if you have the right answer you should divide the numbers in the fraction to get decimals and if the decimals are the same then that’s the right answer.

Next scribe: Ashely Melendez