Logs and Exponents Online Quiz

The quiz goes online at 3:30 this afternoon. The deadline is 9:00 am Thursday morning. The unit test will be on Friday.

You can write the quiz here. You have 45 minutes to complete it. If you haven't yet registered at QuizStar then when you get to the site follow these instructions:

1. Click on the big yellow "Sign Up" arrow.


2. Use only your first name and last initial as indicated.


3. Pick a username that will allow me to easily identify you, i.e. first name and last initial.


4. Make up any password you like.


5. Click on [Register] then [Search] by teacher's name (kuropatwa) and you'll find me.


6. Click on the box next to Pre-Cal 40S and then [Register].


7. Follow the instructions on the screen.

Actually, if you read each page carefully, you'll see that the sign up process is very straight forward and self explanatory. If you hit any snags email me and we'll sort it out together.

Remember, the quiz is timed. You'll only have 45 minutes to complete it once you've begun. It consists of 11 multiple choice questions (1 mark each). DON'T PANIC. Take your time. I know you'll all do well. ;-)

Do Your Best!

3D Tic-Tac-Sunday

Better late than never. ;-)

I missed the Sunday Funday post last week and I really don't want to make that a habit so this week I'm posting two versions of this week's game ... 3D Tic-Tac-Toe. Here are the instructions for the game pictured on the left (may take a little while to load) ...

The object of 3D Tic Tac Toe is to get four in a row horizontally, vertically or diagonally on one plane or across all four planes.

You are Red, the Computer is Blue. In the first game, you go first. In subsequent games, the loser goes first. If the game ends in a tie, whoever went first will do so again.

The moves of the game are notated on the right. Moves that threaten a win are noted with an *. The Computer plays a strong, but not unbeatable game. Good luck!!!

These are the instructions for the game on the right ...

This game is basically a 3D tic-tac-toe, except that the rules have been changed to keep the first player from winning all the time. Here you have to form two rows that meet at a right angle (in the shape of an "L").

Have Fun!!

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I like this unit because it is more algebra than the previous unit that we have. Maybe, analyzing the word problem is giving me a hard time so far. However, more practice I think I can handle it on our test.

Lemon square!!! Scribe post!!!

Hi! guyzzz... We started the day with our terrifying test(just kidding). And finally Mr.K brought the lemon square, by the way its good Mr.K and can I have the recipe for that one.


In the afternoon, we started an example;

Evaluate the expression:
1.)


2.

3.

Then,Mark asked what if the example were given like this:

a.) 3² + 3⁵

b.) 2⁷ - 2³

Mr.K , explained that there are no such rules that can fit in these such question because the first 2 example are implied within the property of multiplication and division.

Remember this following rules:


There is also an example where the 2 rules are join together like:


Well, I guessed that's it for me, by the way our homework is on page 106, numbers 1-42 only the even numbers. The next scribe will be Lerwyne.

Homework Assignment for May 16

Here is your homework assignment for tonight (20 Questions):

Questions Part 1 of 2
Questions Part 2 of 2

Here are the answers to the assignment:

Answers Part 1 of 3
Answers Part 2 of 3
Answers Part 3 of 3

This is post number 199 on our blog. Whoever posts next will write post number 200. I wonder what it will be? ;-)

Scribe#55 : Review and Brief Introduction To Logirhythm

Okay, just because I wanted to look good, I spend 5 minutes counting what number scribe we're on. Apparently its 55. That's pretty cool. Anyways, I'm Van, and I'm gonna do one kick @55 scribe. (Sorry if that's offensive Mr. K).

Today was a 2 period day. Mr. K was lonely at the front. People slowly etched away, especially Sissyphus (That has to be a typo...). No one felt like moving, so Mr. K went on with the class. ALSO, Mr. K forgot about our lemon squares! The 80% probability failed. We gotta get em tomorrow!, hopefully, if Mr.K sees this scribe in time, he'll remember to make them right away.

So Mr. K posted the online quiz a LITTLE late, so it should end tonight at 11:59:59. So, get those done people! Mr. K mentioned about, all the BoB's(hehe I invented that) state that, most people have trouble with the poker probability. So we started doing 3 practice problems.

1. Find the probability of getting... *BOOM* *Mr.K turns around and looks at Calvin*

Calvin: "SO CLOSE!, I swear, that hole puncher was there as a trap."

Calvin failed to sneak into the room late while Mr.K wasn't looking. Now he owes him 3 bubble teas. Just thought I'd mention that.

1. Find the probability of getting 2 pair in a 5 card poker hand

A two pair is two cards of one rank and another two cards of another rank.

Ex.




















2. Find the probability of getting exactly 5 spades and 4 hearts in a 13 card bridge hand.

Okay, so what in the heck is bridge? I have no clue. I've never seen anyone play it, so let's post the rules for the heck of it, in case anyone wants to try.

http://www.pagat.com/boston/bridge.html








Find the probability of getting a "Full house" in a 5 card poker hand.

A full house, or full boat, contains a set (three) cards of one rank and a pair of another rank.

















So those were the practice questions, and the test will be on Wednesday MORNING. Get ready guys.

Sketch Each Pair Of Graphs On The Same Cartesian Plane

Mr. K: Start by gratch...

Mr. K said gratch. Definition: Mr. K's mistake of a new word. Appears to be a combination of "graph" and "sketch"



































So, I probably should've wrote what he was trying to say about exponents and powers. I'll update this again and ask him about the language. For now, here's the questions and answers

All I know is that, whatever the log base(under the log), the exponent(the # after =), is what I'm looking for, to make the power(beside the log)

Probability Online Review Quiz

I had some trouble with Quizstar yesterday. The quiz went online this morning. I've extended the deadline to midnight Monday night. The unit test will be on Tuesday or Wednesday. We'll talk about it in class on Monday.

You can write the quiz here. You have 30 minutes to complete it. If you haven't yet registered at QuizStar then when you get to the site follow these instructions:

1. Click on the big yellow "Sign Up" arrow.


2. Use only your first name and last initial as indicated.


3. Pick a username that will allow me to easily identify you, i.e. first name and last initial.


4. Make up any password you like.


5. Click on [Register] then [Search] by teacher's name (kuropatwa) and you'll find me.


6. Click on the box next to Pre-Cal 40S and then [Register].


7. Follow the instructions on the screen.

Actually, if you read each page carefully, you'll see that the sign up process is very straight forward and self explanatory. If you hit any snags email me and we'll sort it out together.

Remember, the quiz is timed. You'll only have 30 minutes to complete it once you've begun. It consists of 10 multiple choice questions (1 mark each). DON'T PANIC. Take your time. I know you'll all do well. ;-)

Do Your Best!

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Well for me, probability is a lot easier than the counting.The only thing that I have a problem with is when dealing with the combinatorics permutation with probability. The rest I think is I can handle, as far as I know.Just few more example and practices I think I get it.

BoB

Ohhh yeah, I've been recognized to have invented the BoB. Anyways, I'm not having any real troubles with the probability. Just taking a while to get used to. Maybe a little bit more practice and I'll be ready for the test.

A Question For All The Scribes

I found this comment on Manny's Scribe Post below. It's addressed to all the scribes in our class. That means all of you. Let's work together on this and teach others what you've learned. (I'm so proud of all of you!)

Congratulations to all the scribes - you've been doing some excellent work lately (and maybe helping me convince the math teachers at my school to try having scribe posts).

I have a question for all the scribes: I was wondering what software you are using to generate the math symbols, equations, etc. in your scribe posts? I can tell that you are creating it and saving it as an image, then uploading the image to Blogger, but not what software you are using. About the only thing that we have (that I know of) that could do something similar would be using the equation editor in PowerPoint, and then saving the slide (or just the equation) as an image, but that's pretty clunky. Do you have any software you can recommend (preferably free)?

Also, I notice you often use tables to put borders around items - are you generating the HTML by hand for that, or using something else?

Any ideas you are willing to share would be appreciated. Keep up the good work - you are setting a great example not only for other students around the world, but for their teachers.

This comment is from Karl Fisch. He's the Director of Technology at Arapahoe High School in Centennial, Colorado. Now you guys are really teaching the teachers! Cool.

Kakuro Sunday

'A Kakuro consists of a playing area of filled and empty cells similar to a crossword puzzle. Some black cells contain a diagonal slash from top left to bottom right with numbers in them, called “the clues”. A number in the top right corner relates to an “across” clue and one in the bottom left a “down” clue.

The object of a Kakuro is to insert digits from 1-9 into the white cells to total the clue associated with it. However no digit can be duplicated in an entry. For example the total 6 you could have 1 & 5, 2 & 4 but not 3 & 3. Sound simple? Be warned it gets hard and is as addictive as Sudoku.'

Click here for more Kakuros.

(Thanks again to Think Again!)

Online Counting Pre-Test ... Register NOW.

You will be writing two Pre-Tests for this unit. One in class tomorrow and one online. The online Pre-Test is active as of 3:30 pm today. You can write it here. It goes offline at midnight tomorrow. When you get to the site follow these instructions:

1. Click on the big yellow "Sign Up" arrow.


2. Use only your first name and last initial as indicated.


3. Pick a username that will allow me to easily identify you, i.e. first name and last initial.


4. Make up any password you like.


5. Click on [Register] then [Search] by teacher's name (kuropatwa) and you'll find me.


6. Click on the box next to Pre-Cal 40S and then [Register].


7. Follow the instructions on the screen.

Actually, if you read each page carefully, you'll see that the sign up process is very straight forward and self explanatory. If you hit any snags email me and we'll sort it out together.

This quiz is timed. You'll only have 30 minutes to complete it once you've begun. It consists of 2 multiple choice questions (1 mark each), 2 short answer questions (2 marks each), and one long answer question (4 marks). DON'T PANIC. Take your time. I know you'll all do well. ;-)

Good Luck!

BoB

I need help with the choose problems. Those are confusing to me. Also the binomial theorem is somewhat diffucult. Everything else is fine.

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The unit of Counting is hard but the use of logic will help and practices as well. I think more practices during tomorrow's class will help me to furnish what i have learned from the past few days. But certainly,it is hard,no joke for that, I just hope for my best understanding on the day of the test.