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How can we prepare for our provincial exams?

Submitted by David Wees on Sun, 2010-06-13 11:15
Date: 
2010-06-13 08:20 - 09:45
Area of Interaction: 
Approaches to learning

Objective:

Students will be able to prepare for their provincial exams.

Agenda:

1.  Go through a sample exam.

Questions:
http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/exams/search/grade10/english/release/exam/0811ma_p_a.pdf

Solution key:
http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/exams/search/grade10/english/release/key/0811ma_pk_a.pdf

2.  Activity:
     Practice an exam

Questions:
http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/exams/search/grade10/english/release/exam/0810ma_p_b.pdf

Solution key:
http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/exams/search/grade10/english/release/key/0810ma_pk_b.pdf

Online practice exam:
https://www3.awinfosys.com/practiceexam/MA10.asp

What have we learned about statistics?

Submitted by David Wees on Thu, 2010-05-27 06:53
Date: 
2010-05-27 08:20 - 09:45
Area of Interaction: 
Approaches to learning

Objective:

Students will be able to demonstrate their understanding of statistics.

Agenda:

1.  Lesson:
     Remind students what I am looking for in their projects.

2.  Activity:
     Give students time to work on their projects.

Homework:

Finish your statistics projects
 

What is the chi^2 test?

Submitted by David Wees on Wed, 2010-05-26 07:12
Date: 
2010-05-26 10:45 - 11:40

Objective:

Students will understand how to use the chi2 test.

Agenda:

1.  Lesson:
     Show students how to divide data into groups.  Show students how to calculate the expected values from the observed values.  Show a few examples. Show how we can take the expected values and the observed values and calculate this quantity known as the Chi2 value.  Show a couple of examples.  Show how to compare the calculated value and the critical value and therefore draw a conclusion.

2.  Exercise:
     From textbook.

3.  Projects:
     Work on collecting data for projects

Homework:

Collect data for projects.

How do we use the properties of lasers?

Submitted by David Wees on Wed, 2010-05-26 07:06
Date: 
2010-05-26 11:40 - 12:50
Area of Interaction: 
Human ingenuity

Objective:

Students will learn some of the properties of lasers.

Agenda:

1.  Discussion:
     Share results of pinhole camera pictures.  Show some of the samples, pass them around.  Indicate that I still need to scan these pictures.

2.  Activity:
     Safety discussion about lasers.  Indicate that one can never ever shine them into someone's eyes, and for safety we will avoid sending them towards other people if at all possible.  This is because even though the laser light is not that bright, it is concentrated more than a typical flashlight would be.  Discuss our challenge, have a laser hit all of the mirrors.

3.  Activity:
     Measuring the angle of reflection and incidence. 

Homework:

None

How do we use the properties of lasers?

Submitted by David Wees on Wed, 2010-05-26 07:05
Date: 
2010-05-26 08:20 - 09:30
Area of Interaction: 
Human ingenuity

Objective:

Students will learn some of the properties of lasers.

Agenda:

1.  Discussion:
     Share results of pinhole camera pictures.  Show some of the samples, pass them around.  Indicate that I still need to scan these pictures.

2.  Activity:
     Safety discussion about lasers.  Indicate that one can never ever shine them into someone's eyes, and for safety we will avoid sending them towards other people if at all possible.  This is because even though the laser light is not that bright, it is concentrated more than a typical flashlight would be.  Discuss our challenge, have a laser hit all of the mirrors.

3.  Activity:
     Measuring the angle of reflection and incidence. 

Homework:

None

What have we learned about probability?

Submitted by David Wees on Tue, 2010-05-25 06:58
Date: 
2010-05-25 09:50 - 11:15

Objective:

Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of probability.

Agenda:

1.  Activity:
     Finish last minute pieces for your game.

2.  Activity:
     Play each other's games.

Homework:

Finish statistics project for Friday

What is probability?

Submitted by David Wees on Tue, 2010-05-25 06:54
Date: 
2010-05-25 08:20 - 09:45

Objective:

Students will understand the basics of probability.

Agenda:

1.  Lesson:
     Show students how to calculate probability. Discuss the game we went through last class.  Talk about which squares seemed, by our intuition, and our results to "grow" less resources.  Calculate the probability of each number appearing (from 2 to 12) on 2 six sided dice.

2.  Activity:
     Final opportunity to work on statistics project or work on explanations.  Both due this Friday at the very latest.

Homework:

Work on statistics project/explanation of factoring.

What is probability?

Submitted by David Wees on Fri, 2010-05-21 11:16
Date: 
2010-05-21 13:55 - 15:20
Area of Interaction: 
Human ingenuity

Objective:

Students will understand how to collect experimental probability.

Agenda:

1.  Lesson:
     Show students how to play Settlers of Catan. Show a few examples.

2.  Activity:
     Students will play Settlers of Catan (at individual tables) and collect information on what is rolled each turn.  Students should navigate to http://172.18.103.14/jsettlers/ find the JSettler's link and click on it.  They can then start a new game to play with their friends, or join an existing game.  Please use your first name to start the game.

How to play: http://172.18.103.14/jsettlers/users/toc.html

3.  Activity:
     Statistics projects due next Friday.

Homework:

Work on statistics projects.

How do we measure waves?

Submitted by David Wees on Fri, 2010-05-21 10:22
Date: 
2010-05-21 11:25 - 12:50
Area of Interaction: 
Approaches to learning

Objective:

Students will recognize the relationship between a vertical wave and a horizontal wave.

Agenda:

1.  Activity:
     Collect data for their labs.  They should produce a full lab report.  Students will measure the wavelength of a ruler which is moving in a wave as a result of being hit (using a piece of paper and a pen attached to the end of the rule).  Students should collect at least 5 trials for each length.

2.  Lab report:
     Write a lab report to represent your collection.

3.  Activity:
     Field trip to the dollar store.

Homework:

None
     

How do we find the line of best fit?

Submitted by David Wees on Fri, 2010-05-21 07:03
Date: 
2010-05-21 09:50 - 11:15

Objective:

Students will be able to find the line of best fit.

Agenda:

1.  Lesson:
     Show students both the formula and the "by hand" method for finding the line of best fit. Ensure the students understand that it must go through the mean of x and y. Show students how to use the line of best fit to make predictions.

2.  Exercise:
     Work from textbook

3.  Activity:
     Work on projects

Homework:

Work on projects