Week 14

This week was a pretty relaxed week. We learned new equations and its relations to algebraic equations. Tuesday Mr. Abud was absent and we had the wonderful Mr. Roberts and substitute where we took a assessment. The assessment actually went really good I actually knew what was doing. The next day when Mr. Abud returned we graded our assessments as a class, it was different but got to learn how to grade them from 1-4. I did really good on the assessment. Later that week we did something in the hall with a bowling ball where we led the ball down the hall by stepping forward when it passed us. We also calculated with the ramp and the car to see what it's position graphing would look like. And we walked towards the censor to get the graphing calculation, with the differences of walking fast, fast then slow, slow then fast, and slow toward the censor as it registered us. We also were assigned a new mouse trap car project that's due next. But overall this week went by pretty quick.

Week 11

This week went by really fast and I actually had fun in class. We did our first project with the choice of a partner. The project was called the spaghetti bridge project where we had to title our company, create a slide show presentation, determine the pricing of our bridges, and over all build a strong bridge using only tape and a hot glue gun. I decided to work with partners and my partners were Hannah and Taylor. Our bridge company was called HTC (our first initials) Construction Company. We worked really well together and incorporated everyone's ideas in the process of creating the bridge. We did our bridge in bundles as the platform . We also decided to make triangles on the side if the bridge for sturdiness and a creative design. We constructed it with hot glue and tape as directed, we even gave it a little piazzas by adding glitter and sparkle to the bridge. We only used less than half of one spaghetti box of noodles in our bridge, and the amount we used then dictated the amount of our bridge. Anyway the bridge was a success and we maxed out our bridge with the weights during the class presentation. I am really proud of my group and my bridge. And as a cherry on top the assessment was moved to Monday.

Week 13

Unfortunately I was absent Monday and Tuesday of this week because of a field trip and challenge day. We also had a half a day and did not have first through third hours *sad face*. But Thursday we did a awesome lab of going on top of the roof top of the and each group dropped something until it hit the ground. Most group including mind dropped cell phones but one group dropped a bowling ball. We recorded how many seconds it took the object to got the ground. My group dropped a Verizon phone and it fell down 2.6 seconds. The next day we used our data we got from the lab and incorporated it in a quadratic equation. As normal we put our work on the white boards and hot a better understanding of how being in algebra two is also being used in physics. I have a much better understanding if both now. Anyway thankful we did not have a assessment today it has been moved to this upcoming Tuesday.