Tuesday, 03/10/2009

Math
Today, we practiced another open ended question for the upcoming PSSA test. It practiced theoretical and experimental evidence (I think). Theoretical evidence is based on what is most likely to happen. For example, if the question asked you to find the probability of you rolling a two on a six sided die, your most likely answer would be 1 out of 6. If it were experimental, things would be different. Here is what your answer would look like:

Work Explanation
#1= happened 35 times I added up all of the “number of times rolled” to
#2= happened 40 times get the denominator of my answer. Then I took
#3= happened 25 times the amount of times the die rolled on 2 to get my
#4= happened 10 times numerator. Then 40 out of 150 is my answer
#5= happened 25 times because 2 landed 40 times out of 150 total times.
#6= happened 15 times
Out of 150 times= 40 out of 150

That's how an open ended response should look like.

Language Arts
Today, we finished reading chapters 9 & 10. After that, we finished the whole book!!! Here is a quick summary. Claudia and Jamie look through Mrs. Frankweiler's files for the file of Angel. They check the file for Balogna, Italy and find a file containing info and the sketch of Angel. It was true that Michelangelo made Angel. Mrs. Frankweiler awarded Claudia by giving her the sketch of Angel to keep. Claudia and Jamie also got a ride home. They met their family and reunited. A thing that hit many of us is that throughout the story, they actually gave you clues to make it easier, they just put them in difficult spots. My opinion is that this book was kind of slow. It didn't have much action and the fast paced story line that I like. I give it an overall 6.5 out of 10.

Science
Today, we filled the rest of the fill in the blank sections. Then we filled in the inquiry questions. The teacher assigned each table group a question. My group had: How come not many volcanoes form around us? Our answer was because other plates are far away from us so they cant form volcanoes with us. After all of the questions were done, we highlighted the questions or words we needed to study for the test. We needed to know all the vocab words, the volcano chart, the chart about different plate movements, some parts of the fill in the blanks sections, and some inquiry questions. The test is on Friday.