3rd blog post

This week seems to being going better than last comprehension wise. I will probably hit a wall like always. I get the whole secant and cosecant and stuff it's good about where to put 1 over cosine or sine or y over x or x over y but sometimes I just don't know how to solve it. It will come with practice which we don't seem to do a lot of repetition. I think we need to do like a bunch a bunch of easy ones. Where you tell us what to do because then we will get the process. I know this probably upsets you but the sad truth is is that I would rather know how to do something without understanding it than understand it and not know how to really do it.

2nd blog post

I'd say my muddiest point would be logarithms. I'm not sure if I missed some days and didn't come in to get the help I needed but it was bad. On the first test we took I knew how to solve like the first half of the questions but then didn't know how to finish them and yeah. 

1st blog post

My freshman year of history class I was called to read aloud and I thought okay whatever. As I was reading I came upon this word (I can't remember it) but it looked so weird and unfamiliar and I pronounced it very incorrectly and it ended up being a super simple word I use in my vocabulary. It was one of those moments where your brain just farts and you're kinda winging it. Anyways, it was embarrassing and I would like to erase it from my memory and whoever else remembers it. 

Blog Post

The logs were sort of confusing. This class is harder than functions was, in my opinion. I am going to start studying every night so it will make more sense and become more clear. I do like the way the unit circle was explained though, it all seems to make sense (I just need to look over it a little more).

Day in class

A usual day in Mr. Jackson's class usually starts off a little slow to get into things which gets me anxious. However, once we get into doing math it becomes easy and even fun sometimes. This class so far has been pretty easy, I haven't had too much trouble understanding most of what we have learned so far. I've been enjoying this class and hope nothing gets so hard that I have to study.

Blog post 2

Muddiest point was when we got the test back. I thought I did fine on it when, in fact, I sucked really bad. Everything looked foreign. The thing I couldn't make sense of at all was multiplying fractions which is supposed to be the easiest. Stress is engulfing me. Thank god I sort of get what's going on right now.

First post

The quiz was tricky, in my opinion. I had someone else to take it with but truly I should have used my notes- there's was a vocabulary part of it that I had completely forgotten about and that was my mistake. The rest if the week? That was fine; it was weird at first but I'm getting the hang of it; it just I have a left over instinct from functions that there's more to the woke I'm doing than just that- a nagging sensation that's saying 'No, That can't be it' but in getting through it.

1st math blog post

I've been working on my homework for about 5 mins and I don't get how to go from radians to degrees it's a bit of a struggle tonight.

week one

I have fallen behind since I have been gone. but the new material is starting to make sense to me... I just need to start looking over things everynight so I can stop forgetting the next day... I am pretty sure I failed the quiz that we took Friday which does not help at all but I plan on coming in as much as I can and make sure to ketch up with everything.

1st blog

If 300 mice were to escape while I was working all by myself in a pet shop the first thing I would probably do is scream. Than I would start saying some pretty messed up things in my head to whoever forgot to shut the cages. After this I would call who I could and ask them to get up here and help me because there is no way I am touching all of these little things.

Blog post #2

Reflection: This week went by fast! I was feeling pretty confident. The unit circle, for the first time, made sense(instead of how I learned it before: memorization) however, when it came down to taking the quiz this friday, I would have not made it through without my notes! I thought I knew everything, but I guess I was wrong. When it comes to the solving aspect and the unit circle, I have that down...but I totally forgot about the x^2+y^2=1 so now I realize that I need to listen to the studying advice and then hopefully I will be ready for the test coming up.

week 1

this week was actually okay. i like this unit alot better than the functions stuff, it's so much easier. however though, i was absent on thursday and friday because of field trips and i just looked at the homework and ive got some serious catching up to do lol. but the rest is not that bad!

Math blog 1

This week math finally started to become enjoyable. The unit circle isn't too hard to understand, and there are only a few vocabulary words to memorize. The partner quiz was difficult, but I'm confident that I can keep up with the new material. Once my test is corrected, my grade will start recovering and I can focus on new content in trig.

Blog post 1 "reflection"

This week I struggled a little more than I'm used too. Functions never really pushed me. This is class is a little different. I just memorized the unit circle and I know how to do simple problems with it, but I'm sure I did not do well on the quiz. I only recognized half of the content on it. I now realize this class will take a little more effort on my part and I hope to improve my understanding of trigonometry and get a good grade. 

Blog 1- progress reflection

I think I am doing well in the course and I understand the content.  I think I did well on the quiz on Friday.  Thank goodness I had my notes for the vocab on the quiz because I would have struggled a little bit without them.  I think I need to work more on not relying on my calculator all of the time.  I think I have done well learning the brand new concept of the unit circle.  I also felt really good about the functions units before spring break.  Overall, I feel really good about my progress in the course.

Blog Post 1; Option 5

Well I got to say that when I missed Thursday school and then looked over the packets I was given, I had absolutely no idea how to do the co-secant, secant, cotangent parts of the packet and I was rather worried for I thought those would be on the quiz for the next day.  I thought over how to do them, looked intensely at the purple guide sheet that has the formulas and yet nothing came to mind to make it seem to work at all.  I was doing rather well with the regular cosine, sine, tangent bits, only occasionally mixing up sine and cosine, and yet these new points were lost on me.  I come in the next day and not only learn that none of the points I was struggling on were on the quiz, but also the packet I was trying to solve was something that hadn't even been given out to the rest of the class meaning I was not behind at all.  I learned how to do the secant and co-secant things rather quickly and everything became all right again.

2nd blog post

I feel like I'm understanding the trig stuff a lot better than the functions stuff. Even though we did rationals first tri, I just couldn't grasp how to solve them this tri. Hopefully the quiz went well and hopefully the unit continues to have information that I can understand!

Nightmare

I used to have nightmares all the time about mummies chasing down a never ending spiral staircase and I woke up crying many times as a kid

Describe a new food

If I was a genetic scientist and was given the task to create a new food. I would create the "Banango." It would be a cross between a banana and a mango. I've always thought mangos were the best tasting fruit, but the peal was so difficult to get off. Bananas are the easiest fruit to peal. The fruit would have the taste of a fresh mango and the convenience of a banana peal. It would sell to the public at a nice profit, while I enjoy an unlimited supply. That's the dream!

Dream

One time I had a dream where I was eating dinner with batman. It was peaceful and we had a good talk until the joker came in through the window. The joker knocked out batman then he came for me. He tried to punch me but I caught his fist and broke his arm. Then batman woke up as the joker was screaming in pain and killed him, it was then that I realized it was a dream because batman doesn't kill.

If I ever have kids...

If I ever have kids i'll never take the naked baby pictures and hang them around the house... That's really embarrassing and inappropriate. I also won't try to hide them from things in life (shelter them). Then they're just going to find out and they could become rebellious and end up in jail... and that would just be mortifying.

19 - three goals i have set for myself.

i feel like it's really important for everyone to have goals for themselves, even if the goals are completely unrealistic.
1. i want to go to a small college and find what i want to do when i grow up. i have no idea yet and the idea of the future scares me.
2. i want to raise enough money on my own to go to england on the class trip for 2016 with minimum help from my parents.
3. although probably not going to happen, i want to maybe some day go to england for school or to live there for a while. that'd be so amazing.

blog post 1

this week has been better than the other ones! probably because it's not functions .... but, I think I did well on the quiz and I have been going over the notes more often because I really want to get a good grade in this class

Blog post week 1

I have yet to find a struggling point in this unit but the last one I can't get the hang of. Ive decided to stay after school to get help so that I will not be failing this class any longer.  I'm ready to be good in this class.

Dream or nightmare

Dream or nightmare

I used to have this nightmare all the time about me going to my great great aunts house (I don't actually have one I have literally no idea who she is) and my mom and I go in and talk to her, and my dad and sister go into this huge hedge maze that is in her yard. I got bored of listening to my mom and my aunts conversation, so I went outside and waited for my dad and sister to come out but they didn't for like two hours and then I went inside and saw that my aunt had killed my mom. so I ran off of the property and I always wake up at that point. I don't like it

Second post

I have found a bunch of ways to remember the unit circle and the other 3 formulas we learned so I feel pretty good right now.

First post

A book character I would like to meet would be Junie B Jones. I loved her when I was younger and I think it would be cool to meet someone I idealized as a child. Also she was pretty funny and I like funny people.

Week 5 blog post

I think I'm doing ok in the course now. I did really good on the first test we took and I feel confident about the quiz we are going to take today. Remembering the relationship between the sine and cosecant stuff is a little challenging but overall I understood most of the materials.

Three goals I have set for myself...

1.  I want to graduate high school as a valedictorian.
2.  I also want to graduate from college with a Bachelor's degree and possibly go to graduate school.
3.  I want to get a great job, make a lot of money, and have a family.

Life changing event

The event that most changed my life was moving from Allegan to Mason after 3rd grade. While at the time I felt I would be unhappy in an unfamiliar place, the move was definitely the best change of my life. Within a month I made more friends than I had my entire time in Allegan. The teachers were nicer and my new house was closer to town. All in all, moving to Mason was the biggest and best change of my life.

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11. Five years from now, I will be...  Five years older ;) You know what that means..I'll be 21 years old! By then, I'll hopefully be filthy rich; however, more than likely, that will NOT be the case (unless I win the lottery!?). I will have just graduated college and now being weighed down by student debt. Is this everyone's idea of the amazingness of adult hood? Yeah, no. But it's reality! I mean, I guess I will no longer be screamed at for not doing the dishes; so that's a plus. I got off topic...anyway, soon (speaking figuratively in the terms that it's five years from now) I will be getting an adult job! Wow...that's really frightening to think about; not being a kid anymore and having all of these major responsibilities? That's like a foreign language to me. I guess we all must grow up some day, am I right? All in all, I know that five years from now, I'll be living my life to its fullest by reaching for the ☆stars☆

Reflection on course so far

The unit circle has proven to be more difficult than I expected it to be.  I learned about it in algebra 2 but I don't remember it very well. It doesn't help that I missed a couple days this week so that put me behind a little bit too. But I'm determined to study and catch up to the rest of the class and continue to improve my grade.

Second post

My first test went surprisingly well. I am happy with my score. This unit has been challenging for me but as you go over more examples, I understand better. I need to start studying a little more every night so I do not fall behind this unit. I am nervous for this quiz tomorrow but hopefully it goes okay. 

Describe a real or made up dream or nightmare

Once I had a dream that my Nana was getting the mail but she was hit by a car and flew like 2 miles down the the street. So I ran to her to make sure she was okay and when I got to her she was completely fine and unharmed. She just got up and said she just wanted to fly and that she had a lovely flight. And then my dream was over and I woke up crying because I thought something had happened to her.

First Post (Choice Seven)

A thing to change about myself?

Well, that's a hard question to answer; what does one wish to truly change about themselves? Their personality? The choices they made? The grades they got or the friends they made and lost; that's an experience that down the road melted together and hardened in the cast that was your body; it became a part of you. Taking a part fills the void it replaced; it changes the alloy, alters the person. True, at the core the person is still you, but it's like a cookie; take out all the chocolate chips and fill it with raisins; is it still a cookie? Yes, but is it still chocolate?

In the end, it probably be a biological change in myself rather than a mental or past change: something that makes me who I am. Besides, having wings added to my biology would be pretty cool.

First blog post "math related"

I want to write about my progress in the class. I have been struggling with the first part of this coarse so far. But, since we have started doing the unit circle, and working it sin and cos I have been understanding a lot more in the coarse. I am hoping to start doing better on the tests and quizzes and am planing to do test corections this week on the first test to get my grade back up. 

first blog

If and when i raise children i will never punish my children for telling me something they did as long as theyre honest. I want my kids to feel like they can be open with me and always tell me the truth and dont have to be scared of telling me something they did that might not be what i want them to do. I dont want them to feel like they have to distance themselves from me and hide anything from me. Ill try to be as understanding as possible.

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My favorite toy as a child was a walk-me-Daisy. It was a dog that walked and talked. I wanted it more than anything and my grandparents got it for me for Christmas. My aunt even tricked me into thinking it pooped out chocolate covered raisins. One day I was laying next to Daisy and turned its wheels on that make it walk.  I had really long hair at the time and the wheels started to eat my hair. I was crying and screaming and my mom had to cut my hair out of it. My mom made me take Daisy back to the store after that. :( 

1st Blog Post-Math related

When I first heard that we were going to be learning more stuff about the unit circle, I was dreading it. I remember it being a pain in the butt to memorize and found it very annoying. However, this time around it isn't as bad as I expected. I'm glad you went through it step by step, allowing us time to process it all. I feel like I am actually understanding it and am not as worried about this units quiz and test as I was the last. The last unit was a struggle for me. I felt like you flew through all the information and I didn't have time to fully understand all of the concepts. That, combined with spring break being so close, I just was not in the best mind set. Overall it's been a shaky start but I believe it is getting better. 

Book Character I would like to meet

One book character that I would like to meet would be Ira Levinson from "The Longest Ride" by Nicholas Sparks. This character stands out to me because I'm a hopeless romantic and his love story was beautiful. He went through some traumatic experiences and still was able to see the good in it all. I would love to sit down with him and read all the letters he had written to his wife. Their story is inspiring and the affect that it had on the other characters in the book was powerful. Plus I love older people, I feel there is a lot we can learn from their experiences and they are always entertaining. 

Dream

I recently had a dream about my cat who is dead in real life. In my dream he was still alive but had left our house. Why he left was not in my dream. I was outside my house and I was walking by the fence between my house and my neighbor and I saw my cat on their side of the fence. I went into the yard and brought him back to my house and I discovered that his back legs didn't work so he had to army crawl instead of walking. I didn't want my parents to know I brought my cat back home so I hid him in my room and let him live there and I never told my parents that he was back. And then my dream ended.

First blog post

I am going to write you a story. Once upon a time there was a very poor man who lived in Ancient Rome. He lived on the streets constantly having to beg for money and food. One day, he found a cup made of solid gold. He picked it up and thought he would sell it! But no one would buy it because they didn't believe it was real gold. So that night he wept, and wept because no one would buy the cup. And as the tears began to go into the cup they started to turn to pearls. So he kept crying, and crying, until he had hundreds of pearls. The man cried so much he became very rich, from the pearls that formed in the cup. So he got a house and a wife and was very happy. But, his greed consumed him, and all he cares about was to get more money. The only problem was he was unable to cry. So he killed his wife in order to cry. The moral of the story is to never get to greedy, and to always remember where you started.

1st blog post

 If and when I raise children, I'll never pressure them into doing things that they don't like. I would let them make most decisions and when they make a mistake, I will patiently direct them into the right path. I think small mistakes are good for children because everyone learn from their mistakes and get better with failing.

Describe a real or madeup dream or nightmare

I once a had two nightmares in the same night. The first one I was visiting my cousin. We were at her house and I was sitting her bedroom. There was a spider crawlin on the wall and I killed it. Then there was so many spiders all over the room. I was spraying them with bug killer but they were everywhere. I woke up because I felt like they were crawling all over me. Then next nightmare I had I was with my friends and something was randomly on my face. It was a moth. I brushed it off my face but another was there immediately. They were growing out of my face. I woke up extremely scared. It was a horrible night.

Option 20

If three hundred mice had gotten out of their cages, I would release all the cats and several lizards to eat the mice. The whole shop would be a giant bloody mess and if a customer walks in they would either scream or take a look in look somewhat like this -_- and walk out. I would be standing there behind the counter playing god controlling the masses lives and realeasing the predators to seek out those that can't survive. All while laughing maniacally. 

1st blog post

If and when I raise children I'll make sure they know it's so important to be themselves and to love yourself. I want my children to feel like they're always safe at home and that it should be a refresher to come home. I'll make sure they are focused on school but also take breaks. I will encourage them to be athletes but if they don't want to that's okay. I will also allow them to be the most creative person they can be. I will always love them bottom line!!!

First Blog post!

Below are 20 different options for you to choose from.  Please pick ONE and do your best to write a quality response.  At least a paragraph is required, but don't hold back!  I'm looking for quality over quantity.  This is mostly non-math related, unless you bring math into the prompt in a creative way.  Think.  Write.  Think.  Write some more.  This will be due by 11:59 p.m. on Friday, 4/24/15.  Good luck!

1. Design some gadget, machine, building, or other creation that might enrich the future. What does it look like? What does it do? How does it function? In what ways might it benefit people? 
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2. Write a thank you note to a friend who gave you onion and garlic-flavored chewing gum. 
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3. Draw an imaginary constellation. Write a story such as ancient people might have told about it. 

4. Describe a real made-up dream or nightmare. 
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5. Write about your favorite childhood toy.
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6. Write out the best or the worst day of your life. 

7. Finish this thought: if I could change one thing about myself (if you can't think of anything, you might want to consider telling how you got to be perfect!) 

8. If and when I raise children, I'll never... 

9. I have never been more frightened than when... 

10. Persuade a friend to give up drugs.

11. Five years from now, I will be... 

12. Write about a day you'd like to forget. 

13. Invent and describe a new food. 
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14. Describe an event that changed your life forever, or make up and describe an event that would change your life forever.

15.  Describe someone who is a hero to you and explain why. 

16.  Write about a time in your life when you struggled with a choice and made the right one. 

17.  Imagine yourself in a different century and describe an average day in your life. 

18.  Which character from a book would you most like to meet and why? 

19.  Three goals I have set for myself are... 

20.  What would you do if 300 mice had just gotten out of their cages in a pet shop where you worked?