Grade 9 set diagram projects

All grade 9 mathematics students who have not returned their «set diagramm presentations and hard copy projects» have to know that projects are long overdue and that they represent a rather large part of their fall semester mark If projects where not returned, they must be by Monday november 23. Oral presentations will start this week. As of this date, only 7 projects where handed in and of those, not all presentations. Be assured that parents will be notified.

Grade 9 fall semester project: spaghetti bridge competition

Grade 9 mathematics students must visit their Email in order to get a copy of their fall semester project. The first deadline for the project is november 23 as specified in the Email attachement. If you have difficulty with this, please communicate with M.Gravel and please communicate with your friends to make sure they all know this project was issued.

Erratum (grade 7)

Please note that as of now, the math graph project will only be evaluated in math.

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Grade 7 interdisciplinary home project

Grade 7 interdisciplinary Project: Math and Humanities

Exploring Different Types of Graphs

Objective: an investigation on a variety of aspects of life in our society and on the representation of results using graphs.
Area of Interaction: Community and Service
Work organization: Individual project
Assessment: Math and Humanities

Expected products:
1) a poster with 6 types of graphs
2) a written report
3) an Oral presentation (when you are back)

Process:

1. Comparative graphs:
- Choose two countries you would like to compare and three cultural or social issues (education, salary, health, unemployment, human rights etc).
- Find data concerning the issues you want to compare.
(Use links provided in the resource document attached, resources available at home and on the web)
- Build a chart to represent your data (see resources for examples).
- Create three separate graphs showing your findings. Choose the most appropriate graphs for each case.
- label the graphs properly.
- Justify your choice in your discussion.

2. Graph illustrating changes over time:
- For one issue in one of the countries (literacy, education, salary, unemployment etc), find how things have changed in time(for example, past 50 years ).
- Put all information in a table format.
- Produce a line graph that illustrates results of your research.
- In your discussion:
a) explain why you think your graph is suitable for this kind of information
b) What conclusions can you draw about the development of this issue? (Is it a
positive or negative tendency? What could be the reasons for this?)

3. “Did you know that…”
- Make two graphs displaying the information that impressed you the most
about a global issues of your choice as part of the IB Community Theme (for
example, Global Poverty or Education for All).
-See http://communitytheme.ibo.org/ for more information.
-Be creative and make your graphs attractive and convincing.
-Use proportions or percentages to present your data in the graph.

4. Discussion
In your discussion; -Write a discussion on advantages and disadvantages of the graphs you’ve chosen for section 1
-Explain what impressed you the most in your findings;
-What links to Areas of Interaction can you find in this project?
-What ATL skills have you develop while working on this project?

5. State your conclusion

Requirements:
Poster: A2 format, title -“Exploring Graphs” Math project
must contain 6 graph with titles, labels, and conclusions

assignment repport:
Reflections, justification, conclusions, AOI


Assessment
Criterion C (Communication in Mathematics) max. 6
Criterion D (Reflection in Mathematics) max. 6
Oral Presentation (Creating Criteria together)
Results will count for Math as well as for Humanities

Due : Monday, Nov 23

Resources:

- Poverty Facts and Stats

http://www.globalissues.org/article/26/poverty-facts-and-stats

– The World Bank News & Broadcast:

http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK:20040961~menuPK:34480~pagePK:36694~piPK:116742~theSitePK:4607,00.html

- Different Resources on Poverty Issue

http://www.gradebook.org/Poverty.htm


- Statistics on Poverty and Inequality

http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/inequal/gates99.htm

- The World in Action

http://www.avaaz.org/en/poverty_promise_breakers/

- End Poverty 2015 Millennium Campaign

http://www.endpoverty2015.org/

- How Rich Are You?

http://www.globalrichlist.com/index.php

- Gender Inequalities in Education

http://cse.stanford.edu/classes/cs201/Projects/gender-gap-in-education/page1.htm

- Gender inequality

http://www.umsl.edu/~keelr/010/gender.html

– Centre for Social Justice

http://www.socialjustice.org/index.php?page=gender-inequality


– United Nations Statistics Division

http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/indwm/statistics.htm#Top

STATEMENTS TO LOOK AT:

1. Of all Americans, African-American men fear violent crime the most. African-American young men are more than five times more likely to be murdered than young white men.
http://www.citymayors.com/society/usa-youth-jail.html

2.. In Pakistan, traditional laws deny women many of the human rights given to men. A Pakistani woman can be killed if she brings shame on her family. According to Amnesty International, hundreds of these ‘honour killings’ take place in Pakistan every year.
Amnesty International Report 2008
http://thereport.amnesty.org/eng/regions/asia-pacific/pakistan

3. Workers in Guangdong province, China earn $1 a day to break up electronic equipment known as ‘e-waste’. Much of this comes from rich countries. The work is dangerous too. Workers do not wear protective clothing, and toxic materials seep into the ground. Water from local wells is now too polluted to drink.
Global Eye: Focus on China: Spring 2004
http://www.globaleye.org.uk/secondary_spring04/eyeon/index.html

4. There is enough food in the world to feed everybody, but about 900 million people go to bed hungry every night. Many of them are children.
Worldometer http://www.worldometers.info/

5. Some women in Eastern Europe put themselves at great risk to make a living. They are smuggled illegally (or ‘trafficked’) into Western European countries to work. According to the United Nations, ‘human traffickers’ make profits of $32 billion a year.
BBC News: “Trafficking: A very modern slavery” February 2008
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7243612.stm

6. In 2007, world food prices rose by 40%. Rising food costs affect everybody, but some families spend up to 80% of their incomes on food. These families are struggling to survive.
BBC News: “UN warns on food price inflation” March 2008
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/7281686.stm

Grade 9 homework, november 10 to 16

Grade 8 homework, November 10 to 16

warning for grade 8 and grade 9 students

A lot of students from grade 8 and 9 have not submitted work or responded that they had received work as of today. You should know that you will be submitted to a test on all Homework assigned on your second math class after this quarantine period. If you let yourselves fall behind, it will become very difficult for you to catch up at the last minute.

Grade 7 home work, Nov. 10 to Nov. 16

Grade 6 HW for november 10 to 16

grade 6

Students who are doing their assignment for Monday (investigation 5:05) shoould research at least 5 different media sources and must respect the «lab report format» to answer.

Pythagoras theorem tutorials for grade 8 and 9

Pythagoras theorem on line tutorials;

Consult them or search for your own, a lot of them are quite fun.
http://math.about.com/od/pythagorean/ss/pythag.htm

http://www.scribd.com/doc/6906543/Free-Pythagoras-Theorem-Tutorial

http://blog.circlecube.com/2008/02/tutorial/distance-formula-in-actionscript-tutorial-pythagorean-theorem/

http://www.cimt.plymouth.ac.uk/projects/mepres/book8/bk8i3/bk8_3i1.htm

http://www.mathcentre.ac.uk/students.php/all_subjects/trigonometry/pythagoras/resources/

grade 7, 8 and 9 algebra tutorials

Algebra Practice

– Simplifying Expressions; http://www.classzone.com/etest/viewTestPractice.htm?testId=3846

- Simplifying Expressions;
http://www.nwlincs.org/wyGEDTran/interactive/lesson4/l4-ex7.htm

- multiplying monomials; http://hotmath.com/help/gt/genericprealg/section_3_7.html

- adding and subtracting polynomial;
http://regentsprep.org/Regents/math/polyadd/sprac_m.htm


http://www.mccc.edu/~kelld/polynomials/polynomials.htm

grade 7 tutorials

Grade 7 tutorials:

Fractions:

- Fractions lessons; http://www.coolmath4kids.com/fractions/index.html

- arithmetic practice; http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/numbers/wholenumbers/

- practicing operations with fractions;

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/numbers/fractiondecimalpercentage/




Graphs:

tutorial graphs; http://mistupid.com/viewlets/excel/xlgraphs.htm

bar graphs; http://www.ncsu.edu/labwrite/res/gt/gt-bar-home.html

types of graphs; http://www.ais.msstate.edu/AEE/Tutorial/graphs.html

take notes !!!


statistics:

http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/indwm/statistics.htm#Top

grade 6 tutorials

Number Plane Activities

– Simple Coordinates game;

http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/GeneralCoordinates/?version=disabled&browser=MSIE&vendor=na


- Giving directions using coordinates;

http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/MazeGame/


– adding and subtracting directed numbers (using a number line);

http://www.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/nl.cgi?A1=s&A2=4

- “Mystery picture” using operations with directed numbers;

http://www.dositey.com/addsub/Mystery11.htm

- order of operations with instant feedback;

http://amby.com/educate/math/integ_x1.html

outstanding work

For all students:
Please write your name in full on all sent Items, pages or other work.

All assignments that where to be returned before or after the October break and that are oustanding (for example, scale plan assignment for grade 7)must be returned as soon as possible by Email or delivered to school.

Pierre

acceptable delay

Please note that all november 5 deadlines will be pushed to november 6 because of delays in the sending of our notice letter.

Good luck. :)

Grade 9 Home work

grade 6 HW and assignments

grade 7 home work and assignments

grade 8 HW

Introduction to a new learning relationship

Dear students,

This is our new anti H1N1 tool for doing math whatever the circumstances. I'm sure none of you would have dreamed of a prolonged math famine so your friendly neighbourhood math department as decided to rise to the challenge and provide you with you favourite intellectual food: Math homework and assignments. Don’t you love us?

We hope you'll be able to survive without being in contact with our direct power of “symbolised communications” and want to assure you we are thinking about you (and the work we plan to send you) every second of the day. Please stay healthy. We would think it a shame to not be able to resume occupying your brains as soon as this crisis is resolved.

In the meantime, make sure you indulge in this "emergency math ration box" and think about us who are working hard to keep your fascination with math alive and kicking.

First tasks:

The first thing you should do with this blog is to save it in your favourites in order to be able to access your home time assignments easily.

The second thing I would ask you is to confirm your access to this page by writing a short mail to my PSI e-mail address: pierreg@psi.kiev.ua

The third and redundant thing you have to do (but I'm sure you would never have it otherwise) is to review this page every day to make sure you are up to date on assigned work and that you are not getting late on dead lines.

I would like to remind you (and there is no humour in this statement, I'm very serious about it) that you are attending a full IBO school and that this involves an increased level of responsibility on your part: YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR LEARNING. If circumstances are creating a challenging situation, let’s see it as an opportunity in extending ourselves and find creative ways to access learning anyways. I'm confident you all have the resources within you to achieve this.

Cheers

Mister Gravel