Algebra l with Mrs. Snead
Look at these algebra geeks ;)
Personal Finance: A topic that greatly interested my partner Ivie and I was identity theft! We had originally created a game that covered loans, mortgage, groceries and other topics based around personal finance. But for our final exhibition we wanted to share a new idea and perspective that no other student at Animas would be presenting. We made a slideshow informing anyone and everyone about the dangers of identity theft and simple ways to prevent that from happening to you! Many statistics were included from the United States and even Durango. I had a really great time studying this topic with my friend and co-worker.
Substitution, Multiplication and Elimination Methods: There are three different ways to solve systems of linear equation problems. For my Justin Bieber example problem, I used the substitution method. I calculated how many tickets were sold for two different sections of seats at a concert. Even though it took a little bit for me to understand the other methods, I now have a better understanding of how to figure out the systems of linear equations!
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Linear Equations Project: For this project we had to put a picture on graph paper and find all of the coordinates. Once we had that, we placed all the points on a graphing system on the computer called GeoGebra. When all the points were placed, we added lines to connect the dots and then shaded certain sections of our image. Throughout this project, we had to create 25 linear equations with our coordinates. A weakness of mine in this project was probably getting frustrated when the program would not cooperate. A strength would be finishing on time and giving my best in creating my panda!
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The First Steps Into Algebra I...:
One of our first topics with Mrs. Snead was fractions. I personally enjoyed them because I learned them at an early age so they are fairly easy for me. Next was linear equations. That was much trickier for me to learn but once I understood it, I loved being able to do the complicated problems. Our big project for that was the Linear Equations Project. Most recently, we've been talking about trigonometry to help us with our rocket project in Physics. It will enable us to determine how high into the sky our rockets flew.