Monday, March 12 - Camel Question 2.0

Camels and Bananas

A camel has to carry 3,000 bananas across a 1,000 mile dessert. There are two conditions: 1. The camel can only carry 1,000 bananas at a time. 2. The camel eats one banana for each mile he travels. What is the maximum number of bananas that will reach the other side of the desert? What if you have three camels?

Awesome Percent Game - Create a park!!!

Check this out!  Let us know how far you have gotten.

http://www.kidsmathgamesonline.com/numbers/percentages.html

What do you think of this game?  Have you found a better game that involves percent? Let is know...

March 7th and 8th - Great Math Game and Practice Activities involving Percent!!!

Number Invaders!!! What is your highest score?

http://www.mathplayground.com/balloon_invaders_percent.html

Click on the link below to view a video about the math concepts we learned about today!!!

http://www.mathplayground.com/howto_findsaleprice.html

Practice questions for Percent - find one, solve it and share it in class tomorrow.

http://www.mathplayground.com/SMP_Percent.html

Cryptopics link and link to Percentage Game

Check out the link below for more "cryptopics" puzzles...

http://www.yarivh.com/cryptopics/index.htm

Enjoy!

Click on the comments - Eric and Maisie found an electronic version of Cryptopics online!  Use the link Maisie posted.

Link to Math Makes Sense Tutorial! Check it out!

Having trouble with a math concept and you can't wait until tomorrow to discuss it in class!!!

Click on this link and check out the tutorial on any concept in our textbook!
https://2007.hcdsb.org/owa/redir.aspx?C=6d063210c74a4ad5b3f9b9577088cb1d&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.pearsoned.ca%2fschool%2fmath%2fmathmakessense7%2f

Possible Research Topic for our Data Management Project

Use this link to view sales stats from each month in 2010 and 2011.  Your comparison could be between Xbox hardware sales and Wii hardware sales.

http://vgsales.wikia.com/wiki/NPD_sales_figures

You will need to click on each month and write the sales amount in a table.  Then plot the data on a scatterplot graph.

January 24, 2012 - Analyze the Data - Is there a relationship between temperature and ice cream sales?

Ice Cream Sales vs Temperature
Temperature °C	Ice Cream Sales
14.2°	$215
16.4°	$325
11.9°	$185
15.2°	$332
18.5°	$406
22.1°	$522
19.4°	$412
25.1°	$614
23.4°	$544
18.1°	$421
22.6°	$445
17.2°	$408

And here is the same data as a Scatter Plot:

 

Line of Best Fit

You can also draw a "Line of Best Fit" (also called a "Trend Line") on your scatter plot:

Try to have the line as close as possible to all points, and as many points above the line as below.