Through this unit I grew in the ability to do my homework effectively due to me having a tutor to guide me through it, and that has helped me get the work i'm most proud of which is my homework.
I have been developing the skills needed to pass through high school with an understanding on setting up graphs and charts and doing the math and calculations used in certain jobs. Although I have a large problem with memorizing equations and knowing the math to complete such, I have been able to use a graphing calculator to help me through these difficult equations. This semester I have learned small amounts of trig and similarity and I have struggled with both unknowing how easy trig ratios are when used and understood properly. Although seeing similarity in problems and knowing the needed steps to solve something of that caliber, and even though I know using it in science, engineering and mathematical work. But however I don't ever see my self going into a field of that matter, but so fair going through this unit and learning trig functions have been kind of fun and is the easiest math I have learned so fair. The two POWs that helped me the most this year have been "slices of pie" and "almost a rubik's cube."
Slices of pie was the easiest to explain and i understood it more than the other POWs because there was little math in involvement but a large amount of planning and understanding how to change certain lines to create even more if you weren't getting the result you wanted. While I working on this problem for math exhibition I saw that every cut created a triangle and how by simply putting a set of three lines in the exact place i could mimic the pattern that yields me 16 pieces for 5 cuts. Even though i probably won't be cutting my pizza the way i did for this POW it helped me view math in a more rhythmic way. The Rubik cube POW was easy for me too understand because it was easy math skills needed to do it and i was able to visualize the cube and take the pieces if of it and separate each piece in my head and on paper and make a basic table and list what each row and side of the cube could calculate too. And it helped me too be able to convey my thoughts instead of typing them into a normal reflection because I have difficulty conveying my thoughts onto paper so it was a great change up for me in this POW. During this unit my skills were shallow and I didn't understand most of it, that being said the one thing that stuck in my head was 3D visualization of certain shapes and how I could calculate their length to tell how long or wide they were. But I never understood how to create a graph or table to compile this information so that others could understand how I reached that point in my calculations and visual representation . I have grown in being able to use a calculator more properly and understand that a calculator can be a students best friend while needing to make tables and create cubic functions.
Honey Bees are important because they pollinate certain fruits, nuts, and flowers and with out honey bees there would be no more pure honey and we would lose billions of dollars that honey makes.
The main scare in the world currently is the fact that honey bees have begone to disappear and no one knows where they are going to. This could set a problem world wide if the disappearance of honey bees continue and honeybee keepers are losing money and don't know how to solve this problem. For my project on honey bees I chose to a more historic back round and look at ancient egypt and how the egyptians were called the first bee keepers so I wanted to delve deeper into that and see more historic understanding on how they used to bee keep and how they got honey. I learned that instead of putting bee hives in boxes like we do now, they used to stack cylinders and used to stack them on top of each other, as well as there were special people called bee hunters who went out into the desert and searched for honey and bee hives to bring and they were specially escorted by royal archers. I learned other things about where they think bees come from and why there here as well as rituals they used to do with honey bees and the mummifying of Pharos. For exhibition I made a jar that they used to put the Pharos insides into and fill it with honey and honey bees so that they could guide the dead Pharos back to the sun god Ra. I covered the urn in hieroglyphs and painted it and put honey bee wax melted on the top of the urn. I am happy and proud of what I did for exhibition and it was a well made experience and I wouldnt have changed in anyway. For my dissection project I chose to a dogfish shark, because i felt like I wouldn't be able to dissect another animal like that from the ocean and I thought that doing the basic pig or cat dissection would be too boring.
Going into this dissection I knew nothing about the Dogfish shark or just sharks in general but going through the body of the shark inside and out I understood how it stayed underwater, how the oils in its body keep it a float underwater and have water pass through and over the gills. During dissection I understood that i'm not a big fan on cutting tissue and touching dead inner organs, but I was able to get through it even with the smell lasting for weeks and it was a once in a life time experience and if it comes down to it I could dissect similar sharks as well. |
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