Monday, December 28, 2009

Combinations

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1. At a restaurant, customers can select 3 toppings for their salad. Each topping must be different. The customers can select from mushrooms, carrots, sprouts, cucumber, bacon bits, and croutons. How many different ways could a customer top their salad?
A. 2
B. 18
C. 20
D. 720

2. As a freshman in high school, a student is given two electives. The student can choose from art, band, choir, computer applications, wood shop, auto shop, and drama. How many different ways could a student choose their electives?
A. 14
B. 21
C. 35
D. 42

3. How many different groups of four students can be formed if you have 36 students in your class?
A. 68
B. 144
C. 1,152
D. 58,905

4. You need three dancers for your show. How many different groups of 3 can be formed if 18 dancers try out?
A. 816
B. 54
C. 1,632
D. 2,916

Sunday, December 27, 2009

What are the chances?

What is the probability of catching a certain color fish?

Put your knowledge of probability to work.

Keep track of results of spinner with equal likely outcomes of successfully landing on purple, green, red, orange, or yellow.

Time to comment.

Suppose you toss a quarter once. What is the probability of the quarter landing heads up? There are two possible outcomes in this situation, heads or tails. Since only one of the two outcomes will give us heads, the probability of the quarter landing heads up is 1/2. What is the probability of obtaining one head if you toss two quarters? Carefully think about the number of possible outcomes.

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Holiday Homework

page 57 11-19
page 67, 17-24
page 115, 9-13, 14-24
page 209, prob 1-7
page 214, prob 4 draw diagram
page 229 Draw and cut out each figute. Do any of the net form a geometric figure?


Access code: F3105B5CE6 Enter the code after you click the link below.

Your online book.

Sunday, December 20, 2009

How do nets create three dimensional figures

Is it a cube. Press the plus sign to the left of the word Exploration. Click any net that you think forms a cube. Get started.

Platonic Solids

Create a tetrahedron, a cube, a octahedron, a dodecahedron, and a icosahedron from their nets by moving the red slider.

Homework: Can you use the comment link to define a cube, a tetrahedron, a octahedron, or a dodecahedron?

Determine whether the nets match the solids.

Confused about connecting a net with the solid that it represents? Click here for a review

Do you want a challenge? Try this enrichment exercise.

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Let's continue with our project - Classifying Triangles


We can classify triangles by sides or angles.

Begin by finding the area of a triangle.

Side lengths

Equilateral all sides are the same length.

Isosceles. two sides are the same length.

Scalene: no sides are the same length.

Angles

Acute triangle: has all angles less than 90 deg.

Right triangle: has one 90 deg angle.

Obtuse triangle: has an angle greater than 90 deg.

Try Activity One

After you finished the matching watch this video on triangles.

December 15

Today's quick lesson

Math Jeopardy

Mathematics Jeopardy

Monday, December 14, 2009

Review volume of a cylinder and find the volume of triangular prism

Question:

How do we find the area of a triangle?

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Today's lesson

Friday, December 11, 2009

Friday

Today we will return your exam. We are also going to use a class period to complete a online computer assessment.

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