Day: February 6, 2017

Float Your Boat!

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  1. We tried to discover what design would hold the most pennies.
  2. If we had more air pockets at the bottom of the boat, then they boat would have more buoyancy, letting us hold more pennies because more air pockets translates to more buoyancy.
  3. Our boat held 57 pennies.
  4. We created an air pocket at the bottom of the boat in an attempt to give the boat more buoyancy.
  5. I would ditch the straws and popsicle sticks at the bottom of the boat.

Math 10 Week #1

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This week in Math class, I leaned about different ways to factor. One of these ways was creating factor trees. Here is one below.

https://www.mathsisfun.com/definitions/factor-tree.html

In factor trees, you take a number that you want to find the factors for. Find some factors of that number, than find the factors of the next numbers, until you can’t factor anymore. The numbers that you have left at the bottom are the prime factors of the number at the top.