So far in math 10 honors we’ve worked on prime numbers, applications of prime factors, the Real number system and radicals. A lot of this stuff was mostly review from last year but there were a couple things I learned that were new. Last year we didn’t learn as much on radicals for example, this year we converted entire radicals into mixed radicals and back into a entire radical. I also learned how to estimate square roots of large numbers or positive numbers that are less than one. You divide the number into groups of 2 digits starting from the decimal point and then you estimate the square root of the group furthest to the left and add zero’s for the remaining groups. Another thing I learned that I thought was helpful to me was how to use prime factorization to determine the greatest common factor and the lowest common multiple of a number. Last year we never learned prime factorization so I hadn’t learned this specific method to find the GCF or LCM. The last thing I learned this unit but not last year was how to use algebraic procedures to convert a repeating decimal into a fraction in simplest form which I thought was very interesting.

I am hoping that I remember all of the new things that I learned and I can carry it into grade 11. That way I can focus on the new things that I am learning that year instead of trying to remember what was taught the year before.