This week we started our unit on polynomials, we started by reviewing the vocabulary for the unit and then started solving problems using different meathods such as distributive property, and foiling, personnaly I have always found polynomials difficult, in general, as a unit but so far this unit has been pretty straight forward. Above is […]
Month: April 2017
Week 2- entire radicals and mixed radicals
This week we learned how to convert mixed and entire radicals and also how to simplify mixed and entire radicals. Personally I find this unit to be pretty straight forward, typically so far with this unit I haven’t run into very many problems. In the example above we converted an entire radical into a mixed […]
Week 5- surface area and volume of pyramids and cones
in this section of the measurement unit we focused more on the volume and surface area of specifically pyramids and cones. This unit is difficult because shapes like cones have tapered bottoms/ points. Also in this unit you recognize aspects like shapes within shapes. For example the vertical height, radius, and slant height of a […]
Week 6- measurment
This week we focused on measurment, measurment is a unit where you learn how to determine aspects like surface area, volume, perimeter, circumference (for circle geometry) etc based on given measurements like vertical height, slant height or any side length of the object. I personally find the measurement unit fairly challenging because of the variety […]
Week 7- Problem solving using trigonometric ratios
This week we worked on understanding and solving word problems with trigonometric ratios, this involves being able to correctly label the different sides of the right angle triangle (adjacent, opposite, and hypotenuse), as well as being able to set up the correct equations to solve for either an angle or a side of the triangle. […]