First Week's Assignment

1.) Share the letters below and new blogspot address with your parents/guardians.

2.) Write at least one full paragraph about yourself as math learner, and your goals for the year. Think about yourself as a math learner, and how you want to grow. What habits will you keep from last year? What would you like to do differently? What would help you grow as a math learner?

3.) Read the following problem and answer questions below:

Because few people have the time (or a paper and pencil) to do arithmetic problems when they're on the go, pocket calculators have become very popular. Although they are easy to use, getting the correct answer to a problem that requires more than one operation is not as simple as it might seem.
Consider the problem:

12 x 5 - 8/4 + 7 x 2

If you push the keys for these numbers and operations in order, a calculator will give the wrong answer.

a. What is the correct answer to the problem?
b. What answer do you think the calculator might give instead?
c. Why would it give that answer?
d. What would you do if you wanted to use such a calculator to get the correct answer to the problem?

Please answer all of the above in your Math Composition Notebook (the quad ruled one with graph paper inside).

Due Tuesday