To be honest with you, writing about math has actually confused me a little more. Maybe this is because I'm not really used to this or because I understand math visually instead of verbally. I think that this experience of writing about math was okay. Because our math teacher left school because of medical reasons, we haven't been learning as much anymore. Ms. Moon, her current substitute, has probably been one of the best substitute Ms. Pope's class has had all year.
      I think in a way it did kind of help me write about math because I could actually explain and go one step further when solving an equation. I think that they shouldn't continue doing Math Mondays because in some cases it might confuse students when doing and learning math. But again this is good typing practice. 

    To be honest with you, this year for me in math wasn't the best. There were many things I didn't understand but the one I am still having trouble with today is the slope. This year was kind of hard for me because our normal teacher, Ms.Pope, had to leave school for a while because of medical reasons. We had to get a substitute next and he was kind of confusing. Then we got Ms. Moon. She was a lot better than the other substitute. 
     Anyways back to the slope, finding the slope was difficult for me because I didn't get it from the start. A couple of my classmates, family, and teachers helped me learn this new concept. I can say that thanks to them I know know how to find the slope on a graph a little better than before.

     Image from: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/images/eps-gif/Slope_1000.gif

     So what are some math and science similarities? Well to start off, math is used a lot in science. Whether it's either measuring how much liquid or solving a variable, math is always used in science. Science and math is also similar because math looks for patterns in numbers and shapes and science looks for patterns in the natural world. 
     Even though they look for patterns in different aspects, they both look for patterns. Another thing that math has to do with science is when they need to graph something or even determine the slope. These are just a few of the similarities that math and science have.

Negative numbers are real numbers less than zero. We all learn about negative numbers at school, but we don't really know when they are used. Negative numbers can be seen and used in your daily life. For example if you only have $100 in your bank account and you spent $200, you know how a balance of -$100. This means that you own $100. An easier way to know if you owe money is if you see the negative sign. This means below zero. So where else can negative numbers be found or seen other than when you are paying something or owe money. Negative numbers can also be used when the temperature is below zero. 

Today's lesson is going to be quite simple. First lets look at the equation.  The equation is 2x-7=15. Okay what do we need to solve or find out? Look at it again. What is missing? We need to find out what x equals. Lets start doing that. First we are going to isolate the variable. We are going to add 7 to each side of the equation. You will end with : 2x=22. Now since x is multiplying to two, we are going to do the opposite. Now divide two on both sides. You end up with x=11. To check if you did this right you could go back and fill in the variable with the answer you got. So check this: 2(11)-7=15. Is this equation true. Well if we do the math, the equation is true.

How do we make a decimal into a fraction? Well last week we talked about how to make a fraction into a decimal so today we are going to talk about how to do the opposite. Today we are going to learn how to do that. How I explained before, it's going to be the same thing opposite. So what you would do is this; if you have .25 and your trying to make it into a fraction, you would do 25/100 is equal to _? Now you would simplify and get 1/4. Now if we have a number like 255 we would do 225/1000. What would you do next? You would simplify. This is a simple way to convert a decimal into a fraction.

There are many ways to convert a fraction to a decimal. Some of the methods I use are, first of all finding the fraction. Then you would change the denominator to 100. But change the top too. So if the fraction is 5/20 you would change it to 25/100. So since you already have your hundreds you can just add a decimal before 2 so your decimal would be .25.

MATH MONDAY: Which would be better to use in planning purchasing of food for use in a restaurant, ratio or percentage?
In my opinion I think that a ratio would be better to use in purchasing food because easier to understand. If you give the restaurant a ratio instead of a percentage I think the person will have an easier time knowing what you want. If you use percent then it won't make much sense because the person would have to make count of how many people the food is going to be for and more math for more issues. I think that it's also easier if you use a ratio because the person will know how much of what to how many people. I personally think that this will be much easier, but again we all think different so you might think a percentage is better.

Finding the Circumference of a Circle can be quite hard if you don't know how to do it mostly because the circle doesn't have a flat border. You can easliy find it although by using the equation C=2π r.  To get a more accurate answer you can just use  which is explained in the previous blog post. 

Today is Pie Day. Now the pie people usually eat like pumpkim or apple pie, but the math pi. Pi is 3.14.... . It continues forever. On March the 11th kids at Computech memorize the numbers that follow 3.14. Pi is the ratio of a circle's diameter. Some of the number that follow are 3.14159. Of course,there are more, but that would take too long to say. Pi is  very important to knwo because it is used in many cases. Not just in math, in robotics for exa