Work period

Today, we had a work period to do our exercises or accelerated math. The accelerated math deadline is 30 objectives by about April 15, and it will be up to the end of logs. If you don't remember the questions from the exercises, they are:
Exercise 21 1-12
Exercise 22 1-14
Exercise 23 1-18
Exercise 24 1-15
Exercise 25 1-20

So use your time wisely, and make sure you do at least some of the exercises. If you need help with some of the stuff, here's a link to some examples and questions.
http://www.sosmath.com/algebra/logs/log4/log4.html

Wednesday April 08, 09

At the start of today's class we had a discussion about global warming(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming) and the coming of another ice-age etc, which everyone in class agreed to be far more interesting than anything about logs, but we ended up doing logs in the end anyways... :|
Some new log laws and then some examples, here the screens:













and the video:

Welcome Back!

In today's lesson we learned more about logs! WHOOP!! Hope everyone had a great spring break, if you're like me it feels like it went too fast. Just think of it this way, there's only... 52 days left of classes (and counting)! Take that as you may, but I'm pumped. That means 52 days until a two MONTH spring break, aka summer holidays.

ANYhow... this is the notes from today's class...















And the video...




The test is now post-poned until next Wednesday, April the 15th. And we can still rewrite the test that we all did poorly on earlier. Perhaps next week? Let me know, if you have any suggestions, please comment on this post! I'll be checking!!

Mr. Maks strongly suggested that we remember to look and learn from our workbook as well! The R.J. Mickelson one. I know that I love it. I wasn't using it, and I was doing poorly on my tests. I read through the units we had covered, tried a couple of their example questions, and I got FIFTY PERCENT HIGHER on my next test! Now, obviously I had a lot of "learning room" you could say to get that big of an improvement.... but the moral of the story is, if you take the time to read the stuff, it will benefit you!

Happy Readings!











The assignment for this evening is Exercise 22 questions 1-14. And if you do your questions like Peter, I'm not sure Mr. Maks will be too impressed. Good luck!

Logarithms

Lesson 19 Questions 1 to 8

and

Lesson 20 Questions 1 to 12

Today we did some refreshers on exponent function when we corrected yesterday questions. I'm still struggling so I recommend watching the recording, god knows i'll have to.

Here are the slides maybe they can help shed more light on the concept.

Here is the logarithmic grapher that I found yesterday.
http://www.analyzemath.com/logfunction/logfunction.html
Just go to the click here to start button.

exponents and logarithms

Our homework is the 5 questions from a to e on the last slide posted below

Today we started logarithms and the easiest way to explain what a logarithm is to call it the inverse of an exponent. http://www.purplemath.com/modules/logs.htm has an animation that does an exellent job of describing the relation between exponents and logarithms.