Pattern 1 & 2

Tuning

Blog the Reflection for Investigation 2

Question: How can you decide whether finding common multiples or common factors is helpful in solving a problem?

Answer:

Common Multiples:

When to find common multiples: If you want to find when 2 or more numbers reach the same number again.

Question that requires you to find common multiples: Billy Bob and Billy Bob Jr swim. Billy Bob swims every 2nd day and Billy Bob Jr swims every 3rd day. If they both start at the 1st day of the month, when will the swim together again?


Common Factors:

When to find common factors: When you want to equally share 2 or more items.

Question that requires you to find common factors: Johnny has 50 cans of apple juice and 2 packs of cheese. He wants to make packs of apple juice and cheese. All packs have the same amount of apple juice and cheese. What is the maximum number of packs Johnny can make?

Homemade Water Balance

1. What is the fundamental concept about the metric system that makes it possible to measure the mass of an unknown object with water?

1mL = 1 gram









2. Any balance or scale has a maximum amount of mass it can measure. What is the maximum mass that your homemade water balance can measure?  Explain.

About 1.3 liters, because the bottle we used has a mass of 1.5 and we cut the top of the bottle.

Parent/Student Agreement

Why do you think you are responsible enough to take your laptop home and back to school each day?
-I show I'm responsible because I check my Google calendar daily and get everything done. I am also very organised.


How will you make sure that your laptop is charged each night? Where will you charge it? When? Explain your routine?
-I will double check that my laptop is charged each night when I prepare my uniform. I will charge it on top of my desk before I brush my teeth.

Quicktime Player Test

My New Macbook Air!

Macbook Air

How would you feel if you woke up and remembered that you had to go to boot camp? Excited or sad? Well when I woke up on the day I had to go to boot camp, I was really excited. Why? Because it was computer boot camp! This year every student was given their own macbook air from the school to use for the year. It’s a big responsibility because the school won’t fix the computer if it gets damaged, you have to fix it yourself. We went to all our classes like it was a normal day but instead of learning RLA or science, you would learn about blogging and laptop care. My favorite class was math, because we learned how to use google chrome and google calendar.

In 5th grade, I thought that the macbook wasn’t something you would use everyday and you wouldn’t have such a big responsibility. Last year, the teacher would remind us to charge out macbook pros and we’d leave them charging till the next day. This year, we have to remind ourselves to charge the laptop and put it in our bag before we leave for school. In these two days I learned about how much of a responsibility we have to have this $1000 machine. I also learned about how cool it is to use google calendar. My math teacher taught us this app. She would have us drive the projector to show everyone how to fix problems people came across with the app. That was fun.

Now I learned that having a macbook air is really cool and is a huge responsibility. This learning will impact us in the future. It will help us be more responsible and discover what’s in this new technology and more. I think that the macbook airs will help us a lot with our learning like helping us be more organized and answering our questions.

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Using Your Laptop