On Tap for Next Week...

Hi guys! I hope you have had a great weekend! Mine was just fine. I finally got that lawn mowed! LOL!

At any rate, here's what's on tap for next week: as you know, we ended this past week by getting into calculating the probabilities of compound events (that is, more than one event happening). As we enter this week, we will pick up where we left off, and study not only compound independent events but also compound dependent events (by the way, did you know we did a compound dependent event on the very first day of school? Can you think of what it was? Hopefully, by the end of the week, you'll recall what I'm talking about and why it fits this classification, and you'll be able to tell me about it in your journals!)

Also coming up this week, we will get a visit from home! By that I mean our OPEN HOUSE will be this Thursday, August 27th, 2009 from 6 to 7:30 PM. I am very much looking forward to meeting or reconnecting with your parents this Thursday night! I plan to show them my room, my SmartBoard, and my blog. YOU should plan on showing them some of your work, and entries from your journal. One other thing we will do to get ready for their arrival (and to begin something we will do for the rest of the year) is the first of our class projects. Remember when I told you all how you REALLY have learned something? You know you REALLY know something when you can explain it. Another way you know you know something is if you can CREATE something new from that which you know. Well, in that vein, we are going to work to create new simple and compound probability problems for our guests. We will display them on the walls inside and outside my room, and challenge our guests to figure out their solutions. Then, when they are good and stumped, we will explain to them not only the answer, but how to come up with the solution. (Yoda voice) "Easy it will be, my younglings, for know the secret we do..."

"If you remember the rules, see the patterns, and take the steps, you can never get a math problem wrong!" (Bwaannnng)

See ya in the Red Hallway, Knights! 801, SECOND TO NONE!!!