Just a comment...

This is a personal opinion that I would like to share..

I think Shakespeare is important to teach in high school. When you compare this type of literature to an ordinary novel or even a children's book it may seem difficult to understand and frustrating to pronounce.. But Shakespeare is full of symbolism, irony, and vibrant productions of visionary scenes. This type of literature helps the reader to think differently about characters, and struggle to think about what the author is really trying to say, what he means behind his words, and why he is writing or presenting the conflicts, relationships, and tragedies. It can help pull you away from everyday books and bring you into a deeper understanding of history, you learn more about the era, the unique language, and the the way the people reacted to their surroundings. It can help you learn more about yourself, your life, and your choices.

Shakespeare can only be a positive influence if you actually give it a chance; you need to read, (not just go through the action of reading) you need to look for hidden meaning, you need to stop and see what's going on, in the setting, in the atmosphere, in the character.. everything is important in a Shakespeare novel and if you don't stop to think about everything as a whole, (not just as some dumb, pointless book) then you can actually come away from the literature with a sense of meaning.

Yes.. the words are hard to understand and yes, you are not used to the grammar or the pronunciation, but it does have meaning and it IS important to the high school English curriculum. In a sense, it's problem solving. You're only using words instead of numbers. It all lays in the way you perceive the article of work, But then again, this is my opinion, and I am personally greatful that the cirriculum had shown me the world of shakespeare.

Friday, May first.

This was a work period. We had a substitute, and were working on our personal finance booklets. I hope you had a good weekend.

March 2nd, vector scaling

Today, we started with mental math and moved along to vectors.
Turning to page B-5, exercise 2. We went through example questions to make sure we had a handle on what we were learning and we were shown a little more about Euklid .

Mental note:
Around the 21 minute mark of the video, there is a demonstration on how to measure angles on euklid. Its worth watching.

There will be links posted to our blog, to past grade 12 applied math blogs so we can look at past vector lessons and posts.

The video is stubborn, and wont upload, so if you need to watch it you need to go on the network and find it. (march 2nd vector scaling)

homework assignment

Exercise five, Application of matrices
Parsonsc and I, worked together on our assignment, and are posting question number 1.
There were four parts to this question.

a) Creating a matrix that displayed the weights, (which were given to us.)
A= [5 6]

b) Writing the table as a matrix (which was also given)
B= [5 7]
[3 9]

c) Finding the total vitamin content of the cheese and meat, we multiplied matrix A by matrix B, and got our answer.
C= [A]*[B]
C=[43 89]

d) Determining the cost of the total purchase. We did this by multiplying the amount of cheese by it's price per kilogram, and the meat by it's price per kilogram.
cheese= 5kg * $2.25= $11.25
meat= 6kg * $3.50= $21.00
The total purchase costs $32.25.