Visit http://www.kyrene.org/cms/lib2/AZ01001083/Centricity/Domain/2242/Transformations%20Webquest.pdf or click on the button below for an excellent web-quest on geometric transformations! Remember to do your best and have fun exploring the concepts.
Click the link below to rediscover the properties of a variety of polygons. This will prepare you for our next unit of study, and my favourite, Geometry!!!
Use the link below to complete you webquest on the Pythagorean theorem.
Once you have completed all of your work, please peruse these sample questions that will help prepare you for the grade eight Math assessment.
Click the button below to access today's tutorial on MS Excel. Use the titles and data on the webpage to generate your own MS Excel Spreadsheet and Bar Chart. Remember to always save your work and make sure to submit the document to Mr. Laing at [email protected]
Also, here is another tutorial website that will allow you to create a simple Pie Chart. Click the button below for the Pie Chart tutorial.
Extra help available Mondays and Wednesdays at lunch or by appointment.
Topics for
last week's web article questions:
- Explain how Barry Shell was both Lucky and unlucky.
- What was the largest Canadian lotto jackpot and how many people won it?
- If the winners mentioned in question two were to divide the jackpot up evenly, how much money would each person receive (before taxes)?
- According to statistics Canada, what group of Canadian send the most on lotto tickets (based on a percentage or their yearly income). Why do you think this is?
- According to this article, what are the odds of winning lotto 6/49?
- How many times did Seguro Ndabene win the lottery?
- Why do lottery sales increase when the jackpot is high? What time of day do most tickets sell? What does this say about the majority of lottery players?
- How did the Powerball game become more difficult to win?
- What advice does this article state regarding investments?
- If you invest $10 per week at 8% rate of return on your investment, how much will you have in 35 years?
Be sure to save your work often, and email the completed copy to [email protected] .
Click the button below to read the article.
Here are the updated links for the four tasks of the aforementioned webquest
2. If you and your partner have completed your web quest, please read the following article and email me a 250 word reflective response on the subject.
The article on probability of winning the lottery is at --> http://www.cbc.ca/news/lotteries-what-are-the-odds-1.775281
The article on probability of winning the lottery is at --> http://www.cbc.ca/news/lotteries-what-are-the-odds-1.775281