Well, for my project, Me and other fellow classmates: Alaya White, Marina Stuart, and Tariq Smith were focusing on the binary sequence.

       In 1679, Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz was the first person to ever discover binary numbers. What are binary numbers? Let's just say that the only number that are used 1 and 0. In this matter, they represent letters and numbers.

The Numbers from 1-20

In this post to drupal I will be explaining what me and my fellow classmates had to do for Mr. Thompsons Math class.

Everyone in our math class was broken up into groups of 4 or 5 students. All of groups got different assignments such as The Fibonacci Pattern, Sierpinski Triangle, Binary sequence, Triangular and Rectangular Sequences, and Power sequences.

The group I was in was power sequences and with power sequences there are many types of power sequences. What we had to do was study our sequence and find out what it was, what was it used for, interesting information and who uses it and why.

Chelsea Starks

Orange Nation

Q1 Algebra 1Benchmark Summary

For my quarter one Algebra 1benchmark in Mr. Rochester’s class, my classmates and I had to complete what myteacher called a “mini” project. The project consisted of us answeringquestions, solving problems, and visually showing how and why we got oursolutions. Some problems consisted of us readjusting the radius of a circle.

Tariq Smith

11/19/08

Orange

Math Benchmark (Tech)

    In my math class we had a benchmark project. The project was base on scaling things down from their actual sizes so the item could fit on the blueprint. First, we were assigned to go home and selected five items out of your house that you would put in your room and measure their actual sizes. Then when we got to school we scaled the sizes down by first dividing the actual size by 2.54 then multiply it by 20. After that process it was at a size where it could fit on the blueprint. Each group consists of 3 to 4 people in each group.

In my algebra project, me and 3 other people in my group made a one-story floor with four rooms. I worked with Anna, Nia, and Jason (all three are in orange stream). We had to figure out the scale to our project, or at least it was the scale to everyone's project, I'm not exactly sure.

For my part, I drew the bedroom with a bathroom. We had to pick at least 5 items (or more) and get the measurement of the length and the width. After we did that, we had to convert them into centimeters so it can fit into our rooms. After we got our 5 items in our rooms, we had to present it to the class.

Our mini project was to research our assigned sequence and teach someone something new. My assigned sequence was Binary sequence and my group members were Marina Stuart, Briana Stroman, and Tariq Smith. Here is more information about Binary sequence.

During the fourth quarter, I taught a unit on Linear Inequalities and solving systems of equations. The benchmark for the fourth quarter tested students’ abilities to think critically and to make use of the skills that they have learned during this unit in order to solve a simple "Trail Mix" problem.
Reflecting back on this project, I feel that this project assessed students’ abilities to use linear inequalities and equations in order to solve the trail mix problem. I liked the framework of the project because it forced students to revisit and examine some of their previous work so that they could fully explain the meaning of their calculations and the graph that they constructed.

I have attached a copy of the project tasks and descriptions for the Trail Mix Project.

Here is a link to a example student work. A hard copy is also attached.

Here is a link to another example of student work . A hard copy is also attached. 

a. This assignment is my Q3 benchmark at Science Leadership Academy. In this project I chose two variables that I could compare with various methods suchs a graphs and linear equations. With this, I was able to choose two potential jobs I might want when I am older and compare their salary rates.

b. I completed this assignment by doing plenty of reasearch on each job salary over the course of 10 years. Once I collected my data, I was able to graph my findings on a prgram called sketchpad. Also, with the wonderful support of my teacher, I stayed at school until 8:30 pm finishing this project along with fellow classmates and a helping mother.

c. If I were able to do this project again, I would have taken more time to figure out how to use the sketchpad program better to make my work look more clear.