Adult Learning Math and Science
Regular Thursday Quiz Day Here is a warm up (Pre-quiz): Pre-Quiz Here is the Quiz in case you happen to be missing class today. Bring it in tomorrow (Monday latest): REGULAR THURSDAY QUIZ. We will start on Meiosis; Chapter 11-3. Continue Reading
Converting between units seems to be a perennial problem every course I teach a course. So we are trying a Conversions Workbook which attacks it from all different angles. Regular Thursday Quiz tomorrow (Thursday). A simple Gross Pay calculation, Continue Reading
We made some Superbabies! A cross between your two favourite superheroes to see what sort of powers the offspring would have! Read ahead no to Section 11.4 – Meiosis. Some really crazy gene shuffling so that the offspring get a Continue Reading
My movie about the brain farts I often see and why you should show your work Worked on a few Assignment A-1 Questions; Guess and Check to solve a problem Studied the preferred method of unit conversions: The Unit Factor Continue Reading
Only three students? Looked at Blood type, reviewed vocabulary, did word find to strengthen vocabulary. Postponed the Superbabies till tomorrow (Wed). Lunch tomorrow includes Soup and Sandwich! And our Elder is doing a presentation too over lunch!
Good work, missing a few students! Good warmup on Solving Proportions. We will be using proportions over and over for triangles, consumer studies, scale drawings, transformations, and lots of other applications! Knowing that 5 bananas for $8 is the same Continue Reading
Got lots done! [a few students missing!] Did Assignment ALPHA-3 Guinea Pigs Dihybrid Cross(es) in class! Watched most of a Nature of Things (David Suzuki) Episode (like on APTN) all about Genetics: Scary, we can actually do genetics in Continue Reading
A good half morning. I returned the Regular Weekly quiz. Really good marks. Everything we do on the Interactive Whiteboard is shared here of course: Daily Whiteboard Lessons. We are doing measurement still, page 13 of the Unit C Measurement Continue Reading
A great half-day! We debriefed the Weekly Quiz. We checked out how a Dihybrid cross (two factors) would work. You may see a movie of mine with three factors; that takes 64 squares, so fun! Next week we will get Continue Reading
The Regular Weekly Thursday quiz went well. Last chance tomorrow. We are working on Converting Metric Units of Measure, Assignment CHARLIE-2. And we did a fun puzzle about the Metric System too! Read ahead of course in the Unit C Continue Reading
Awesome! The regular weekly Thursday quiz went well. Last chance tomorrow if you missed it. We read Section 11.2 Applying Mendel’s Principles. We are working on single factor Punnett squares. Calculating the probability of an offspring having a certain trait Continue Reading
Good work, Working in the Unit C – Measurement Notes. We have completed page . We have completed page 10. Notice the Conversion Tables at the end of the notes. You may need those if you do not how many Continue Reading