Comments for Tony Baker's Math Class

Comment on Do you want a $60 iTunes Giftcard by jessica bostick

jessica bostick — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:40:53 +0000

task number 8 done

Comment on Math in the News by scothaeseler

scothaeseler — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:44:18 +0000

oh yeah, i forgot to say if i agree or not. i agree because if a team gets into a good, consistent groove, they will be better than, say, the red sox and yanks of last season, who seemed to go up and down through the whole season, although, in a sense, it doesnt matter how consistent the team is in the beginning of the season, only the middle to the end, as the yanks(i hate them by the way) proved to us. also on a different note new york was a TORY state, so the name yankee would better fit a new england state team.

Comment on Math in the News by scothaeseler

scothaeseler — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:37:43 +0000

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100301141852.htm
i picked this article because baseball season is coming up,(the sox aren’t looking the greatest, or the yanks), and i thought it was a good time for a little baseball mathematics. although id like to think of this as a little obvious, since i can quote the physicist as saying “The more consistent a team is in scoring runs, game to game, the better the team’s winning percentage for the total number of runs scored”. so in other words, the more you score, the more you win. who knew?

Comment on Mathematical Applications – Review for Your Test by Shana birkbeck

Shana birkbeck — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:35:04 +0000

hey mr.baker its shana i need help i dont understand the test like with the triangles is that my test can you please help me? thank you

Comment on Math in the News by Jerell

Jerell — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:57:09 +0000

I liked this article, because this was an issue I actually heard somebody complain about, and I thought it was silly.

http://www.nctm.org/uploadedFiles/Lessons_and_Resources/figurethis/calculators.pdf

Basically, the author talks about how calculators are an essential part of the mathematical learning process, and not a tool used to cripple our mental math capabilities. While mental math is important, not to mention convenient, using mental math to complete more complex math problems is counter-productive because each problem will take far more time than if a calculator was used. So long as the concepts are understood, the work need not be manually done.

Comment on Math in the News by Do you want a $60 iTunes Giftcard | Tony Baker's Math Class

Do you want a $60 iTunes Giftcard | Tony Baker's Math Class — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:13:24 +0000

[...] Thursday February 25th, 2010…Task #12 – Math continues to evolve find a news article online that shows math being used to solve new problems. Math in the News [...]

Comment on Jobs that required Math Skills by Do you want a $60 iTunes Giftcard | Tony Baker's Math Class

Do you want a $60 iTunes Giftcard | Tony Baker's Math Class — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:35:31 +0000

[...] Wednesday February 24th, 2010…Task #11 – Goto a Job search site and put in the search box Math. Pick one job that you found the most surprising to be there and tell me why. Post the job as a comment to this post… Jobs that need Math [...]

Comment on Jobs that required Math Skills by Jerell

Jerell — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:32:07 +0000

Therapists, Mental Health Technicians, Medical Records Coordinates

http://jobview.monster.com/Therapists-Mental-Health-Technicians-Mediacl-Records-Coordinat-Job-Sarasota-FL-US-86417340.aspx

This one surprised me for a few reasons. One of them was that a degree in math is necessary to be a therapist, another was the sheer amount of spelling errors in the title alone. Clearly, an English degree is not required.

Comment on Calculators, Calculators, and More Calculators by Jerell

Jerell — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:19:06 +0000

I like this one. As soon as I clicked on one of the buttons, a pop-up appeared, despite my anti-pop-up software AND Firefox’s natural defenses. Amazing.

http://www.calculateforfree.com/

Comment on Math on Wikipedia by Jerell

Jerell — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:14:13 +0000

The following page is about Natural Logarithms.
I already understand it pretty well, but I don’t think the page hurt me at all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_logarithm

Comment on Jobs that required Math Skills by Chad

Chad — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:17:47 +0000

PT Dock Workers I found it surprising because you wouldn’t expect someone who unloads things with forklifts and such to need basic math.

Comment on Math on Wikipedia by Do you want a $60 iTunes Giftcard | Tony Baker's Math Class

Do you want a $60 iTunes Giftcard | Tony Baker's Math Class — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:51:56 +0000

[...] Monday February 22th, 2010….Task #9 – Search on Wikipedia and find a topic that we have covered in class. Post the link in this topic …Wikipedia Thread [...]

Comment on Calculators, Calculators, and More Calculators by Chad

Chad — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:58:52 +0000

http://www.algebrahelp.com/calculators/equation/

Comment on Calculators, Calculators, and More Calculators by Do you want a $60 iTunes Giftcard | Tony Baker's Math Class

Do you want a $60 iTunes Giftcard | Tony Baker's Math Class — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:55:53 +0000

[...] Tuesday February 23rd, 2010…Task #10 – Find an online Calculator…this Calculator can do anything you want. Link to it as a comment in the Calculators Thread [...]

Comment on Math on Wikipedia by Chad

Chad — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:43:42 +0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic_equation
The topic covers Quadratic equations and it did help me better understand them.

Comment on Youtube Videos for Math by Jerell

Jerell — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 18:58:57 +0000

This guy is awesome. I don't really know why, but this seemed clear to me, and I KNOW we already know this stuff but his explanations are good. I was gonna pick New Math by Bo Burnham, but it's not exactly appropriate. Look it up, though. Very clever. That’s odd, it didn’t show up. Here’s the link anyway. The topic is Trigonometry, by the way. Obviously.

Comment on Do you want a $60 iTunes Giftcard by unicow

unicow — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:42:09 +0000

done

Comment on Youtube Videos for Math by Tony Baker

Tony Baker — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:14:51 +0000

I have seen the first one before and it is funny….however the Darth Vader one is awsome

Comment on Youtube Videos for Math by scothaeseler

scothaeseler — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:03:36 +0000

i chose this video because it is funny. but just in case you wont accept it for my point i uncluded this one, which is an interesting way to learn pythagorean theorem. ps "nerf herder" is not a bad word. i looked it up.

Comment on Youtube Videos for Math by unicow

unicow — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:23:22 +0000

This topic is Graphing Quadratic Functions I chose this topic because at one point we did it in class