Winter Concert Reflection

I think what we did best as a group was harmonize. Our harmonies sounded really good and worked really well together. I was really proud of our performance of Seasons of Love. I think that was our best time singing it. I think my biggest challenge was finding the harmony on Till the Walls Come Down, but once I got it, it sounded super good with the other parts. All in all I think we did super well, and I can’t wait until the spring concert.

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A highlight of this year was the soccer season. We went undefeated and won the chip. We went into the playoffs with high expectations since we had not lost a game that season. We were confident and anxious to start the playoffs. We won the first game easily against City and Country, 5-1. That win propelled us to the finals against are rivals VCS. We would go on to beat them but it was not an easy win. I, Eli Harris scored the game winning goal with the score tied at 1-1. We ended up winning that game 3-1.

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Figures are mathematically similar…

Two or more figures are similar when they share a scale factor, their corresponding angles are congruent, and they have a true proportion. They also have to have the same general shape so a triangle and a rectangle can’t be similar.

To find a scale factor you have to take two corresponding sides and divide the bigger one by the smaller one. The answer is the scale factor. To find a true proportion you have to take two side lengths from the two or more shapes that correspond to each other and make their measurements into a ratio. Then your cross multiply them and if they each equal the same thing they are similar. Finally to find the if the corresponding angles are congruent you find the corresponding angles and measure them with a protractor.

 

True or false…

Any two rectangles are similar?

False because their side lengths could possibly not share a true proportion which means they are not always similar. In order for them to be similar their side lengths need to share a true proportion. Also if this is true then that means they do not share a scale factor.

Any two equilateral triangles are similar?

True because in order to be an equilateral triangle you have to have the same length of all of your sides. That means that there is a true proportion and a scale factor. That also means that the corresponding angles are congruent.

Math Notebook

screenshot-2016-11-09-at-2-31-59-pm This is an example of one of my good note taking pages in my math notebook. The reason these are good because they are nice and thorough.

 

screenshot-2016-11-09-at-2-35-24-pm This is and example of my bad note taking pages in my math notebook. The reason this is bad is because I did not really spend that much time on it.

Checkup #2

This year in math we are working on stretching and shrinking. A major part of this is scale factor. Scale factor is the size difference between two shapes. This is a very important part of stretching and shrinking. Lets say one shape has a perimeter of three and you add a scale factor of three, the new shape will have a perimeter of nine.

Math Profile

Math in the past for me has had its ups and downs. In fifth grade I loved math. It was my favorite subject. As I got into six grade I started to struggle a lot which made it more stressful and dislike full. What I like about learning about math is that I can be really rewarding at times when you accomplish something. What I dislike about math is that you can get really stressed out with it at times when you don’t get something right. I consider myself a good math student because I don’t quit when I get stressed out. One of my flaws in math is studying and that is a really good goal for me in the future. I need to learn how to study and what to study. Another goal for me is to check over my work, last year on test I would just do the test and not check my work and many times my work was wrong and I got a bad grade so I learned that I need to go back and check my work when I think i’m done.