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Term 1 Reflection
In term 1 in math I learned about Pythagoras, Rate, Unit Rate, Unit Price, Two-Term Ratio, Three-Term Ratio, Part to Part Ratio, Part to Whole Ratio, Proportional Reasoning, Square Roots, Right triangles, Square Numbers. A couple of my favorite things that happen in term 1 was when Tonie Reyes, Diana Rodrigues and I made the ratio video that was called Ratio for Elmo, Another thing I enjoyed was when we started to learn about Square Roots and Pythagoras because I was able to understand them pretty well, and because I found it easy.

In term 1 in math I did most of my work, like my homework, textbook, smart board, and scribes. But sometimes I didn’t comment on all the blog posts. In term 1 I participated ALOT in class, like group work, going up to the smart board, helping my peers understand whats happening. Next term I would like to get better marks on my tests so I can get on the honour role, the way i am going to do that is to study for tests, and listen more in class. Proportion, Rate, Ratio

Proportion
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Percent
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Term 2 Reflection.
Hi, my name is Casey Younger and I’m a grade 8 math student, and Term 2 was pretty good for me. I found out that the chapters this term were a lot easier then last term. I also went up 8 percent for my term 2 mark. I also did well on all my tests, I would get around 80-100 %, the chapter I found the easiest was finding the surface area of shapes.

A chapter I had troubles with was Volume, but when I re wrote my notes, everything made sense and I got 18/19 on my Volume test. Another thing I had a little bit of troubles in was remembering the formulas. But I know them all now.

I will do better next term by, studying for tests more, doing more of the textbook work, commenting on blogs, making more blogs, and working really hard to understand the chapters if I don’t understand them.

What I learned about Percent, Surface Area, and Volume is how to do the work, and that those chapters can effect me in real life, because a lot of people use percent for finding out test scores. =media type="custom" key="8593542"=

Integers
On my Integers test I got a lot of questions wrong because I kept calculating wrong, and I would add when I was supposed to subtract, and i would subtract when I was supposed to add. here is an example of the wrong way........ 20: a) -10 + (-12) -9 = +22 - 9 = 13 The right way..... 20: a) -10 + (-12) -9 -22 - 9 = -31 [|My Great Big Book Of Integers]

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The Man Who Planted Trees
3. I can relate to the man who planted trees because at school we are doing a 2 Minutes To Make a Difference project to make a change in the world and to help other people out. When I was little one time when I went to Wal-mart there was this guy standing at the doors giving out baby pine trees, and I tried growing a couple and some of them died but I still have two of them left and they’ve gotten way bigger than when I first got them.

5. Well in the play “The Man Who Planted Trees” the Government Official thought that the forest was a natural grown one, he was thinking about the money and publicity. Then when WW2 came around they started cutting down trees to feed the charcoal burners. But when the dessert like place starts growing plants and wild life came to life in there, it went from basically nothing to having a population of over 10,000 the people who lived there was happy. Elzeard (they guy who planted all the trees) spend almost his whole life just planting trees, well others wanted to cut them down to get money and publicity. So the only limit that people and organizations have to being green is the limit they set for themselves.

6.When Jean first saw the start of the forest he was suprised mainly because he has been walking for a couple days and he’d ran out of water and Elezeard gives him some and lets him selp at his place. Then a couple years latter he is like shocked because the forest has grown so much. When the charcoal burners came to cut down trees to use as a fuel, I found that being selfish because Elezeard put a lot of effort ino growing them for the enviroinment and to make other people happy, then these people destroyed it for their own needs and wants. Elzeard Bouffier was thoughtful, genrous, and determined to make the forest as big as he could. He’d go outside day after day to plant trees, and he didn’t do it for himself, but for others and the enviroinment. When the Government Official saw the forest he was just thinking about the money he’d make, or the pubicity he’d get for claming that he was the first one do decovering the forest. The forest made the villagers happy because they got more water and wild life started coming there to live and their population went up to over 10,000.

10. The trees the Elzeard planted affected the climate at a local and global level because more wild life started showing up and the trees gave people fresh air. And also, it brought a community together.

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