My Troubles in Math

12/17/2012

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         I am very good in math, but the most difficult thing for me to overcome was having so much trouble with negative integers. I always have trouble adding and subtracting negative integers. Just seeing them in equations sometimes make me feel so scared and I always end up missing 2 or 3 problems like that in our work. I only have a hard time with these integers when I add and subtract, but never when I multiply or divide. I think what is hard for me is going back into the negative, mostly because when you are dealing with positive integers  all you have to do is go right and the numbers will go higher or greater for example: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and so on. When you are working with negative integers everything seems to go backwards and that makes me confused. For example: -5, -4, -3, -2, -1, 0 and so forth. 
        Sometimes to help me do the equations I sometimes make a number line and figure it just in case I am not sure of the answer or I don't get it.  If I don't do that I usually pretend there is a little arrow pointing  to the left so that when I am doing  adding two negatives I know that it will go left and not right like in positive integers.
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New Project

12/10/2012

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For Algebra class we are doing another project. In this project we are suppose to use algebra to find an answer to s real life problem or in other words to find an equation to help you but things in a store much, much easier. The prop I chose was about the new iPad Minis. I have to find an equation on how much the iPad will cost depending on the GBs it has. Then I have to show it in a graph, in order to also find the equation but this time on a graph with only 2 given points. We also have to find the information to fill in a table using both the equation, your mind, and the graph
     I am almost done I have found the equation already. I was almost finished, but I decided to redo the graph and table so that they will look bigger. I also want to color them so that they look nice. That shall do.
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Square Roots

12/3/2012

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     I think that square roots are called that because of a square's area. When you find the area for a square you have to multiply the number times itself again. So then when you find the square root of a number you have to divide the number that is in the rectangle little box by the number that would have made it as if you were to square it. The root part is included because it is as if it were the root or original number of that given number. 
     I think it could be called the origin of square or squared original. I think this would work because when you do a square roots problem you are finding the number that is the origin or the first number to what it is now.Actually think about are you not trying to find the roots of the number , the number that made that other number's value? That is what I think.
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