Thursday, March 10, 2011

Who was Hypatia of Alexandria?

Hypatia of Alexandria was born (AD) around 370 and she died in March 415. Hypatia of Alexandra was from Alexandria, Egypt. Her father was a philosopher and methemactician, Theon Alexandricus. She grew under his wing and she learned much about math and philosophy. Hypatia of Alexandris was the first female mathematicians in history (AD). She invented the hydrometer which I am sure is still used around this time or maybe even more advanced. I believe hydrometer's are used in thermometer or needles to measure the amount of something.

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Fibonacci in Nature

To be as honest, I didn't find him so interesting. I know he's famous and his work is really helpfull to others and myself of course. But I just didn't find him so interesting to read about. His examples using nature and such is a great way or explaning math in a way and I can totally see where he comes from. I have seen his questions im sure in past math classes of my old schools and most likely on previous test.

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Hot Math

- What visual images do you see while and/or after listening to the track?
While listening to the track I couldn't help but to imagine, the old times. To be honest, I imagined indians dancing or something having to do with indians because of the way the rythm was.
-What emotions do you associate with what you hear?
My emotions that I seemed to associate while hearing the song was confused because I wanted to learn why is the song called 'Hot Math' and or how would people dance this or move to this song.
-Are both the visual images and emotions related to math? Why or why not?
The visual images and emotions are kind of related to math because people may be imagining things for when they hear the word math & want to learn. They also have feelings towards math, they could either hate it, enjoy it or be confused by it and learn how to understand it.

Monday, February 7, 2011

Wonderlic Test

  • Do you think the Wonderlic test is a good indicator of NFL success?   

    I scored a 27.5 on the Wonderlic Test in a matter of 12 minutes. Honestly, I don't think this is a good indicator of NFL success. My opinion is stated because I automaticly know some of the answer's to these questions and the adults on the NFL are supposed to be smarter. I think they should be taught a harder way and a mixture of subjects in the Wonderlic Test. I thought this Wonderlic Test would be more challenging and harder for me, but in 12 minutes I got through some questions. 27.5 out of I'm not sure if it's a good thing or not but, the Wonderlic Test should be more challenging for the NFL success and such. :)

    Friday, January 21, 2011

    Ten Algebraic Commandments

    • Which "commandment" or "commandments" have you "broken"?
      I've broken commandment six. It said I had to switch the operation for my final answer. When doing those problems i always forget to do that and so i get the wrong answer which has effected my grade in math at times.
    • What are you doing to "keep" these "commandments"?
      To be able to keep these commandments I'm going to have to remind myself to switch the operation to get the correct answer in the end to the variable.
    • What is your overall thought of the video?
      My overall thought of the video was, to be honest, it was kind of boring because of the music tempo in the back and the words just coming out of no where. But I kind of don't believe in the Ten Algebraic Commandments because there are so many ways to do math, there should be way more than Ten Algebraic Commandments.

    Thursday, January 13, 2011

    Mathematics Seen in Photo B

    The mathematics I see in Photo B is where a lot of people are in a mall. Obvisouly shopping, while shopping you tend to buy things which include money. Money is math. You have to keep track on what your spending and if what your spending is good. Also while your shopping, there can be a sale in a store. When you spend, you have to see how much you save in the sale between the original price and the sale price. Many people can spend hundreds of dollars on clothing, on tech stores, on about anything in malls. Another math related I see in Photo B is how much it took to build the mall and how much electricity/light the mall has to pay off, that is a lot of money's worth ! (: