Building Quadrilaterals

Quadrilateral Rule  

If you add the 3 smallest sides of a quadrilateral, the sum must be BIGGER than the longest side. 

Basket Ball Reflection

The videos above show us doing well on our accompanying and evading, by showing our dribbling skills and the motive to catch the ball whether you were a defender or attacker. I think something our group needs to work on is going/finding an open space so it's easier to catch the ball. I think another thing that we, as a team need to work on is that we travel too much. We could also work on faking the ball. Overall, I think we did a pretty good job.

Google Science Fair Vlog

Mathematical Reflection 1

Recently, in math we've been developing our understanding of polygons and angles. Now we've finished that unit, so I'm here to reflect on my learning through the lessons and questions. One major thing we talked about was the answer to this question, (1) "what are the common properties of all polygons." We were reminded several times, and constantly came up with the answer of, "all polygons must have closed sides, there may not be any intersecting lines, there also may not be any curved lines, meaning all sides are straight."
(2) "What are the measure in degrees tell you about an angle?" The measure in degrees tell us how big or how small the angle is supposed to be. It can also tell you whether the angle is obtuse, acute, or right. "What are some common benchmark angles?" Some of the more commonly used benchmark angles are, 45°, 90°(a right angle),180°, 270°, and 360°.
(3) "What strategies can be used to estimate angle measures?" One strategy someone could use to estimate angle measures, is to use benchmark fractions, you could use them by asking yourself, "is this angle greater than or less than 90°?"
"What strategies can be used to deduce angle measures from given information?" If you are trying to find the total angle sum, you just have to multiply the size of the angles with the number of sides the shape has. Just remember that the greater the angles in the shape is, means that there are more sides. But if you wanted to find the size of the angle without actually using a protractor to measure it, then you can divide the total angle sum with the number of sides. Continuing on with that, if you wanted to find out the number of sides of a shape, you could divide the sum of the angles with the size of the angle.
The last question is, "what strategies can be used to find accurate measurements with tools." Well, the tools you can use to find accurate measurements is either a protractor or a angle ruler. Usually, a protractor has two sets of numbers on them, so pay attention to your measurements, keep on thinking, "is this angle greater than or less than 90°."

This picture of a protractor, was taken from Creative Commons.

These are a few of the types of angles, also taken from Creative Commons. 

What Hope is There For Me?

When I think of who I am, I constantly think about how hope, can help me change. This identity unit, helped me realise what strengths I had, and what I still had to work on to be the person I want to be. One strength I think I have, is that I'm hard working. I work hard to earn good grades, I work hard to make my work the quality, I expect it to be and what the teacher expects it to be. Another strength I have is that I'm thoughtful, not only am I thoughtful with my school work, but I'm also very thoughtful with my friends. Being hard working, can bring me an advantage, and it could help me a lot in the future. Using my hard work could bring me success, with good grades, leading to good colleges, which could lead to good jobs and a bright future. I can use thoughtfulness as an advantage, because the more thought you put into making time to make friends, and to keep them happy and cheerful, will make you happy knowing that they know you care and that you take time to think about how they feel all the time.

How do I want to change? That's a pretty tough question, but I think one thing that I want to change about myself is my confidence. Don't think I carry a lot of confidence, cause you're wrong, I'm a pretty shy person and my confidence level is quite low. So definitely something I would change about myself is to be more confident. Sometimes, I'm not sure how I could actually help me become more confident, but there are a lot of things that could help me, that I would like to use in the future. One of those things, is to maybe try something new, maybe trying a new sport or an activity could help my confidence level. Another thing I could do, is I could practice until I get the hang of what I'm doing so my confidence about that thing is higher, kind of like doing a presentation. The last thing I could think of the help me change would be to think about how confident people find their source of confidence, and maybe those tips would help me improve.

What this whole post, really is about, is what hope there is for me as a person, with my identity. Thinking of hope, it makes me wonder what hope there truly is for me. I always wonder if the hope I have will turn out right, or wrong. But one hope I have for the future that would hopefully improve my identity is to be the person I want to be, not the person that other people want me to be. I hope that I can become the confident person, the one who isn't scared of doing things, the person who is nice to everyone no matter who you are. I hope that my personality improves, but doesn't change. As, said before, there's could be a lot of hope out there for me.

TCK

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