Blog question
What’s the error? To find 80% of 130, a student setup the proportion 80/100 = 130/x. Explain the error.
The student should have setup the problem with x as the numerator and 130 as the denominator value. So the correct way to setup the problem is 80/100 = x/130. The solution is 104. I found this by multiplying 80 * 130 and then dividing by 100.
The Cocktail Party
In humanities today, we had our “Cocktail Party”. The 5 god/goddesses I learned about were:
Nut: goddess of the sky
Isis: goddess of home
Mut: goddess of heaven; mother of pharaohs
Amon: king of all gods
Anubis: god of cemeteries and mummies
The Wetmarket
For our Chinese homework over the break CFL2 (Chinese as a Foreign Language 2) students were supposed to go, with a partner from a CFL2 class, to a Shanghai wet market (fruit and vegetable market) and find out some more information about them. We are supposed to do one blog entry about our experience, and create a fruit and vegetable book to help our families in the future if they want to come to the market.
Going to the wet market was an interesting experience. This dark, smelly shop is not all of what it seems. As Oran and I pondered through the shop, interesting smells wafted past our noses, not all exactly good, but not exactly bad. We heard the slight buzz of customers talking, and of people chopping, sorting, and packaging fruits and veggies. All of the displays looked inviting, and as I learned later, all of the produce tasted great. There were tons of different types of vegetables and fruits, more than I could count. This isn’t an experience that you could get anywhere outside of China.:)
H2O House
My grade’s art project for the last month- was to create our dream house. We had to include at least 5 special features, and the color scheme had to be monochromatic. It also had to be in colored pencil. I chose to color my house blue. The insperation behind my dram house was water and pools. I really like swimming, so I chose to make many pools in my house, and that is also why I colored it blue. If I could build my dream house anywhere in the world, then I would probally build it in Hawaii, or in my snowy hometown in California.
“Ramose and the Tomb Robbers” acrostic poem
In class we have been reading the book “Ramose and the Tomb Robbers” about an Egyptian prince, forced to abandon the throne, and encounters many adventures during his quest to find his way back to the palace. We were asked to write an acrostic poem about the book by our humanities teacher on our blog. Here’s mine:
Running away from the palace, in fear of poisening Along with his tutor and nanny Making friends with Hapu, an apprentance scribe, and Karoya, a slave On the desert plains, at a tomb, he works as a apprentance scribe with Hapu Several months pass, but one day, the sky turns dark Everywhere along the desert, water surges through the sand as a huge wake hits
Though many died, Ramose and his friends survived Hence, they were forced to leave the grimy,destroyed tomb, and go to work on another site Thebes Everybody left the rundown site, even the cooks cat, following along closly to Karoya
Finding their way along the desert, over hills, searching for the Nile Under the stars they sleep, for the next morning, they will be of on an adventure To see his ill father, ramose decides to leave the group and take a different boat to Memphis Until his friends caught him, Ramose was determind to sneak off alone Ready to leave, his friends woke up and wanted to go with him Everybody left to the new tomb site, while the three-some secrectly sneaked off on a different boat
Paying
Paying a fare to go on a boat, all three kids were satisfied Having been asked to pay more boat fare, they left in search for another boat Along with them on the new boat, tomb robbers captured Ramose Ramose is forced to search through old pharohs tombs and finds many treasures After being kidnapped for 24 hours, Ramose finds Hapu and they are both forced to search Out of the open and under the ground, Ramose and Hapu see one of the tomb robbers fall to his death, and are trapped underground Helped by Karoya’s new cat, the boys escape the tomb robbers and find Karoya, still determined to find Ramose’s father !
Swim Meet
A few days ago, I went to hong kong for my first ever travel meet !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was so much fun and I got some new times. I still can’t belive it!
My Godess: Hathor
In humanities we have been learning a lot about ancient Egypt. In the last few days, we have been learning about ancient Egyptian gods/goddesses. Our teachers told us that we would have to randomly pick a god and write a few fact about him/her on our blogs. Then, in a few days, our classes will get together and have a “coctial party” , where we will try to dress up as our god, and tell facts about him/her. The goddess that I got is :
Hathor
God/Goddess of: love
Responsibilities include: protecting various people, including the pharoh. She sometimes was called the “Mother of Pharohs”.
Symbol: Hathor’s symbology included such items as sistra ( type of rattle), the horns-and-sundisk headdress , the menat (a type of ritual necklace that may have been used for percussive music), and mirrors.
Appearance: In earlier periods she was most often seen as a full cow with the sundisk between her horns or as a slender woman wearing the horns-and-a-sundisk headdress . She was also shown as a hippopotamus, a falcon, a cobra, or a lioness, however these were not as frequent as the woman or the cow. While there are some pictures of Hathor as a woman with a cow’s head, this is mainly found only in the later periods.
Related Mythology: The Greeks called Hathor by the name of their goddess, aphrotite. In the very late stages of Egyptian religion (over two millennia after Hathor had first appeared) she became almost totally absorbed into Isis (who acquired, aside from Hathor’s headdress, the sistrum as well), resulting in frequent mistaken identity between the two. There are, however, subtle differences. When Isis is shown with the horns she is also (usually) shown with either the vulture headdress (which was associated with Mut, a goddess of Thebes), winged, or wearing a multi-colored feathered dress. There are of course exceptions (such as in the tomb of Horemheb), in which case knowledge of hieroglyphs is necessary to discern which goddess is which.
Math Question
why is the ratio 2:5 different than 5:2???
The ratio 2:5 is equivalent to the fraction 2/5. The ratio 5:2 is equivalent to the fraction 5/2. The fraction 2/5 is more than 4 times smaller than the fraction 5/2.
Math Question Green Book #24,#28
24. The rectangle and the parallelogram at the right have the same perimeter. Why is the area of the rectangle greater than the area of the parallelogram?
The parallelogram depends on its base and height. The rectangle is base and height are bigger, so that means that it area will be bigger.
28. a. copy and complete the table by finding the perimeter and area of each rectangle:
l W P A
3 in 1 in. 8 in. 3 sq in.
6 in. 2 in. 16 in. 12 sq in.
9 in. 3 in. 24 in. 27 sq in.
12 in. 4 in. 32 in. 48 sq in.
b) What happens to the perimeter of a rectangle when you double, triple, or quadruple the dimensions?
When you double, triple, or quadruple the dimensions of a rectangle, the primeter will also double, triple, quadruple.
c)What happens to the area of a rectangle when you double, triple, or quadruple the dimensions?
when we double, triple, and quadruple the dimensions of a rectangle, the area increases by an exponent of 2 [ie: double the increse is 2 sq. or 2.2, triple the increase is 3 sq. or 3.3].
”Why do we have a need for negative numbers?”
We need them because, if we didn’t have them, then we wouldn’t be able to express numbers below zero. I f we didn’t have them how would we show temperature below zero, credit card bills, and more?
