Task description: This week during Maths, we are learning to work out the probability something will happen. We had to interpret and draw conclusions from the data presented in graphs. After that we completed the task, we posted it on our blog. I enjoyed this task very much, and I hope to do more like this soon. Hope you enjoyed. Please leave a comment; thank you for visiting my blog.
Home learning – Nicki Minaj
A hero is someone who creates their own path, someone who isn’t afraid to separate themselves from society. Nicki Minaj fits that description perfectly. Some people don’t view her as a hero, but to a lot of people she’s a role model and an inspiration. She revolutionised women in the hip-hop/rap music industry, so much so that critics state, “She’s one of the best rappers of all time.” Minaj is also the first solo female artist to have seven singles on Billboard’s top 100 at the same time, also she is the only female rapper to be featured on Forbes Hip-Hop Cash Kings list. She has been awarded the best Female Hip-Hop artist at the 2010 BET Awards.
Onika Tanya Maraj, Nicki’s birth name, came from a hard life in Queens, New York. Her father was a drug addict and a heavy drinker, at one point he tried to kill her mother by burning the house down. Once she was old enough, she started working. She got fired from fifteen different jobs because of her standing up for what she believed in. Her last job before she was discovered at 19 was at Red Lobster. Imagine that, someone going from working at Red Lobster to going on tours with other celebrities.
It was a tough road for Minaj even when she realised she had the talent to be a star. At first she wanted to be on Broadway, but was eventually turned down, and attended a performing arts school. Then she found a passion for the music industry, particularly rap. She tried but was told ‘no’ a lot. She kept on trying though, she said at one point that she always had a female empowerment drive which led her to want to become successful so she could help her mom out. Her first record label was with the Dirty Money label. Nicki Minaj made a series of mix tapes with the label but it just didn’t work. Lil Wayne, another current rapper, heard her mixtapes and wanted to sign her. Nicki signed to Young Money Cash Money Entertainment label, which happens to be her current label.
Nicki Minaj inspires a lot of people. She carved her own path for her life, not listening to what other people were saying about her not being able to “make it big.” She went into the music industry not as a singer but as a female rapper, which is almost unheard of. She might not be a person whose actions I want to copy, but her determination and motivation is something I really admire. She pushes herself everyday to be better and to try harder. In a world where a lot of people don’t go after what they are after because they are scared, or being bullied, or people are telling them no you’ll never be able to do that, we could use more people like her.
Your definition of a hero may be different than mine but one heroic quality that I find important is leadership to pursue their dream and to just enjoy life and be happy with who they are. She is a true leader and a hero, and Nicki Minaj has proven herself to be an inspiration to all mankind. She has inspired many people. Nicki Minaj will be remembered for a long, long time.
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Instructions: Write about someone who inspires you, write about how they inspire you. Is it a family member, sports star, author, actor?
Other graphs!
Task description: This week during Maths, we are learning to interpret the information presented within graphs. After that we completed the task, we posted it on our blog. I enjoyed this task very much, and I hope to do more like this soon. Hope you enjoyed. Please leave a comment; thank you for visiting my blog.
Graphy Graphs
Task description: This week during Maths, we are learning to communicate findings using appropriate displays. After that we completed the task, we posted it on our blog. I enjoyed this task very much, and I hope to do more like this soon. Hope you enjoyed. Please leave a comment; thank you for visiting my blog.
Riveting Revision
Riveting Revision
WALT: revise our learning and apply our skills in a range of concepts – We are revising our previous learning!
5 ^2 = 25
6 ^3= 216
√25 = 5
√81= 9
√64 = 8
What is 0.15 x 10? 1.5
What is 1000 x 10? 10000
What is 1 ÷ 10? 0.1
What is 1 ÷ 100? 0.01
0.2 ÷ 10 = 0.02
How many 10s are in 231? There is 23 10s in 231
How many thousands are in 1345? There is only 1 thousand in 1345
How many hundreds in 2354? There are 23 hundreds in 2354
How many mm are in a cm? 10 millimetres
How many cm are in a m? 100 centimetres
How many g are in a kg? 1000 grams
How many ml are in a L? 1000 ml
145mm + 5 cm = 195 millimetres
155 mm + 1.5 cm = 170 millimetres
1km + 550m= 1.55 kilometres
Which of these are the largest?
11 230 mm
1095 cm
108.9 m
0.1km
Shape Revision & Perimeter Revision & Area and Volume Revision:
What are the properties of a triangle? The properties of a triangle are: A triangle has three sides, three angles, and three vertices.
What do the angles of a triangle add up to? The sum of the three angles of any triangle is equal to 180 degrees.
What is the area of this shape? Its height is 7cm and its base is 5cm. The area of this shape is 17.5
What are the properties of a cube? It is a three-dimensional, square-shaped figure, and it has 6 faces, 12 edges, and 8 vertices.
Its sides are 12cm long. What is its volume? The volume of a Cube is 1728 because V=a3=123=1728
Each side of a square is 5cm long. What is its perimeter? What is its area? The perimeter of a square is 20, this is because P=4a=4·5=20. The area of a square is 25, this is because A=a2=52=25.
The radius is 5. What is the area of the circle? The area of a circle is 78.54, this is because A=πr2=π·52≈78.53982.
Fun Maths:
2875 – 1967 = 908
90+89+75+ 84 = 338
?- 450 = 962 (? = 1412)
47.03 + 1.97 = 49
55 – 45.5 = 9.5
1.34 + 4.34 = 5.68
_ – 55 = 92 ( _ = 37 )
-2 + – 3 = -5
1 – 5 = -4
T x 2 = 20
T x 5= 50
7 x B = 65
2 x B = 18
0.5 = %50
25% = 0.25
¼ = %25
Write 70/100 as a percentage
70%
Write 40/200 as a percentage
20%
What is 15 percent of 300?
15 percent of 300 = 45
½ + ⅙ = ⅔
⅓ + 1/ 6 = 1/2
⅕ + ¼ = 9/20
What is a number in between 2/10 and ½? 0.3
Put the following in order from smallest to biggest:
0.1, 0.07, 0.21, 0.3, 0.076
This is the order it should be in: 0.076, 0.07, 0.21, 0.3, 0.1
Allen wants to use the computer for one hour at an internet cafe – which is the cheapest rate?
- 16 cents a minute
- $5.60 an hour
- $2.30 per 20 minutes
- 50 cents per 5 minutes
- $3.60 per 30 minutes
If 6 packets of lollies cost the same as 4 cookies, how many packets of lollies would cost the same as 10 cookies? 15 packets of lollies would cost the same as 10 cookies.
2 cookies = 3 packets lollies
8 cookies = 12 packets lollies
10 cookies = 15 packets lollies
5, 5, 6, 4, 5, 6, 7, 5
What is the range of these numbers? 3
What is the average of these numbers? 5.37 (2dp)
What is the median of these numbers? 5 & 5 = 4, 5, 5, 5, 5, 6, 6, 7
What is the mode of these numbers? 5
What is the probability that a dice will land on a six? 1% chance of landing on 6 out of 6%
What is the probability that a coin will land on heads? 50% chance of landing on hands out of 100%
I want to know whether there are more boys or girls in year eight at PES. Can I figure this out by looking at the year eights in room 4? How would I work this out? You could figure this out by doing a statistical Inquiry and making a graph to work out and find your data.
Interpreting graphs: To interpret a graph or chart, read the title, look at the key, read the labels. Then study the graph to understand what it shows. Read the title of the graph or chart. The title tells what information is being displayed.
How can you interpret this graph? The changing slope of the line segments emphasises changes, trends, and patterns. For a single series of data, assess the changes in the line to identify trends and patterns. When you have multiple metrics, compare their lines to determine whether they have the same trend and patterns.
How can you interpret this graph? Each bar represents a summary value for one discrete level, where longer bars indicate higher values. Types of summary values include counts, sums, means, and standard deviations. Bar charts are also known as bar graphs. Bar charts highlight differences between categories or other discrete data.
How can you interpret this graph? The closer the data points come to forming a straight line when plotted, the higher the correlation between the two variables, or the stronger the relationship. If the data points make a straight line going from near the origin out to high y-values, the variables are said to have a positive correlation.
Jill will have to wait 15 minutes until she can get the next train because there is 15 minutes until Train 4 leaves the station at 15:52
Bob gets to Church Street at 08.15, what train should he catch? Bob will have to wait 4 minutes until he can get the next train because there is 4 minutes until Train 2 leaves the station at 08:19
The x coordinate of the yellow pentagon it 6,6
What is the coordinate of the heart? The coordinate of the heart is 5,1
The square moves 2 places right and one place up. What is its new coordinate? The new coordinate of the square is 3,4
The triangle is reflected across line y = 7 . What is the location of the reflection? I think the coordinate of the triangle is 9,7
What is the rule for this pattern? The pattern is 2
What would the next two numbers in the pattern be? 9 and 11
What would the 100th number be? The 100th number in this pattern would be 201 – as I have worked out above.
Estimate the size of angle a = 45
Estimate the size of angle b = 135
What do the interior angles of a triangle add up to? The interior angles of a triangle add up to or sum to 180°.
Task description: This week during Maths, we are revising past learning, we had to learn identify our strengths and gaps. Most of this week was revising our learning and applying our skills in a range of concepts. After that we completed the task, we posted it on our blog. I enjoyed this task very much, and I hope to do more like this soon. Hope you enjoyed. Please leave a comment; thank you for visiting my blog. <3
PAT Test Prep – Y8
Task description: This week during Maths, we are revising past learning, we had to learn identify my strengths and gaps. After that we completed the task, we posted it on our blog. I enjoyed this task very much, and I hope to do more like this soon. Hope you enjoyed. Please leave a comment; thank you for visiting my blog.
My Halloween Special – By: Zaria
It was the night before Halloween and I was so excited about Halloween. We had our school party that day and I was going to wear my costume at home. My mom told me to go and change so I could play with my sisters and we were playing a bad game.
The game was that we were running around the house and locking the doors so other siblings wouldn’t come in, so I was running towards my front door (which had a glass window). As I was running, I looked back and saw my sister Lilly chasing me then it all went black.
The next thing I remembered…my arm was through the glass, my sister, Summer was on the other side of the door and her face was white and my mom was looking at me and her face was even whiter.
Lilly and Summer were screaming. My aunt lived down the street from us and heard Lilly and Summer screaming and came running with my cousin Chelsea. Meanwhile, my mom ran to grab a towel and ran to me because my arm was gushing blood.
While she was getting a towel, everything was in such slow motion. It felt like forever for my mom to get to me. She finally did and my aunt and cousin were there trying to help and my mom rushed me to stop the blood from going everywhere.
The blood didn’t gush in a constant flow, but in time with the beating of my heart. At first it came thick and strong, flowing through his fingers as they clasped the ripped flesh.
I felt the blood move over my hand, the thick fluid no warmer or cooler than my own skin. After a few moments more the blood was still leaving my rapidly paling flesh, but the pulses were slower, weaker.
The shards of glass were sharp enough to cut flesh as if it posed no resistance. At once a fountain of red came from the wound, the ebb and flow in time with a terrified heart, killing the girl, me, all the faster.
I layed watching as if I could not hear myself screams of pain, as if it were a silent theatre production of no importance. I never moved at all until my mark was bled out, my red blood mingled with the ground and taking on an earthy hue.
After that I think I passed out because everything went black. A couple minutes later I woke up on a camping ground I went to when I was younger. Going camping is one of my favourite childhood memories.
My family and I go camping all over the state of Michigan and it is so exciting and fun! We have gone to places like Lexington State Park, Fisherman’s island State Park, etc and we even go close to home, like Yankee Springs state park.
We go there in the summer but mostly over the Halloween weekend with all the activities and the trick or treating and our friends come with us and it’s such a great time. While camping we always ride our bikes and play games and swim and laugh and it is such a rad family experience.
Camping has influenced my life because it is a fun family time and I get to be outside and hike and bike ride and swim and play in four squares. It’s just so fun with my family, and since my friends are there it’s much more fun!
Suddenly, i-I woke up?…I woke up with flashing lights in my eyes in a really bright room, with white walls. I was so confused!?! I didn’t know where I was, but I could hear my mothers voice.
It was a bit hard to work out what she was saying because it was very muffled, but I succeeded in figuring out that she was talking to someone. A doctor, the person’s voice was deep so I thought it was a man. He told my mom that I’m going to be in a coma…FOR 12 YEARS!
I started freaking out! I’m going to miss graduation! I’m going to miss school! I’ll miss my birthday, christmas, easter, halloween, and all of the fun things at school, like hanging out with my friends! I was having a whole panic attack. Then it hit me, and I became confused once again!
Why could I hear them if I was in a coma? Because in school we were learning about how people who fall into a coma can’t hear the people around them. I remember a fact that I read online saying “During a coma, the individual is unconscious, meaning they are unable to respond to any sounds.”
I also recall writing in my four facts that, “When a person is in a coma, the person’s eyes will be closed and they’ll appear to be unresponsive to their environment. They won’t normally respond to sound or pain, or be able to communicate or move voluntarily, and basic reflexes, such as coughing and swallowing, will be greatly reduced.”
So why could I? Yet, I was freaking out! Deep inside, a little part of me felt very happy I could still hear. Because if I’m going to be in a coma for 12 year, what am I going to do, so might as well listen to all the tea and gossip so when I wake up I won’t be totally disorientated.
Instantaneously, I could hear my mom clearly, she was crying her heart out! As if her soul could bleed an ocean through her eyes, that was the enormity of her sobbing. Then my mom started saying –
“A life of higher joys is a life with more tears of all kinds. Every blessing is a curse. Only by accepting the curse in full measure can you receive the blessing in full measure. I love you. If I ever lose you, I will be destroyed. You are my greatest blessing.”
After that, the doctor told someone to get her a cup of water and then I could hear the doctor telling my mom to sit in a chair and drink some water because it will help calm her down. As the footsteps became louder and louder, as if they were coming closer and closer, but then the footsteps stopped and faded again.
Soon after, I heard the doctor saying “Coma is a state of prolonged unconsciousness that can be caused by a variety of problems, traumatic head injury, stroke, brain tumour, drug or alcohol intoxication, or even an underlying illness, such as diabetes or an infection,” to someone.
Then the other person asked “which one should I put it under?” The doctor answered “an infection in her hands because of the shards glass stuck in her skin. Umm, Caleb, can you get me the paper in 30 minutes, thank you.” and that’s where I found out that the other person’s name was caleb.
My life went on like that for 12 whole years – hear people talking about things they don’t want other people to know about. But I was okay because my mom came to visit me every weekend because she had work on the weekdays. But then one day she came to visit me like normally, but I heard someone with her?
I knew mom and dad had broken up when I was born about maybe they got back together. But then my mom said “you can talk to her love.” “Okay” responded the other person in a deep voice, that wasn’t my dad. Maybe mom found happiness once again!
That same day when mom was about to leave, I grabbed her hand, and she started crying again and the man ran to get help. My mom stayed with me the whole time. The doctor checked me out to make sure it was okay for me to go home now. After 12 years.
I was happy and looked so much older and different. After James, my mom’s lover, signed all of the papers with my mom, we got in the car and went home. As we pulled up to the house my mom told me that we had moved houses because your sisters are older, and now that James is living with us, we needed a bigger house.
And this is where the biggest story of my life comes to an end. After asking my doctor I went back to school, finished my studies and got a job to pay for an apartment closer to where I worked.
My life now is on a good path and I have made a family of my own now, and I have 2 sons that are twins, named Caleb and Klaus, and most of all I’m happy! ;P I have a loving husband that treats me like a queen, as he should.
And I get along with my step dad and my mom is very caring and supportive of me going back to school. And I visit my sisters at their homes and they are also doing very well in life as well, and I’m happy for them!
Statistical Inquiry – Sleeping Lions!
Task description: This week during Maths, we are learning to pose a problem for our statistical inquiry. We had to describe the importance of getting enough sleep. Listing the positives and negatives, and pose a question related to hours of sleep and another variable, beginning to plan a statistical inquiry. After that we completed the task, we posted it on our blog. I enjoyed this task very much, and I hope to do more like this soon. Hope you enjoyed. Please leave a comment; thank you for visiting my blog.
Conclusions – Statistical Investigations
Task description: This week during Maths, we are learning to interpret graphs. We had to critique the information in a graph, and identify the mean, median, mode and range from a graph. After that we completed the task, we posted it on our blog. I enjoyed this task very much, and I hope to do more like this soon. Hope you enjoyed. Please leave a comment; thank you for visiting my blog.
My Scary Stories
There is nothing I love more than scary stories. If you know me then you would know how much I love telling creepy tales, especially during a sleepover with my friends. What I enjoyed the most were the short collections that I collected online as a kid, and I thought it might be fun to share some of the stories I wrote with everyone. Until this day, whenever I tell these stories it never fails to impress so here they are, five of some of my favourite short scary stories I wrote! I hope you like them and please leave a comment, and thank you for checking out my blog. ;P
The Cabin
A hiker decided to go on a hike by himself. Something he was not very used to. The whole day was normal. Trees and bushes engulfed his surroundings. He enjoyed being outdoors in the mountains. Nothing seemed strange to him, that was until he was making his way back to his car.
He figured an eight hour hike was good enough. The sky was already getting dark and he needed to get back, fast. What was odd was how much he didn’t recognize the trail back. He began to panic.
Night had already taken over and all he had was a flashlight and no clue on how to get back. He knew it was already too late and too dangerous to keep going through the perilous forest.
He began to worry that he would have no shelter for the night when almost luckily enough, he stumbled across a broken-down cabin. It was dark, and seemed like no one had visited it in years, but he knew it was the only place where he could rest until daylight, especially since his flashlight was running out of battery.
He knocked on the door a few times but no one answered, so he let himself in where strangely enough, a perfect bed fitted for one person awaited him in the center. He knew that if the owner came back he could explain himself, he was sure that the owner wouldn’t mind, or was even probably dead.
So he went ahead and got himself comfortable in bed. As he tried to sleep, he couldn’t ignore the collection of paintings around the room; portraits of strange looking people all peering at him, each wearing a smile that sent chills up his spine.
Not too long after his exhaustion from the hike got the best of him and he was able to ignore the faces. The next morning he got up early and was shocked to see that there were no paintings around the room, but windows…
The Red Wristband
A doctor was working at a hospital, a hospital where the patients were tagged with coloured bands. Green: alive. Red: deceased.
One night, the doctor was instructed to get a few supplies from the basement of the hospital, and so he headed to the lift. The lift doors opened and there was a patient inside, minding her own business. Patients were allowed to roam around the hospital to stretch, especially those who have stayed long. The rule was to be back in their rooms before ten.
The doctor smiled at the patient before pressing the number for the basement. He found it unusual that the woman didn’t have a button already pressed. He wondered if she was heading to the basement too.
The lift finally reached the floor where the doors opened. In the distance a man was limping towards the elevator, and in a panic the doctor slammed the elevator button to close. It finally did and the lift began to ascend back up, the doctor’s heart pounding.
“Why did you do that? He was trying to use the lift.” The woman stated, annoyed.
“Did you see his wrist?” The doctor asked, “It was red. He died last night. I would know because I did his surgery.”
The woman lifted her wrist. He saw red. She smiled. “Like this one?”
White with RED
A man just moved into an apartment and heads to the receptionist to get his keys. The receptionist gave him the key with a smile but warns him not to disturb the door with no number on his floor. He wondered why but didn’t bother to ask, he was too busy with his new apartment to care. After he finished unpacking he began to get curious. He questioned why the receptionist would warn him of such things, and so he stepped out of his apartment to check the door with no number.
He tried the door knob first but it was locked, so instead he got onto his knees and peeked through the keyhole. The apartment he was looking into was empty. His eyes scanned the whole place before stopping at a woman, standing face against a wall, in the corner. He noticed her pale skin and long black hair before stepping back, suddenly feeling perverted in a way for invading someone else’s privacy. He brushed it off, assuming she was someone that did not want to be disturbed.
The next day he got more curious about the woman and eventually went back, straight away getting onto his knees. He peeked through the keyhole and saw all red. Red. He assumed that the pale woman must have caught him peeking the last time and covered the hole with something red.
He left the door alone and instead went down to the receptionist to ask her questions. The receptionist sighed and asked, “you looked through the keyhole, didn’t you?”
He admitted to it and so she felt obliged to tell him the story. She told him that a couple used to live in that apartment a long time ago, but the husband went crazy and killed his wife. However, this couple wasn’t normal.
They had pale skin, black hair and red eyes.