Today we had a new lesson on Conics (Prononuced Cawnics). There are four types of Conics, Circle, Hyperbola, Ellipse, and Parabola. We learned all of the differences in each, and how to determine which graph willl come out of the conic equation. We played a a bit on graphmatica and on a site Mr Max found, actually leraned a bit today, and am quite proud of myself.

Yesterday, we learned a new unit called the Binomial Theorem. The first five equations he gave us all followed a pattern: *the sum of the exponents were equal to the power of the binomial
*Exponents of the first term in each begins with the same value as the power, and decreases by one in each term
*number of terms is one more than the power
*coefficients are combinations of the power number
Each one of the binomial expansions got bigger as their exponents got bigger, showing us pattern that relates closely to Pascal's triangle. After looking at the diagram i wasn't quite sure what it had to do with math, so i googled it, a useful site i found was this, http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.pascal.triangle.html

Today we made a real life experiment in the cafeteria, answering the question: If there are four people, how many different ways can you arrange them around a table. We found out quickly that there are only six ways, and that if you place one person in a permanent spot, and arrange everyone else around them you find you can only find six ways untily ou start to repeat seatings.

Today we had notes on Natural Logarithims, and we did many examples on this. Some examples were long answers, with more than one solutions, and some were simple, which could only be done by the use of calculators.

So, today i realized i have lost my computer privledges, but i am on the computer using blogger ONLY to talk about my math class. Mrs Peyton was doing a good job of keeping the class on task, and i caught up on some accelerated math. I did al the questions i could do on my own without help, and did a couple exercises, good day, minus the computer privledge part of it.

Change of base theorm.. hmm. It is not the hardest unit, actually i really like logarithims. I get how to do most things when i follow along, but when i look at a problem at home, by myself i dont always succeed. I think the full solutions booklet will help me in the future with this.

Today we had a lesson on Exponential functions. Some of the material was stuff we had already learned in grade ten pre calc, and the equations we had to solve using the exponent laws were quite easy. I have a better understanding of this, and have a good feeling about this unit coming up.