Highway 10 Connexus

Grade 12 students in Manitoba learning Applied Math... They're in two different towns, and happen to be connected by Highway 10...They'll be learning with and from each other. Ryan Maksymchuk and Cam Bennet are teachers in Swan River and Dauphin, Manitoba, respectively. This is a bright idea that may encourage other teachers and students to consider collaborating with other learners in other places...It might work. It might not...Watch and see...

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Hey everybody, how ya'll doin?! It's Courtney here and today is February 18 and it is chilly outside, about -20 without the wind blowing. Sure beats -50 though right! Are the roads still pretty icey out there? Not going to lie, I was scared to even get into a vehicle for a while there.
We had fun in math class today learning about our new unit on tutorial 2.1 Matrix Operations on page 52 in our handy dandy applied 12 textbook!
A matrix is a rectangular array of numbers, known as the elements of the matrix. The array is enclosed within square brackets. Each element is a scalar in this unit.
The brackets are very important, so do not forget to put them in! Also, the row number always comes before the column number. This unit is mainly done on the graphic calculator, so it is probably a good idea to get out there and get one and remember to get four triple A batteries!
Mr.Bennet assigned homework on page 55 numbers 1,3,4,5,7,8! Holy Macaroni, you better get started you guys!
Well my time on here has come to an end, but I can promise you I will be back! Nice meeting you :)

Keep it real,
Courtney
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  1. NemoFebruary 18, 2009 at 3:01 PM

    Well you sure hit the matrix subject dead on. We've been doing matrices from the beginging of the semester, but yeah... you really want a calculator for this, doing it by hand sucks.

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  2. Ryan MaksymchukFebruary 18, 2009 at 9:15 PM

    Hello Courtney...Nice post.

    Everyone (well, maybe not everyone, just the mean kids (are you guys reading???)) here has been teasing me that 4 of the 5 posts so far have been authored by 'yours truly', so I for one am thrilled that you chose to put something up.

    I have no idea how this thing might work out, as I said at the top of the blog, but I'm genuinely pleased to 'meet' you, and I think you'll find (as I tell everyone who comes to be a substitute teacher in my classroom) that I'm lucky to teach the nicest students at the SVRSS. I'm always proud of their latest accomplishments, and I suspect that at the end of the semester and the standards test, we will all look back and say we learned something together.

    Sincerely, welcome to the blogosphere...extend the message to your classmates from me, and I look forward to hearing from more of them, and to see more from my students....

    Cheers,

    RM

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