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'There is no place like home' by: Priscilla Mendez (click here to see he entire blog)
There is no place like home. Home to you is different to everybody else. My new home is Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. This is no ordinary high school. To it's staff and it's student body this is what we call home. Our family here at Booker T. has been through so much all together. As we said good-bye to our old building and what we knew as home, we were brought to a complete and totally different world at Nolan Estes. Now we are welcomed back into the arts district here in Dallas, and proud to be back. I did not get to experience the many memories in the old building but, was luckey to experience the creative good-byes.

DATA: Section 2-5

What are Scatter plots? Hmmm…

by: Codi Fant! (Click here for Codi's blog)

Scatter plots display dots representing a collection of data. These scatter plots determine if the data given is a positive or negative correlation or if it even has one at all. The purposes of these are to determine and examine the relationships between the variables. Each dot represents a single unit of data entered. The more dots entered the easier it is to see trends and patterns of the entered information.

Scatter plots are statistics applied to mathematics or the arts. Statistics are the representation of data.

Notes/Steps on scatter plots and graphing-

Push these buttons in order for scatter plot graphing/Section 2-5:

STAT (arrow) 1:EDIT - info – L1, L2 - Y= - PLOT1

Move arrow to highlight

Clear anything in Y=

ZOOM - 9:ZOOM - STAT – ENTER

Find equation

STAT (arrow) Cal - 4: Lin Reg (ax=b)

“Lin Reg (ax=b) L1(push: 2^nd +1), L2(2^nd+2), Y(Vars) (arrow) yVars – 1:Functon – ENTER

2^nd+ graph – Y= - 2^nd + Window – 2^nd + graph

Scatter Plot Magic

by: Maisie O'Brien (Click here for Maisie's Blog)

In our most recent Algebra class, we learned about data points, linear correlation and standard deviation/the distance between the points and the actual slope of the line.
Discovering the line in relation to your data (done on your trusty graphing calculator) is highly useful for discerning whether your data makes any sense and allows you to confirm trends. If the data points are all directly on the line, you know that you have a consistancy in whatever you are observing. If the data points gather around the general direction of your line, then that's o.k. too. Concern should only occur when you get sporadic points all over your graph-which indicates that you are recording very random things.

We also learned about Integral Theory, where the shape, color, size etc. represent different characteristics of each point such as the ethnicity or wealth of a country.
Ms. J showed us an interesting video about how to not make data boring : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVimVzgtD6w

ALG II PreAP /1st Six Wks /Assignments

Section 1-1 Study-Guide work sheet
Section 1-4 Text Book pg.30/#15-32 all
Quiz- Section 1-4
Section 1-3 Text Book pg.23-24/#31-40 all & #50-57 all
Section 2-7 Text Book pg.104/#10-21 all
Quiz- Section 2-7
Section 2-1 Text Book pg.62/#1-22 all
Quiz-Section 2-1
Section 2-5 Text Book pg.88,89/#1-4 all

TEST - Sections: 1-3, 1-4, 2-1, 2-5, 2-7, 3-1

ALG II PreAP

Welcome to Algebra II PreAP!
This course will make math come alive with its many intriguing examples of algebra in the world around you.

Assignments/ begin 8-24-09 and end 9-15-09:
Section 1-1 Study-Guide work sheet
Section 1-4 Text Book pg.30/#15-32 all
Quiz- Section 1-4
Section 1-3 Text Book pg.23-24/#31-40 all & #50-57 all
Section 2-7 Text Book pg.104/#10-21 all
Quiz- Section 2-7
Section 2-1 Text Book pg.62/#1-22 all
Quiz-Section2-1

Kiera loves Math and Poetry!

Kiera Williams said...
I really believe that Sarah Glaz and JoAnne Growney are a magnificient duo. I love math and i write poetry as well, but i never thought of combining the two. I'm speechless, it's just unbelieveable. I've been inspired to try some for my myself. I thank the first person who began this series of poetry ,for thinking outside the box. It's sad to say, but thinking outside the box these days seem to have been thrown to the dogs.
Inspired,Kiera Williams

Mathematics and love coupled in professor's book of poetry
In a poem from “Five Poems about Zero,”
Eryk Salvaggio writes about losing love:
Zero is a numberof yearning.
In your absence,I have nothing.
But it’s mine.
“Sacrifice and Bliss,” a poem by Kaz Maslanka, is in the form of a mathematical equation. “
The equation-poem involves the mathematical notion of a limit,” Glaz explains.
“It can be ‘translated’ into words by saying that the relation between ego and love in a relationship is inversely proportional.
As egos approach zero,
love grows to infinity.”

Glaz says the book also contains a few “humorous, geeky” poems.
Katharine O’Brien writes in her poem “Valentine”:

You disintegrate my differential,
you dislocate my focus.
My pulse goes up like an exponential
whenever you cross my locus.

Glaz, who wrote a poem called “Calculus,” says her poem is about the passionate, early history of calculus.
“It’s something I tell my students when I teach them calculus – the story of Newton versus Leibniz,” she says.
Mathematics is much like art, Glaz says:
“I love to teach and I love doing research in mathematics.
I think that proving a theorem and writing a poem come from the same place.
You need to create, to discover, to look for a truth, to look for a pattern, and then enjoy it when it appears, and, of course, share it with students.”
Glaz is author and editor of several books and many articles in an area of mathematics called commutative algebra.
“Mathematics publications are for the initiated,” she says.
“They are read by the few hundred people around the world who work in the same research area.”Strange Attractors, on the other hand, is an interdisciplinary work touching on mathematics, poetry, and history.
In addition to the collection of poems, it includes bibliographical information for further exploration of the links between mathematics and poetry, and biographical information on the contributors and on the mathematicians appearing in the poems.
“It was exhilarating to work on such a project,” Glaz says.
“I hope the book brings poetry to mathematicians and some love of mathematics to poets. I hope people from many disciplines enjoy it.”