Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Unit 7 Portfolio with Critical responses/ Above and beyond

Critical Path Warm up
 Critical Response: Even though this has already been covered in another portfolio, I liked having the chance to review critical pathways once again. This warm up cleared up any misconceptions that I had about them and it helped me figure out the one on the quiz this week.
Basic Linear Functions Notes

Introduction to Quadratics Pt.1

Introduction to Quadratics Pt.2

Introduction to Quadratics Pt.3

Quadratic and Linear Regression Practice Pt.1

Quadratic and Linear Regression Practice Pt.2

Eulerizing the graph warmup and Farm data warmup

Basic Calculator use notes

Exponential Decay Practice Pt.1
Critical Response: I thought this topic was interesting because it is definitely used in real life when buying cars, houses, or anything that could increase/decrease in value over the course of a year. Knowing what I know now, I would definitely use exponential decay when trying to decide if something is worth my money.
Exponential Decay Practice Pt.2

Star Wars Apportionment

Boyle's Law pt.1

Boyle's Law pt.2
 Critical Response: Although I found this worksheet hard to do at first, I now understand Boyle's law a little bit better. At first the directions confused me, but after thinking through it, I completed the worksheet easily. Along with exponential decay, I could also seeing myself using Boyle's Law in real life if I ever went scuba diving.
Pendulum Lab pt.1

Pendulum Lab pt.2

Pendulum Lab pt.3

Linear Specialists Warmup

Systems of Equations Practice pt.1

Systems of Equations Practice pt.2

All Modeling Practice pt.1

All Modeling Practice pt.2

All Modeling Practice pt.3
Above and beyond: When doing modeling, there are many things that you can graph: crops, costs, objects. But there is one thing that I have not seen graphed that could be: high school students. Schools could see how their graduation rate has grown (or declined) by using their data to chart a linear/quadratic regression. Looking at these graphs, educators could see the 'bigger picture' of their students and could change their lesson plans accordingly.