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Directions:
Please respond to each journal question in complete sentences. Remember to answer the questions honestly and explain your reasoning. Your response should be at least three (3) sentences, but no longer than one page.
Remember:
--If you are unable to answer the question – write about what you know, need to know, and would like to know in order to solve the puzzle.
--Write in complete sentences.
-- Adhere to the length requirements.
--If you create a picture or diagram, write about how it helps you solve the problem
-- Explain your reasoning
--I am concerned with the process, NOT the answer!!
JQ for the week of 09/26/2016:
Taking a Chance
Your school is having a fund-raiser. Your class contributes by manning a game-of-chance booth. Since it is a fund-raiser, you want to design a game in which the player has a 1 in 3 chance of winning. Your plan is to use up to 20 color tiles (10 green and 10 orange) and have players draw 2 tiles from a bag. To win, the player must draw 2 orange tiles.
1) Decide how many of each color tile should be put in the bag.
2) Explain how you decided how many tiles of each color to use.
This problem was published in Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, March 2015.
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JQ for the week of 10/19/2015:
This week's JQ is a self-assessment in preparation for the upcoming progress reports. If you need to get a copy of the form, please see me.
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JQ for Week of 10/5/2015:
Indiana James v. Russian Soldiers
Indiana James needs to ride a motorboat to a dock 200 feet away in order to escape from the Russian soldiers that are chasing him from 50 feet behind. Indiana James’ boat travels at 2 feet per second and the Russian soldiers’ boat travels at 3 feet per second.
Will Indiana James make it to the dock before he is captured?
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JQ for week of 11/18/2013:
Rectangles
The large rectangle shown below has an area of 336 square units. It also consists of 7 congruent rectangular regions. Find the perimeter of the large rectangle. Explain your reasoning!!!!
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JQ for week of 9/30/2013:
(grades 6,7, and 8 only)
Write to me….
Last week I informed your class that you would have a test, or assessment, this week. At the mention of the word I heard many moans, saw nervous reactions, and students appeared to begin stressing over the announcement.
I would like you to tell me how YOU feel when you hear the word “test” or “assessment” and WHY you think you have this reaction.
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JQ for week of 9/23/2013:
The Elephants and the Bridge
There are four (4) elephants traveling over a bridge in an easterly direction. They stop halfway because four other elephants are traveling towards them headed in the westerly direction. The bridge is narrow and only one elephant can fit on it. These elephants cannot travel backwards and will only climb over each other if there is enough room on the other side for an elephant. There is space between the first and second elephants headed east.
How do the all of the elephants cross the bridge?
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JQ for week of 9/16/2013:
Camp Chingachgook
Last week we spent 3 days at Camp Chingachgook learning how to work together as a community. I would like you to tell me about two (2) instances when mathematics was required to complete a task during cooperative games or any of the other activities you were a part of with the counselors (you CANNOT write about setting the table!!).
Please be sure to explain how the mathematics was used!!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~JQ for week of 1/14/2013:
A Riddle!
Read the riddle below and try to determine what it is referring to (you may need to read it more than once!)
The answer to this riddle has a hole in the middle and some have been known to fall in it. In tennis, its nothing, but it can be received. Sometimes a person may win it. Though not seen or heard it may yet be perceived. The answer to this riddle has a hole in the middle and without it one cannot start over.
Answer: LOVE
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JQ for week of 12/3/2012:
Factor Groups
1. Consider all the natural numbers between 1 and 100. In each case, count 1 as a factor.
a. Which have exactly 1 factor?
b. Which have exactly 2 factors?
c. Which have exactly 3 factors?
d. Which have exactly 4 factors?
e. Which have exactly 5 factors?
2. By examining your answers to question 1, can you see any relationships or patterns? Use any patterns you find to predict which numbers between 1 and 100 have exactly 6 factors. Check your predictions.
3. Continue to investigate other numbers that have exactly 7, 8, 9, or 10 factors. Generalize any patterns that you find.
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JQ for week of 11/5/2012:
Zoë is having a get together with friends and she is inviting 177 people. She decided to have a cake for dessert. The cake is 3 ft. tall and weighs 15 pounds. She is afraid she will not have enough cake for everyone who attends.
What size will the pieces need to be in order to have enough to serve everyone if all of her guests show up?
Answer: You need 178 pieces of cake in order to include Zoë. So, each piece will be 0.084 lbs, or 1.35 oz.
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JQ for week of 10/22/2012:
In the hallway near the tech lab there is a bulletin board about making choices.
In at least 5 sentences tell me what you feel is the moral of the posters and how this relates to mathematics.
Answer: Responses may vary
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JQ for week of 10/15/2012:
This week's JQ is a self-assessment, please contact Shelli for an electronic or paper copy:)
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JQ for week of 10/1/2012:
A baseball and a bat cost $110. If the bat costs $100 more than the ball, what is the cost of each?
Answer: The bat is $105 and the ball is $5
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JQ for week of 9/10/2012:
What is special about the following sequence of numbers?
8, 11, 15, 5, 4, 14, 9, 1, 7, 6, 10
Answer: They are in alphabetical order.
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