Jonah's Scribe Post

Today in class we were told to take out a piece of paper and copy what was on the board. It was a picture of a right angle triangle. We were supposed to find out the missing side we had 6 minutes to do it. The triangle looked like this:
We didn't know until the middle of working that what we were doing was a test. When we were done we had to mark it. To get full marks we had to have shown all of our work which included all of these things:

After we did the test we did something else in our blue Pythagoras booklet. We watched a scene of the movie Flushed Away and Mr. Jerema made it into a word problem. He drew a picture of a frog and we had to find out what was the missing side. But instead of looking at a picture we had a word problem. It looked like this:


The word problem was:
Le Frog (the name of the frog) stands 1.5 m from the wall where a fly is 2 m high. If the frogs tongue comes out of his mouth 70 cm from the ground, how far does his tongue have to stretch to trap and eat the fly? We used the pythagorean theorem to solve the missing side, since the side that was missing was the hypotenuse.
a + b = c
1.3 (x 1.3) + 1.5 (x 1.5) = c
1.69 + 2.25 = c
c 2 = 3.94
c = 1.98


This is what we did in class. Sorry if I missed something. But I don't think I did. So...don't forget to do your Pythagoras Growing Post if you haven't started it yet.

Jonah's Second Growing Post

Question 1

1. What strategies were needed?
- There were lots of strategies that I could of used like a ratio table, a clock, a number line, and money. With those strategies you could divide, subtract, add, and multiply.

2. How did you use these strategies?
- I first used money but that didn't work out. So I used a ratio table and I added, divided, and multiplied.

3. Or How could you of used these strategies?
- With money I don't think it would work because some of the numbers wouldn't fit well with the strategy. Clocks wouldn't work out too because there aren't many fractions to work with and that the numbers don't really fit well with the numbers that work well with a clock. A ratio table would work better because it shows that what you do on one side with the number or fraction you do the same thing one the other side with the number or fraction.

4. How could you figure out the price of a 6 cup bag of Betty's Snack Mix? Use a ratio table.
5. Find 3 other values (amounts of Snack Mix) that could be solved using the same ratio table. Find the $$ of your new container sizes

Question 2



Question 3




Question 4


Marking Rubric for Second Growing Post Question 1:
Betty's Snack Mix ( 15 Marks)

Answers all questions 5 Marks ( 1 per question)
5/5
Quality of Answers 10 Marks
9/10
10=Perfect
8=Great job but there is room for improvement
7=Good job but there is much more room for improvement
6=Decent job but you need to work harder
5=All work is done but effort is lacking
Less than 5 would be for questions answered incorrectly and without effort and incomplete.

Growing Post Question 2 (10 Marks)

Embeds voice thread after question 1 (1 mark)
1/1
Creates the voice thread to answer Question (1 Marks)
1/1
Add comment to further elaborate on the strategies used (1 per comment) Max 4 marks
4/4
Math work is correct in the voice thread (4 Marks)
4/4

Growing Post Question 3 (14 Marks)

Uses Pictures or a voice thread to answer the question (3.5 marks)
3.5/3.5
Explains the 7 strategies using 7/8 and 11/12 (7 marks)
0/7, I used the wrong numbers
Comments on voice thread (3.5 marks .5 per comment)
3.5/3.5

Question 4 Sharing Pizzas (15 Marks)

Clearly shows how much pizza each student get in the different groups? (4 Marks)
4/4
Shows which group gets the largest portion of pizza (2 Marks)
2/2
Show how you found your answer in 2 different ways. (4 Marks)
2/4, I only used one strategy.
What strategies did you use in finding your answers. Student must show strategy and explained how it was used. ( 2 marks)
2/2.
Added comments on voice thread or added detail to explanations. (3 marks)
3/3

Total Math Work ( 54 )
43/54
Formatting (31 Marks)

Proper Title ( 2 Marks) 2/2
Proper Labels (3 Marks) 3/3
Only one post and no drafts left in dashboard ( 2 Marks) 2/2
Questions are in proper order ( 4 Marks) 4/4
Post looks pleasing (10 Marks) 4/4
Pictures are lined up, text is left justified etc.
The post looks professional and not piecemeal.
Completing Self Evaluation and leaving a comment ( 10 Marks) 10/10

Completing 2 Peer Evaluations and leaving comments on the Growing Post and Voice Threads (20 Marks) 1o Marks per student 20/20

Total Marks for Growing Post (100 Marks) 88/100

Growing Post Completed on time 0 mark deduction
Completed 1 day late 10 mark deduction
Completed 2 Days Late 15 Mark Deduction
Completed more than 2 days late 20 Mark Deduction