My life in numbers
(Extended questions)

1. What are percents useful for?

      Percents are useful for all sorts of things, from sports statistics to shopping discounts.
For sports statistics, you could have 2 of 4 hits in a game, in baseball stats that would translate to 500% average, usually you would use 100 as the highest percent, in normal percents i should get 50%.

2. What have you learned or improved while learning percents this year?

    Well for starters I learned multiple different ways to solve a percent word problem. I also learned that long division isn't all that bad, dont get me wrong its still pretty bad, but it just doesn't seem as terrifying as it did last year.

3. What is the value of showing your work in math?

     You should always show your work in math. It shows the teacher that your not cheating, shows them that your either on the right track or not, and it shows them that you care.

4&5. What feedback did you get from the critique and how did the critique improve you work?

       I was told that my handwriting was sloppy, my work wasn't organized, and they didn't understand the problem, which i thought was perfectly fine. Well as bad as I made it sound the person was a lot nicer then that, I did end up taking that and using it. My work, ended up at least 10 times better looking and I got my second draft done. Win.

6. What possible extensions to this work would be meaningful to you?

     I think i would enjoy just having tricky word problems that would chalenge me, all the problems I think i sped right through.

   

My Life in Numbers


Challenge problems for my school.

1. What percent of your day do you spend at school
24 hours a day,
spend 6 hours and 30 minutes at school
24

2.What percent of your week do you spend at school?
There are 168 hours a week
I spend 168 divided by 27 = 6.8%

3. What percent of my parents week do they care for me?
15 hours driving, 21 hours cooking, 2 hours planing, 1 hour telling me what to do.
add it all up, and you get 45 hours a week
168 divided by 45 = 25% of their week doing something for me.

4. What percent of my year am i driving, watching, and playing baseball
2.5 hours a day on Mon, Thurs, Fri, Sat
2.5 x 3 = 10

4.5 hours on Tues, Wed, Sun
4.5 x 3= 13.4 ----> 14

8765.81 hours a year.

10 + 14 = 24 x 52 (weeks in a year) = 1248

10% of my year goes into baseball.

Where my Dad is from...

My dad is from Arkansas

My dad grew up along the Buffalo river in Northern Arkansas.

This is just a cabin that they had built in 2004 as a vacation home for them when ever we came to Arkansas. My dad is an extremely good river guide. I get to raft, canoe, and tube down the rapids almost every year. I'm kinda lucky that way. 

Polluted water and bottle Source    

1. The main danger to marine life and human health are

 highly toxic or long lasting

2. If you drag a .33 mm net across the south atlantic

ocean for 20 minutes or more you will find multiple 

tar debris

3. Plastic pollution is found to kill off 100

species of animals A DAY

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