Scribed From Friday, September 8th
MY FIRST BLOG… SORTA…not really…`1
Hurrah and hurray to Mr. Max’s Applied 40s After Lunch Class. This will be the first student entry and I dno really what it’s supposed to look like, but here goes nothing.
On September 7th, we started learning about Matrix Modeling. We learned that Matrix is a 2-D array of values arranged in rows and columns, rows being the vertical line of numbers and columns being the horizontal line of numbers. Dimensions of a matrix are written “mn”, where “m” equals the number of rows and “n” equals the number of columns.
On the 8th, we learned Matrix Elements. This was based on the equation Amn. “A” stands for the matrix in question, “m” and “n” meaning is as above. We learned Matrix Operations, simply addition, subtraction and multiplication. Mr. Max also taught us how to insert sets of matrices into our graphing calculators.
There are also a few key points that Mr. Max stated in class that I felt were relevant and needed to be repeated. Firstly, Mr. Max said, “We all know how lazy I am.” Yes, Mr. Max is lazy. J (Hope I still pass this class) The second thing that Mr. Max told us to remember was much more important. He said that once we learn how to do something by hand, when Mr. Max has taught you to do it with technology, never go back to doing it by hand. It is almost impossible for a computer/calculator to mess up a question, where as you may not always get your answer correct. Do not try to impress anyone by doing it by hand. Impress them by getting the answer right.
Thus ends my blog-ness. I nominate Jessica to be the next blogger. She wanted to be first, but let me have that honor. So here’s to you, Jess. J
Hope you enjoyed my blog.
Good teaching Mr. Max, keep it up.
The Captain
Hurrah and hurray to Mr. Max’s Applied 40s After Lunch Class. This will be the first student entry and I dno really what it’s supposed to look like, but here goes nothing.
On September 7th, we started learning about Matrix Modeling. We learned that Matrix is a 2-D array of values arranged in rows and columns, rows being the vertical line of numbers and columns being the horizontal line of numbers. Dimensions of a matrix are written “mn”, where “m” equals the number of rows and “n” equals the number of columns.
On the 8th, we learned Matrix Elements. This was based on the equation Amn. “A” stands for the matrix in question, “m” and “n” meaning is as above. We learned Matrix Operations, simply addition, subtraction and multiplication. Mr. Max also taught us how to insert sets of matrices into our graphing calculators.
There are also a few key points that Mr. Max stated in class that I felt were relevant and needed to be repeated. Firstly, Mr. Max said, “We all know how lazy I am.” Yes, Mr. Max is lazy. J (Hope I still pass this class) The second thing that Mr. Max told us to remember was much more important. He said that once we learn how to do something by hand, when Mr. Max has taught you to do it with technology, never go back to doing it by hand. It is almost impossible for a computer/calculator to mess up a question, where as you may not always get your answer correct. Do not try to impress anyone by doing it by hand. Impress them by getting the answer right.
Thus ends my blog-ness. I nominate Jessica to be the next blogger. She wanted to be first, but let me have that honor. So here’s to you, Jess. J
Hope you enjoyed my blog.
Good teaching Mr. Max, keep it up.
The Captain
posted by Ryan Maksymchuk at 11:03 AM
3 Comments:
rows are horizontal or left and right and columns are up and down or vertical
rows are horizontal and columns are vertical
Hey Captain...as I said in class, great effort, and thank you for adding to the success of our class collective. Taking responsibility for learning may not be the easiest thing for some of us (me included), but your scribe helps, as will everyone's. Thanks again, and post often and thougtfully...
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