I Need Luck Too!

  I need some luck too! On Tuesday my school has MCAS long composition! I'm expected to get a 6 (highest score) by my WHOLE ENTIRE school board! I've been shaky all day. We had an MCAS test on Thursday, and I finished it. My teacher didn't give us a score though. UGH =.=.... This will be 6 whole paragraphs for the state of Massachusetts and my WHOLE school district. Well.. It makes me afraid.






This is a score 1, and some people might get them in my class.


The internet wont show me a score 6.. >:(.

Anyway, I'm freaked out!

I need some luck!

I need some luck for tomorrow and Monday!

Why?

I am going to the academic team STATE competition.

Wow!
Yay!
Coo!
Yah!

Any other three-lettered exclamation word!

I am also taking an individual assessment at state. In Language Arts category. So, I may post some Language Arts topics.

Wish meh luck!

Algecraic (I got lazy. 10:00 pm. Gimme a Break T.T)

Ok. My teacher taught the class a form of algebra he called algebraic. It's pretty simple.

 

 

 

 

    First, make the fraction you want to see is.... Say 2/4

 

 

 

  Then you put the fraction your trying to find the top thingy on (it's 10:00pm, gimme a break T.T) and put it next to it.

 

 

2/4 X/24

 

 

4 x 6 = 24 so you put a 6 there in-between.

 

 

 

   The you put a 6 on top of the other...

 

 

    2 x 6 = 12

 

 

 

TA DA.

 

 

 



Love, Stargirl

Rave in a nutshell:  If you haven't read the first book, Stargirl, I highly recommend it. Jerry Spinelli outdid himself. Again.

Overview:  After moving from Arizona, Stargirl Caraway is having to deal with her new life in Pennsylvania without her old boyfriend, Leo. To relieve herself of the pain of not being able to describe her new life to Leo, she writes him a letter, which is basically a record of her life in her first year in Pennsylvania.

Critique corner: I enjoyed the format that the book was written in, because it gave Stargirl a chance to express her life. Although it was intended to be a letter, throughout the book, I noticed that it was becoming more of a journal of events that happened in the novel, with added narration from Stargirl. Spinelli knew that a cross between a letter and a journal would best reflect upon Stargirl's personality, and that is how he wrote the book. When I was reading the book, I felt as though it was Stargirl herself telling me her story. That is what Spinelli intended, and that is what happened. Spinelli used his genius mind and crafted a one-in-a-kind character, that will keep you begging for another installment in her life.

Please post comments with your opinions about the book, or recommendations for a book. Keep reading!

First Topic: Prime Factorization

This is the first topic I've ever covered here, so I hope you find this helpful and informative!
The topic is prime factorization. Now, for my "topics", I will cover a range of things of all grade levels and subjects. If you know how to do this already, that is O K. This is kind of a test post. However, if you don't know about this topic, then I hope you can benefit from it.

Prime factorization is where you break a number down into its prime factors. A factor is any number multiplied by another number to equal a product.
Examples of factors:

2 * 3 = 6
The factors are 2 and 3.

To prime factorize a number, you can use the branching method or the stacking method.

Branching:

I can't really type this, but I can put a picture:

So, basically, you break the original number down two factors at a time.
Let's try 24.

12 and 2 are two factors, or "branches" of 24.

                 24
       12                 2
2 is prime, so you can't do anything to it. Now let's look at 12.

4 and 3 are two factors of 12

                   12
            4             3
3 is prime, so let's look at 4.
4 has two factors: 2 and 2.

            4
      2            2

So, go through your final "tree" and find all prime factors.

                            24
                   12               2
             3            4
                     2           2
So, the prime factorization of 24 is:

3 * 2 * 2 * 2

The other method is stacking.
You write the number you are trying to factorize at the top. In this case, 24.

                                    24
Next, draw an inverted long division sign on the number.

                                |24
Kind of like that.
Next, you write one prime factor of the number outside the "stack".

                            2|24
Now, divide 24 by the prime first prime factor, and write the result under 24, and form another "stack".

                            2|24
                                |12
Repeat until you cannot divide the number inside the stack any more.

                            2|24
                               2|12
                                  2|6
                                     3
The numbers outside of the stacks are the prime factors.




Here are some sample problems:

1) 32
2) 76
3) 15
4) 51
5) 145
6) 108
7) 225
8) 81
9) 102
10) 1000


If you have any questions, please email me at inquirzoom@gmail.com.

I hope that helped!