YJournal

11-11-10 I helped people today. I helped Jason, Joe, and Chris by proof reading there Wiki page. I felt good about helping them because they ended up helping me in return. I also change my title so that it looked like a r a i n b o w. I think that doing that Wiki page was a good thing. I think that it will give people a chance to learn about each other. I also read other people's pages and told them what I thought about them.

11-16-10 Today I worked with Jason and Jake on taking photos. I had a lot of fun because most of the pictures were funny. I also took a picture with the high school pricipal. I felt pretty good about taking pictures even though I think I always look bad in them.

11-22-10 Today I worked with Jason on fixing my paragraph and making a video. It was really funny because we kept messing up. We ended up getting it done though. I felt good about this because it gave me and Jason an chance to have fun in class.

11-23-10 The part in math that I am not good at is algebra. The part I'm not good at in algebra is following all of the rules. I just have a hard time remembering to distribute or not.

12-8-10 Today I took a multiplying fractions test. I did well on it and I only missed one. It was in the sixth grade level. This is the problem I missed:

1/5 ÷ 1/3

Which of the following models the solution to the division problem above? || ||
 * || **Answer:** ||  ||   || [[image:http://www58.studyisland.com/images/blue.gif width="18" height="48"]] || [[image:http://www58.studyisland.com/images/white.gif width="18" height="48"]] || [[image:http://www58.studyisland.com/images/white.gif width="18" height="48"]] || [[image:http://www58.studyisland.com/images/white.gif width="18" height="48"]] || [[image:http://www58.studyisland.com/images/white.gif width="18" height="48"]] ||   || **×** || 3 || = ||   || [[image:http://www58.studyisland.com/images/blue.gif width="18" height="48"]] || [[image:http://www58.studyisland.com/images/blue.gif width="18" height="48"]] || [[image:http://www58.studyisland.com/images/blue.gif width="18" height="48"]] || [[image:http://www58.studyisland.com/images/white.gif width="18" height="48"]] || [[image:http://www58.studyisland.com/images/white.gif width="18" height="48"]] ||   ||   ||   ||

I think I missed this because I thought that it ment 1/3 of 1/5 which is 1/15. What I should of done was cross multiplied to get 3/5.

Here are some steps and a video that helped me:
 * **My findings:** ||
 * **Multiplying** ||
 * **Step 1.** Multiply the top numbers ||
 * **Step 2.** Multiply the bottom numbers ||
 * **Step 3.** Simplify the fraction ||


 * **Dividing** ||
 * **Step 1.** Turn the second fraction upside down. ||
 * **Step 2.** Multiply the top and bottom numbers. ||
 * **Step 3.** Simplify the fraction. ||


 * **Link** || **Info** ||
 * [|Click here to watch video] || This tells you how to multiply fractions. ||
 * [] || This is the link to the 3 steps. ||
 * [] || This is the link to the example. ||
 * [] || This is the game. ||

What is one-fourth of half?
 * Example #1:**


 * Solution**

You can probably model this problem with the following illustration:

12-16-10 What we are going to do today is work in teams to figure out how to solve our multiplying fraction problem. My team is Jason, Jackie, Megan, and I. Today, we decided to use my video. We are also finding some simple steps to use in a problem.

12-17-10 We are continuing to work on our multiplying fractions problem. Right now we are getting steps and we will either get a game or an example.

12-20-10 Today we finshed up with our findings to help us with our multiplying fractions problem. Also, I believe that our findings are really easy to understand and effective when solving a multiplying fractions problem. The game is also pretty fun. The only thing you must do is change the difficulty to easy because otherwise it will give mixed number problems. The links above are what we are using to help us with our problem. The info section will tell you what the site will take you to. We found steps, a game, an example, and a video to help us.

1-3-11 Today I found a worsheet on illuminations. It is a card game called Krypto. It will help me with multiplying.

1-4-11 I made the materials needed to play the game. It can be hard, but there is always a solution.

1-5-11 I highlighted my krypto cards today. Jason just started making his cards. Now I'm ready to play.

1-6-11 Today Jason finished his cards. We tried playing the game, and we got pretty good at it.

1-7-11 Today I played krypto with Jason. It worts and worked out well. I also went through my assignments and made sure I had everything done - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1-10-11 Today I made this new section in my journal for this week. I also worked on what I'm going to do for my presentation.

1-11-11 We played some more of krypto today. We also found out that we have to present tomorrow and we worked on how we willl do it.

1-13-11 Today we worked on getting our glogster and prezi links onto our wikis. Tomorrow, Jason and I are going to do our presentation