Following on from my previous post about my love of formulas, I came across more of them in chapter 5, when I reached the exercises that focus on area, volume and surface area. As mentioned in a previous post, I’ve always loved formulas as I believe having a formula to follow is the easiest way to solve a mathematical problem
Read moreAnother topic in Chapter 5 of the textbook that interested me was error in measurement. The textbook stated that no measurement is ever exact and that when we use a device to take a measurement, there is always some error which can be caused by a fault in the measuring device, an inappropriate measuring device, and human error. Exercise 5.02
Read moreChapter 5 of my textbook (the longest chapter) is all about measurement. Exercise 5.01 focused on metric units and converting between metric units (i.e. converting cm to mm, g to kg, kg to t, and so on). Although there weren’t any questions on converting metric units to imperial units or vice versa, this exercise made me think about metrication in
Read moreChapter 4 of my textbook is all about probability. The first page of the chapter states that I will “recognise that P(event) has a range of 0 to 1”, there are two reasons that this fact interests me. The first reason is that probability is really used in everyday life more than most people realise, such as when certain statistics
Read moreAssignment 1 of the Year 11 Mathematics Standard (Pathway 2) Course that I’m doing at TAFE consisted of questions from the first three chapters of the textbook: Collecting and Presenting Data, Formulas and Equations, and Earning Money and Taxation. I submitted Assignment 1 to my teacher on 18 June 2020 and received my marks and feedback from my teacher on
Read moreThe Year 11 Mathematics Standard (Pathway 2) course through TAFE involves students completing five assignments to get their final grade. The marks of assignments 1, 3 and 5 make up the final grade. As the marks of assignments 2 and 4 don’t make up the final grade, students have the chance to re-submit these assignments if they don’t pass the
Read moreThe first virtual run I completed for my Fun Walking Not Running Around the World (Virtual Tour) was the USA run. As mentioned in my previous blog post, I decided to do a virtual international Fun Walking Not Running Tour as the COVID-19 pandemic put a stop to my plans to start a “real world” international tour. Virtual Run Events
Read moreAfter completing my Fun Walking Not Running Tour around Australia, I was inspired to do a global tour. My plan was to at least start in Queenstown, New Zealand, in November this year, if not my native Australia before that, and try to do at least one run in each continent (including Antarctica if I could find one). However the
Read moreIn August, I set myself the challenge of completing a virtual marathon, specifically the Angel Kisses Virtual Run. Australian virtual fun running site, Heart & Soles Running, hosted the event. The difference between this virtual marathon and previous virtual marathons I have completed is that the goal was to complete a specific weekly distance: 10km per week, 20km per week
Read moreI came across the payslips of Homer Simpson and Edna Krabappel as part of questions 10 and 11 in Exercise 3.05 – Gross pay and net pay. I think it’s safe to say, based on the payslip, that it was the hardest working week of Homer Simpson’s life. Reference: Bootsma, K, Hamper, S, Willard, M & Yen, R, 2017, New Century
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