Hurray, Computer Lab The Fourth

Today in Computer Lab, once again, I reviewed many old topics, in preparation for the CST. Beforehand, however, the class was shown a chart of what happens with technology in sixty seconds, like how many emails are sent out, or how many Facebook posts are made. I was a bit surprised to learn 17,000+ apps are downloaded during this time, but that's due to me not understanding the allure of iAnything. Soon after the class was sent to Bite-Sized Math, where, as mentioned before, more CST prep was waiting. I managed to get through three of the five/six, which covered 2D shapes, 3D shapes, and angles. I figured they would be easy, but soon realized how much I had forgotten, and am glad to say I now remember quite a bit about those topics. I hope the CST test will arrive faster; I want to see if, with all this practice, I will be able to pass it with flying colors.

Hurray, Computer Lab 3000

Today in Computer Lab, I reviewed two old math topics, and practiced more on another. The class was sent to Bite-Sized Math, where three activities were waiting for us. The first had to do with frequency diagrams. Pie charts, bar graphs, and the like were reviewed, through the scenario that a village had been overcome by the plague, and we had to tally up who was infected and how much of the cure was needed. These charts are used often in real life, like for organizing how many kids take the bus to school, or measuring the success of a new brand of cereal. The second was a review of median, mode, mean, and range, which, of course, we have been learning in class. Needless to say, it wasn't too difficult, but it was still a very good way to practice the math. While I still am not sure how it's relevant to real life, I'll guess it's something highly important. And lastly, the third taught probability. This means the likeliness of something, and an example would be: the likeliness of winning the lottery is the same as developing a flesh-eating disease and being mauled by a grizzly bear and a polar bear, all in the same day. See? Real life. Probability could also be used for deciding what the chances of a racer winning a race against 16 others is (1/17, by the way). In short, I learned many useful skills today, and don't plan on forgetting them soon.