Josh+Macedone

August 29 - This week I figured out more about values and periods, I feel like its all coming back little by little and im learning so much! Sept 29- Thanks Cory for the help with the story problems i used to not be able to understand them. I think I got a hang of them now!

Sept12-this week I've been looking for"x" to calculating mY miles per gallon. By taking the miles I've driven and dividing the number of gallons that have been put in my tank= how manY mpg I get. I am doing a study.regular versus premium gas and which type of gas would give me better gas mileage because of the octane and price. Cory: Sounds good, but I thought one of the selling points for the high octane gas was that it burned cleaner for the car, thus extending the life of the engine -- something that is really hard to calculate in the comparison. I would like to know the results. In fact, it might be nice to write it up and add it to the textbook for next semester. Sept 19,10--=--That is one of the selling points... when it burns it burns more evenly across the piston, and it takes less of the pushing on the gas pedal to get the desired speed. (so my dad says.... he is a "jack of all trades" kind of guy once built an engine that could go 200 miles on one gallon of gas. but we will see how it goes.  Sept 19,10 - i will confess.... i have noticed math is more apart of my life than i thought. my wife and i were trying to figure out our budget for this month and how much she would be making if she was working full time. and how much we are going to make during the summer and how much bonus money she will have to earn to get her car.   math equation. she makes $9/hr and for every upgrade(she works for customer marketing at apx alarm and upgrades people to our new system) she sells, she gets $7. she works 20 hrs a week and so far she has upgraded 9 customers in one week, how much will she make in a month total and in bonus money.   9 x 20 x 4 + 7(9x4)=   720+ 7(9x4)=   720+252 = 972 in one month with bonus money   972-7(9x4)=   972-252=720 with out bonus money   I love money! i hope this is a little more reflective then usual :)

9/27/10 Nothing really special to talk about this week with math, I mean i am a nursery teacher at my church and i do math with them 1+1=2 :) Im still working on my gas equation. And I continually look at how much my wife and i will be making to estimate when we will be able to get a new car.

10/2/10 I did alot of math this week. I took Thurs,and Fri off of work because my transmission blew out in my car so i had to figure out how much money i had and how much money everything was going to cost. turns out i didnt really spend that much because my dad just bought alot of the supplies. i wasnt expecting that one. moral of the story is be easy on your trasmissions os oyu dont have to spend $180 on a new clutch,$180 on a new transmission,$13.99 on oil, $20.00 on transmission fluid, $69.99 on a new half axle = way to much money! and way to much time.

10/10/10 This week im going to be working more on my multiplication, to try to get better at that. I feel like I just do a lot of simple math problems in my day to day life. Nothing to big. Like taking whats in my bank account and subracting rent from it. Besides home work i have yet to use gcf and variables. maybe this next week i will look out for it more.

10/24/10 This we we have been looking at buying a house and my wife and i have been looking over our money and looking at how much we will pay in interest and how much we will have to pay for our mortgage and all of that good stuff. little by little math becomes more noticible in my life.

10/31/10

This week i got a 640 dollar speeding fine..... when the signs says max fine is 600. what should be the real fine..... Hey i made my own story problem. the not so funny thing is is that this is real life how great is that.

11/7/10

This week i have been doing alot with math. i have been thinking alot about how to save money and how i will someday not feel like money is a crunch all the time. so i am making lists of what we spend what we make and how much we can save to get on top of life.

11/14/10

I am loving story problems lately. 2 hours out of work (for court) and a quick judgement= no change in a 640 $ fine! isnt that great! something about speeding i just dont get....i dont know :) well i still dont see hose this chapter is going to help me in my life.. but it doesnt seem that hard i feel like i get most of it which is good. i guess i better just stick with the the story problems :)

12/5/2010 Christmas is coming and I am counting my pennies my wife has given me through out the 7 months that we have been married. 3 pennies per week and we have 7 months times roughly 4 weeks per month is 28 weeks... times 3 pennies is ......84 cents.... that means I could go to the dollar store and pick her out something really nice!!

Not alot of math new this week just doing my math homework and getting ready for the test.

12/12/10

STUDY STUDY STUDY...... Excited to get the final done tomorrow.. as much as i love learning logs im glad this is my last one. So ill thank you now. Thanks for helping me with math, I didnt do well in high school and i was a little discouraged to start school this year. And it turned out alright. thanks so much Josh Macedone