Lea+Bell

__//**Week One**//__ Im understanding the math pretty well. What I learned in high school math is coming back. Negatives still tripp me up, they always have. Thinking of it as money helps alot. The homework and test are pretty easy. Well we'll see how i did on the test. Im pretty sure i did well. uhhh... yeah.

2.1-2.3 I had some trouble with the homework. remembering the steps is what I think i need to do. 2.4-3.1 where pretty easy, again I need more practice in remembering the steps. I think most the time I know the math well enough, its just sometimes im not sure what they are asking me to do. like i look at a problem then im like, now what. i guess most the time it just simplifying as far as you can. and still negatives suck.
 * //__Week Two__//**

im making small stupid mistakes. i need to work on my times tables. why do i get 100% on the homework and i cant do that well on the tests.
 * //__Week Three__//**

i need to work on my times tables. i noticed in my chapter four homework i still had problems knowing when it should be positive or negative, oh wait i just look at my homework and i now know why.
 * //__Week Four__//**

im finding decimals and fractions to be easy. i remember in elementary i was really good at them, i got gold stars and everything. ahaha still i need to practice my times tables.
 * //__Week Five__//**

uh... im super pissed about my mid-term. as soon as i looked at the all but one of problems i got wrong, i knew exactly what i did wrong. they were stupid mistakes.
 * //__Week Six__//**

So far ratio's rates and proportions are easy. LEARN TIMES TABLES. i need to think about the problems more logically, instead of as math problems, if that makes sense.
 * //__Week Seven__//**

lines. triangles. angles. i dont know what to say, i understood chapter 6.
 * //__Week Eight__//**

I'm having trouble in understanding when to use which formula. whether to use a proportion are make it a solve for x problem. also when i use a proportion i am using trial and error considering where to put which numbers. also ive noticed in the homework somtimes i have to move the decimal twice to make it a percent, and somtimes it only needs to move once, i dont understand why. Cory: It always moves twice.
 * //__Week Nine__//**

earlier this week i did the chapter seven homework. I got half way through 7.4 and i gave up. I was getting the answers right, i just didnt understand how, i was just going through the steps. so tonight i started over. it helped although, doing the section that asked to name the part whole and percent, it aske to solve using a proportion, i couldnt get the right ansewer. i either was off by alot, cuause i divided wrong or the numbers were right just and the decimal was in the wrong spot. i dont know what i am not understanding. when i used a solve for x equation i got the right answer. so i hope in the future, for test and in other math classes i dont have to use proportions and i can use an equation instead. Cory: I think the proportion is just a way to set up the equation.
 * //__Week Ten__//**

i did as good as i thought i did on ch 7 8 test. so far ch nine isnt difficult. although i remember from high school that i wasnt very good with slope, although thats propably cuz theres a good chance i wasnt in class that day.
 * //__Week Eleven__//**