Remember, relax, trust yourself .. You’re all very very smart... rule out the answers that make no sense and always.. Remember the four steps to solving math problems!
1) Read and understand what your problem is
2) Plan.. How will you answer this question?
3) Solve... yep.. This is where you get to show your work and come up with your answer.
4) Check it.. I know.. You’re busy and don’t really want to check it.. But it’s IMPORTANT!
2nd and 5th Period:
BLOG QUESTION 2nd and 5th Period:
Lets say you and a few friends are going to New York and one of the sites that you want to see is the Statue of Liberty. To help your trip be even more exciting.. You found these facts about the Statue.. The Statue came over on a ship from France in 1885 on a ship named, “Isere.” Before the Statue of Liberty could be set up, a base had to be made which consisted of 27,000 tons of cement and was 53 feet deep and 91 feet square at the bottom. The walls above water were 8 to 19 feet in thickness and 43 feet high from the bottom of the stand to the top. The Statue of Liberty stands a total of 305 feet tall and weights a total of 450, 000. 
If you and your best friends go on a tour of the Statue of Liberty and you all decided to climb the 354 steps to get to the top of the Statue what would happen if....one of your friends only went half way.. #1 how many steps would she have climbed _____. #2 What if another friend started out and twisted his ankle after going up 2 dozen stairs.. how many steps would he have climbed before he had to go out____?#3 And then.. one of your friends was so excited that she went another time.. How many steps would she have climbed____?
Today, Americans generate 10.5 million tons of plastic waste a year, but we only recycle 1 or 2% of it.. How much out of the 10.5 million tons do we recycle?
It is estimated that 14 Billion pounds of trash, much of it plastic, is dumped in the ocean every year. Take the number of years that you have been alive and figure out how many Billions of trash has been dumped into the ocean since you were born? (In the USA a billion is 1,000,000 000 and a trillion is 1,000,000,000,000 so a trillion is a thousand times a billion.
If a plastic cup can take up to 50 - 80 years to decompose... estimate how many plastic cups do you think you throw away a year and how long it will take for those cups to decompose.
COOL SITE OF THE WEEK!
Plastic soup - that is what the plastic waste is called (The size of Texas) that is floating in the ocean. Here is an article in the New York Times ttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/10/science/10patch.html Give it a read... you just might think twice about using plastic water bottles! 
Zags oops.. Were on a role.. That is until Saturday night when they lost to University of San Francisco... what a sad game... errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr... So now they are tied with St. Mary’s for first place.. Both teams have lost one game... they play St. Mary’s on 2/11. That will be a HUGE game! GO ZAGS!
As Spidey says each week... Whatever life holds in store for me, I will never forget these words: "With great power comes great responsibility." This is my gift, my curse. Who am I? I'm Spider-man. You too have great power.. Be responsible, you can do great things!AND Remember, as always, you are amazing, incredible people with the whole world waiting to be changed by YOU!
Mr. Rott
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