Guide to the Year in science 2010: Environment

The environment article is about marine species. Thousands are discovered every year. There are so many that it is a challenge, even for very intelligent scientists to name all species and where they come from. Therefore, a project was made, called Census of Marine Life, or also called CoML. Hundreds and hundreds of scientists have come together to study species to find out where they come from and where they live now. The CoML scientists have created models on the animals' habitats to see how it will be later on. By doing this they can see when the species will die entirely and how they can prevent this from happening sooner. Certain oceans that are more prone to this happening have now been prohibited from being able to fish there. Laws have been made in the United Nations, to protect the ocean.This topic to me is a big deal because I think all should have a right to live on this planet. Even though fish are little and uninteresting to some people they are still amazing in their own way and very important. It was good for the CoML scientists to disallow fishing in some areas where species could die because they are helping the animals live longer. I think humans could be selfish sometimes because they are only thinking about themselves, when it comes to fishing. The people who do that only want to make money off of how many fish they get and are not caring about the lives that are being cut short.In October fourththe news about this project will be spread all over Great Britain, when the results of what the scientists have learned will be public. This will also show people that fish are important too and open their eyes to see how they can help them. Some obstacles would be that fishing not being stopped in other places, which can make some of them become extinct. Water is being polluted as well, which isn't helping.

Semester Academic Goals

First Goal:

Study for tests
First Step:
Look over my notes in my brain book

Second Goal:
Ask questions when I don't understand something in class.
First Step:
Participate in class more by raising my hand or asking my teacher.

Third Goal:

Focus on my work, instead of other things.

First Step:

I can ask my classmates if they need any help on anything and I could show them how to do the problem if they don't understand.

The Origin of Zero

Some things from the article that struck me would be how it says how the symbol for zero has changed over the years. I never thought about where zero came from and it surprised me how the Mayans represented it as just a dot. Even though it was the Chinese that thought of the open circle, that we now use today, I think that the Mayans are the ones who should get all the credit because they are the ones who invented it. I think the whole world found out about zero when the Mayans first thought of it. It is like when new discoveries are found and they are put on the news, except in this case it was probably just spread around in words.

The Locker Problem Solution

The Locker Problem Final Draft Illiana Guirant September 30ThT, 2009
The solution to the locker problem is that thirty one lockers are open while nine hundred sixty nine are left closed. Thirty one lockers are open because you could only square each number until thirty one. If you tried to square each number bigger than thirty one you would end up going over the number one thousand, which is how many lockers there are overall. For example, 32², or 32x32=1024. Obviously 1024 is 24 more than 1,000

In class we realized that if you wanted to find out which number of lockers changed the state, when the student touched it, you would have to look at its factors.
FACTORS
1X36 1 36
2X18 2 18
3X12 3 12
4X9 4 09
6X6 6 06 Therefore all the factors of 36 are 1,2,3,4,6,12,and 18.So those are the lockers that are changed by state.

Order Of Operations

1. (9x9)+4²-7



2. 25/5-(2x2²)



3. 20/10-8x0=2

What is Math?What is Physics?

Math to me is something that everyone at some point needs to learn.It is found in every place and part of the world.Math isn't just found in equations on a test!It is also in nature.Some spirals you see in shells,or pine cones,are based on patterns of numbers!Who uses math?Every human being on this planet will or has used math in some point in life.For example,if you wanted to share a pie equally with your family you would use fractions and counting.Doing math is kind of like a big puzzle of numbers.When you do math that's when it's like solving the puzzle.The big puzzle of numbers...=D

Another interesting subject is physics.It analyzes natural substances,including matter,energy,motion and force.Physics is even in snowboarding!Without physics you wouldn't have friction.Without friction you wouldn't be able to coast down the mountain.Every time we move and breathe we use physics.Just think if it didn't exist.We wouldn't even be able to stand up!Everything that takes up space uses physics.