Look over the lessons in Chapter 7. Why do you think the editors of this textbook put all of this material together in one chapter? What connects all of the lessons? Are there any lessons in Chapter 7 that do not fit in the chapter? Where should they go instead? Also, do you think other lessons could be added to this chapter? If so, which ones, and why? If not, why not?
(Yes, there are many questions to answer here. You will be graded on your ability to produce well-reasoned answers.)
Look over the lessons in Chapter 7. Why do you think the editors of this textbook put all of this material together in one chapter? What connects all of the lessons? Are there any lessons in Chapter 7 that do not fit in the chapter? Where should they go instead? Also, do you think other lessons could be added to this chapter? If so, which ones, and why? If not, why not?
ReplyDeleteI think the editors of this textbook put all of this material together in one chapter because they all relate to fractions and how we can apply fractions in different parts of math. I do not think there are any "misfitting" subjects under this chapter because they all related to fractions.I do not think that any more subjects should be added under this chapter because if there are TOO many things under one chapter, students may get mixed up with how to do each one.
Q: Look over the lessons in Chapter 7. Why do you think the editors of this textbook put all of this material together in one chapter? What connects all of the lessons? Are there any lessons in Chapter 7 that do not fit in the chapter? Where should they go instead? Also, do you think other lessons could be added to this chapter? If so, which ones, and why? If not, why not?
ReplyDeleteA: I think the editors of this textbook put all of this material together in one chapter because each lesson either has something to do with ratios, fractions, decimals, or percents. You can find the answer to one or the other because of their connections. What I mean by that is that for example, you can find the percent from a decimal, fraction or ratio, and you can convert a fraction to a decimal, percent, or ratio. So generally for all these lessons, there is a connection involving fractions. One lesson I would say that does not fit in the chapter is the lesson about mixtures because even though percents are used in the questions, I personally think that it would be a better idea to put this lesson under “Word Problems” so that people are not confused with too much instructions, having to memorize what goes in the charts. Other than that, I think the lessons in chapter 7 are just fine. Lastly, I do not think other lessons should be added to this chapter because this chapter is specifically a long one, with many lessons in it, and the main lessons about fraction, decimals, percents, and ratios are all added into this chapter effectively.
Also, do you think other lessons could be added to this chapter? If so, which ones, and why? If not, why not?
ReplyDeleteI think the author of the book had all these materials together in one chapter is because they all had somewhat similarity and connected to each other. All of these lesson's had fractions, decimals, percentage, or ratio. To me I thought the chart making problems didn't fit in this chapter because charts don't really have to do with percentage, decimals, fractions, or ratios. Maybe the charts belongs more into chapter 3-6. And i personally think that no lesson is needed to be added in this chapter because this chapter itself was long enough, and if we learn more into it then we might get confused.
I think the editors of this textbook put all of this material together in one chapter because all of the materials are related, fractions,decimals,ratios and percentage. It can be stated that fractions can be applied to decimals, ratios and percentage. No, I don't think there are any sections that do not fit in the chapter. No, I don't think other lessons could be added to this chapter because there are many too many materials that fits into this chapter and if add more in this chapter, I think it would be difficult for us(students) to understand all the concepts.
ReplyDeleteLook over the lessons in Chapter 7. Why do you think the editors of this textbook put all of this material together in one chapter? What connects all of the lessons? Are there any lessons in Chapter 7 that do not fit in the chapter? Where should they go instead? Also, do you think other lessons could be added to this chapter? If so, which ones, and why? If not, why not?
ReplyDeleteI think the editor of this textbook put all of this material together in one chapter because all of them are about divisions. All the ratios, fractions, decimals, and percents are in this chapter. They are connected to each other because they are all about divisions. I don't think there are any misfits in this chapter because the chapter's about fractions, and all the sections are related to the fraction. No, there's no need to add more sections into here because there are already enough in this chapter.
Looking over the lessons in chapter 7, I think the editor of this textbook put all of this material together in one chapter because the lessons are all closely related to each other like decimal, fraction, exponent, and all of the lessons included different usage of fractions. I think the connect between the lessons are that all of the section included in chapter 7 had relation to fraction and different usage of fractions. Ratio, proportion,percent, mixture problems, negative exponent and scientific notation was somewhat related to expressing as fractions. I thought that scientific notation didn't really fit with this chapter because it had the least amount of relationship with fraction. There were question when the numerator and the denominator was formed with scientific notation in a fraction but other than that scientific notation itself doesn't really relate with the idea of fraction. I think there shouldn't be any lessons added to this chapter because already, this chapter contains too much. If there are too much lesson in one chapter, there will be a harder time for the students to learn everything because the information are overflowing in their brain.
ReplyDeleteLook over the lessons in Chapter 7. Why do you think the editors of this textbook put all of this material together in one chapter? What connects all of the lessons? Are there any lessons in Chapter 7 that do not fit in the chapter? Where should they go instead? Also, do you think other lessons could be added to this chapter? If so, which ones, and why? If not, why not?
ReplyDeleteI think the editors of this textbook put all of this material together in one chapter because they all relate to fractions and decimal, percentage, or ratio etc. Learning many stuff like changing this to this. That to that. You can figure out that these are related together. I think there is nothing unrelated to this chapter. In opinion I think there is nothing to add.
Look over the lessons in Chapter 7. Why do you think the editors of this textbook put all of this material together in one chapter? What connects all of the lessons? Are there any lessons in Chapter 7 that do not fit in the chapter? Where should they go instead? Also, do you think other lessons could be added to this chapter? If so, which ones, and why? If not, why not?
ReplyDeleteI think that the editors of the textbook put all this material together in one chapter, because it all relates to each other. For example, like the proportion relates to charts, because of the questions you can solve in a proportion, or charts. I think that scientific notation wasn't related to any thing in this chapter. I don't think there would be anything to add, but i would take out scientific notation.
Look over the lessons in Chapter 7. Why do you think the editors of this textbook put all of this material together in one chapter? What connects all of the lessons? Are there any lessons in Chapter 7 that do not fit in the chapter? Where should they go instead? Also, do you think other lessons could be added to this chapter? If so, which ones, and why? If not, why not?
ReplyDeleteI think the editors of this textbook was trying to tell people the relationship between decimals, fractions, exponents, and percents. The negative exponents were related to fraction because you would need to switch the order of the numerator and the denominator. For the scientific notation, they are related to exponents. When the number was in decimal, the exponent would be a negative number and if the number is a large number, then the exponent would be positive. Also for the percent, we had to convert to decimals when solving a word problem. I think there weren't any lessons in this chapter that didn't fit. Also, there should not be any other things to add because there are too many things to memorize and understand already. If we add more to this chapter, we might forget things and get confused during the test.
I think the editors of this textbook put all of this material together because they are ratios, proportions, fractions, percents, exponents, scientific notation, and etc, and they all relate to each other in some way. I think fractions connects all of the lessons together. I don’t think there are any lessons that we learned in Chapter 7 that doesn’t fit in the chapter because they are all related to each other, but maybe it was a bit too long. I think maybe the parts that we learned last, like the word problems, scientific notation, and negative exponents could have gone into the next chapter so that it is still connected, but it would be easier to learn it one by one then take it in all together and take a test. Since I didn’t really know about this or studied about it before, it could maybe be only for me, but it was sort of hard and difficult so I think it should be separated. I don’t think any other lessons should be added to this chapter because it is already too long.
ReplyDeleteLook over the lessons in Chapter 7. Why do you think the editors of this textbook put all of this material together in one chapter? What connects all of the lessons? Are there any lessons in Chapter 7 that do not fit in the chapter? Where should they go instead? Also, do you think other lessons could be added to this chapter? If so, which ones, and why? If not, why not?
ReplyDeleteI think the editors of this textbook put all of this material in this one chapter because these lessons have similarities. They are all about working with fractions. On the last chapter it was about fractions but this chapter it is applying those fractions that we learned. I think percent problems could have been in chapter 6. It fits on the multiplying fractions part. You multiply hundred on the fraction which you want to make it as percentage. However, I think the word problems related to percentage should stay at chapter 7 because you need to do lot more than just multiplying fractions. I think exponents in chapter 4 could have stayed in Chapter 7 "problems involving exponents". It would be better to explain about exponents in chapter 7 because it would make us understand easier. Other than that I think its good. Everything else fits in place.
Question : Look over the lessons in Chapter 7. Why do you think the editors of this textbook put all of this material together in one chapter? What connects all of the lessons? Are there any lessons in Chapter 7 that do not fit in the chapter? Where should they go instead? Also, do you think other lessons could be added to this chapter? If so, which ones, and why? If not, why not?
ReplyDeleteAnswer: I think the editors put all these sections all together because each section relates to each other. For example factoring, decimals, and percents. I think the section fractional equations should of been in chapter 6 because there were some factoring to do. Chapter 6 was all about factoring. I think there shouldn't be any other lessons that should be added because in chapter 7 there were a lot of sections to memorize, so overall i think nothing else should be added.
Look over the lessons in Chapter 7. Why do you think the editors of this textbook put all of this material together in one chapter? What connects all of the lessons? Are there any lessons in Chapter 7 that do not fit in the chapter? Where should they go instead? Also, do you think other lessons could be added to this chapter? If so, which ones, and why? If not, why not?
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Basically, the reason why editors grouped these lessons together in chapter 7 is because decimals, fractions, percentages and ratios are related by being the symbols of representing the quantity of something, and can be converted into each other. However I think that the word problems weren't that related into this chapter even though it required knowledge about percentages. Instead of chapter 7, it would have fit better in the chapter where we had to solve word problems by making a graph. I don't really think that there should be any more lessons added to this chapter, because there is already enough information on math symbols or equations that represent quantity.
Look over the lessons in Chapter 7. Why do you think the editors of this textbook put all of this material together in one chapter? What connects all of the lessons? Are there any lessons in Chapter 7 that do not fit in the chapter? Where should they go instead? Also, do you think other lessons could be added to this chapter? If so, which ones, and why? If not, why not?
ReplyDeleteI think the editor put all the material together because all of it relate to ratio, proposition, decimal and percentage but I think that some of the subject could have been separate it and out in to different chapter. Like mixture word problem could have been under ‘Word Problem’. I don’t think other lesson should be added because the chapter is very long
Look over the lessons in Chapter 7. Why do you think the editors of this textbook put all of this material together in one chapter? What connects all of the lessons? Are there any lessons in Chapter 7 that do not fit in the chapter? Where should they go instead? Also, do you think other lessons could be added to this chapter? If so, which ones, and why? If not, why not?
ReplyDeleteChapter 7 covers a lot of materials. It includes many problems about applying fractions, which we learned in chapter 6. I believe that the editors of this textbook collected these lessons together into a single chapter because all of them are related to applying fractions to other problems such as ratios, proportions, and percentages. Although all of them are related to each other by the fact they all involve fractions. However, the last lesson of the chapter talks about negative exponents and scientific notations. I thought this lesson don't really belong in this lesson because it was the only lesson not involving calculation with fractions. Since they are more about exponents than fractions, it would be better if they are included in chapter 4 where they talk about exponents. I don't think it is necessary for the editors to add any more lessons in chapter 7 because that would make chapter 7 longer and other chapters shorter. The shortening of other chapters will cause the time period between each tests shorter, which may result in students not scoring as high as they did before.
The keyword for this whole response would be this word: fractions. We have been learning about applying fractions in specific problems and expressions, to help us solve calculations. I personally think the editors of this textbook put all of these sections in one chapter because all these lessons are somehow related to fractions and different forms of fractions. To be specific, “Ratio and Proportion” is directly affiliated with different shapes of fractions, “Fractional Equations” is related with solving equations with fractional coefficients, “Percent Problems” is about using percents in numerous problems such as discounting prices (% = 1/100), “Mixture and Work Problems” is about using fractions to solve real-life word problems (F block didn’t cover Work Problems), and “Problems Involving Exponents” is all related to simplifying extreme numbers into fractions. Just like the different sections I displayed, they are all about certain problems solved by applying fractions. If had to choose a few lessons that do not perfectly fit in Chapter 7, they would have to be “Mixture and Work Problems” and “Problems Involving Exponents”. This is because using fractions aren’t necessary when solving rate-time-distance problems, and basic scientific notations have almost nothing to do with fractions. Maybe “Mixture and Work Problems” could go in the last part of Chapter 3, where it’s focused on expanding your problem solving skills. Also, “Problems Involving Exponents” could be added to the last lesson of Chapter 2, where they are working with answering problems with real numbers. On the other hand, other lessons that might be suitable to add in this chapter could be all the lessons from chapter 6, where they deal multiplying, dividing, adding, and subtracting fractions. These are perfect for the sedimentary sections in Chapter 7!
ReplyDeleteGreat posts! And I agree, this chapter has WAY too much information in it, and adding more would be overwhelming.
ReplyDeleteI think the editors put all these lessons together in chapter 7 because they were all related to each other. I think the decimals, fractions, percentages, and the ratios, I think they were all related to each other because they were all dividing and multiplying. I think the charts did not really fit with the chapter because everything was all numbers but suddenly charts came out in the end. Maybe they should go in places where you actually learn more about charts.
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ReplyDeleteI think that the editors of this textbook decided to squeeze all the lessons into one chapter, due to the fact that fractions can be turned into decimals, as well as percentages and ratios. However, I could not think of any reason to why charts were included in this chapter. On the other hand, I don't believe that any other lessons were supposed to come out on this chapter. Also, as many other students have stated, there were FAR TOO many lessons for us to handle in the short amount of time we had in class. I believe that we shouldn't rush trying to learn all the lessons in a short amount of time because it would only make our test grades much lower, and also, we won't be able to remember anything we hastily learned when it comes to our Finals.
Look over the lessons in Chapter 7. Why do you think the editors of this textbook put all of this material together in one chapter? What connects all of the lessons? Are there any lessons in Chapter 7 that do not fit in the chapter? Where should they go instead? Also, do you think other lessons could be added to this chapter? If so, which ones, and why? If not, why not?
ReplyDeleteSorry Mr. Jobe I had problems with my computer charging and I wasn't able to use the computer for the whole spring break because it would charge. Also I have been out on a family vacation therefore computers were no where to be used. I'm very sorry.
The editor has put ratios, proportions, and percentages all together. I think the editor has done this because they all are connected to one and another. They are connected in the way that ratios can be turned into percentages. Also in order to solve how much something is number of them, you need proportion to be able to solve these word problems. Also I don't think there should be any other lessons because if there were, the lesson would be too random and it's good to learn each lessons one step by one step. Also I'm sure that the editor has put these lessons together so that they are leading to one and other. Therefore, once you master one lesson the next lesson will be harder version for the learner to learn.