Post Lesson 11 work

I am busy on Saturday, so I am going mad trying to get all the work done in the week. I wrote a draft of my paper and sent it off to the teacher to see if I am on the right track, I did Worksheets A and B, and I did both quizzes. I got a 90% on the first one and 100% on the second one. Yay me!

Workings of Lesson 12

I got two wrong on the Exam, which amounts to 86%! I also did the part A worksheet.

Lesson 11

Is it Lesson 11 already? Time sure flies when you work very hard.

Anyway, I did Worksheet A and only got one wrong on the quiz, which isn't too bad considering I have never done slope before in my life.

Post Lesson 8

I did my Life Plan Part 3 as best I could, but it was not really taught in the gathering, so I had to go by what the worksheets said. It's frustrating that most my classmates in the gathering, save the missionaries and the few special classmates, don't seem to care about helping me. Thank goodness for Sister Megan Hansen, as she is one of the best teachers I have ever had for Math, and she is helping me to figure out where I went wrong so I can fix it and keep moving forward.

I managed to get 74% on the same exam, so I will keep redoing it until I do better.

Lesson 9

After trying the Exam yet again, I managed a very sweet 81% and I am happy about it.

Lesson 10

I have been really busy this past weekend with freelance work, but I managed to get everything handed in that was supposed to be handed in.

Lesson 8

Is it really Lesson 8 already? Wow, time goes very fast when you are working as hard as I have been.

I did some of Worksheet A and then I decided to try the quiz and I ended up taking it twice, as I did rather badly the first time. The second time, however, I only got two wrong and I am VERY happy with that, as it amounts to 78% and means I am slowly getting there.

I'll work on the rest of Worksheet A LATER, as it's not due til Wednesday at midnight.

I eventually finished the worksheet and managed to get an 80% on the quiz after six times of taking it and realizing I could do the complex stuff on my calculator.

Lesson 7

My printer has no black ink in it currently, so I am doing Worksheet A's problems in a notebook and will probably go get some ink tomorrow. I am supposing that it doesn't matter if I do the work on a sheet or not as long as I get it done, so this way works.

I ended up taking the quiz twice and got 1 wrong each time, which equates to 88%, so I do have a basic understanding of these things, which is fine with me.

Lesson 6 and Post-Lesson 6

I am in Lesson 6 already. I did worksheet A and also watched the tutorial video by Brother Baird as I have in the previous weeks. I am surprised about how keen he is about math, but some people are.

There is no quiz this week! YAY! Instead, we have to submit a spreadsheet assignment!

I sent it off to get approval from the instructor and then I reviewed the pamphlet by Elder Ashton concerning money.

75 percent of all divorces result from clashes over finances.

Every family should have a budget.

1. Pay an honest tithing
2. Learn how to manage money before it manages you.
3. Learn self-discipline and restraint in money matters
4. Use a budget
5. Teach Family Members the importance of working and earning.
6. TEACH CHILDREN TO MAKE MONEY DECISIONS IN KEEPING WITH THEIR CAPACITIES TO COMPREHEND.
7. TEACH EACH FAMILY MEMBER TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE TOTAL FAMILY WELFARE
8. MAKE EDUCATION A CONTINUING PROCESS
9. WORK TOWARD HOME OWNERSHIP
10. APPROPRIATELY INVOLVE YOURSELF IN AN INSURANCE PROGRAM
11. UNDERSTAND THE INFLUENCE OF EXTERNAL FORCES ON FAMILY FINANCES AND INVESTMENTS
12. APPROPRIATELY INVOLVE YOURSELF IN A FOOD STORAGE AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS PROGRAM
-Use a debt-elimination calendar.

I started the exam at 12:21 p.m. and I ended at 2:17 p.m. I am tired. I got 72%, which means I must retake it once I get permission.

I got permission and restarted the exam at 5:08 and finished at 6:23. I am happy to report that I got 27/32, which is 84%!

After doing more studying, I decided to take the test again and I got the exact same mark. :)

Post Lesson 5

I did the worksheets I was supposed to and took the quiz twice, as I got one wrong the first time. However, I got 100% on the second try, so I'm very happy. I filled out the accountability surveys, the mid-course feedback, and also submitted my weekly report!

Lesson 5

Variables and formulas are an interesting concept and I find myself enamored by them.

I did the A worksheet according to the formula sheet and the only formula that I didn't understand was the temperature conversion one, as it didn't make sense.

I did the quiz twice and I ended up getting one wrong on the first try and 100% on the second try!

Post Lesson 3

May 12, 2016
I started the first exam, but I only did the questions that I knew and then saved the exam to complete at a later point in the weekend. The study sheet wasn't completely loading and the groups I have been part of during gatherings have been less than helpful in including me in their discussions of how to do the problem solving questions that involve unit conversions. I emailed my professor about that.

May 13, 2016
I learned a helpful trick from a visitor to Pathways last night and I also got a tutoring session in and screencapped the example he, the tutor gave me. I am going to try to finish the test. I did finish the test and ended up with 77% percent and even though that is a good grade, I emailed the professor for permission to retake it because I know I can do better.

Lesson 4

I was able to do the math work with a calculator today, so it was a lot faster and a lot less stressful! I ended up getting below the passing mark on the quiz, so Sister Hansen is letting me take it again and I did so in the evening after a prayer. I got the same questions wrong and so I wrote Sister Hansen and explained what I got wrong even though I knew what I was doing in the formulas.

Post Lesson 4

I managed to finally retake the test and get 80% on it, which I am happy with and I also did all my worksheets properly and with a lot of effort. I also got two wrong on my second attempt at the quiz, but one was completely my fault because I didn't trust what the calculator said and I need to. I also did my Portfolio assignment and it looks very interesting, much like Accounting.

Lesson 3

I started off by reading the online textbook and taking notes on fractions and unit conversions.

After I was done reading, I turned my attention to the first exercise sheet. I might have found an error on the answer key, but I am not sure, so I emailed my instructor about it. I was heavily distracted by Alex trying to tell me she lost her key, so I lost my concentration when it came to adding fractions and I ended up getting that question wrong again the second time I took the quiz, but I did my best and ultimately got 86% (only one wrong the second time) on this week's quiz.

Post Lesson 2

Today's work involved Part C of Section 1.3 exercises, which had to be done all by hand, and it was such a grueling exercise to get through, but I managed. I'm glad I said a prayer before I started.

I ended up taking the quiz twice and the multiplying and dividing decimals are the things I am still having issues with. I was able to figure everything else out thanks to a couple of tricks Brittany and Sarah, who are from my class, taught me during the gathering. 8/10 isn't overly a bad score.

Lesson 2

Decimals and division...ecch....I hope God gives me the patience for this.

I first had to watch a video and do a worksheet about decimals. Some of the math I simply cannot do in my head, but I know the proper way to do them, so I used the calculator on my computer. The worksheets were exhausting, but I might get a handle on this stuff eventually.

It took doing them on paper and watching the video by Brother Baird and thinking about it before I could figure out how to do it properly, but I'm getting there.

 I took the quiz once and got one wrong and took it again and got two wrong. I seem to be getting the percentages slowly, but I am still messing up on the decimals slightly when it comes to multiplication and subtraction. It amounts to a 90%, which I will gladly take and run with, as I am doing fairly well.

Post Lesson 1

I did Section 1.2 Exercises Part C, made a spreadsheet of my expenses, and also contacted those who have shared their contact information with me about how I did the assignment. I then took a quiz concerning what I have taught and learned and got 100% on the first try. I find that I need to write the estimation problems down because once I see them, they make complete sense to me.

I also made a decision on the book I am going to study for my financial review assignment and wrote a short explanation as to why I chose the book. After I finished that write-up, I turned my attention to the spreadsheet assignment and made up a budget for five years from now.

I did email the professor because I have done the assignments, but I am not sure if they are done the way she wants them. The professor did get back to me and she is so pleased with my Life Plan Part 1 spreadsheet and the way I went about determining an estimate income.

Teaching Lesson 1

I dressed up in Sunday clothes to teach Lesson 1 and we started out by the group of us waiting out in the parking lot for Brother Blackwell to get us into the building! We had no keys to get in so him and his son, Daniel, who is going to serve in Brussels, (kudos to him!) came and let us in.

The lesson went fairly well and Sister Gilmour even said I teach better by myself than with other people, which I wholeheartedly agree with! I picked Lesson 1 because it was rounding and estimation and I know how to do those things fairly well, so it was a no-brainer to pick it!

I had a really bad experience team teaching with two others in my first semester of Pathways and so I begged and pleaded to be allowed to teach alone for the other two semesters. In short, a member of the group didn't like me and found it proper to badmouth me to the other member of the group and also to the Pathway missionaries. This was after I had taken the initiative to do most of the work.

Anyway, tonight went very well and I am working on finding the balance between being a teacher and being friends with the students I teach. Maybe someday, I will be able to do that even better.

Lesson 1

Rounding and estimation, the lesson I chose to teach because it looked the easiest...

One of those videos by Brother Baird was the first thing I got to look at in the lesson. Rounding is close to the real value, but not exactly the amount. The purpose of rounding is to help us pick up on patterns that might apply to the use of other numbers. It gives an approximate, not solid answer.

Rounding is the process of estimation.
1,234,567.8901
anything to the right of the decimal point is tenths, hundreths, and thousandths, ten thousandths, hundred thousandths, and so on.
anything to the left of the decimal point is ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, ten thousands, hundred thousands, millions, etc.

Anything above 5 is rounded up and anything below 5 is rounded down.

I also did a worksheet about rounding and after I did the worksheet, I did a quiz on rounding. I took my time on the quiz and ended up getting 100%

I worked on this for a little over an hour and I printed out the pages I need to teach this week.