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Heres proof that the angles in a triangle add to 180 degrees.

We lookes at squares and rhombuses (les losanges)

And triangles

And kites.

We are starting to talk about perimeter and are.

We are meeting people who can help us.  Today we learned about student success

And about our adolescent care worker.  She told us about how to relax, and be mindful.

Later we practiced counting by unit fractions.  Today we used “one fourth”.

We are taking a moment to appreciate some of the awesome things we have in our lives.

Everyone can add more awesome things as they think of them.

It was a very hot day today, so we went for some math walks.  Here we found an engineer sporting a flipped visor.  They love dividing fractions, just like we do! (Flip da visor).  Queen’s students are in their frosh week activities now.

Visors are everywhere!

We found a frosh who was a KC student last year.  He had good advice for high school.

We walked around the perimeter of the field.  Some of us had energy to run.

We also showed the radius of the circle we found.

Math is everywhere!  

Today we used beans to do some math.

We talked about counting, and representing.  We had all sorts of ideas about how to determine how many beans there were without counting each bean.

Some counted groups of beans

Some made rectangles out of beans and multiplied the rows by the columns

Some measured the length of a bean, and the length of all of the beans in a line, and divided.
We started our bean investigation.  We put the beans in damp paper towel, and then into a baggie.

Our windowsill will soon be a garden!

We made estimates of how many beans will germinate, and represented that in a variety of forms.

We’ve learned lots about organic chemistry and today we used our knowledge to synthesize esters.  We made 3 different types.  One smelled like nailpolish remover, another like bananas, and a third like wintergreen mint.  

Today we are writing culminating math investigations in grade 9.   We are showing lots of graphing algebra and problem solving skills.

We are learning about organic chemistry, and are having fun making 3-D models of molecules to see what they look like.

Our beans are now large enough to eat!