May 8, 2012

Today we we had a circus in calc...not really.  Tomorrow is our AP Calc test which I'm super not excited for because it's gonna be so hard but today our teacher planned a little game for us.  According to Cari, he was super excited about all the games he had and he was telling her all about them before our class haha :)  So our class was split up into three teams using a random number website...(or so he said...we were all on our friends' teams so...yeah) anyway, then he had I think four games for us to play.  The first one was a worksheet that started at the first person and they had to solve the problem, and then their answer filled in some part of the next equation and they passed it down the line until each person on the team answered a question.  It was quite interesting I guess.  The second game was a puzzle that we had to complete by reconstructing three pieces of computer paper that were cut up that each had different calculus problems on them that had to be put in the right order.  It was hard because there were a lot of white pieces that were just floating around.  Then we played a basketball game where the whole team had five questions to answer in four minutes.  After the four minutes, we crumpled our pieces of paper and threw them into the recycling bins.  Our teacher than took all the papers that were in the recycling bin and those teams got points for whatever problems made them in!  The two kids throwing are the ones from my team!  As you can see from the ground, this is definitely a calculus class and not a basketball team haha :)  One team's strategy was to throw all the papers at once in hopes that at least one would make it in...none did haha :)  We actually made the most, I'm pretty sure.  The last game was like charades where one person got a calculus term and then had to draw a picture representing it on the board and the team had to guess what it was in thirty seconds.   It was a pretty great day in calculus if I do say so :)  We don't know who won because he has to tally the worksheets and stuff tonight.  I hope the test won't be that hard tomorrow!!  Tomorrow's a late start but I don't get to sleep in.  I actually have to wake up earlier because the test starts twenty minutes earlier than our normal school day.  Boo.  Anyway, 11 Days!!