With Thanksgiving this week, what are you thankful for?

I am thankful for so many things. So many great things happened in my life in this couple of years. I am thankful for my health, good furtune, friends, family, karma etc. And I am also thankful for my mom and my stepfather, who I consider my father for everything he has done to us. I study in a great school, I have so many awesome friends and I just have to be thankful for everything that happened in my life. Yesterday I lived in Brazil, didn’t speak Spanish or English and didn’t have any idea about what its like to be out of your country and accept new ideas. Today I have new ideas, I know a different culture I am more open-minded and I am just so happy to have this. I know that that will help me so much in my life. I am thankful to my family and to god. Thank you so much for this opportunity in life.

Talk to me about how your project is going...which is due December 6th!

My projet is going fine. I am almost finishing my research, which is about radical expressions and triangles. I already picked a topic to my project on, I fond two people who contributed to the study of this topic. And that is Pythagoras, who was a Greek mathematician that helped the research of this topic and Decartes, who was the first one to use and present the first version of the symbol for radical expressions. I learned that no one really "invented" the sign - it developed over the years. Which is really cool since the first person who invented it died. I Wrote the contributions that these two people made to the topic you have chosen.and all I need to do know is to display one problem that one of your chosen people proposed or solved. And the conclusion. So, I am doing fine in my project and I will have it ready for December 6th.

ps. This picture does not show how I am doing my project

Explain ways you have used math recently in your life

I have used a lot of math lately in math. We use math every day, sometimes we use math and we don't even notice that. for example: we use a lot of math when we go to grocery stores or malls. We have to count and figure out how much money we have to pay. We also use a lot of percentage of change for example when we calculate taxes and sales when we are buying something. I also use a lot of math when it comes to dates. I am always counting how many days its left for mine or my friends birthday. And also in science. We use a lot of math in science. like when we are doing an experiment, we have to know how much water, and things to put in the experiment and count how much we put it so the experiment will work. So, we can see that we can use math in a lot of ways in our lives.

What has been the most difficult topic so far this year? Why? Do you understand it now?

The most difficult topic for me this year for me so far would be the topic on probality, the part on finding the odds. It wasn’t that hard I think that I didn’t understand it very well because I wasn’t paying attention to the explanation and it took me a while to understand it. And I think it’s also because I don’t like fractions that much. For me that was the most difficult one but, it’s not difficult anymore.

What is the best way you learn in the math class and why?

The best way I learn math is by understanding it. There is a lot of ways to learn math. You can learn math by just reading the steps of a book and memorazing them. You can also ask your teacher to tell you what you have to do and you pratice it. You can just start doing something without even knowing what to do. But the best way I learm math is by looking at the book, my math teacher explaining to me what the book is talking about. and then I do some exercises to show that I understand it and that I know what I am doing. So, it is a little bit of all the ways of learning math together.