Monday, March 14, 2011

Kaij's mathematical thesis

Is rugby really the most violent sport out there? Compare other sports to rugby and see how severe and how many occur compared to other sports.

Friday, March 11, 2011

Math Thesis

What are the chances that the Pheonix Coyotes return to Winnipeg? Also how much financial help would the jets need. Costs, fanbase, consession, etc..
Statistics on cell phones! :)

Thesis- James Mosiondz

My project is on hits in the NHL. My theory is that the league is too hard on penalizing players for big hits.

Research Project Thesis

I'm doing what my Dodge Caliber should be getting for gas mileage compared to what it is getting. Doing this by comparing my car to others who I know have the same in the valley.

Patricks Project

My math project is on the crime rates for canada vs usa

Liam's THesis

land location/caffine content in coffee bean ratio
serving size and caffine content is the serving

Monday, March 7, 2011

Mr Max tought us how to do the FCP( Fundamental Counting Principals) How many ways to do things, a thing. He showed us how to do Factional issues, and Perms and Coms. He showed us how to do problems on notation issues, Permutation Prototype and the perm formula using our calculators.

Friday, February 18, 2011

Research Project Stuff

This link takes you to the provincial government's outcomes, re: Research Project Expectations. Your project needs to be unique, personal, mathematical, & specifically sharable with the rest of the world. I.e. you will be publishing it to the web in some fashion.

Read the requirements.... here

You'll have to navigate inside the .pdf file to the part that talks about the learning outcomes for RESEARCH PROJECT, specifically.

Watch This Some Time...

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Test Today

* Show work for full marks.

* New Formula:

Equity = Value of House - Unpaid Balance

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Effective Annual Interest Rate Calculator

For those of us who dont know how to calculate effective annual interest rates, some nice person made a calculator for us!


Lower on the page the formula for finding effective rate is stated as;

r = [ (1+i/n)^n ] - 1

so if you had a nominal rate of 11% being compounded semi-annually, your formula would be [(1+.11/2)^2]-1 which equals .113025, which when multiplied by 100 is 11.3%.

Monday, February 14, 2011

Case Study #1 & #2




Today in class Mr.Max went over case studies 1 & 2 with us to show how to do them properly.

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Leasing vs. Buying











Today we learned what a lease is, the difference between lease and purchase deals, and also the advantages and disadvantages of leasing and buying.




Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Heads Up!

For those of you whom are working on accelerated math this is a helpful video for knowing how to do effective annual interest and nominal interest!


Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Gross Debt Service Ratio





Today we learnt about GDSR, Or Gross Debt Service Ratio


Basically, it answers the question "Can I afford to live here?"


It is a measure of financial well being only associated with housing


GDSR formula is GDSR = (Monthly Mortgage + Monthly Heating Costs + Monthly Property Tax) divided by ( monthly Gross household income) then you multiply all that by 100.


Your GDSR should NEVER exceed 32%


Mr. Max gave us an assignment to find out whether or not John can afford to buy a home, what the cost of the most expensive home he should be shopping for is, and, if he buys this home, how much interest he'd pay in the first year.


He also gave us a second case study, which is to do question #14 on the handout he gave us earlier.


Reminder: We have a test Tuesday


Monday, February 7, 2011

What we do.
















Today we learned how to calculate our Financial "goodness" or "Well Being" and the different values that effect it.





Our "Net Worth" which is how much you have or are worth after deductions. The two things that govern it are your assets(your positive or how much you have) and your liabilities (the negative or how much you owe).





The second factor that effects your Financial Well Being is your Debt/Equity Ratio, see below for the equation. The major thing to remember about this lesson is that your debt equity ratio should not be more than 50%.





The third and last thing that effects your Financial Well Being is your ability to get the bank to give you money, which is called your Credit Rating. Which means how well and how often you pay your bills.










Our assignment is to use the information we gained during the class to get "Sammy's" Finnacial Well Being.