7th Grade School Project
 
     Blogging about math on Mondays did help me. When we write it, it's usually right after we learn it when it's fresh in my mind. After a while, I start to forget (due to my ADHD), so I use my older Math Monday blog posts as references when I'm struggling on homework or things like that.
     Around the bottom of this page are some examples of this kind of help. I do use posts to refresh my mind. Sure, searching it online would be easier, but most time they use big words, and as you may have noticed, I'm as bright as an eclipse. I can understand the way our teacher puts it, but in my own words is easier to understand. 
     A good site to use for checking answers (not finding answers) is Wolfram Alpha. They have everything! You can even search "Do you love me?" and it came up, "Yes, I love anyone who asks me questions." Creepy, but cool. There are a lot of sites you can use. You can even just type it in a search engine such as Google or Yahoo. I just find Wolfram Alpha easier because they even give examples and step-by-step directions to how to solve it on your own. I learn from there; it's almost better than learning in class! I highly encourage you to check it out. 
     Most websites are complicated, especially if you go on Google and type "Define ___." After searching that, my brain exploded! 
 
     There were some difficult subjects this semester. Of course it would get harder because teachers hate us. Kidding. Our brains are getting more complex, so we can handle more. The most difficult thing has to be finding the slope of a line on a graph. 
     Oh. My. God. HARDEST THING EVER!! I was so confused! There was no way I could understand it. It's like "Slope equals slope (rise over run). Then a variable. I don't know why there is a variable. Then add or subtract the y-intercept. I don't know how to determine the operation you're supposed to use! When in the world would we ever use this in real life?? Same thing with the Pythagorean Theorm. WHEN?! 
     I eventually overcame it (it was about time!). My dad helped me alot. Only my dad can do this stuff. He can dumb-it-down so I understand. He is GENIUS!! My mom hasn't been able to help me since fourth grade because we both have learning disorders, so it's really hard for us to understand and remember the material we worked on. My dad helped me solve it and we came up with a little face to use to remember called Mrs. Slope. It's hard to describe. It helped on the CST testing, though. 
 
     Science wouldn't be the same without math. When doing experiments, pretty much the whole thing depends on math. For example, in science a few weeks ago, we were using mirrors at different distances to show how we appear to be smaller when you are further away. We used meter sticks. We had one person stand 2 meters, then 4, then 6 away from the mirror. One of us recorded the height from the floor to the line drawn horizontally down the middle of the mirror and  someone held the mirror and moved it around so the line drawn appeared to be lined up with our toes. One of us recorded. 
     When we got back inside (we did the experiment outside; it was SO HOT!), we wrote down our measurements and then turned them into a decimal, then a ratio. The whole thing was fairly simple, but I was in bad shape that day, 

Amber's Fabulous Website