Introduction!

This....is my very first blog! 

So, if there are mistakes bare with me. This is my first blog post for my math class (157) and I am excited to see what is in store! :)

Probability Day #1!

On Monday we started our unit of probability. We did an activity that was called Healthy Fish. Everyone in the class paired up with a partner and we were suppose to be given bags of multicolored goldfish, but the bags of goldfish were nowhere to be found. So, we had to pretend. By the way, if your reading my post and your the one who stole the bags of goldfish, we're coming to get you! Anyways, our teacher, Mrs. Klassen, handed out a worksheet that we were to fill out as we did the activity. Each group was given and x amount of healthy fish and an x amount of unhealthy fish for our pretend pond. In my group we had 82 healthy fish and 8 unhealthy fish. Next, Mrs. Klassen let us solve the questions on our worksheet on our own. This was a great way for us to be active while learning. Some of the problems/questions that we had to solve were "compute the probability that a fish in your pond is healthy." "Unhealthy." My group found that the probability of having a healthy fish in our pond was 82:90. 82 being the number of healthy fish that we were given and 90 being the total number of fish in our pond (82+8). We did the same process to compute the probability of the unhealthy fish. healthy unhealthy
  
After the activity we talked about some math vocabulary that we needed to know for the unit. The three vocabulary words that I found most interesting were Equally Likely, Impossible Event and Certain Event. They are all pretty self explanatory and straight forward. Equally likely is when the outcomes or results of an experiment are likely as one another. Impossible event is something that will never happen. An example would be pulling a tiger or giraffe out of the pond. Certain event is something that will happen. An example of that would be that you will always pull a fish out of the pond. 

It was a fun filled day in math class! More blog posts to come, stay tuned! :)

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Lauren