Coffee and Doughnuts

Coffee and Doughnuts.  Two of my favorite things, but that is besides the point.  Read below and solve the word problem. 

On Monday Mr. Goetsch brought 10 cups of coffee and 5 doughnuts for the math department at the cost of $16.50.  It turns out the doughnuts were way more popular, so on Tuesday he bought 5 cups of coffee and 10 doughnuts for $14.25.  How much was each cup of coffee. 


Solve.

Then, share your favorite doughnut in the comments.  I go through doughnut favorite phases.  My current favorite is a cruller.  

Correlation

Positive Correlation:

The weight of the tube and the speed of the waterslide.

(One thing increases the other increases)














Negative Correlation:

The number of hours she sleeps at night and the length of her nap.  

(As one thing decreases the other increases.)

No Correlation:  

The the number of siblings you have and your favorite number.  

(No relation) 

Mine is 1 and 13 because I know you wanted to know.  

In the comments, give me two things that are positively correlated or negatively correlated.  

If you had to choose today?

My husband I went to the Badger game on Saturday.  The babysitter cost us what we paid for each ticket, parking was one-fifth of a ticket, and food was double the parking.  If we spent $324, what did we pay for both tickets?

In the comments post:
1.  the answer to this problem
2.  If you had to choose today, what college would you like to go to?

Simplify

A simple life has a different meaning and a different value for every person. But, basically it means eliminating all but the essential, and spending your time doing what’s important to you.

It means getting rid of many of the things you do so you can spend time with people you love and do the things you love. It means getting rid of the clutter so you are left with only that which gives you value.

In math it is no different.  To simplify means you get rid of things/clutter (grouping symbols, exponents and operations) so that you are left with a value. 

Simplify, and post your answer in the comments.  

10 × 4 - 2 × (4² ÷ 4) ÷ 2 ÷ 1/2 + 9

Introducing myself through a photo dump from my phone.

1.  My Family:  Me, my husband, and daughter Hope.  She is 2.5 years old.

2.  Something I like to do:   Run

3.  Favorite Food:  Cereal.  

4.  Best part of my job:  Working with all of you!!!! But since I have no picture of that I will say my awesome co-workers!!! 

5.  Bad Habit:  Using exclamation points too often.  See #4.  And without a doubt my beloved diet mountain dew.  (Which Mr. McDonald and I are thinking of giving up this school year.  Wish us luck.) 

In the comments tell me something about your family, favorite thing to do, favorite food, your job, or your bad habit.  

Meet my Dad

This is my Dad.

High School math teacher for 41 years.  I had him for 2 of those years.......honors geo, and honors pre-calc.

A few years ago we were playing cribbage and I mentioned how we now intro the unit circle at the end of honors algebra 2, and so I was going to have to put that lesson together.

The next day this HANDWRITTEN packet shows up at my door..........with a donut.........my dad always brings me a donut.

I thought about re-typing the notes, but for sentimental reasons, I just did not want to.  So without further ado go to bb9 and open unit circle notes.  (and yes, he still writes in cursive........who does that??)

Before leaving this page if you want to comment about your dad, his job, his favorite food, activity you do together.  Go for it.  I love reading that stuff.  

Spring Break.

Welcome back!

Hope you relaxed, enjoyed some time away, ate some jelly beans.

We made $1.50, got 8 reese's PB cups, and bunny figurine. I am counting that as a successful egg hunt.

It is now Monday night.  I am gearing up for the return by doing this.......

Mathematically, can you remember what we did before break?  

In the comments answer any of the following.  

Something you did over break?

Favorite Easter Candy?  

What did we do in math before break?