How Math Connects To The Research Task [Math]

Some would argue that math does not connect to our research task at all. That though is not true. Through my research on Afghanistan I had to use a lot of math skills to help me do the best research. Math can connect to our task in many ways. For example, in some of my research I learned new percentages about how many deaths there has been in the past year in Afghanistan. Along with percentages I also read a lot about numbers of fighters and numbers years. When it came to years, there were a lot. There were years of war or even how many years the soldiers would be in Afghanistan. Sometimes the text did not give the whole information and I opted to figure out the different between the years to find out how many years that the Soviets and Afghanistan fought. I also had to look at some graphs to find information. Even though I did not wish to use any information I learned of these maps in my essay, it was still in my research process. Also, I read about a lot of numbers. Numbers of deaths, number of soldiers, rankings. Those all relate with math as well. I learned rankings for Afghanistan, and again, death tolls. Overall, our research task did involve math.

Class Response- Start of Biology

Recently in class we started learning the building blocks of biology. We learned the structures of animals. The basic unit of structure and function in a living thing is a cell. They make up any living thing, whether plant or animal. Another aspect we learned were the levels of organization and functions of all animals. The four major functions of an animal is, obtaining food and oxygen, being able to move, reproduction and keeping conditions stable. All animals need oxygen and food to survive. All animals reproduce. They either do sexual reproduction or asexual reproduction. Sexual reproduction is the process in which a new organism develops from the joining of two sex cells. Asexual reproduction is the process by which a single organism produces a new organism identical to itself. Along with learning all of those, classification of animals was also something we learned. Overall, we learned most of the basics of biology.

I loved learning about all of these things about animals. Even though a lot of it was a review, I still found it very interesting. I am looking forward to this unit and especially dissecting some animals, such as a starfish. I like this unit better than our last one, chemistry. The hands on work is always fun, but to get there we must do all of the work we're doing currently. At least there's a lot of fun to look forward to!

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