So, been a pretty good week as far as weeks go. I've got the position of class councilor! (Yay!) I've nearly finished my head student application and room three won at jump jam! Go us!
Anyway, we have been doing a lot of maths. I skipped a lot of the work because I already know it, so I'm doing integers! Negatives trip me up a lot but when it's just addition and subtraction it's relatively easy.
Example: -8 + 6
The method I was taught last year goes as such;
You write a number line
-9 -8 -7 -6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
You start at the first number, negative 8. Since it's addition, you face the big imaginary plus sign which is at the right end of the number line, and since the second number is positive you go forward that many spaces. (If the second number was negative you would face the plus and go backwards.) Therefore, -8+6=-2
I also got only one wrong in the puncuation and grammar PAT test for the year level above me. Yay me!
Hopefully I get head student, but if I don't I know it's because there's better suited people than me. Still, I really want the position. Too bad I lost my four leafed clover.
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