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Hi everyone here are the responses for this weeks discussion:
Part A: For me, exponents are a challenge. I can handle the easy ones, but when we start to add letters and those letters have powers with other letters I simply get completely lost and cant get out! I have never been great at math, but because I am a visual learner, I like to see the problem in front of me and even if it takes an entire page for me to get an answer to a problem, well then I guess that is what will happen. I am so glad that we have all these helpers so that we can revert to step 1 if we need to for any algebraic equation. I usually will go to youtube and I have heard of Khan Academy as well. I have a high school aged daughter who has used that and that is how I would get refreshers when she needed my help. I absolutely really, really like patrickjmt.com. As I stated before, I am a visual learner and I really appreciate how he breaks every problem down step by step and that really helps me.
http://patrickjmt.com/basic-exponent-properties/
Part B: I followed the desmos.com link for the calculator and I am so happy about this! I was planning on borrowing my daughters because I remember that I needed one back in high school, but I wish we had access to this when I was in high school. I really think I would have made things much easier. I really like the way they have the examples of many graphs from Slope Intercept for us who are doing the easier math and it goes all the way to Calculus. This is definitely such an innovative helper that I will for sure be using.
Part C: The information that these graphs are showing, although at a glance the graphs may look different and one may think that the blue means cold and the red means hot, we can see that both are showing that humidity and temperatures that can be harmful Yes, the graphs are consistent and this is because even though they are different in terms of what they are showing (one temperature the other humidity), both show danger zones. Here is a link of a day that reached more than 35° C.
https://meteologix.com/be/observations/sicily/temperature/20220702-1500z.html#obs-detail-164590
-Ari
