10/25/13

Murderous Maths
Math Mammoth
Proverbs
Einstein's Universe
Letters of a Woman Homesteader
Sarah Plain and Tall
Fred
Fred
Math games on computer

Duct tape bag with horse collage

Looked up Winter Pony, daughter enjoying it very much but beware

With youngest, star book and King of Ireland's Son

One hour reading, one hour writing

 

Quiz 10/25/13

Tell me one thing from Proverbs so far:

Write the first line from the Gettysburg Address:

What was the writer of “Letters of a Woman Homesteader” doing for work during the time we read about today?

Tell me one thing about her life that we learned about today.

When an object falls because of gravity, it loses / gains some of its rest energy.

Give me an example of how people have for many years used something falling to do work or harness energy.

Roger Penrose thought it would be funny to speculate on how we could satisfy our

energy needs by throwing ________ into a b________________ (it would have to sp__

so they could retrieve the buckets).

A smaller star, like our Sun, ends its life by briefly expanding and then collapsing into a

w________ d_________.

A much larger star will explode into a s_____________ and then what doesn’t keep

expanding out it will collapse into a neutron star (some kinds are called p_____).  If it’s

big enough it may become a b_______________.

There may be a black hole in the center of every g___________.

Extra Credit:

When a large star explodes, the remains that keep expanding out create a n_________.

The explosion noted in 1054 by Chinese astronomers became what we can see now as

the C______ n_________.