11/29/20 Test

For each numbered task, rewrite the problem. When appropriate, provide your analysis of the problem and your proof of the solution. You may not consult anyone or anything except your own brain. Once you begin, you have four hours to complete the test. Good luck and think well!

1. Present one of your goals, your plan to accomplish it, and discuss your progress.
2. Discuss how Ip Man demonstrated the five moral principles of taekwondo.
3. Discuss what To Kill A Mockingbird and Origin Story have taught you about the human condition.
4. Classify the quadrilaterals and explain how each can be cut and the pieces rearranged into a rectangle.
5. Determine the quadrilateral which encloses the greatest area for a fixed perimeter.
6. Determine the quadrilateral which uses the least perimeter to contain a fixed area.
7. How many cubic feet of soil do we still need to fill our garden boxes?
8. The principal of a school wants to socially distance students and teachers under tents during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Determine the tent sizes required to shelter n people.
9. Determine the side of a square whose area is 2.
10. Present your algorithms for the computation of a + b, a − b, a × b, and a ÷ b.
11. Write the equations which preserve the relationship among a, b, and c established by a + b = c.
12. Write the equations which preserve the relationship among a, b, and c established by a − b = c.
13. Write the equations which preserve the relationship among a, b, and c established by a × b = c.
14. Write the equations which preserve the relationship among a, b, and c established by a ÷ b = c.
15. Which fractions have n digits in radix b?
16. Which fractions terminate with n in radix b?
17. Explain how to convert terminating decimals to irreducible fractions.
18. Explain how to write multiples of the common fractions as decimals.
19. Count the representations of xⁿ.
20. Create 5 ounces of solution that is one part salt to 4 parts water.
21. The government doesn't care about us so why should we care about the government? Take a position and justify it.
22. Write an essay about Hinton's exploration of prejudice in The Outsiders.
23. Discuss the similarities between Fiddler On The Roof and East-Side Sushi.

Problems

• Make a menu for this week, including a recipe from Mastering The Art of French Cooking, and prepare a shopping list.
• Update your webpage about ancient mathematical art with more examples, and update your timeline.
• Create three original pieces of mathematical art similar to what you found.
• Create a new history webpage about the first civilization to record the periodicity of planetary phenomenon and update your timeline.
• Create a new history webpage about the first civilization to record a study of human anatomy. Update your timeline, sketch the organs they identified, and describe their functions.
• Add more detail to your webpage about the world’s first recorded chemist.
• Write a play in which two characters duel over Aristotle's claim that happiness is impossible without property.
• Compare and contrast the social systems of hunter-gatherers to that of the earliest civilizations.
• Identify the literary themes in your favorite novel.