Date: Mon Oct 14 07:12:44 PDT 2002
Student's Name: Victoria
Answer(or question to Mentor): I think the answer would be 6.2 miles away. I decided to do the problem 5 divided by 32 because it took 5 seconds for the thunder to travel 1 mile. If it took 32 seconds it problem came 6.2 miles.
Date: Mon Oct 14 07:30:09 PDT 2002
Student's Name: Victoria
Answer(or question to Mentor): I think the answer would be 6.4 miles because I did 10 divided by 64. I did this because you always see lighting before you can hear thunder.32+32=64 seconds and 5+5=10 seconds.64 divided by 10 = 6.4.So the answer is 6.4 miles that sound travels in miles per second. I don’t know how to do this in feet I mite need some help with this problem.
Date: Thu Oct 17 19:41:25 PDT 2002
Student's Name: Victoria
Mentor Reply: Victoria,
Thank you for submitting a response. I can see that you
did come up with the correct answer, but I do not
understand how you accomplished it. For instance, can
you please explain why you doubled 32 and 5, then
divided the two sums? I really look forward to your
response.
Elvene
Date: Fri Oct 18 15:56:20 PDT 2002
Student's Name: Victoria
Instructor Comments: Elvene,
Excellent response to a difficult submission. The only revision I would suggest is to make it clear that her answer of 6.4 was correct rather than her first answer of 6.2.
I also like the way that you formatted your response by adding a line break after every line. As you can see, this makes it easy to read. As you can also see, I am not doing that!!
Dr. Bowers
Date: Sun Oct 20 09:54:07 PDT 2002
Student's Name: Victoria
Mentor Reply: Victoria,
Thank you for submitting a response. I can see that you
did come up with the correct answer of 6.4, but I do
not understand how you accomplished it. For instance,
can you please explain why you doubled 32 and 5, then
divided the two sums? I really look forward to your
response.
Elvene
Date: Tue Oct 22 17:45:56 PDT 2002
Student's Name: Victoria
Answer(or question to Mentor): I just think I gessed on that question.to tell yoiu the truth I really don't know the answer.Maby you could help me.I have never really been a good math student even right now I think i have a C or maby even lower.In every other subject I have A's and B's.I am very glad to have you as a mentor.
Love,Toy
Date: Wed Oct 23 19:21:45 PDT 2002
Student's Name: Victoria
Answer(or question to Mentor): I am doing the 2_nd challange question and once again I am haveing some problems with the challenge questions this week!I think that I mite need a little help with them.This time I am not shure what method to use on this problem an dI just tryed my best to figure out the answer to them.The first one which was per minute I got 6,000 and I just did 100 times 60 and you get 6,00 for your answer.the second one was per hour and on that one I did 100 times 24 and I got 2,400 for my answer.I did that because there are 24 hours in a day.the next one which was per week I got 16,800because I did first 24 times 7 because there are 24 hours in a day and there are 7 dys in a week.I got 168 and then I did 168 times 100 and I got 16,800.The next one was pre year and I did 365 times 100 because 365 days are in a year.My answer was 36.500.i don't know if I did these right I shure hope so I've got to go study for a math test so good bye!!!!
Date: Sun Oct 27 07:48:09 PST 2002
Student's Name: Victoria
Mentor Reply: Victoria,
Thanks for being honest with me. I am glad that you at
least made an effort. As for the problems, the answer
to the problem of the week is 6.4 miles. For the 1st
challenge problem, the answer is 1056 feet. The answers
to the 2nd challenge problem are: a)6000 times per
minute, b)360,000 times per hour, c)8,640,000 times per
day, d)60,480,000 times per week, e)241,920,000 times
per month, f)2,903,040,000 times per year. Remember to
always try your best. I am looking forward to hearing
from you soon.
Elvene
