Date: Mon Oct 14 06:17:13 PDT 2002
Student's Name: Ragon Answer(or question to Mentor): Hi Angelica!
My name is Ragon Christine Miller. I am a eleven year old girl that is ready to learn. Well, I think that the answer is 6 2/5 miles. How did I get this answer, I said since there is one lightning bolt and five seconds, I counted by fives, and you would have two left over. And that would be 2/5 of a mile.
-Ragon Miller-
Date: Thu Oct 17 22:26:31 PDT 2002
Student's Name: Ragon Mentor Reply: **POST
Hi Ragon,
I’m glad to hear you are ready to learn. You were right to
think that the answer was 6 2/5 miles. Your explanation
was very clear and direct. If the lightning was 6 2/5 miles away,it would take 32 seconds to hear the sound of thunder.
You did such a great job with this problem, please try the
challenge problem.
I’ll be looking forward to your answer. Let me know if you
need some help.
Sincerely,
Angelica
Date: Fri Oct 18 06:29:44 PDT 2002
Student's Name: Ragon Answer(or question to Mentor): Hey!! Its Ragon Again!!
How are you? And school? I'll cut to the chase. Um, along with alot of my friends, we did not get our responces even though in the box it says you have, could you try and see if you can send it again? Because my teacher said she knows that she saw my answer and your response. But enough about that, I would like to try the challenge problems.
1) I am not that sure for the first one. I will say I know that when lighting/thunder shows up, it will be a couple of minutes before it to produce sound. Please send me what you think.
2)
a.500
b.6000
c.600
d.16800
e.dont get
f.dont get
I multiplied it by onehundred every time because there is 100 times in each second.
ragon-
Date: Fri Oct 18 14:58:49 PDT 2002
Student's Name: Ragon Instructor Comments: Angelica,
Perfect response. The problem that Ragon refers to is that the teacher didn't understand the system: she logged on using the administrator's password and found all of the responses and showed them to the children who were obviously eager to hear from the mentors. NOt a big deal, especially in this case since you did such a perfect job in responding. Just submit what you have, and, at the same time, respond to his questions about the challenge.
Dr. B
Date: Sun Oct 20 21:17:11 PDT 2002
Student's Name: Ragon Mentor Reply: Hi, Ragon I’m glad to hear you are ready to learn. You were right to think that the answer was 6 2/5 miles. Your explanation was very clear and direct. If the lightning was 6 2/5 miles away, it would take 32 seconds to hear the sound of thunder. You did such a great job with this problem, just remember when trying the challenge problem to convert into the correct unit measure. Let me know if you need some more help. I'll be looking forward to your answer.
Sincerely,
Angelica
Date: Sat Oct 26 02:25:18 PDT 2002
Student's Name: Ragon Mentor Reply:
Hi Ragon,
What happen? I never received your second reply.
The answer I was expecting for #1 was that 6 2/5 represented 6 2/5 Miles.
The answers to the challenge problems are as follows:
#1 is 1,056 feet. You first needed to convert miles into feet. There are 5280 feet per mile. Having this information, You were to use the information from the original problem. You are told that sound travels 1 mile per 5 second. The next step then would be to divided 5280 by 5 because you are trying to determine how many feet per second.
The answer to #2a-f are as follows:
#2a. 100 (times per second) X 60 (seconds per min)= 6,000 per min #2b. 6,000 (per min) X 60 (min per hour)= 360,000 per hour #2c. 360,000 (min per hour) X 24 (hours per day)= 8,640,000 per day #2d. 8,640,000 (per day) X 7 (days per week)= 60,480,000 per week #2e. 60,480,000(per week) X 4 (weeks per month)= 241,920,000 per month #2f. 60,480,000 (per week) X 52 (week per year)= 3,144,960,000 per year.
Please note that you must first make the conversion to get your answer. For example, there are 60 sec in 1 min so for #2a you multiplied 60 (seconds per min) by 100 because you are told that lightening strikes 100 times every second and they want to know how many times it would strike per minute. Using the answers from the previous problem you can start the next problem. For example, #2b would be 6,000 (answer for #2a) by 60 (60 min per hour) will give you the answer to #2c. You would follow the same steps to answer the rest of the problems.
I’ll be looking forward for your answer to the next problem.
