Date: Mon Oct 14 06:16:43 PDT 2002
Student's Name: Connor
Answer(or question to Mentor): The answer is 6.4 miles. Since the thunder takes 5 seconds per mile, divide 5m into 32m because that is how many seconds it was between the lightning and the thunder. Once you divide, you should get 6.4m. that is how far away the lightning is.
Date: Wed Oct 16 18:44:54 PDT 2002
Student's Name: Connor
Answer(or question to Mentor): The answer to challenging question 1 is 1,056 feet per second. Since the thunder takes 5 seconds per mile, devide 5 into 5,280 because that is how many feet there are in a mile. You should get 1,056 feet per second.
Date: Wed Oct 16 18:56:01 PDT 2002
Student's Name: Connor
Answer(or question to Mentor): The answer to challenging question two is 6,000 times per minute. Getting this answer was simple. You multiply the number of seconds (60) in a minute by the number of lightning strikes in a second (100). You should have got 6,000.
Date: Thu Oct 17 23:10:29 PDT 2002
Student's Name: Connor
Mentor Reply: Connor
You did a great job solving this week's problem. Your conceptual explanation starts off well. It is clear why you chose to use division to solve this problem. I was wondering two things. First, what does the m stand for in 5m and 32m. Second, I would like you to expand on your explanation by adding the steps you used to deal with the remainder after dividing 32 by 5.
Thanks for tackling the challenge problem. Not only are both your answers correct, but your conceptual explanations for both problems are very good. Congratulations. You should try to answer the rest of the second challenge question. Good luck.
Amy
Date: Fri Oct 18 06:12:10 PDT 2002
Student's Name: Connor
Answer(or question to Mentor): Amy, your answer does not show up on my computer. At the top, it says that you have submitted, but I cannot read it.
Date: Fri Oct 18 06:19:36 PDT 2002
Student's Name: Connor
Answer(or question to Mentor): The answer to challenge question 2b is 360,000. You need to multiply the number of strikes per minute (6,000) by the number of minutes in an hour(60). You should get 360,000.
Date: Fri Oct 18 06:22:20 PDT 2002
Student's Name: Connor
Answer(or question to Mentor): I read your reply on my teacher's computer. The m in 5m and 32m was ment to be miles. I guess I should write mi next time.
Date: Fri Oct 18 06:22:49 PDT 2002
Student's Name: Connor
Answer(or question to Mentor): I read your reply on my teacher's computer. The m in 5m and 32m was ment to be miles. I guess I should write mi next time.
Date: Fri Oct 18 06:29:57 PDT 2002
Student's Name: Connor
Answer(or question to Mentor): I'm sorry for writing two of the same ones in a row. Computer fowlup. For challenging question 2c, I got 8,640,000 strikes per day. I got that by multiplying the number of strikes per hour by 24.
Date: Fri Oct 18 15:05:43 PDT 2002
Student's Name: Connor
Instructor Comments: Amy,
Great response. Apparently, the teacher logged on with the administrator's password (I gave it to her just in case she wanted to see any of her students' work) and decided to show her students the mentor responses instead of waiting for us to send them directly to the students. I assume they were excited to see what you'all had written. Luckily, your response was great, and it appears that he was very receptive to the suggestion and learned to be more accurate. Great job! Just revise your response in accordance with his last submissions.
Dr. Bowers
Date: Wed Oct 23 16:43:26 PDT 2002
Student's Name: Connor
Answer(or question to Mentor): On the last one, the 24 is the nuber of hours in a day. The answer to challenge question 2d is 60,480,000 strikes per week. I got that by multiplying the number of strikes per day (8,640,000) by 7 because that is how many days are in a week.
Date: Wed Oct 23 17:51:22 PDT 2002
Student's Name: Connor
Answer(or question to Mentor): The answer to challenging question 2e is 259,200,000 strikes per month. I got that by multiplying the number of strikes in a day (8,640,000) by the number of days in a month. My teacher said to use a month with 30 days.
Date: Wed Oct 23 17:56:38 PDT 2002
Student's Name: Connor
Answer(or question to Mentor): The answer to challenging question 2f is 3,153,600,000 strikes per year. I got that by multiplying the number of strikes in a day(8,640,000)by the number of days in a year(3655).
