Date: Mon Oct 14 07:13:38 PDT 2002
Student's Name: Hilary Answer(or question to Mentor): Challenge 1: I don’t remember how many feet are in a mile. So could you tell me how many feet are in a mile so I can find out the answer? ~Hilary~
Date: Tue Oct 15 17:50:00 PDT 2002
Student's Name: Hilary Answer(or question to Mentor): I don't know the anwser to Challenge 2 could you help me! and explain it. Please. But I do know that it traves 6,000 times per minute because their are 60 sec. a minute and then you times 100 times 60 and you get 6,000. So could you help me with the other ones please.
~Hilary~
Date: Thu Oct 17 21:04:11 PDT 2002
Student's Name: Hilary Mentor Reply: Dear Hilary,
You have a good start on this problem. Your answer to number 2 part A of the challenge problem is correct. But, can you explain to me why you multiplied 100 and 60? Also, remember to write your units. What is there 6,000 of? For the rest of the Challenge you will need to convert from minutes to hours, hours to days, and so on to get the answers to all the challenge problems. In order to do this you need to find out how much of a certain unit is in another unit, for instance how many minutes are in an hour. Also, for the first part of the challenge there are 5,280 feet in 1 mile. And dont forget to do the first lightening problem. Good luck.
Sincerely,
Corrie
Date: Fri Oct 18 15:30:49 PDT 2002
Student's Name: Hilary Instructor Comments: Corrie,
Good response to a difficult submission! I really like the way you are direct in stating that the answer is correct, but then pushing for more clarity. Nicely done. My only comment is that I am wondering why you chose to tell her how many feet there are in a mile. Would you consider congratulating her on figuring out what she needs to know and encouraging her to look it up in a math or science book? From what I can tell, that seems to be the tack that most mentors are taking for this first round.
Dr. Bowers
Date: Sun Oct 20 21:22:11 PDT 2002
Student's Name: Hilary Mentor Reply: Dear Hilary, You have a good start on this problem. Your answer to number 2 part A of the challenge problem is correct. But, can you explain to me why you multiplied 100 and 60? Also, remember to write your units. What is there 6,000 of? For the rest of the Challenge you will need to convert from minutes to hours, hours to days, and so on to get the answers to all the challenge problems. In order to do this you need to find out how much of a certain unit is in another unit, for instance how many minutes are in an hour. Also, good job on knowing that you need to know how many feet are in a mile, try looking this information up in your math or science book. And don't forget to do the first lightening problem. Good luck. Sincerely, Corrie
Date: Mon Oct 21 19:06:45 PDT 2002
Student's Name: Hilary Answer(or question to Mentor): It travels 6 2/5 of a mile in 32 sec, because it takes 5 sec for lighting to travel one mile. So you divide 5 into 32 and your answer is 6 2/5. I multiplied 100 x 60 because the lightning strikes the ground 100 times every second and their is 60 seconds in a minute and that is how I got 6,000 times.
100 per second
6,000 per minute
360,000 per hour
8,640,000 per day
60,480,000 per week
262,080,000 per month
3,144,960,000 year
Challenge question 1, I got 1,056 per second. I got that because I divided 5 into 5,280 to get the answer 1,056
~Hilary~
Date: Fri Oct 25 13:59:26 PDT 2002
Student's Name: Hilary Mentor Reply: Dear Hilary,
You did a great job explaining the lightening problem. I can see how you got the correct answer 6 2/5 miles.
Also, thank you for submitting your answers for the challenge problem. Your answers are correct. You explained how you got the answer of 6,000 miles very well, but can you further explain how you got the rest of the answers? Keep up the hard work.
Sincerely,
Corrie
Date: Sun Oct 27 17:54:31 PST 2002
Student's Name: Hilary Answer(or question to Mentor): I got the other answers by multiplying the number before that number to that anwser and I did that for each answer till the last one. It is kind of hard to explain.
Sorry ~Hilary~
