Date: Thu Oct 31 14:22:17 PST 2002
Student's Name: Maureen
Answer(or question to Mentor): I am sorry I couldn’t respond because of my computer didn’t work.
A. I think that the answer is 5 1/8 feet. I think this because I found that the stilts were 7 ½ ft. above ground when it’s normal so when ¾ of the stilt is covered it would be 5 1/8 ft.
B. From the info above 2/8 of a foot would remain.
Date: Thu Oct 31 14:49:36 PST 2002
Student's Name: Maureen
Answer(or question to Mentor): Challenge
The answer is that he barley missed being blown away. He was ½ a ft. away from washing away. What I did was get how long the stilts were then how deep it was in the ground. For the first part I got 9 3/8 ft. for the second part I multiplied 2/5 (40%) with 9 3/8ft. to get 3 6/8ft. Subtracting that with the height of the stilts I got 5 5/8 ft.
Date: Fri Nov 1 11:14:28 PST 2002
Student's Name: Maureen
Mentor Reply: Maureen,
Thank you for submitting a response this week. Your
answer of 5 1/8 is incorrect, but I feel that you were
on the right track. 7.5 feet of the stilt is above the
ground, but could you explain how you arrived at that
number? Further, exactly how did you come up with the
answer of 5 1/8? Remember that you want to figure out
what is ¾ of 7 ½. You’ll get it!
I am glad that you made the effort to answer the
challenge problem, but your answer of barely missing by
½ feet is incorrect. My initial question is how did you
figure out that the stilts in the first question were
each 9 3/8 feet long? This calculation is incorrect,
which ultimately lead you to an incorrect final answer.
Check your answers to the first question then try the
challenge problem again. I think you’ll get it.
Elvene
Date: Sat Nov 2 10:26:42 PST 2002
Student's Name: Maureen
Instructor Comments: Elvene,
Another perfect response. Great job. By the way, thanks for bringing your son to class last Thursday. First of all, he was adorable. Second, it showed that you value coming to class, even when you have other responsibilities. So, many thanks.
Dr. B
Date: Sat Nov 2 18:42:43 PST 2002
Student's Name: Maureen
Mentor Reply: Maureen,
Thank you for submitting a response this week. Your
answer of 5 1/8 is incorrect, but I feel that you were
on the right track. 7.5 feet of the stilt is above the
ground, but could you explain how you arrived at that
number? Further, exactly how did you come up with the
answer of 5 1/8? Remember that you want to figure out
what is ¾ of 7 ½. You’ll get it!
I am glad that you made the effort to answer the
challenge problem, but your answer of barely missing by
½ feet is incorrect. My initial question is how did you
figure out that the stilts in the first question were
each 9 3/8 feet long? This calculation is incorrect,
which ultimately lead you to an incorrect final answer.
Check your answers to the first question then try the
challenge problem again. I think you’ll get it.
Elvene
Date: Mon Nov 4 14:59:22 PST 2002
Student's Name: Maureen
Answer(or question to Mentor): I know Miss Estes is going to read this, but I'm not an IDIOT!I just don't realy like these questions
Date: Thu Nov 7 16:20:53 PST 2002
Student's Name: Maureen
Answer(or question to Mentor): Hi,
I'm sorry it is just the way you said that everything was wrong made me feel stupid.
Sorry, Maureen
Date: Fri Nov 8 21:41:57 PST 2002
Student's Name: Maureen
Mentor Reply: Maureen,
I never intended to make you feel like an idiot. I know
that you are not. In fact, your answer of 5 1/8 to this
week’s problem was awfully close. 7.5 of the stilt was
above the ground, so ¾ (submerged in water) of the 7.5
feet would be 5.625 or 5 5/8 feet. From this point, you
simply minus 5 5/8 from 7.5 to find that 1 7/8 of the
stilt was left dry.
For the challenge problem, if the total length of each
stilt is 10 feet and 40% is in the ground, then only 6
feet of the stilt sticks out of ground (40% of 10 feet
= 4 feet underground and 10-4=6 feet above ground). The
storm in 2002 surged a total of 5 5/8 feet, so 6 feet
minus 5 5/8 feet = 3/8 feet left dry. I look forward to
your next response.
Elvene
Date: Tue Nov 12 15:43:15 PST 2002
Student's Name: Maureen
Answer(or question to Mentor): Thank you for that I really needed it.
I've been under alot of stress so I just could not help it.
Date: Tue Nov 12 17:11:00 PST 2002
Student's Name: Maureen
Answer(or question to Mentor): Hi! Problem:
1st part: I think that she will eat 33/200 of her RDA in the cheese burger.I think that because if you simplify the number of calories she ate (330) with the RDA (2000)you will get this answer.
Date: Tue Nov 12 17:57:08 PST 2002
Student's Name: Maureen
Answer(or question to Mentor): I was inncorrect, I needed to devide the calories into the RDA. The new answser is 330 devided by 2,000 = 16 1/2%
part 2:I do not know how to work this question because it does not give enough information, could you tell me what they are looking for?
Challenge:
This problem is especialy hard to explain because of the many steps involved. I think it is 36 though.
Date: Thu Nov 14 21:42:25 PST 2002
Student's Name: Maureen
Mentor Reply: Maureen,
Thank you submitting a response this week. Both of your
answers to question 1 are correct. Your answer of
330/2000 or 33/200 is the fraction, and dividing 330 by
2000 gives you 16.5%. Great job, but suppose you were
to explain this problem to a classmate, could you
please explain how you arrived at 330 calories?
For the second question, I believe it is asking you
what is the fraction of fat calories in the
cheeseburger if the cheeseburger has 330 total
calories. You’ll get it!
Your answer of 36 chicken McNuggets to the challenge
problem is also correct. I know that it may be
difficult, but could try to remember how you came up
with this answer? It will help me understand your
thinking. I look forward to your response.
Elvene
Dr. Bowers,
I am so glad that finally some of my students got the right answer. I was really getting uncomfortable telling them that they are wrong all the time. Thank you for making the problem not so difficult.
Elvene
Date: Wed Nov 20 16:40:03 PST 2002
Student's Name: Maureen
Instructor Comments: Elvene,
This is exciting. Great response. Just one little suggestion: I might paraphrase your request for elaboration so that it is a bit softer by separating this into two sentences: Great job on solving this! Now, I just have one question: how would you explain how you got 330 calories if you were talking with a classmate who was confused?-- how does that read?--Dr. Bowers
Date: Thu Nov 21 06:42:07 PST 2002
Student's Name: Maureen
Mentor Reply: Maureen,
Thank you submitting a response this week. Both of your
answers to question 1 are correct. Your answer of
330/2000 or 33/200 is the fraction, and dividing 330 by
2000 gives you 16.5%. Great job on solving this! Now, I
just have one question: how would you explain how you
got 330 calories if you were talking with a classmate
who was confused?
For the second question, I believe it is asking you
what is the fraction of fat calories in the
cheeseburger if the cheeseburger has 330 total
calories. You’ll get it!
Your answer of 36 chicken McNuggets to the challenge
problem is also correct. I know that it may be
difficult, but could try to remember how you came up
with this answer? It will help me understand your
thinking. I look forward to your response.
Elvene
