Everything Happens For A Reason

This week had been unexpectedly considerate yet one of the most depressing of all since June but the lessons are just a piece of cake.

We only had a lesson about the transformation of graphs during the 2 days of school. The lesson was just a piece of cake and I easily understood it very well in only a short period of time.

On the second day, it was unexpectedly announced that the deadline for our very difficult math project was moved from Sept. 28 to Oct. 3 so we were all glad about the news and everyone roared into life with happiness.

Then during the 3rd and 4th day of the week, we had a lesson about circle. On the 3rd day, we only discussed the basics of the lesson like the parts of a circle and on the 4th day we tackled about getting the area of the shaded region in a circle. We were also helped by Kuya Romeo in checking the assignment and explaining the process of solving it in order to arrive to the correct answer. He also taught us a new formula in finding the area of a triangle which is very helpful especially when you're finding the shaded region of a circle inscribed with a rectangle.

It was just happy to see that students that had been taught before by their teachers are today the one who are teaching and helping others to understand the lesson. Students like that are selfless and kind for sharing their knowledge for paying forward the help given to them before.

At first the lesson was quite hard because maybe I was slightly not listening to the discussion then after I understood it myself I realized that I was just easy and effortless.

Then on the last day of the week, we did not have classes because it was Sci - Fair. It was just ironic that why does it have to be on the end, where you are about to finish that something bad will happen. This day had been a depressing one because even if we did everything we can to give our best in order to win the result was just the inverse of what we're expecting and all our efforts are just wasted.

Everything has a reason why it happened. Maybe because of this downfall, God wants us to realize to become humble in order to be victorious.

We must remember that when a door closes, a window opens. This means that we must not dwell on things that did not happened the way we want them to happen to because bigger and better opportunities will come in our lives. We just have to seize the opportunity and trust God with all our life in it.

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Preparation For Math Quest

This week Mam Nicole was busy reviewing the math quizzers for the upcoming math quest so we were just given an activity to answer during her time.

The very first day of the week, Monday, we had no classes. We are all blessed that we had classes was postponed therefore we had the time to edit our IP especially for our group in which we are not yet finished with the last 2 chapters of our write-up.

Then Tuesday, I immediately realized that Mam Nicole was sleep deprived that day because she has very deep eye bags and her eyes were half awake. Then unexpectedly she said that, " Even you're closest best friend will betray you and will leave you struggling in agony."  The moment she said that, I discovered that the reason behind her lack of sleep is that I think our teacher is crying the whole night because of the betrayal of her friend and I suddenly felt compassion for mam because I was once been betrayed by a friend and had been left bleeding in affliction.

After that emotional story, we are given a 10 item seat work  and we are asked to identify the nature of each algebraic function based on its graph. We were allowed to use a graphing app so identifying will be easier.

The next day,Wednesday, we are give another seat work in which we are to graph an absolute value and the value of c varies so there are 3 graphs in one Cartesian plane.

After that, Thursday, which we are suppose to have a recitation about what we researched yesterday  but it was postponed because I think maybe that mam Nicole trained the math quest quizzers intensely for the contest the next day.

The last day,Friday, We did nothing because Mam Nicole accompanied the quizzers in the contest. I expect that each quizzer will win in their respective categories. I hope that their efforts will not go to waste. Let's go team RS! =)

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I Hope It Is Not Too Late

This week had been very difficult and disappointing yet a quite happy one.

From Monday to Wednesday, we discussed about polynomial functions, its nature, and its graph. I had little bit hard time understanding the lesson because I was quite not listening and my seatmate Oyi always ask questions even though the answer to his question only requires simple analysis which bothered my focus on the lesson.

Then Thursday, we had a very long 60 item quiz. For me, it was an arduous one because I didn't study about the nature of the different graphs of a polynomial function which gave me a hard time answering the question and I think I will surely get a failing grade. And I think It is better to hope for best but expect for the worst so it wouldn't be as painful compared to expecting the best but result is the worst inverse of what you're expecting.

Then Friday, we had this activity in which we will think of something from our bags that is very important and precious to us and we will put it in the box without showing it to others. Then each of us will be asked to pick something from the box and describe the personality of the person who owns the thing based on what he put in the box.

As the activity ended, Mam Nicole gave us a word of advice or somehow a reminder on how we must appropriately recognize each other personality. She said that we must don't judge a person by his physical characteristics but we should first know the person very well. Because what is inside and cannot be unseen is what is essential.

She also explained that it is difficult to do something that is not practiced on our daily lives. On my own perspective, she was quite disappointed on us on our way on describing our classmates because we emphasize more the bad traits of each other instead of the good ones. So she asked us to practice saying good things on other people for the betterment of ourselves and theirs.

Then Friday afternoon was card distribution day. That day I was expecting on having good grades on every subject because I think I gave my best on every quiz, activity and performance tasks for I was aiming to be on the top 10. But the result was reciprocal of what I was expecting. So I was very disappointed because I thought I had done my best and I realized that my best isn't enough. Maybe I'll will just accept the painful reality that make myself believe on a shameful delusion. And through accepting the reality, I was showing that I am courageous and bold enough to face my challenges and try to surpass and elevate my performance this second grading than just mourning on something that will never change and will not happen again.

Everything happens for a reason. And I I think the reason for this occurrence is that maybe I think GOD just wants to test me if through my challenges in life I will still have faith in him. Maybe he is just testing me if because of my hardships I will just give up and let it break me or I'll be the one who will break it. Maybe he teaches me to become humble and not to be stubborn headed or lastly maybe he lets me experience agony, hardships and trials in life so that I will know the feeling of glory and honor and how sweet success is.

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Regrets Due To Carelessness

There is no such thing as free lunch. Everything has its respective costs.

We had classes no on Monday because it was National Heroes Day which is a holiday.

Then Tuesday, we just discussed about the difference between polynomial functions & polynomial equation. We also had a simple recap lecture about finding the zeroes of a polynomial equation and a basic overview on the theorems involving te zeroes of a polynomial equation.

After that, Wednesday, as we expected is that we will be having a recitation on the theorems but things doesn't happen in our lives the way we planned it. So, we were given an activity to answer in the book by pair. It was just finding the factors of a polynomial equation using any method. At first, the question was still easy so we used factoring then we struggled answering the last 5 questions and we don't know what to do so I decided to use factoring by grouping because I think Oyi doesn't know how to solve large degree polynomials. Then after we checked the activity, we only got 45 out of 50.

It was only at the end that I realized that we must had used synthetic division which is I am very good at, to answer the questions more quickly and accurrately.

Sometimes in life, the things that are very important by which you're best at are the ones that are easily forgotten" Just like one of my friends by which "Kung sino pa yung napakahalaga sa'yo yun pa yung unang-unang mang-iiwan at magbabaon ng inyong pagsasama sa limot." I don't say hugot lines that often, I was just very depressed of my performance and critical thinking skills.

Then Thursday was a free day because Mam Nicole had a seminar.

At the last weekday, Friday, there was a math teacher from OCNHS who had a demo teaching about the basics of Analytic Geometry which is a geometry that uses algebre to solve for the missing values. The lesson was just easy. It was just about finding the distance between two points on a cartesian plane. After the lecture, we were given a quiz which is for me very easy because you just have to substitute the values of the two points to the distance formula to find the distance between those points. The teacher was good but he had a little misconception about the term transposition because there is no such thing as that in math, It must be APE or the Addition Property of Equality.

Lastly because we had no classes on the past 2 days, we will be having a recitation about linear this coming Monday.

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