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Dear Parents, Every marking period this year, leading up to the final recommendation, I will indicate in Genesis my current appraisal regarding the best high school math class for your child next year. Last year, I sent a preliminary recommendation to the high school in February and a final recommendation in March. I do not know yet what the precise timeline will be for this year. The Q1 indication was based on a weighted average of tests (60% weight) and quizzes (40% weight). The weighted average is not the value you will see on your child's report card. Please contact me if you have any questions. Please know that the Q1 indication is not the final recommendation and that several more quizzes and tests will be included as part of that formal recommendation. The calculation is done now with a limited amount of data so that parents can become familiar with how the math recommendation process works. I am proud of your children for how well they are learning and practicing math. They are good kids. |
  November is the month in which the mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot (November 20, 1924) was born. He was born in Poland and moved to France at the age of 12. He lived in Princeton for a year and spent many years working at IBM in New York. He coined the term fractal. Fractals can be used as models of many natural phenomena, including the shape of coastlines, the structure of plants and blood vessels, the clustering of galaxies, and stock market prices. Here is a TED Talk by Mandelbrot from 2010.
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 "One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the bark."-Chinese Proverb |
 World Language students, try reading this site in Spanish or French. |
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