Friday, 13 December 2013

Math in the Real World

Today we had two parents come in and talk to us about how they use math in their job - a nurse and an accountant. It was very interesting!

What's something you learned from their visit?

26 comments:

  1. I learned that math is very impotant and that you use math when you are out of school

    Kaden

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  2. What I learned was that nurses have to do lots of mental math because if somebody is hurt they have to find out what age they are so they put 2013+when they were born and it will = there age.

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  3. today in math two parents came to our school they told us about how they use math in there job. there was an accountant and a nurse. the accountant used math by there prices. the nurse has to know how much pills to give the patients.

    by jesse

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  4. today we had 2 parents that talk to us it was Emilys mom and tianas mom. they told us haw they use math in there live

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  5. today in math two parents came to talk about how they use math In their jobs and I learned that Emily's mom uses math a lot

    by:chaise

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  6. Today I learned that a lot of jobs have numbers included in them.I learned that nurses use numbers to keep track of how old the people are. When they were born till now. I learned that accountant has a lot of money in their job. They have to be careful of how much money they spend on what. They also add a lot of money and subtract it to. Katie

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  7. I learned about how to multiply by zero and if you multiply any number in zero the answer is zero

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  8. I learned that nurses use math to check what they do.

    Ty

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  9. I loved when some of the parents come to our classroom to talk about how they use math in their job Emily's mom was an accountant and my mom is a nurse and I learned that as a accountant you do a lot of math (ex) how much to pay employees

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  10. I learned that you use math when you are older and have a job.
    Emily

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  11. I learned that math is very important to every body and not just for some people! Kelsey.

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  12. I learned that nurses use a lot of mental math, and accountants work with BIG numbers. Katherine

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  13. I learned that you need to use math for lots of things. kylie

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  14. I have learned that math is vary important to us and we use math in every thing. kaleb

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  15. I learned that you can do math anywhere - jacelyn

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  16. I liked that the parents let us go up and do the math on the board and they have to multpley and add and subtrack. by savannah

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  17. I learned that you can multiply were ever you are. I learned what a accountant is and a nurse. An accountant is a person balance people's money. A nurse is someone who takes care of elderly.

    by:Hayden

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  18. I learned that nurses use in math in their jobs by measuring the amount of blood they lost.
    by.michele

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  19. I learned that amily mom and teana mom sead that soum times it is herd to do math becouse they have to do so mach nabers by maddy

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  20. I learned about that you have to do math when your a nurse and a accountant so you know that when you have to give people their pills and accountant is some one that helps you pay your bills and counts money to get a even number.bryanna

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  21. I learned that they have to use multiplying, subtract and adding in their job. Tianna's mom she is a nurse she has to use math in stuff like to now how many pills to give them and to find how old they are. Emily's mom is accountant and she has to use math to find out how much money by Rebecca

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  22. Today I learned that some jobs have to do math to do stuff at their jobs a nurse has to be cairful foe how much medicine they give people and a accountant has to be cairful because how much money they spend
    by jayna

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  23. I learned that we use math in our jobs. Nurses use math to help their patients.
    by charles

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  24. I learned that accountants and nurses use math because nurses have to know how much medicine to give them and accountants have to pay for things they need to sell.Eva

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  25. it was cool a accountant is the person who counts all the money for their business. a nurse is person who has to count all the stuff that they pee out. they also had to keep track of what they drink and eat . they have to always have to use math in there day.zack

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  26. 2x5=10

    I bought 2 packages of pudding tubes. In each package there are 5 pudding tubes . How many pudding tubes do I have altogether?

    2x5=10

    There 10 tube's

    By Kaleb

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