Floods

We have had a torrential amount of rain here in the past 12 hours (556 mm recorded in 3 hours!). Major flooding occuring accross the Coffs Harbour Region. Tune into the local ABC for up to date information or watch the Bureau of Meteorology Warnings for more information. Any pictures anyone?

Cool Internet Article

Thanks to coolcatteacher whose tweet about turning computers into TV’s was really interesting
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/kimkomando/2009-03-19-pc-tv_N.htm?csp=usat.me

New Coffs High School eLearning Portal

Hey everyone,

I have created a new eLearning portal for our school
http:/www.coffsharbourhighschool.com/moodle
Can you please visit and sign-up using the protocol rules explained on the login page
Make sure you use your FirstNameLastName as your username

Year 8 you can use this to continue the discussion you are having rather than tying up my gmail with your comments

Cheers
Mr B

Yr 11 Trigonometry Homework 20/3/2009

Here is the homework sheet given out today

The Sine Rule

Here is the vodcast of the explination I gave today about the Sine Rule and how to use it to find an unknown side and angle

sinerule

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Yr 8 Pythagoras

Pythagoras work that we have been doing in class

Vodcast explaining how to do Pythagoras Theorem

pythagoras

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3 Unit Assessment Tuesday 17 March

The assessment task (test) will be on Tuesday 17th March at 8:00am. The task will contain questions on Permutations, Combinations as well as some harder 2 Unit Algebra questions. Some sites that may be useful are:
http://www.themathpage.com/aprecalc/permutations-combinations.htm

http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.comb.perm.html

http://betterexplained.com/articles/easy-permutations-and-combinations/

Google is a wonderful thing

3 Unit Week B is Tuesday

Hey Guys

Just a reminder that in Week B (this week!) 3 unit is on Tuesday morning, cause I have playground duty on Monday’s

Cheers

Mr B

3 Unit Thursday 12 March

Hey Guys,

3 unit will be on in the morning – I may be about 10 minutes late as I can only drop of my kids to childcare from 7:30.  We are going to discuss some introductory concepts about polynomials – go to room 19 first  -but I may be in room 22 with the projector to demo some stuff

Cheers

Mr B

A new addition for the Borgert’s

At 5:08 this afternoon my third son was born after a 2 day on and off labour – Well done Pru!!!!! He was 3.45 kg, mother and baby doing well

Our whole family as of Friday