Dear Parents, In my math class in module one I learned a lot of things, mainly divided up into 6 areas. Graphs, number sequences, number tricks, exponents, probability, and order of operations. In the graphs unit we learned about bar graphs, line graphs, and how to tell the difference between them. It was a unit that bled into the second area, number patterns. Number patterns are just patterns in numbers. For example, 0, 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21. What is the pattern? You simply add 3, although the patterns we did in class were much more difficult so don't expect our math class to be in in cakeland or whatever. The third area we covered was the number tricks area. Take a number, add 3, multiply it by 2, add four, divide by 2, and subtract your original number. Is your answer 5? If its not, then you did it wrong! The fourth area was exponents, which is a number that tells you how many times to multiply a number by itself, but you probably already know how they work, so I won't dwell on that. The fourth area we covered, which was pretty important, was probability. Suppose you roll a die. How likely is it that you roll a one? That is called probability, and is extended to all random events. Our class did experiments with that, and I worked with *ahem* my partner on our “eggsperiment”. The final area, last but not least, was order of operations, which is the order in which you do longer equations. 9+8x2 would equal 25, not 34, because of the order of operations, and PEMDAS, an acronym for parentheses, exponents, multiplication, division, addition, and subtraction, which is the order in which yo do the problem. I hope you had a good time learning about what I am doing in this unit, but I can just to you about it at home so I won't write any more. Sincerely, BHMA