Nicholas' Learning

In reading we have been learning to….make decisions about the usefulness of the text for purpose, by using a variety of criteria to evaluate. Here is a link to our online modelling book We have been evaluating texts against the following four criteria: Readability Accuracy Relevance Status These documents show evidence of my learning during this unit: (link your own learning for each of these activities. Please make sure your sharing settings are open) Describing Author's Purpose Criteria to evaluate texts Evaluating a range of texts My Next Step : Is to continue to apply this new knowledge and evaluate texts as I read them, checking for readability, accuracy, relevance and quality of language/ information

I can apply everyday compounding rates. What I learnt from this group is what the difference between simple and compounding rates are and how to solve them. I also learnt how to calculate continuously compounding rates. What I found challenging was the extended abstract task  Debt Race , which confused me many times. I spent a long time trying to work it out but ended up finding out that all I had to do at the end was to just divide the account by the amount paid each year. Another task I did: Compare and Contrast Map