In math we hardly ever use material from a text book. We do most of our math in a math programming software called Mathematica. An example of a typical mathematica assigment is the basketball data we were given. With a list of the players' the points scored and time played from two seasons of the Chicago Bulls records we found mutilpe "lines of best fit" and then determined which line was best. Also in this assignment we learned about box and whisker plots, and how to determine outliers mathemathically. Also in math every so often we have POWs (problems of the week). We have a week to complete the formal write ups. One POW we had was about an eight by eight checkerboard. The problem required the caluclation of how many smaller squares were inside the larger eight by eight square. Another POW we did later on in the year was called "can you produce mu?". This POW was introducing us to writng proofs and proving equations rather than just showing how they work. One POW that was really fun was the PDQ (POW Done Quick). It's a little tricky to explain so you should just take a peek if you're interested. This year brought a lot of challenging assignments, but one that was particularly hard was the transformation notebook. We had to show and explain all of our toolbox functions as well as how all of the transformations affected them. This notebook took many long nights of work.