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Maths Week 9 Recap

Maths- Week 9 Recap

For the past however many weeks, we have been working on numerous problems in maths involving a range of things, e.g; scientific notation, circumferences, ratios, decimals fractions and percentages, etc. We've been doing a mix of independent work and group work. For independent we do things such as presentations, blog posts, mathletics, and other things to help us improve in certain areas. During group work, we are given a few problems and set the task of finding the solution (or solutions if it's an open question with multiple answers)

This is one of the more recent problems we've been given, involving circumferences, diameters, pi, radius and a number of other things.

Describe a mistake or misconception that you or a classmate had in class. What did you learn from this mistake or misconception?

With this specific problem, I at one stage confused the wheel with a 70cm diameter to the wheel with the 15cm diameter but I figured that out pretty quickly. I almost mistook the diameter for the radius at one stage too which wasn't ideal. Form that I learnt that sometimes I need to look at things more carefully.

What were the main mathematical concepts or ideas that you learned or that we discussed in class? 

I didn't know a lot about pi, and I didn't know how to find the circumference of a circle, which we learnt about. I was also unaware of the concept of (or more so the official name given for) scientific notation. 

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Taha Wairua

Taha Wairua 

In health, we are currently doing a unit on taha wairua (also known as spiritual well-being). You're spiritual well-being relates to various things; your values and beliefs, personal identity, self awareness, traditions, culture, religion, your goals, what you believe in, the way you live, and much more. 

At the very start of this unit, we did an activity on our personal identities. We wrote down as many things as we could thing of that make us us, and then chose the five most important ones. From their, we were given scenarios and asked which ones we would use during said situation. This is my identity page:

As part of this module or unit, we also had to do a task where we took a personal values assessment and had to answer some questions about a couple of the values we chose.

FROM THE VALUES YOU CHOSE, WRITE ABOUT THE TWO THAT ARE MOST IMPORTANT TO YOU	WHY IS THIS VALUE IMPORTANT TO YOU?	RECALL A MOMENT IN YOUR LIFE WHEN YOU REALLY ‘LIVED’ THIS VALUE.	IF THIS VALUE IS NOT BEING RESPECTED BY OTHERS, HOW MIGHT YOU FEEL OR REACT?
Reliability	It’s important to me for my friends, peers, and teachers to be able to rely on me so they know they always have someone to go to, no matter who they are.	My friends can always rely on me, I don’t share things that people have asked me to keep secret with anyone else, which I hope shows I’m reliable.	I wouldn’t trust someone who isn’t reliable
Respect	Respect is a very important value to me, more so treating everyone the way they deserve to be treated and treating everyone equally.	I’d like to think I’m always as respectful as I can be, but I went to the memorial on Deans ave last night. It seemed like a respectful thing to do, especially considering one of my best friends was affected by it.	I strongly dislike people who disrespect others who haven’t done anything to deserve it.

Human Trafficking

Human Trafficking

What is it?

Human trafficking is the highly illegal act of transporting people between countries or areas, usually in order to sell them in forced labour, or for sexual exploitation. It's an extremely serious problem, and is happening to both boys and girls, adults and children, all over the world. In Cambodia, you can find children as young as six and seven working in brothels after being abducted from their homes. Between the years 2012 and 2017, more than 3,000 people became victims of human trafficking in Vietnam alone. At this time, it is estimated that around 1.8 million children are currently being exploited in the sex trade around the world, and that's just children- not including adults. Human trafficking is a disgusting crime, and there isn't enough being done to eliminate or prevent it.

Who can this happen to?

Although human trafficking can happen to anyone, some individuals are more vulnerable than others. It is well known that human traffickers target -more often than not- young girls, but are there and other things that make these young women especially at risk? Online human traffickers tend to target those who talk openly about their home lives (more specifically, why they hate them), whether it be one on one or in chat-rooms with hundreds of people. They also target both men and women who are desperate for work. It isn't hard to be lured in by empty promises when you're really in need and can't see any better alternatives.

 

Where does it happen?

As I previously mentioned, human trafficking occurs almost everywhere, but it is a much larger problem in some places than it is in others. Take Russia, for example. Russia, being the World's largest nation, have between 5 and 12 million migrants working in conditions of slavery. But people aren't just being trafficked into Russia; there have been more than 2,400 trafficking cases between the years 2015 and 2017, and this is due to the fact Russia and it's government see human trafficking as a 'political issue' rather than a problem which is affecting millions, which is what it really is, and basically have a complete disregard towards it. Therefore, they don't prioritise even attempting to fix it. In Syria, things have gotten progressively worse throughout the civil war. The Syrian government do not fully meet the bare minimum standards when it comes to the elimination of human trafficking, and during 2017 didn't demonstrate, in any way, any efforts to address human trafficking through prosecution, protection, or prevention measures. And, to make matters worse, the government of Syria continues to maintain it's forcible recruitment and use of child soldiers. They also make no attempt to protect and prevent children from being recruited by armed opposition forces or designated terrorist organisations, such as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.