Probability in 'Black Jack'

Using probability in the game 'black jack' to figure out your chances of winning a game, can be very helpful, especially when betting in a game. Probability can help you predict the chance of the other players having cards that add up to 21 or at least higher than the cards you have. This alone can help you figure out your chances of winning. Probably can also help you decide whether or not you should have the dealer give you another card.

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Well first off, this isnt supposed to sound like im sucking up, but Mr. Morris is the best math teacher I've had in a LONG time. I was starting to lose hope on 'math', like forreal.  I've always had a hard time understanding math, but I like how, in class, we have put real life examples with the math that we have learned.
Okay, now for the bad, I have a hard time remembering things for long-term, like all the rules, etcetera.
The ugly kind relates to my bad, I seriously dont remember anything about matrices or really anything else that Mrs.  Geary taught. That was a very social class, and I dont learn well in those types of circumstances.

Exponential Growth and Decay Project

On the project for Exponential Growth and Decay, my group decided to show a real-life example of Exponential Decay by showing how the Black Plague decreased the population in Europe. We decided to show this in how much the population decreased in increments of five years. We took the percentages of the amount of fatalites that occured every five years and applied it to our class of thirty-one students. We then made card that we could put on our classmates' desks that would should if that person lived or not. We did several rounds of this and by the end of the game, we had one person left living.

In doing this project, i learned that not only did the show Exponential Decay, but it also showed Exponential Growth. This is because the population decreased while the amount of deceased people increased. I'm sure that this could also be applied to many other situations in life.

Epontential Growth- a real life emaple..

One example of eponential growth or decay in real life is in classical music. When playing an instrument for music you can start a piece really soft (or pianissimo) and you can slowly build up and become louder (fortissimao) this can build tension or create a climax in the piece you are playing and make it more interesting for your audience to hear.

1st post!!!!

Hello, my name is Hannah MacNeal. One interesting fact about myself is that I play the viola in my band, indecisive. The band is made up of two acoustic guitars,  two singers, and myself. One thing that I really love about math is that without math,  music theory couldn't exist. Therefore, music would not make sense.