I played a math game for homework, and now I'm going to tell you what were the easiest and hardest parts. The easiest parts to me were multiplication and division. The math facts for those subjects were pretty easymultiplication and division have always been my favorite math sections. I really like them because they are easy and fun. 
      What  was the hardest subject of the game was money. I just didn't get it. It was really confusing and complicated. All of the math with the decimal points really threw me off. I always have problemse wuth decimal points. I guess it's because I forget to move the decimal point over. Anway that part of the game was really tricky. 

An inequality with an equal sign needs a closed dot. Well why does it need a closed dot? It needs a closed dot on a graph, because it shows that it includes that number or it is that number. An inequality's equal sign looks like this: _. Wierd right. It could looks like this = also. 
     If you think about it a closed dot makes sense when you have an equal sign. Say you have the inequality 3x=4+2. Well first you would have to solve for x which is 6. On the graph you would put a closed dot, because it shows that x is equal to 6. When you have an open dot it means that it doesn't include the number. That is why you need a closed dot on the graph when you have an equal sign.

 Today in math class was so fun! We got to do a little pirate themed lesson. Okay here's how it went they gave us an equation like (x+10)-3+2=13. On treasure maps x marks the spot right. So we had  had to solve for x to get a treasure. Now to get x we had to work backwards with the equation. So instead of adding 10 you would subtract 10 and so on. It was really coool. After the teacher explained it to us we got in groups and had a competition. Our group did boys vs. girls and the girls won. Yay for girls! After the girls won we got candy or should I say our treasure.

Why does when a denominator get bigger the number gets smaller? The reason for that is that the fraction bar means to divide, and when you divide your making the numbe decrease. You can lookt at it that way or you look at it like your cutting things up into pieces. Say you have a fraction like 2/3 now your cutting up say a pie into three equal pieces. Now since your only cutting it up into three pieces they don't have to be small peices. So would you rather have 2 regular sized pieces or small pieces. Say you have another fraction and it's 7/8 you would have to cut up small peices of pie to get 8 pieces to share with your friends. Everyone is going to have to get a small piece therefore making the number small.

 How can there be infinite numbers between zero and one? Well I'll tell you. One way that there is infinite numbers between zero and one is because of all the fractions. Oh there is many fractions like 3/5 and 4/46 even 99/100 . You see there is all sorts of fractions. You can get 5/6 or 3/4, I'm really just naming a few. I personally don't like fractions so all that talk of fractions makes me dizzy. 
   Other numbers that don't make me dizzy are decimals. These also make up those infinite numbers between one and zero. There are many kinds of decimals like there are fractions. Some are 3.2 , 2.1, 6.8, and 7.9 . Now those are just some of the decimals there are others like, 4.5 and 6.2 . The decimals can also have many numbers after them and not just one.
   Other numbers between zero and one are whole numbers. Whole numbers are easy to recognize and to remember. If you don't know what whole numbers here are some example:1,2,3,4,5,7,8,9,10,11. Now those are whole numbers. Whole numbers dont have a decimal point and then another number they are just whole. They aren't fractions either. So if you were to add all of those decimals, fractions, and that one whole number youd would get an infinite amount of numbers between one and zero.

Wow that title is a tongue twister right. Well as you can probably tell I'm going to be talking about the methods I use to help me in math. The method I usuallly use is order of operations (G.E.M.S). I use that method, because it's so easy to remember. It takes you through the steps of a complicated math equation. It tells in order what to do. Now I'm going to explain to you what each letter stands for.
      G stand for groupin. This means you do any expression in grouping symbols first. 
      E stands for exponents. Say you have 2^3 power you would do that after grouping.
      M stands for multiply or divide. If you have a multiplication or division you would do that from whatever comes first.
       S stands for subtracting or adding. You would also do this from whatever comes first from left to right
          Well those are the steps that I use to help me more in math. It's very useful. It's also really easy to follow. I hope these step help you in math too.

Why is there no such thing as division in an equation? Say you have the equation 2x=16  the way you divide in algebra is write it as a fraction. So dividing fractions is hard so you would rewrite the reciprocal. So in this case the equation would now look like 2/1=16/1 * 1/2 and since your multipling by a half half of 16 is 8 so x=8. It's actually not that confusing. I actually enjoy algebra. So if you ever run into a problem like this just remember this tip. I think it will help you a lot. Well I know you may be thinking that what I just explained was just the long way of dividing, even though we are not dividing. I guess it can be a little confusing, but all you have to do is remember this tip. It will seriously help you.