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Core Competencies, Grade 12, Socials Studies 11 / 12

Economic theory 12 reflection

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Semester Reflection

This semester, I completed an independent inquiry project that looked into the cause for BC’s high housing prices. I looked into multiple factors that caused housing prices to skyrocket as well as the potential future economic impacts they could have on BC’s economy. Lots of the information revolved around the greater Vancouver area as that is an area where prices are especially high. The most interesting parts about this project were how the high prices could impact the economy in the future. For example, the increased prices, mixed with the high cost of living, resulted in BC losing lots of families and young workers. This would cause our workforce to have a shortage as there will not be enough new workers entering the workforce to replace the workers leaving. This would force the price of skilled labor (plumbers, electricians etc.) to charge more for their services due to supply and demand and ultimately force the price of new houses to be more expensive. Another interesting part was how even though housing prices went up, there was not a significant decline in the amount of homes purchased. This breaks the law of demand because it states that when price goes up, demand goes down.

This topic matters today because housing is something that will always be needed, and being able to identify the causes and effects of high housing prices can help us prevent this from happening again and allow us to make a more educated decision when purchasing a house. I gather and synthesize information to develop logical conclusions, such as when I was able to identify the connection between people leaving BC for other provinces and the increased cost of living in BC. I came to this conclusion because people would want to live an area where their money gets them more house to live in.

McElroy, Justin. “B.C. Housing Experts Cautious on Whether Campaign Policies Will Change Affordability Crisis.” CBC, 3 Sept. 2021, www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/housing-bc-election-2021-atkey-yan-1.6163414.
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Math 11, Uncategorized

My Parabola

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My Equation was: y=-2(x-6) 2 +1 [This is in vertex form: y=a(x-h) 2 +k] The Parent Function was: Y=x2

Significance of “A” “H” and “K”

“A” is significant to my parabola because it determines which way my parabola will open up. Because my “A” value is -2, my parabola opens downwards as oppose to a positive “A” value which would open upwards. The “A” value also affects the vertical shape of the parabola (how stretched or shrunk it is). If “A” is between -1 and 1, the parabola is stretched. If “A” is less than -1 or greater than 1 the parabola is compressed. In my parabola, the “A” value causes the parabola to be compressed because A=2. This means that my parabola is compressed.

“H” represent the horizontal shift in my graph from X=0. In the case of my parabola, the “H” value of 6 has caused the parabolas vertex to move six times to the right (in the positive “x” direction).

“K” represents the vertical shift in my graph from y=0. My equation has a “x” value of 1 which means it moves up once into the positive “y” direction

The “H” and “K” values are the coordinates for the vertex on my parabola.

Self Assessment

I represented the same mathematical idea in multiple ways by showing the effects of the “H” and “K” values and then made the connection that those values are the coordinates for the vertex of my parabola. This helped me significantly increase my understanding of the relation between equations in vertex form and parabolas on a graph.

I used mathematical vocabulary to show my understanding when I used the positive/negative “x” and “y” directions to help show my understanding of the equation values to the graph.

I used formatting to display my graph, parabola, parent function and equation in a neat and easy to follow image that clearly shows which equation belongs to which graph. I also utilized brackets and quotation marks to ensure that all of my equations and variables are not mixed into my writing in a way that could confuse a reader.

Communication, Core Competencies, Grade 11

English First Peoples 11 Reflection

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Curricular Competencies Reflection

Comprehend and Connect: I learned about how the residential schools and violence against indigenous people in the past has affected them up to this day and I learned about how the indigenous people see their land and how they survive using ingredients from the land that they live on. During this assignment I learned how to take a conflict from a novel, an event from the past and connect it with a current event in the world. This will be used towards truth and reconciliation because it helped me to see how indigenous peoples are still grappling with the affects of residential schools and how they are trying to stop the inter-generational trauma.

Core Competencies Reflection

We used collaboration during this assignment because during the creation of the PowerPoint, we had team members who were away and we had to make sure that everyone’s jobs were done, so that the PowerPoint was successful. I think that for next time we should try and spend more time in class as a group so that there is less confusion between what has to be done, and we can all spend time revising, editing and finalizing the PowerPoint.