daniel is the champion!

ok, this is old news. october 12, daniel hendrich became the first ever isb kicktipp champion. at the end, he managed to stay ahead if milan, with a slim margin of five points. dennis finished a good third, and aylin was the fourth best student to compete. torben was the winner of the last week and will therefore win a milka.

next season should start saturday, november 6. a few changes: the best three of every week will get chocolate, there will be info hanging out in two places around school with the newest results and standings - but one thing will remain the same: only the winner will get a trophy! hopefully, the inaugural trophy can be presented to daniel soon.

long live bayern!

your week in maths & physics, oct 25 -29

so yes, we're back to school. 8 weeks to go until the next major break... until then, let's do some work, shall we?

grade 12 ib physics

i really need your internal assessments until tomorrow, they must be graded for this grading period, so please don't forget to bring them. on the menu, some cosmology this week - the big questions in life, and the current answers from physics. friday is homework log time, please find 90 minutes on any subject; this might be a good time to watch that movie "contact"...

grade 12 ib maths

tomorrow is our big statistics test; base your studies on the worksheet i gave you before the break, and you should be ok. today we will start our new subject, probability. i'm hoping to get until using tree diagrams this week. there will be a hw quiz on friday, and it will cover 15 A,B,C and D (no E any more) (pages 423-433).

grade 11 ib physics

time for thermal physics: some important definitions, a little bit of math, and quite a bit of discussing. don't forget the log...

grade 11 ib maths

functions, here we come!  we should be able to cover topics 1 A-E, and the hw quiz will be on topics 1 A-D (pages 48-56). what is a relation, what is a function - well, let's find out (if we want to or not...)

grade 10 igcse maths

translations, reflections, rotations, enlargements & reductions, stretches - this will be on our weekly menu under the umbrella of what we call "transformations". math notation will be important. 20 A-D will be homework and in the hw quiz for monday, november 1.

your mini-week in maths & physics, oct 11-13

just a few days...

igcse maths grade 10

today we'll finish the topic of similarity, and we'll look at some review set questions tomorrow. wednesday is our test on the topic! no homework, but if i were you i would do some review set questions at home, too. don't forget today's mega retake afternoon and any afternoon to sort out hw quiz issues.

ib math sl grade 11

the end of the topic is arriving. today we'll finish up series and look at review set questions, tomorrow is our 30 minute test on this topic, one of three in the algebra part of the ib exam. i'll stay in school this afternoon for any question you might have.

ib math sl grade 12

today we will have a look at the significance of the standard deviation and the meaning of "normal distribution". tomorrow, an extensive review set session. the test will oficially be on tuesday, october 26. no homework.

ib physics sl grade 11

newton's universal law of gravitation will be our subject of study today. and that's all for the week! please hand in any corrections to the mechanics test until monday, october 25.

ib physics sl grade 12

tomorrow we'll close with the two remaining topics in astrophysics, magnitudes and stellar evolution. our astrophysics quiz will be short (30 minutes) and on wednesday.

retake mega-afternoon, monday october 11

you are a math student.
you want to retake one or more tests.
you want it to still affect your grade for the first term report.
monday is the day.

below, please write your name and the test(s) you wish to retake. if you have a science class on monday, please also add that you will only arrive at 3:40 pm.

use these in your comment.

grade 10:
t1 - chapter 15 test
t2 - continuous data minitest

grade 11:
t1 - unit circle & radians
t2 - sine & cosine rule, area of triangle

grade 12:
t1 - vectors 2d3d
t2 - lines and planes in space

EXAMPLE OF COMMENT:

aakash, t1 & t2

would mean that aakash wants to retake two tests on monday, the ones above.

first kicktipp champion: milan or daniel?

it's werder x bayern, grade 10 x grade 11, milan x dennis. one of these two will be the first ever kicktipp champion in isb. this little competition might not gain any tradition at all in the school - or it might still be there in many years, and one of these two will have their name on a trophy, as the first champion ever.

dennis, who led the pack for a few weeks, still has silent hopes, but is 24 points short of daniel, who currenlty leads with 399 points. incredibly, milan has the same 399 points, but less weekly wins, and therefore on second place.

mr goncalves (that's me!) leads the last week, and milan is in the run for the last chocolate of the season, followed closely by torben.

after the tuesday games, we'll have our champion, and a break. the new season should start at the end of october, from zero. anyone can take part...

retake: continuous data, grade 10 (igcse maths)

you know what to do... (name in comment).
this is for thursday, 3:45 pm.

special extra sessions this week

based on what i'm seeing in all my math grades, i will have some short extra sessions on the following topics in the following time slots:

tuesday, 15:45 - 16:00: factoring and completing the square to solve quadratic equations

wednesday, 15:20 - 15:50: algebraic fractions & dealing with fractions in general

just show up if you like! you are warmly invited!

your week in maths & physics, oct 4-8

bayern bad, werder one place behind. that's how the week begins. a week filled with "stuff":

ib physics grade 12

this week we will have an internal assessment, probably we'll use time on thursday (maybe tomorrow). max will present on louis de broglie, and we should conclude astrophysics with magnitude of stars and stellar evolution. there will be a quiz on all things stars on thursday or next tuesday, the latest. don't forget your weekly logs, they do count as homework grades.

ib physics grade 11

uniform circular motion, chapter review, big mechanics test on mega-thursday; that seems to be our menu for the week. next week we should have a brief look at gravitational field strength.

ib math sl grade 12

internal assessments are due tomorrow, i'll be answering last questions today in class or via email (mgoncalves@isbremen.de). homework for the week will be chapter 14 f1, f2 & f3. i'm hoping to finish the whole chapter this week, to review on monday and have the statistics test on tuesday, right before the break.

ib math sl grade 11

we should be able to cover the series section this week. homework will be on 2d.2&3,  and all the 2es. the plan is to finish everything in this chapter by the end of the week and have the test on monday.

igcse math grade 10

time to move on! moving on to a topic that combines geometry and algebra, the similarity of geometric objects! 18 a&b should be done at home this week, for a hw quiz next monday. we will have problems presentations on the board, probably next monday.

isb kicktipp: milan wins week six, title race is tight!

only one more round to go, and the first isb kicktipp season will have been history. who will win he frist trophy? it looked like a sure thing for bayern-fan daniel from grade 11, but now milan has won his second week and is less than ten points away from the top. dennis also had a good week and is now close enough to start an attack in the last round. one of these three will be the smiling champ at the end.

for the others, it's a race for the last chocolate of the season, which will rightly go to the week winner. after the autumn break, a new season will begin and everyone is invited to participate right from the start. good luck to all!

igcse math retake: trigonometry, take 3

you want to take the trig test again? be my guest, on monday, 3 pm. just write down your name as a comment in this post. thanks.

ib math sl grade 12 retake: vectors

if you want to retake the vectors test on monday, october 4, at 3:05 pm, please leave your name as a comment below. thanks.

ib math sl grade 11 retake: non-right angled trigonometry

if you want to retake the trig test on monday, october 4, at 3:05 pm, please leave your name as a comment below. thanks.

isb kicktipp: milan races daniel for the title!

43 points - no one came even close to milan's performance this week, so far. with only one more week to go in the championship, the title race has become more exciting, since leader daniel is not having this best week. milan is 16 points behind the bayern munich fan and title favorite, and this is reversable. dennis still has a slim shot, 26 points behind, but he will have to have a good european week, starting today.

max (12th grade) and nino, though, are milan's main challenger's for this week's milka chocolate, with an  8 and 10 point deficit, respectively.

your week in maths & physics, sep 27 - oct 1

after an important bayern loss and an important werder win, it's champions league week again (in milano and basel). and it's more of math and physics...

igcse math grade 10

our quick look at how to calculate with and represent continuous data will have an end this week, with a mini-test on wednesday or friday. the homework for the week is chapter 17 review sets. this is really not very difficult - keep focused and perform well! those who want to do the retest on wednesday are warmly invited to leave your name in the post below.

ib math sl grade 11

much fun is guaranteed in our next content area, within the algebra spectrum: sequences and series! homework will be 2A,B,C and D1! it seems a lot, but you don't have to do everything; you do have to know how to do everything!

ib math sl grade 12

no homework this week, to give you time to work on the internal assessment. so it's basically work in class involving all things statistics. knowing this class a little, this part will not be complicated at all. your ti-calculators will be very important these next weeks.

ib physics grade 11
we start with an internal assessment part (conclusion/evaluation) for a grade, on monday (today), in class. then: work & energy, and efficiency. next week, on thursday, we should have our first big test, in mechanics.


ib physics grade 12
extra info on internal assessment, and a prompt for one. in astrophysics: cepheid variables, magnitudes & stellar evolution. then, it's cosmology time!

igcse math retake: trigonometry

hello 10th graders.
please sign in here, leaving simply your name in the comment, if you want to retake the trig test this wednesday, starting at 3:05 pm.
you will be given unlimited time.
see you there!

isb kicktipp: daniel wins week again, and looks like the champ!

just two more weeks to go. the sixth week is already online, and if nothing too unusual happens, it will be a race for the weekly chocolate. because the championship seems pretty secure in daniel's hands, who just won his second week, 4 points ahead of alex. aylin and grade 12 max were a distant third during the week; in the general standings, dennis and milan still hope or a breakdown on the top of the table. chantal is now far away from the title.

don't forget the tipps for next week!

isb kicktipp: "xanner" is looking for his first chocolate...

alex from grade 12 is the current leader of week five in the first isb kicktipp season. "xanner", which is his nickname for the competition, leads by a clear 11 points, but will have to survive the midweek matches in the bundesliga, la liga and serie a. max, also grade 12, is once again in the running and on second place. daniel, aylin, chantal and dennis still all have realistic chances for the week's milka.

in the general standings, daniel and dennis are fighting it out for the title, but both milan and chantal have a shot at the number one spot after seven weeks. unfortunately, caroline & jule are out of the race, since they forgot to put in the tipps for the week.

hw quiz and retest policies - maths only

hello to all.

here are some minor changes to the homework quiz policy and some more specific information about the retest taking process. the better structured certain things are, the greater the chances that they might actually work.

homework quizzes

any student who would like to increase their grade in any homework quiz up to now and from now on can do so, outside of class time. no matter if you got a 6 or a 2 in your hw quiz, if you come and see me (mr goncalves) after school to look at the problem(s), and either learn it (them) with me or demonstrate that you now are able to solve it (or them), then your grade in that quiz will automatically rise to a seven, for full understanding. i will decide case by case what i need to see from each student to be convinced of his deserving that 7 for that specific homework quiz.

the times in which this can be done are:

monday, 3:05 pm: ib students have priority (igcse students have to wait their turn, ib grade 12 have priority over ib grade 11)

tuesday, 3:40 pm: any students (order by sequence of arrival)

wednesday, 3:05 pm: igcse students have priority

thursday, 3:40 pm: any students

you can also see me between 7:35 and 7:50 every morning, if that suits you better.

if you had less than a 5 in any hw quiz, you should make an effort to show up at one of these times. i will be here as long as students are, and i might leave five minutes after the beginning time if no student comes.

THE ONLY THING YOU HAVE TO DO IS TO BRING THE HW QUIZ YOU WANT TO REVIEW AND GET YOUR GRADE CHANGED. even if it is not yours, i need you to bring it (ideally, though, it should be yours).

retest opportunities

the different dates for retest opportunities will be set within the class, always for the following week. these days will be announced through a post, and ONLY STUDENTS WHO LEAVE A COMMENT in the post, with their names, will receive the retest. i will announce the retest days in the "your week in maths&physics" post. THOSE DAYS WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE FOR HW QUIZ REVIEWS, so please do pay attention to those details. they will also be announced in class.

any questions? ask in class or leave a comment and i'll answer you on the blog.

all of this is to give each and every one of you who really wants to improve their current mathematical level of knowledge to do so. you are totally free to come, or not to come, for that matter; but i will keep classes at the highest reasonable pace, so that we can all get through the needed content in preparation for the ib exams or the igcse exams. i count on your effort. you can count on mine.

your week in maths & physics, sep 20-24

an "english week" in the bundesliga is a week full of assessments for my students... please take note!

ib math sl grade 12

all ready for our test on thursday? i believe so. still, a few of you should try to show up today after school, or even on wednesday after school, to look at some specifics before the test. today (monday) we will look at classification of line to line relations in a more specific way, and tomorrow we will do a lot of work in the review sets. we will start statistics on friday.

i will set no homework for this week (or next week), but i will give you an internal assessment on thursday, to be completed by monday, october 4. friday, we will start the statistics chapter, which should be an okay chapter for us. probability will be a little tougher, and then comes calculus!

ib physics grade 12

tomorrow, tuesday sep 21, we have a full day: aidin will tell us some things about nils bohr (which should give us a little bit of extra review for atomic physics), we will have our test, and then move on with astrophysics. we should do an internal assessment next tuesday, so i will promt that on wednesday. in astro, we will have a look at our solar system, and beyond. we should get into the subject of light in stars.

ib math sl grade 11

the sine rule and its applications will be seen through some exercises in class today, monday. tomorrow, we will start (and hopefully finish) the problem solving with non-right trigonometry, and thursday will be dedicated towards the review sets, which are the homework you should be doing during the week (pages 232-234). friday, we have our grand trigonometry test.

ib physics grade 11

our quiz on thursday will be preceded by today's class, where we will look at conservation of momentum for collisions and explosions. thursday, after the quiz, our lab (finally!), and friday, we'll go into work, energy and power in newton's world of mechanics.

igcse math grade 10

homework quiz, review, test. that's the menu today; details on retest opportunities will be discussed as the week progresses. we will then start a short chapter on continious data, which e will hopefully conclude next week already. 17A and 17B is your homework, the hw quiz will be on monday, september 27.

isb kicktipp: daniel wins the week and is the new leader!

what an end of a week for daniel hendrich. with a pretty good performance of 107 points in 36 matches (almost exactly 3 points per match average), he won the week's chocolate and climbed up to first place in the general standings. on sixth postion after last week, that is quite an achievement. with 207 points, he leads a very close race for the trophy, followed by carol & jule (205), ex-leader dennis (204) and milan (204). one of these should be crowned champions after seven weeks.

the phantom, katharina, almost landed her second chocolate in a row and was second best in the week, at 101 points. milan also performed well, with 98 points to his name. tim, lea and dennis had the worst performances of the week, with only 77 points.

week five has been online since wednesday - don't forget your tipps!