Saturday, October 25, 2008

...mY haPpy RaYa...


About 40++ people in my class join raya at hasni opah house...
makan>> roti jala, meehun goreng, nasi minyak, nasi impit wif kuah kacang ,and of course kuih raya..
hehe.. sebelum sampai uma opah hasni kitong pegi uma paie n sesat 3 kali.huhu... what is the best moments is when taking a pic..=)

Friday, October 24, 2008

...BoOk ReViEw...

Title: Science Form 1
Writers : Bah Hock Guan
Abdul Raof in Zain
Tio Mei Ling
Editor: Hj. Hashim bin Hj Md Isa
Publisher: Berita Publishing (2002)


Organization
In general, this book has provided a useful table of contents, glossary, and index
The table of contents shows a logical arrangement and development of subject. Make it easier for student to read and understand the topic.
The textbook has uniform in appearance and content layout throughout the book as well as within each chapter.
it contain references, bibliographies, and other resources, so that the reader can refer throughout this sources easily.
The chapters provide introductions and summaries that are clear and comprehensive.
All the pages numbered so that reader will not get confusing.

Content
The content meets local and national standards as well as accurate and up to date.
The language is appropriate for the intended age group, clear and grammatically correct.
The textbook contain age appropriate reading level and it contain end of lesson questions or quizzes. The lessons linked to other subject areas. The activities engage students in active learning, so the reader appealing to a wide range of abilities and interests.
Beside that, the lessons encourage higher level of thinking.
However, this textbook can not be used or several years because syllabus can change in a few year.

Physical aspects
The size and weight of this textbook appropriate for the students who will use it.
In addition, the font and style age appropriate for the reader. The binding, pages, and cover durable. The textbook is appeal to the student and the page layout uncluttered and balanced. The illustrations, tables, figures, graphs, and charts, etc. provide appropriate representations of age, ethnicity, sex, socioeconomic level, and physical/mental ability.
The illustrations, tables, figures, graphs, charts are relevant and functional.

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

math in science

Carl Friedrich Gauss referred to mathematics as "the Queen of the Sciences".[14] In the original Latin Regina Scientiarum, as well as in German Königin der Wissenschaften, the word corresponding to science means (field of) knowledge. Indeed, this is also the original meaning in English, and there is no doubt that mathematics is in this sense a science. The specialization restricting the meaning to natural science is of later date. If one considers science to be strictly about the physical world, then mathematics, or at least pure mathematics, is not a science. Albert Einstein has stated that "as far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."[15]
Many philosophers believe that mathematics is not experimentally falsifiable,[citation needed] and thus not a science according to the definition of Karl Popper. However, in the 1930s important work in mathematical logic showed that mathematics cannot be reduced to logic, and Karl Popper concluded that "most mathematical theories are, like those of physics and biology, hypothetico-deductive: pure mathematics therefore turns out to be much closer to the natural sciences whose hypotheses are conjectures, than it seemed even recently."[16] Other thinkers, notably Imre Lakatos, have applied a version of falsificationism to mathematics itself.
An alternative view is that certain scientific fields (such as theoretical physics) are mathematics with axioms that are intended to correspond to reality. In fact, the theoretical physicist, J. M. Ziman, proposed that science is public knowledge and thus includes mathematics.[17] In any case, mathematics shares much in common with many fields in the physical sciences, notably the exploration of the logical consequences of assumptions. Intuition and experimentation also play a role in the formulation of conjectures in both mathematics and the (other) sciences. Experimental mathematics continues to grow in importance within mathematics, and computation and simulation are playing an increasing role in both the sciences and mathematics, weakening the objection that mathematics does not use the scientific method. In his 2002 book A New Kind of Science, Stephen Wolfram argues that computational mathematics deserves to be explored empirically as a scientific field in its own right.