Nov 24, 2014 Issue 16
25th Foundation Celebration & Multiplying Complementary Numbers
MSC’s 25th Foundation Week Celebration Activities
We’re just about there!
We will celebrate the 25th Anniversary of VYP-MSC Institute of Technology with a week long series of activities from December 1 to 6, culminating with the MSC Alumni Homecoming and Awarding Ceremonies for the MSC Outstanding Alumni on December 6, 2014.
Alumni Basketball League
Erwin Ciar as D’ Kings
In this issue
- MSC Foundation Week Activities
- MSC Sportsfest 2014
- MSC Origins Part X: MSC HS opens at MSC Annex
- Stories from the Alumni: Joanna Erlano
- Trivia: MSC, official tabulator ng Bayan
- Conversion: Feet and Inches to Meters
- MSC 16 – Multiplying Complementary Numbers
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MSC Sportsfest 2014
This year’s MSC Sportsfest was held last October 27 to 29 and started with a parade of the teams in the San Gabriel-San Miguel area. After the parade, a short opening program was held at the green school campus followed by the first event, the Cheerdance Competition. Grade VIII won first place, followed by the Seniors, placing second and third place went to the Freshmen.
Grade 8 Cheering Squad
MSC Origins part X: MSC HS Opens at MSC Annex
In 1995, MSC was occupying the 4th floor floor of the La Suerte building along Rizal Avenue, MSC main and the former Agrix Supermarket along A. Fule St. fondly called MSC annex.
Before the end of school year 1995-1996, a local event caused the displacement of numerous students, and they frantically looked for high schools to enroll in.
Stories from the Alumni: Joanna Erlano
KWENTONG MSC
Sa MSC ko natutunan na bawat isa ay may angking talento. Sa tulong ng masisigasig na mga guro, principal na si Ma’am Lerma at ni Sir Ike, naranasan naming linangin ito.
Joanna Erlano MSC High School class 2007
BS IT, LSPU San Pablo Campus
Current work Admin. staff(President’s office), LSPU San Pablo Campus
Currently a Masteral student at TUP-Manila
Trivia: MSC, Official Tabulator ng Bayan
We can not quite remember when MSC first became the tabulator of a contest, but as far as we can remember, numerous organizers and groups have always tapped MSC resources for tabulation purposes. By resources, we mean computers, printers and manpower.
Being a computer company and running a computer school means that computers are readily available, but having people willing to volunteer and owners who are willing to lend these people and equipment is something else.
Conversion: Feet and Inches to Meters
Filipinos (and most Americans) are more accustomed to using Feet and Inches in measuring their heights.But the Philippines is officially on the metric system, so we are often required to give our heights in meters or centimeters. It is not difficult to approximate if we remember the following:
- 100 centimeter = 1 meter
- 1 foot = 30 centimeters (cm)
- 1 inch = 2.5 cm
- 4 inches = 10 cm
So how do we compute 4’ 8”? How about 5′ 6?? 6′ 11?
MSC 16 – Multiplying Complementary Numbers
Complementary numbers are numbers with the same initial digits and the sum of the last digits equal to 10.
The technique in multiplying complementary numbers is similar to that of squaring numbers ending in 5 (By one more than the one before) except that the right hand part is not 25 but the product of the last digits
Example 16.1: Find 46 x 44
= 4 x 5 | 6 x 4
= 20 | 24
= 2,024
Previous Issues
- Issue 1 – Creating Zeroes
- Issue 2 – All From 9 and the Last from 10
- Issue 3 – Subtraction Without Borrowing
- Issue 4 – Stories from MSC Alumni, and Multiplying by 11
- Issue 5 – Blast from the Past, The Search is on and Multiplying by 2
- Issue 6 – Nutrition Month, Carabao Fractions, Division by 2
- Issue 7 – MSC High First Batch in 1998; Doubling and Halving
- Issue 8 – Mutya ng Pilipinas and Multiplying by 9
- Issue 9 – CocoFestival 1996 and Dividing by 5, 50, 0.5 etc
- Issue 10 – MSC Alumni Meeting , Multiplying by 5
- Issue 11 – Featured Alumni – Edgar Cauyan and Division by 9
- Issue 12 – MSC Alumni Activities; Dividing by 4 and 8
- Issue 13 – T-Shirt Design Contest and Multiplying by 25, 250 and 125
- Issue14 – Alumni Working in CARD, and Division by 25, 250, and 125
- Issue 15 – Basketball League & Squaring Numbers Ending in 5
In the Next Issue
- Stories from the Alumni: Sammy Suco
- MSC Alumnus Erwin Ciar Makes it to PinaSikat Grand Finals
- MSC Origins Part XI: Stories at the Annex
- MSC Firsts: First School to have Computerized Student Council Elections (1992)
- MSC 17 – Base Multiplication: Multiplying “Teen” Numbers and Others
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