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Announcement – MSC Alumni Homecoming Activities

The MSC Alumni Homecoming Activities have begun with alumni basketball and volleyball ( men and women’s leagues) and will culminate on Saturday, Dec 6, 2014 during the week long 25th MSC Foundation Week Activities, with the the Search for Outstanding MSC Alumni – Awarding Ceremonies, followed by the Alumni Homecoming Ball.

PROGRAM OF ACTIVITIES	Activities
December 1, 2014 (Monday)	Campus Clean-up Drive
December 3, 2014(Wednesday)	Ingress of Exhibits
December 4, 2014 (Thursday)
8:00-9:00 a.m.	Thanksgiving Mass
9:30 a.m.	Motorcade
11:00 a.m.	Opening of Exhibits
	Student Recruitment/ Career Orientation
	Photo Exhibit – MSC milestones
	Math-Sci Exhibit
	Eng-Fil-Social Exhibit
	Arts Exhibit
	Botanical Garden
	Booths
1:00 p.m.	Scavenger Hunt!
	Scavenger Hunt!
	1st PC assembly & disassembly
	Visual Graphics
	1st digital arts – tarp layout
3:00 p.m.	Entrance/ Scholarship Exam/ Orientation to MSC High School
	MSC High School Got Talent !
	Mr. & Ms. MSC
December 5, 2014 (Friday)
8:00 a.m.- 4:00 p.m.	Math-Sci Exhibit
	Eng-Fil-Social Exhibit
	Arts Exhibit
	Botanical Garden
9:00 a.m.	13th Inter-elem School Quiz Show
	Inter-class Math Sci Challenge
1:00 p.m.	5th Speed Math Contest
	Inter-class Speed Math contest
3:00 p.m.	9th Cyberfair web design contest (awarding)
	Robotics – demonstrations

December 6, 2014 (Saturday)
8:00 a.m.	Family Day
	PTA raffle/ games/ boodle fight
3 p.m.	Sayawit
	Search for Outstanding MSC Alumni
6 p.m.	Search for Outstanding MSC Alumni – Awarding Ceremony Dinner
	Alumni Homecoming

We would like to hear from all our MSC Alumni. Please fill up the form below, and click submit.
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If you’d like to join the activities, please register using the indicated links:

Alumni Shirt Design Contest

Alumni Men’s Basketball League

Alumni Volleyball League (for men and women)

Issue 3 – Subtraction Without Borrowing

June 26, 2014 Issue 3

Calling MSC Alumni!

The first commencement exercises in MSC High School was held in 1998 with its first batch consisting of twenty-three (23) promising graduates. Through the years, MSC has produced many successful professionals who excel in their chosen fields of expertise. Here is a list of just a few of them.

Calling all MSC alumni: MSC High School, MSC Technical School, finishers of MSC short courses or Child Development Center coursers. Leave a reply or write to newsletter@msc.edu.ph to tell us where you are now!

On Dec. 4, 2014, we will be celebrating our 25th Foundation Day. In line with this, we have lined up many activities leading up to the Foundation Day celebration. We invite all to forward and share this newsletter 25 Math Short Cuts to friends in the MSC community to disseminate information about the event. Every week, we will also feature a very useful math technique, a bit of MSC history, and MSC today.

If you have an interesting MSC story, please share it with us by writing to newsletter@msc.edu.ph

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MSC Science Club Announces Alternative Energy Projects

New Science Club Sets Ambitious Goals

The new MSC Science Club (MSC) which was formed out of the old Math-Sci Club, sets its sights of having an alternative powered science classroom in time for the school’s 25th Anniversary. Recognizing the continuous increase in the cost of electrical power, the club made research of a suitable non-traditional power source for the school its main objective for this school year.

MSC acquired project kit to enable student to conduct up to 129 experiments

Glimpse at San Pablo City’s History

Blast from the past!

1571 – Arrival of Spanish troops under Captain Juan de Salcedo in the village of Sampalok (San Pablo City).
1586 – Sampalok was converted into a parish.
1647 – Sampalok was converted to a municipality and renamed San Pablo de los Montes.

MSC 3- Subtraction Without Borrowing

The concept of “borrowing” when subtracting a large number from a smaller number is perhaps one of the most confusing lessons we learn in school. Given a simple subtraction problem like:

134 – 97 = ??

In our head we say something like:
four minus seven, can not be
borrow one from three. fourteen minus seven is seven…

Mental Subtraction is very easy if there is no “borrowing”. We will discuss three ways to avoid borrowing.

Issue 2 – All From 9 and the Last from 10 – 25 Math Short Cuts

June 19, 2014 Issue 2

MSC Foundation Day

If you have an interesting MSC story, please share it with us by writing to msc@msc.edu.ph

More Robotics Programming at MSC High

We will have more time for Computer Programming Lessons this school year at MSC High School, including robotics programming using the latest state-of-the-art Lego MindStorm EV3 robotics set.

MSC Institute of Technology High School students at all levels will have two hours of computer programming lessons per week beginning this school year. Programming “is the new ‘superpower’ that isn’t taught in 90% of US schools” During the previous years, MSC students started programming once a week using the Lego Mindstorms NXT 2.0 Robotics Kits.

According to Steve Jobs, the late founder of Apple, Inc. and the creator of IPad and IPhone, “Everybody (in this country) should learn how to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think”.
Read more….

25 Years Ago – How MSC Started

MSC is best known as an educational institution. However, MSC started out as a computer software company, not a school.

In June 1989, Jorge Tanalega and I, together with our Cobol Instructor/ STI Center administrator Danny Lopez thought of forming a software development company because we we informed that a local utility wanted to computerize its billing system. With some friends we brainstormed for a name which can be easily remembered. We though that SMC (San Miguel Corporation) was very popular so we thought that jumbling the initials would be a good idea.

A couple of unforeseen events led us to seriously consider the direction of a new company. In a planning session, Danny Lopez asked us “who do you think are the best programmers in San Pablo?” Of course, I pointed to Jorge, Danny and Myself. And so Danny suggested that we establish a computer school.

MSC Child Development Center

MSC believes we can start children early and make them love learning in math and science and computing.

To provide each child with superlative environment for physical, moral, spiritual, emotional and intellectual growth through a variety of meaningful experiences designed for the child’s total development.

MSC 2 – All from 9 and the Last from 10 Subtraction

As in Addition, we were taught to subtract from right to left. But when computing money, we struggle mentally with left to right computation. If we paid for a P347.25 purchase with a P1,000 bill, for example, our mental process goes on like this:

1000 minus 300 is 700 but my purchase is more than 300
so my change is less than 700, or 600+.
It is not 660, because we bought more than 340, so it must be 650+.
It is not 653, because we bought more than 347, so it must be 652+.
Aha!, we know that the change for .25 is .75, so we have our final change of P652.75

Next Week

MSC Clubs
25 Years of MSC ( more stories ! )
MSC 3- Subtraction Without Borrowing.

MSC 25th Foundation Day

by Ike Prudente

On Dec. 4, 2014, we will be celebrating our 25th Foundation Day. In line with this, we are preparing some activities in addition to whatever plans the Alumni Association has.

First is the Search for Outstanding MSC Alumni. We will be awarding 25 Tech-Voc, 25 High School and 25 Short Course (FCO, ACO, Caregiving and Call Center) graduates during our Foundation Day. The criteria will be announced in early June.

Second is the 25 MSC – 25 Math Short Cuts. Every week, we will send a very useful math technique to all subscribers of the 25 MSC Newsletter which will come out beginning the second week of June. This Newsletter will be available to all – to MSC Alumni, your friends and relatives. Anyone who wishes to subscribe to this newsletter can fill out the form on the right of this page, or click on this link, just send a email with “Subscribe” on the subject line to msc@msc.edu.ph.

Third is the MSC Directory. We would like to keep track of all former
MSC students so we will start to gather data for an MSC directory which will be made accessible to all MSC alumni.

Fourth but not the least and surely not the last is the creation of an MSC Scholarship Fund. MSC has given many MSC scholarships to deserving students in the past, but we have not institutionalized it. With the creation of the MSC Scholarship Fund we hope to have more donors and more scholars.

25 Math Short Cuts

By Ike Prudente

This collection of 25 Math Short Cuts is published in commemoration of the 25th Foundation Day of MSC Institute of Technology.

I have selected what I think will be most useful for everyone, whether you are students, teachers, professionals or plain folks who need to calculate every day. Much of the hard work in compiling this work is not in researching for materials because I know these short cuts by heart but in selecting what short cuts to include.

From our grade school years, many of us have learned many ways of simplifying calculations. I am sure that for most of us, “multiplying by 10” is one of the first math short cut we have learned. And we continue to use it, which is the reason why I did not include it here. Unfortunately, most of us have forgotten most of the short cuts we have been taught in the past. As for my case, I am somewhat “lazy” at calculations so that I always looked for easier ways of computing. From my grade four teacher, I learned “squaring numbers ending in 5’ To this was added some more techniques which I picked-up from various books. I developed more short cuts by applying what I learned in algebra to simplify arithmetic computations. Then there were also some “tricks” I learned when I began to study “Vedic Math” in 2003, when they became available in the Internet.

$Math Short Cuts$

Even very young children can learn math short cuts, even adding left-to-right ( versus the traditional right to left )

I observed that my students enjoyed the short cuts that I shared with them and many came to love Math and actually improved their grades in the subject. I am also sure that these short cuts helped countless of my students pass the Philippine Science High School, UP Rural High School and UP entrance examinations.

Realizing that most readers like me, don’t want to read explanations, I will try to present the techniques in the form of examples, avoiding long explanations as much as possible. But sometimes we will cite Sutras or “word formulas” used in Vedic Math, which are very useful in remembering the short cuts.

We hope that with these shortcuts you will eventually be able to do most calculations mentally. However, we also realize that many will have to write down the answer first before reciting it. So we will explain the procedures to arrive at a written answer using a mental solution. With a little practice, many can dispense with the written answer.

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