Nov 12, 2014 Issue 13

Issue 13 – T-Shirt Design Contest; Multiplying by 25 and125

T-Shirt Design Contest

Calling all MSC Alumni (high school, technical-vocational, computer short courses, Caregiving and Call Center courses)! Here are the entries for the MSC Alumni Shirt Design Contest!

Entries to MSC T-Shirt Design Contest

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MSC High School Celebrates English Month

Last September 25, 2014 VYP-MSC Institute of Technology celebrated its 2014 English month with the theme “Sharpening English Language through Global Competitiveness” wherein the students showed their talents and gifts through participating in different contests. The main objective of this program is to develop and enhance each student’s talent by building up their confidence to face the crowd.

MSC Origins Part VIII: Transfer to La Suerte building

In June, 1995, MSC made another business decision and it packed all its belongings for the third time and left the Alvero compound along M. Paulino St., its home for four years.

MSC transferred to the La Suerte building located along the bustling Rizal Avenue. Situated on the fourth floor, the main site of MSC (called MSC Main, for obvious reasons) seemed unreachable. The place had no elevators, so the four flight climb was an aerobic adventure.

Converting Meters to Yards

One meter is approximately equal to 1.1 yards.

For practical purposes we can use this conversion factor.
Here we can apply MSC 4 – Multiplying by 11 to quickly convert meters to yards.

Photo courtesy of WikiHow

Stories from the Alumni: Hazel Rose M. Zoleta

“Parang butil ng buhangin di gaanong napapansin, pag- inipon ang tinapon ay panghihinayangan din.”
Walong taon na ang nakararaan nang ako ay mag- umpisa bilang isang butil ng buhangin. Isang buhangin sa napakalawak na baybayin; hindi napapansin at hindi alam kung paano palulutangin ang natatanging talento at galling.

MSC 13 – Multiplying by 25, 250, 125

Remember that 25 is 100/4. This means we can multiply the number by 100, and then divide by 4.

To multiply by 25, move the decimal point of the multiplicand two places to the right and divide the resulting number by 4.

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MSC Green School Campus: a stop-over for Climate Walk
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Stories from the Alumni: Ednie Agulto
MSC’s Firsts: First to do School to School Orientation
MSC 14 – Division by 25, 250, and 125

Every week, for 25 weeks up to December 4, 2014 when we celebrate our 25th Foundation day, this newsletter will feature one math short cut. We will progress from the simplest to the simple. Believe you can do it! Just proceed one step ( short cut ) at a time, and be pleasantly surprised to discover none of the math short cuts are difficult! Forward this newsletter to your friends, relatives, and young kids.

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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.

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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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