First Day was O.K.

Because I wore my rain jacket and left the sunglasses at home the weather cleared up.  Both classes were able to go to Holland park and pitch the baseballs in the sun -- even the grass wasn't wet.

A cellphone video of the baseball activity.

The main point of this exercise was to get some practice using a spreadsheet to analyse data. Homework SP1-1 requires averaging the data, finding the minimum and maximum speed and sorting. I found out that Firefox changes tabs to spaces in text files so that you can't just copy and paste the data. Using "Paste Special".. "text" does the job the most easilty. Alternatively you can paste data and then use the "Text to Columns" feature.

Friday we bowl. It's going to rain Friday, I'm sure, even if I wear all my rain gear. So it's good that we do that in doors in our Studio room not the bowling alley, unfortunately. Then we'll learn how to make a graph in Excel.  

One can also do these exercises in OpenOffice if one wants their own capable speadsheet application which is reasonably compatible with Excel.  There are a few differences, especially when it comes to graphics, but free is good.