Math Monday

Tickets numbered 1 to 30 are mixed up and then a ticket is drawn at random.
What is the probability that the ticket drawn has a number that is a multiple of 3 or 7?

Claudette Colvin

Claudette Colvin is a pioneer of the Civil Rights Movement.

On March 2, 1955, when she was just 15 years old she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus in segregated Montgomery, Alabama, nine months prior to Rosa Parks' famous arrest for the same offense.

Colvin was riding home on a city bus after school when a bus driver told her to give up her seat to a white passenger. She refused, saying, "It's my constitutional right to sit here as much as that lady. I paid my fare, it's my constitutional right." Colvin felt compelled to stand her ground. "I felt like Sojourner Truth was pushing down on one shoulder and Harriet Tubman was pushing down on the other—saying, 'Sit down girl!' I was glued to my seat."

Math Mondays: Least Common Factor

Financial Fridays-Free Application for Student Financial Aid

What's the FAFSA? And Why You Should Care

Completing the FAFSA will help you earn federal financial aid.

By The Fastweb Team

August 17, 2017

You must submit the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) if you want to apply for federal and state financial aid. Many colleges and universities, especially public institutions, also require the FAFSA. You must submit the FAFSA every year that you want aid.

Obtaining a FAFSA

The FAFSA is available in several formats, including online, PDF and paper versions.

The best option is to complete the web-based version of the FAFSA at www.fafsa.ed.gov, known as FAFSA on the Web. It includes step-by-step instructions for completing the online FAFSA as well as preapplication worksheets. You can obtain a PIN to electronically sign the form by visiting www.pin.ed.gov. If you have technical questions about using FAFSA on the Web, call 1-800-4-FED-AID.

FAFSA on the Web offers several benefits, including:

• You will get your Student Aid Report (SAR) sooner than with the paper or PDF forms.


• Your FAFSA will be more accurate, since the FAFSA on the Web has built-in edit checks to catch simple errors and you avoid errors introduced by the OCR process.


• You will save the federal government money by reducing their processing costs.


• The online FAFSA allows you to list up to ten colleges, while the paper FAFSA has space only for four colleges.

Most families complete the FAFSA online these days.

Paper versions are no longer bulk-distributed to high schools, colleges and libraries, with a few exceptions. (The exceptions involve organizations that work with underrepresented populations and students that do not have access to the Internet or a phone.) However, students may obtain up to three copies of the paper version by calling 1-800-4-FED-AID(1-800-433-3242) or 1-391-337-5665. (Hearing impaired individuals should call the TTYnumber 1-800-730-8913.) Paper FAFSAs can be ordered starting November 1 of each year.

Note that the FAFSA may not be submitted before October 1, even if the paper and PDFversions are available sooner.

EFC Calculators

FinAid’s Financial Aid Estimation Form may be used to calculate your EFC and an estimate of your eligibility for financial aid. This may help you understand a bit about how the federal need analysis system works. You can also run “what-if” experiments to see how much aid you’ll get under various scenarios. FinAid also has a QuickEFC calculator that uses much fewer questions to yield a ballpark estimate of your EFC.

Like FinAid’s EFC calculator, the US Department of Education’s FAFSA4CASTER tool also provides an early estimate of financial aid eligible. It is similar to FAFSA on the Web, but omits a handful of questions (e.g., drug conviction, selective service, parent education level, list of colleges, signatures). The FinAid tool provides more detailed analysis and more detailed aid eligibility information, but FAFSA4CASTER will potentially be linked with FAFSA on the Web for prefilling the answers to some of the FAFSA questions.

https://www.fastweb.com/financial-aid/articles/what-s-the-fafsa-and-why-you-should-care

Thursday Thought

Why is diversity important in an outside the classroom?

Wisdom Wednesdays

Teaching Tuesdays-Run on Sentences

Run-On Sentences

A run-on sentence occurs when two or more independent clauses (also known as complete sentences) are connected improperly.

Example: I love to write papers I would write one every day if I had the time.

There are two complete sentences in the above example:

Sentence 1: I love to write papers.

Sentence 2: I would write one every day if I had the time.

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One common type of run-on sentence is a comma splice. A comma splice occurs when two independent clauses are joined with just a comma.

Example of a comma splice: Participants could leave the study at any time, they needed to indicate their preference.

Sentence 1: Participants could leave the study at any time.

Sentence 2: They needed to indicate their preference.

Some comma splices occur when a writer attempts to use a transitional expression in the middle of a sentence.

Example of a comma splice: The results of the study were inconclusive, therefore more research needs to be done on the topic.

Sentence 1: The results of the study were inconclusive

Transitional expression (conjunctive adverb): therefore

Sentence 2: More research needs to be done on the topic

To fix this type of comma splice, use a semicolon before the transitional expression and add a comma after it. See more examples of this on the semicolon page.

Revision: The results of the study were inconclusive; therefore, more research needs to be done on the topichttp://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/grammar/runonsentences.