{"id":163,"date":"2019-11-03T03:09:58","date_gmt":"2019-11-03T03:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/lilijia\/?p=163"},"modified":"2019-11-03T03:10:46","modified_gmt":"2019-11-03T03:10:46","slug":"entering-the-second-half-of-semester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/lilijia\/2019\/11\/03\/entering-the-second-half-of-semester\/","title":{"rendered":"Entering the second half of semester"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dear all,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Daylight saving time ends this Sunday. Your clocks are moved an hour back at 2AM on 11\/3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For my <strong>AoPS Counting &amp; Probabilities class<\/strong>: In the first half of the fall semester, we have learned Countings. Since tomorrow, students are going to explore the strategies in finding Probabilities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is one &#8220;warm-up exercise&#8221;: On Friday night, there is a 60% chance that Becky will see a shooting star in any given hour. If Becky watches the sky for 2 hours, what is the probability that she&#8217;ll see a shooting star?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For my <strong>SAT Math<\/strong> class, we are going to deep dive into the model construction and equation solving in the following weeks. Please be prepared!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Enjoy and see you soon!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Best,<br>\nLijia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.aceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/FallBack_Ace-640x428.jpg\" alt=\"Daylight Savings: fall back with a clock and pumpkin\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear all, Daylight saving time ends this Sunday. Your clocks are moved an hour back at 2AM on 11\/3. For my AoPS Counting &amp; Probabilities class: In the first half of the fall semester, we have learned Countings. Since tomorrow, students are going to explore the strategies in finding Probabilities. Here is one &#8220;warm-up exercise&#8221;: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/lilijia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/lilijia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/lilijia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/lilijia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/lilijia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/lilijia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164,"href":"https:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/lilijia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions\/164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/lilijia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/lilijia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/lilijia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}