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The Number Zero  By : Amy Almeida   INVESTIGATION __**Identify the Problem**__ the people in our class don't know the history of the number zero and they need to for a maths assessment. explain the problem

we need to create a powerpoint / prezi on the history of the number zero so the people in our class have the resources to find out what they need to know

__**Research and Analysis**__

2. When did it spread to Europe? 12th century
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3. Name the man who brought it to Europe? l.Pisano
[|http://www.archives.com]. What city in Italy first used the number Zero? > 6. Why were people afraid of the new number system? > 8. What difference did the new number system make in Europe? > 9. Plan your own number system.
 * 1) 5. Describe what was wrong with the roman numerals number system?
 * 1) 7. Contrast the roman numerals to the new number system
 * 1) My number system uses the numbers we use today but in a different way:11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 110 the 1 that is in front of each of the numbers represent that it’s in the 1st ten. If you wanted to go up to twenty it would look like this 21 22 23 24 25 267 28 29 210 and to go up to thirty it would look like this 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 310 and so on

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> |||| 20 || 2 || 22 || 23 || 24 || 25 || 26 || 27 || 28 || 29 || 30 || what makes a good presentation own answer : a good presentation is a presentation that is very interesting to look at and interesting to read, the point of that being having a room that's filled with young children or young adults you need to grab there attention so you don't put them to sleep in the middle of the presentation.your information also has to be accurate and you need to be realistic if you are exaggerating something.you should also not have much writing on your powerpoint presentation but you should have it on a separate piece of paper as notes so you have to keep looking at the bored to see what it says. you could also have some paper for the audience to take notes on your presentation so they don't proget it as soon as they walk out the room.
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 * 1 || 2 || 3 || 4 || 5 || 6 || 7 || 8 || 9 || 10 || 1,0 || 1,1 || 1,2 || 1,3 || 1,4 || 1,5 || 1,6 || 1,7 || 1,8 || 1,9 || 1,10 ||  || ======
 * |||| 2,0 || 2,1 || 2,2 || 2,3 || 2,4 || 2,5 || 2,6 || 2,7 || 2,8 || 2,9 || 2,10 ||
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 * ======10. How could the number Zero been invented in two different parts of the planet by two totally unrelated civilizations at about the same time? The two different places to first use the number zero was the Arabic and the Rome======
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 * ======11.how will you write these numbers I your number system :======
 * 44000=44000,0 66=6,6
 * 44000=44000,0 66=6,6

websites answers :

1. Remember that in an oral presentation, your job is to TEACH your topic to the class and the professor. So you may want to think about the best teachers you have studied with. What made them good teachers? Why did you like their teaching style? How can you imitate the best features of their teaching in your presentation?

2. Know your subject thoroughly.

3. Speak clearly and with confidence. Make eye contact with your audience.

4. Present your material in an organized manner. Try not to memorize the actual words; this will make the presentation seem stiff and unnatural. Know the order in which you will discuss your topic and then talk about your topic in a natural manner.

5. Choose a topic in which you have a personal interest and then don't be timid or afraid to show that interest when you talk about your subject. The very best talks are those in which the speaker has interest.

6. Get the class involved in the presentation through questions and discussion. Include audio and visual aids if possible.

7. Challenge the class to rethink assumptions or consider a new idea.

8. Add humor if appropriate. The most confident speakers will use humor when the subject matter is appropriate to do so. Humor gets the audience involved and releases tension.

9. For a week or so before your presentation, observe professors and their public speaking styles. Mentally critique their public speaking and think about what features you want to imitate and what you want to avoid. [|http://www.courseweb.fst.edu/pryds/study/presentation.pdf] This class will require several presentations to your peers, in your lab section. This is a valuable skill to learn, one that is often neglected in college courses. The first thing that comes to many folks' minds when asked to make a presentation to a group is.fear. Understandably, it's risky to get up in front of your peers and the professor or TA and talk about a subject. I know because I've been there too. After my many years of giving presentations, I still get nervous. So, it's a matter of dealing with the feelings and practicing until that fear does not keep you from doing your best. You will get a lot of support in this class. Mostly, you will give your presentations on a group topic, with members of your group standing next to you and helping you if needed. There are some tricks that make giving a presentation much easier. The first is the effective use of visuals, for example transparencies projected on an overhead projector. Projections can also be made from a computer, but the same rules apply.

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5 rules on how to make a good presentation:

 * 1) Don’t give your presentation software center stage. This is the biggest mistake I see speakers make. They forget that PowerPoint or Keynote are tools designed to augment their presentation not be their presentation.
 * 2) Create a logical flow to your presentation. Better yet, tell a story. (See Cliff Atkinson’s [|Beyond Bullet Points.] The absolute last thing you want to do is turn your presentation into a random assortment of bulleted lists, which is what often happens, especially when PowerPoint is involved. There must be a flow.
 * 3) Make your presentation readable. Memorize this sentence: “If people can’t read my slides from the back of the room, my type is too small.” Now repeat it over and over again while you create your slides. If people are squinting during your presentation, trying to make out what’s on the slide, you’ve lost your audience.
 * 4) Remember, less is more. Fancy slide transitions and fly-ins get old quickly. I strongly recommend that you keep things simple. A basic dissolve from one slide to another is usually sufficient.
 * 5) Distribute a handout. I have changed my mind on this over the years. I do not think that you should distribute a handout before you begin speaking.

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Design Brief

this presentation is for my fellow classmates because we have a maths test coming up about zero and none of the people

in my class know how to find a good website to find all the information they need. when i show them my website they will not need to look all over the internet looking for a good website i hope that this presentation will be used in class in many english speaking countries.

Product Specification

My product must: Test Plan
 * have useful information
 * useful diagrams
 * english-accurate sentences
 * colorful
 * interesting
 * easy to use
 * have some humor in it but not to much humor
 * must be organised
 * be colorful

as this presentation is for my fellow classmates to see i will show them and ask them if it meets all my product specifications which are: and if they know more about the number zero that they did before they watched me presentation DESIGN __**Pictures of my designs**__
 * have useful information
 * useful diagrams
 * english-accurate sentences
 * colorful
 * interesting
 * easy to use
 * have some humor in it but not to much humor

design 1 design 2 design 3
 * __explain how ea__**** __ch of your designs compares to your product specification and the design brief__ **
 * design specification || design 1 || design 2 || design 3 ||
 * have useful information || check || check || check ||
 * useful diagrams || X || X || check ||
 * english-accurate sentences || checK || check || check ||
 * colorful || check || X || check ||
 * interesting || check || check || check ||
 * easy to use || X || X || X ||
 * have some humor in it but not to much humor || X || X || X ||
 * must be organised || check || X || X ||
 * be colorful || check || X || check ||

CREATE MASTER SLIDE
 * __Identify your chosen design here__** i chose my design 2 because it has the most of my product specification under check. that mean that this design has most of the things needed to make a good presentation. this is also one of my personal favorites so i made by the specification points as much as i could  PLAN
 * stages || materials || time it will take || what do i need to do || slides ||
 * ||  || 5 minutes || getting the right amount of slides ( 7 ) ||   ||
 * ||  || 5 minutes || making the slides colour full but easy to read the writ ing ||   ||
 * ||  || 1 minutes || get the title ready || 1 ||
 * ||  || 1 hour/homework || look at what i need to put on my first slid and do some research on it ||   ||
 * ||  || 1 hour/homework || copy and paste the information onto word to take home and hylite + put it in my own words ||   ||
 * ||  || 20 minutes || type up my own words into my presentation/prezi ||   ||
 * ||  || 5 minutes || see where to put which piece of information from my design that i drew and follow it to make sure i haven't missed anything ||   ||
 * ||  || 10 minutes || get all the pictures and diagrams you need for that particular slide + any animations that you may want ||   ||
 * ||  || 1 minute || save it as "number zero presentation for I.T." ||   ||
 * ||  || 1 minute || get the title ready || 1 ||
 * ||  || 1 hour/homework || look at what i need to put on my second slid and do some research on it || 2 ||
 * ||  || 1 hour/homework || copy and paste the information onto word to take home and hylite + put it in my own words ||   ||
 * ||  || 20 minutes || type up my own words into my presentation/prezi ||   ||
 * ||  || 5 minutes || see where to put which piece of information from my design that i drew and follow it to make sure i haven't missed any thing ||   ||
 * ||  || 10 minutes || get all the pictures and diagrams you need for that particular slide ||   ||
 * ||  || 1 minute || save it ||   ||
 * ||  || 1 minute || get the title ready || 2 ||
 * ||  || 1 hour/homework || look at what i need to put on my therd slid and do some research on it || 3 ||
 * ||  || 1 hour/homework || copy and paste the information onto word to take home and hylite + put it in my own words ||   ||
 * ||  || 20 minutes || type up my own words into my presentation/prezi ||   ||
 * ||  || 5 minutes || see where to put which piece of information from my design that i drew and follow it to make sure i haven't missed anything ||   ||
 * ||  || 10 minutes || get all the pictures and diagrams you need for that particular slide + any animations you might want ||   ||
 * ||  || 1 minute || save it ||   ||
 * ||  || 1 minute || get the title || 3 ||
 * ||  || 1 hour/homework || look at what i need to put on my forth slid and do some research on it || 4 ||
 * ||  || 1 hour/homework || copy and paste the information onto word to take home and hylite + put it in my own words ||   ||
 * ||  || 20 minutes || type up my own words into my presentation/prezi ||   ||
 * ||  || 5 minutes || see where to put which piece of information from my design that i drew and follow it to make sure i haven't missed anything ||   ||
 * ||  || 10 minutes || get all the pictures and diagrams you need for that particular slide + any animations you might want || 4 ||
 * ||  || 1 minute || save it ||   ||
 * ||  ||   || ceap doing this until you have completed 7 slides ||   ||

media type="file" key="The number zero.swf" width="480" height="480"

changes made from my original design:

i didn't have the lines across the middle of the page going in different directions for me to be able to to use the masker slide and print screen it onto my wikispaces. i also found it easier to do in master slide instead of doing the same thing over and over again for each slide.i also didn't find a way to fit a time line into the power point. i couldn't do it without putting too much information on it because we were also focusing on what make a good powerpoint and research shows that a good powerpoint is one with only the maine points on it and not paragraph after paragraph of writing. i also had much more room than i thought i would have when i was designing my powerpoint and therefore i could fit in lots more pictures to take up lots more space.i also didn't stick to the colour pattern that i had planned to use instead of blue,pink and white i chose red,black and white. i think they go with each other in a more sophisticated look.

why did i make these changes:

i made all these changes to make the job of creat easier for me to make easier for you to use and nicer to look at. i wasn't planning on using the master slide at all because i thought that if i had managed without it for all these years without it i didn't really need it. and i was right, i didn't need to use it but i think that it helped me alot. if i wasn't forced to use the master slide and that i had to give evidence that i have done so i would have followed most of my original design and never have figured out how use full master slide would be. so that is the main reason that i didn't follow my original desigh

changes made to my original design:

i made a little bit of changes to my original plan because i was not able to get internet at my house so i was not able to take work home ( except for my designs ). i also had trouble to keep up with the times that i had planned because i tried to get things done as fast as i could and then i ended up forgetting my timing plan that i had set up during my plan. i also didn't make my slides one at a i used my master slide to get all of them done much faster that i would have by doing it one at a time

EVALUATE Results of tests:

i have asked two of my classmates Anna and kekeli what they think about my power point and how i could improve on each of my design specification: spellings || the background is too dull || its interesting because it goes to the main point || yes it is easy to use || no it does not have any humor || i think that it i very organised || these are the results from my test plan
 * product specifications: || have useful information || useful diagrams || english-accurate sentences || colorful || interesting || easy to use || have some humor in it but not to much humor || must be organised ||
 * Anna || You do have useful information || You do not have interesting diagrams but you do have relating pictures || Mostly || It is colorful but the background makes my eyes water. || It is interesting || It is easy to use. || It only has a little bit of humor. || It is organized ||
 * lowita || i think that you have to much infomation || the diagrams are useful and funny || i think that your english was good but you have to work on your
 * amy / me || i think that i used to much good information || i think that i used relevant pictures but not so many gyagrames || i think that i used good english but i had bad spelling || i think that i had a good background and colorful pictures || i think that i used goo information that was interesting || i think that it is very easy to use || i think that i did the right thing in leaving out the humor || i think that i had a very organised layout ||

if i were to do this project again i would : >
 * i thought that i spent too much time doing my design and then didn't do the most of my ability so next time i would try to put more detail into my designs to get a higher grade for them
 * i think that ( from the results from my test plan that i ) need to make my diagrams more interesting and fun to look at
 * i think that i also need to work on my english and spelling to make my writing more understandable
 * i think that i also need to work on my background to make it more pleasant for people to look at for the could be some complaints on it making peoples eyes water and to make it more colorful
 * i would not put too much information because a good powerpoint has short bullet points and not paragraph after paragraph
 * i tried to make my powerpoint as funny and interesting as possible so people wouldn't get bored when they read it but it also had to be agicational but i don't think that i was a bad idea because i think that i would have made it to funny so i didn't do it and made it as educational as i can

if i were to do the design cycle again i would have:
 * looked at the robric more carefully and see if i am going to get the highest mark i can
 * find out more on what makes a good powerpoint
 * pot as much detail as possible in every thing that i had to write
 * look carefully at every thing i write to fined any spelling mistakes
 * i would spend all my spare time after school to try and finish my create to the best of my ability