how to write a term paper

 where do you use math in secret?  Or if you don't use math in secret, where might you start using math in secret or not in secret so you can increase your skills in math?

A lot of students are either math and science oriented or language and history oriented, but I am one of those students who likes all classes. My best class fluctuates and changes every year.There really hasn't been a class that I have never loved.  When I was really young I used to love English, and then in eighth grade I loved math. As a freshman I was extremely interested in history, math and French. Well, last year in the second semester I was taking geometry. The second semester is also when all the freshman write a history term paper. History and geometry were classes that I really enjoyed, and when  term paper time came rolling around, I was able to put them together. The idea behind a term paper revolved around proving a thesis statement. We started our term papers by simply gathering facts about our subject. We wrote each fact on an individual note card. Eventually we started putting facts together to form three arguments that would support our thesis. This is where I began to see a connection between geometry and history. I pretended each fact on a note card was a postulate. A postulate does not need to be proved; it is a fact and we can assume that it is true. The facts that I had gathered on my note cards were just like postulates because I could assume those were true too. I didn't have to prove them in my paper. Theorems are proved by definitions and postulates. My paper needed three arguments to prove my thesis statement. I used my three arguments as theorems. I could prove these three arguments with the facts I had collected on my note cards, just like you could prove a theorem with postulates. Then, my thesis statement was what I was ultimately trying to prove. When I wrote my outline for the essay, I wrote it almost exactly as if I were writing a proof. The only difference was that I also had to prove my three "theorems" (the three arguments that I was using to prove my thesis statement). Next time I am assigned a research paper, I will use this strategy again. 

Grades

Grade is a measure of how inclined something is. The percent grade tells how steep an incline is. The higher the grade, the more inclined it is. Grade is also referred to as slope. Slope (or grade) is measured by rise over run. To find the slope you measure the altitude and the horizontal distance it covers. You divide the altitude by the horizontal distance. www.spinlife.com (and Ms. Mariner’s blog) says that for a handicap ramp, every inch of vertical height should have twelve inches of horizontal length. If a handicap ramp is trying to reach a place somewhere three feet off the ground, the ramp must cover 36 feet vertically. The grade of this ramp is about 8.3% (you find that by dividing 1 by 12 and then multiplying by one hundred to find the percentage). This is where it gets interesting—the slope or grade of a triangle uses the same equation as the tangent. Imagine triangle ABC where angle A is the smallest angle. To find the tangent, you would divide the side opposite angle A (side BC) by the side adjacent to angle A (in this case, side AC). To find the slope, you would also divide side BC by side AC. However, when finding the tangent, you would get an angle measure. The slope however would not equal an angle. It would equal how much horizontal length there is to vertical length.