Weekly Blog 3/20 - 3/24

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Summary:

The periodic table of elements has names for the columns of elements like the halogens or noble gases. There are 8 A columns while there are 10 B columns. There are metals, non-metals and metalloids on the top part of the periodic table. The atomic number can be found by the number of protons in the atom. And the atomic mass is the number of protons, neutrons and electrons in the atom.

S&EP:

SP5: Using mathematics and computational thinking

This week I performed SP5 because I worked on a paper where we had to use math to find the number of neutrons are in a specific atom. This is SP5 because I used math to find the number of neutrons in specific types of atoms.

XCC:

Patterns

The pattern is in the periodic table. You can look at the periodic table and see that it partly goes in order of atomic number but it also goes in columns of what you can call families like the last column that family is called the Halogens. This is the pattern in the periodic table of elements.