Hello!! First I'd like to say that Math is a cool class as it is and this Blog idea makes it even better.

To answer to Ms. M's questions, I believe the Peaches story relates to math in a few different ways. At first Math can seem useless and boring like a bunch of dead rose bushes. But once you wait for it to bloom into something beautiful and awesome it can be very fun exciting to learn all about how it all works. You can learn how to do all kinds of math, similar to how you can cut roses to make them continue to bloom and bloom and become more interesting and get even better as you continue to work with the subject. I like to think the roses are something similar to the the peaches in the story, also. The peaches and roses seem useless at the beginning but once you learn how cool and exciting they can become if you do certain things with them,  they become fun and exciting, after you work with them for a while.

I like to approach math as a way to learn about how different things work together. All of the things that you learn all end up culminating into something wonderful as a final product. You have to work at the things that you might not understand until you get a firm understanding of that which you are trying to do. Once the concept(s) is/are understood, you can use your newly found tool(s) to your advantage in a new situation. Math is an excellent way to understand how to put things together so that you can weave new ideas into old and new problems. Math can help everywhere in your life even if it seems like math might not relate to the situation at hand.

-Whit Vinson