1. Why did you choose the concepts you did to create your problem set?
At first, I chose them because I thought it would be easy. Then as I started working on them, I had to look at past notes and ask my groupmates their view on the explanations. I realized what an effect not reviewing our work did to us and so I was glad that I relearned a lot of the previous units. It was real challenging having to explain every unit of the questions we did, but really worth it.
2. How do these problems provide an overview of your best mathematical understanding of what you have learned so far?
Well comparing the work I did on this project to the beginning in the year, I think I was able to explain it better than when I first learned it. I really would get some trouble with it and so would my the other members of my group. So when we would talk to each other about our problems, it was like a review and helped me understand and remember concepts I had forgotten over the course of the year. As I was working on the first question with a member of my group I was able to remember the little things like sinusoidal axis, shifts, and drawing the graphs. So I think what we've done on this project is the best work we've shown throughout the year.
3. Did you learn anything from this assignment? Was it educationally valuable to you?
I believe that this project helped me a lot with what I'll need to review for the exam. In this project I helped my group work on most of the project and they in turn helped me. However, I wasn't much help when it came to the permutations questions. So I did learn from this assignment and it helped me educationally but, of course, there's still a lot of work I have to do on from what I've done in thsi project.
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Lina's Reflection
1. Why did you choose the concepts you did to create your problem set?
We originally chose our concepts by basing them around which gave us the most problems previously. We also wanted to span our questions to more than one or two units. So we chose a type of question which was perhaps challenging, but had to know well enough to be able to explain it to another individual. Having included a little story in it, our questions had to have a certain flow in order to follow the plot line in the story. However, I don't think that took away from our question. If anything, we tried to revolve the story around the types of questions that we wanted to do. We definitely didn't follow our original outline, but we were still able to base our project off the types of questions we found previously challenging and now have a better understanding of.
2. How do these problems provide an overview of your best mathematical understanding of what you have learned so far?
3. Did you learn anything from this assignment? Was it educationally valuable to you?
Personally I've learned such things like I need to have better time management and how much drive you need to have to complete this kind of project. There were times where we wanted to give up, but having finished the project in the end is really accomplishing.
Quite honestly, I don't feel that it was educationally valuable to me. It was even a little burdensome at times.
So in all truth when they decided that we should split up the questions, I got the questions which I didn't find too challenging. Honestly I think the two units I worked on by myself were the ones I could understand most out of all of them. So in terms of having to explain it to another individual, I think I did alright. The questions that the others had to do were probably the ones I found challenging, but since they decided to split up the questions, I didn't have the opportunity to explore those questions as I would have liked. Although we did check over each other's work, it's not the same as being able to do it yourself because those questions would reflect your group mate's abilities and not your own. Working in a group does relieve you of some of the burden though.
I think if I did all the exercises from the book and reviewed them, I would have done just as well to prepare for the exam, but I guess the point of the project was to show a better understanding than we had previously because we wouldn't get another test on each unit. It wasn't valuable to me although I could probably become a poker shark and do well in the probability unit (hopefully).
We originally chose our concepts by basing them around which gave us the most problems previously. We also wanted to span our questions to more than one or two units. So we chose a type of question which was perhaps challenging, but had to know well enough to be able to explain it to another individual. Having included a little story in it, our questions had to have a certain flow in order to follow the plot line in the story. However, I don't think that took away from our question. If anything, we tried to revolve the story around the types of questions that we wanted to do. We definitely didn't follow our original outline, but we were still able to base our project off the types of questions we found previously challenging and now have a better understanding of.
2. How do these problems provide an overview of your best mathematical understanding of what you have learned so far?
I think that having to be able to explain how to fully do a question reflects our mathematical understanding of what we've learned so far. I am horrible at explaining things especially mathematical concepts. Let me tell you that math is definitely not my favourite subject.
The problems that we chose for our project were from units that we found challenging. That was the number one reason why we chose our questions. We spent a lot of time not only writing and answering the question, but making sure it was presentable. I think they way that we have presented our problems and the way we explained them gives and overview of our understanding. If we did our problem correctly we can say, yes I understand this problem. If we made some errors, we can always go back and see where we went wrong. We can always work on it. Being able to write and answer theses question and also explain them ourselves definitely gives others an insight on our own abilities.
3. Did you learn anything from this assignment? Was it educationally valuable to you?
Personally I've learned such things like I need to have better time management and how much drive you need to have to complete this kind of project. There were times where we wanted to give up, but having finished the project in the end is really accomplishing.
Quite honestly, I don't feel that it was educationally valuable to me. It was even a little burdensome at times.
So in all truth when they decided that we should split up the questions, I got the questions which I didn't find too challenging. Honestly I think the two units I worked on by myself were the ones I could understand most out of all of them. So in terms of having to explain it to another individual, I think I did alright. The questions that the others had to do were probably the ones I found challenging, but since they decided to split up the questions, I didn't have the opportunity to explore those questions as I would have liked. Although we did check over each other's work, it's not the same as being able to do it yourself because those questions would reflect your group mate's abilities and not your own. Working in a group does relieve you of some of the burden though.
I think if I did all the exercises from the book and reviewed them, I would have done just as well to prepare for the exam, but I guess the point of the project was to show a better understanding than we had previously because we wouldn't get another test on each unit. It wasn't valuable to me although I could probably become a poker shark and do well in the probability unit (hopefully).
Mary Ann's Reflection
1. Why did you choose the concepts you did to create your problem set?
These concepts were the ones I struggled with the most, and had learned them near the beginning of the year, so I had forgotten a lot of different rules and steps. I wanted to get a better understanding with the challenge of having to explain them and at the same time use it as a review.
2. How do these problems provide an overview of your best mathematical understanding of what you have learned so far?
It shows that I can explain these topics clearly now then I ever could. I think all of us struggled a lot with the questions we worked on, and having the ability to explain them correctly shows a lot of improvement within ourselves. In our group we did two questions each, on our own, and if we had any trouble or and questions we would ask each other. At times where I couldn't communicate with my other group members, I tried solving the problems on my own through different resources on the internet and from my past notes. I think that people will see that we are not only capable of understanding it as a student, but understanding it to an extent where we can also teach it.
3. Did you learn anything from this assignment? Was it educationally valuable to you?
I learned a lot from this assignment; the fundamental ideas and concepts within the units and it acted as a sort of review for me since I hadn't worked on some of the units for a long time. Also, the things I didn't know before while I learned the unit, I know now because I tried to explain it to the best of my ability. With explaining, I was able to understand how everything worked step by step.
These concepts were the ones I struggled with the most, and had learned them near the beginning of the year, so I had forgotten a lot of different rules and steps. I wanted to get a better understanding with the challenge of having to explain them and at the same time use it as a review.
2. How do these problems provide an overview of your best mathematical understanding of what you have learned so far?
It shows that I can explain these topics clearly now then I ever could. I think all of us struggled a lot with the questions we worked on, and having the ability to explain them correctly shows a lot of improvement within ourselves. In our group we did two questions each, on our own, and if we had any trouble or and questions we would ask each other. At times where I couldn't communicate with my other group members, I tried solving the problems on my own through different resources on the internet and from my past notes. I think that people will see that we are not only capable of understanding it as a student, but understanding it to an extent where we can also teach it.
3. Did you learn anything from this assignment? Was it educationally valuable to you?
I learned a lot from this assignment; the fundamental ideas and concepts within the units and it acted as a sort of review for me since I hadn't worked on some of the units for a long time. Also, the things I didn't know before while I learned the unit, I know now because I tried to explain it to the best of my ability. With explaining, I was able to understand how everything worked step by step.
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