Junior Year Reflection
Setting goals for myself has always been really important to me especially in math. Math isn’t necessarily my strong suit, so I like to set achievable goals for myself. Although this year I didn’t worry about it has much as the last two years because I knew that junior year was going to be stressful enough as it is with all the college and link preparations. So with that I just focused more on enjoying and having fun with math 3, and this method really ended working out for me. Without having to think about achieving or mastering everything we learned in math 3 I focused on having fun with the projects. In the long I ended up learning a lot more than if I would had to worry about really understanding all the content we learned, and stressing about it. So yes in that sense I did achieve the goals I set for myself this year.
The balance between this class and all my other classes was for sure a bit of a struggle, but only when we were assigned busy work. But to be honest it just depended on the workload I had in other classes as well as the work load I had in math 3, and most times it was hard to balance the work for this class and all the others classes I had.
I feel prepared for math 4 now, but after the summer when school starts I will probably feel otherwise. Although I feel that my skill to be able to advocate for myself will for sure help me feel ready for math 4 and any other challenges I come across during senior year. Math 3 has helped push me to think outside of the box, and see different perspectives which I feel is going to help me a lot senior year.
This is the link the our Bob Ross video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDxrKzYz6l0
The balance between this class and all my other classes was for sure a bit of a struggle, but only when we were assigned busy work. But to be honest it just depended on the workload I had in other classes as well as the work load I had in math 3, and most times it was hard to balance the work for this class and all the others classes I had.
I feel prepared for math 4 now, but after the summer when school starts I will probably feel otherwise. Although I feel that my skill to be able to advocate for myself will for sure help me feel ready for math 4 and any other challenges I come across during senior year. Math 3 has helped push me to think outside of the box, and see different perspectives which I feel is going to help me a lot senior year.
This is the link the our Bob Ross video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDxrKzYz6l0
Individual Research Project
I enjoyed doing the individual research project, although mine wasn't so individual. I did mine in a group of four, my group members and I decided to make a video based on a painter named Bob Ross, this video informed the audience on the distance formula in a fun and interactive way. This video is called the joy of painting with Bob Ross.
I really liked that we made this video funny and yet very informational, our audience seemed to stay very engaged during the whole video and even had a few great laughs. Even though this video isn't necessarily professional looking it meet the requirements and most importantly anyone who watched it learned something. If I had the chance to change anything on this video, I honestly wouldn't have, I liked the way it turned out.
I really liked that we made this video funny and yet very informational, our audience seemed to stay very engaged during the whole video and even had a few great laughs. Even though this video isn't necessarily professional looking it meet the requirements and most importantly anyone who watched it learned something. If I had the chance to change anything on this video, I honestly wouldn't have, I liked the way it turned out.
2 POW'S I AM PROUD OF
Planning the Platforms
Growth of Rat Populations
I am most proud about these 2 POW's, because they are the best out of the 4 POW's I have done. Not to mention the fact that these 2 are by far the strongest 2 POW's I have done, the writing is more in depth, and I used stronger words which really helped me make the POW more professional. Overall these POW's are easier to understand because I went more in depth and explained all of the steps I took to solve the POW.
Both the Planning the Platforms and Growth of Rat Populations sounded challenging and time consuming at first, but once I began solving them all of my worries went away. I have a tendency of overthinking things, which makes everything ten times harder then it needs to be. Although once I begin solving the POW I start to enjoy it, and the reward of knowing that your done and you did a good job is very rewarding. These 2 POW's were very rewarding in that sense, which made me enjoy them even more than I thought I was going to.
Both the Planning the Platforms and Growth of Rat Populations sounded challenging and time consuming at first, but once I began solving them all of my worries went away. I have a tendency of overthinking things, which makes everything ten times harder then it needs to be. Although once I begin solving the POW I start to enjoy it, and the reward of knowing that your done and you did a good job is very rewarding. These 2 POW's were very rewarding in that sense, which made me enjoy them even more than I thought I was going to.
Silverton Write-Up
Reflection on My First Semester
It feels weird to say this but, I feel like I didn’t grow that much this semester or even at all. Usually I feel a major change, with my learning over the course of a semester. Even though I mastered certain mathematical concepts, it doesn't feel like I can say that I grew in this unit. I started of the semester being able to collaborate well with others, advocate for myself, and balancing work with play. But there was still things like, being able to explain mathematical concepts to my peers that I wasn’t very good at.
Even though I did go up in front of the class and explain a mathematical, I felt like that wasn’t a big deal for me. That isn’t enough to say that I grew this semester as a student, and I feel like I didn’t understand half of the things we learned this unit such as exponential growth/decay, e and natural log. It isn’t because the teacher didn’t teach the concept well enough it’s because it takes me longer to master something, then it might for other students. For me it really comes down to being able to have the time to practice doing one thing for a while, until it really sticks in my brain. If I don’t practice a certain mathical concept until I fully understand it, then I will just forget how to do them. Almost as if I didn’t even learn how to solve them. I am hoping that next semester I will be able to say that I grew as a learner and as a student.
For next semester I hope to accomplish saying that I felt like achieved feeling like I learned and really understood the content we learned during the second semester. I am going to do that by making sure I ask lots of questions when I don't understand something and take the time to make sure I fully know the content instead of just saying, yes I understand it and when I really don't. I want to be able to proudly say that I expanded my knowledge in math 3 and be excited about it.
Even though I did go up in front of the class and explain a mathematical, I felt like that wasn’t a big deal for me. That isn’t enough to say that I grew this semester as a student, and I feel like I didn’t understand half of the things we learned this unit such as exponential growth/decay, e and natural log. It isn’t because the teacher didn’t teach the concept well enough it’s because it takes me longer to master something, then it might for other students. For me it really comes down to being able to have the time to practice doing one thing for a while, until it really sticks in my brain. If I don’t practice a certain mathical concept until I fully understand it, then I will just forget how to do them. Almost as if I didn’t even learn how to solve them. I am hoping that next semester I will be able to say that I grew as a learner and as a student.
For next semester I hope to accomplish saying that I felt like achieved feeling like I learned and really understood the content we learned during the second semester. I am going to do that by making sure I ask lots of questions when I don't understand something and take the time to make sure I fully know the content instead of just saying, yes I understand it and when I really don't. I want to be able to proudly say that I expanded my knowledge in math 3 and be excited about it.