Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Reflection: Kristina

Why did you choose the concepts you did to create your problem set?

Well, we both chose the concepts together as we had problems on similar things. The first one that came to both our minds was definitely the Saskatchewan question and the like. I remember doing terribly bad on that type of question for the test and as soon as I heard of the DEV project, this question was an instant choice to put onto our project. Our other questions were also based on past questions that we've had significant difficulty on before. We definitely had to have a question involving probability or counting since those two units were two of the harder units for us. In the end, we ended up choosing two probability questions that were difficult for us. As for our last question two questions, we figured that a logarithm and a conics question would be suitable, considering that there were questions from those units that we found difficult at first glance, but then found them to be easy afterwards, so we wanted to show our newly found knowledge on those.

How do these problems provide an overview of your best mathematical understanding of what you have learned so far?

These problems help provide an overview of my best mathematical understanding since these used to be some of the harder questions for me, but after having going through them and picking at the little details as to how to solve them, I think that my understanding is shown very well. Specifically with the explanations and diagrams and such. I also remember trying to combine knowledge learned in grade 11 to one of our questions, which was the fish question (finding whether a line intersects another, or in this case a parabola), in order to show how much we understood how the question works. I've also gotten to show all the things I've learned how how I've improved on how these questions, compared to before.

 Did you learn anything from this assignment? Was it educationally valuable to you?

 Saying that I didn't learn anything from this assignment would be a lie! I learned so much and it was a good review from previous units as well. It was a great educational experience and I think that it was very valuable to me. I also got to improve greatly on questions that I've done poorly in the past and I gained a greater understanding of certain concepts. If I hadn't been given the experience of doing this assignment, I would definitely feel more overwhelmed than I should be for the exam. There is also the fact that I've learned a bunch of neat html codes just by doing this assignment, although not really math related, I thought it was pretty cool. Heck, just learning how to put music onto the blog was fun enough for me! Well then, I'm done! *collapses*

Posted by kristina at 10:08 PM