Strengths and weaknesses:
A strength I brought to math class everyday during this semester would be recording any math notation instructed if new. I believe this skill has helped me solve math problems as recording my progress helps guide me when encountering a similar math problem. Due to this skill, it has helped me understand my thinking process when looking back at my math work. I am a visual thinker when it comes to certain subjects/units such as geometry and trigonometry however I began annotating my work more this year. Below are some few examples of this skill being used.
A struggle I faced throughout this semester is sharing my thinking when it comes to collaborating with others. I am timed when it comes to sharing my work and I tend to be quiet winch is a bad habit I recognize as i'm preventing myself from possibly learning new strategies. A way I can prevent this moving forward is maybe graph my shearing progress as I did freshmen year. This gives me an opportunity to view my progress from a mathematical perspective and most importantly a visual one. |
Examples:
In the assignment polygon area investigation, I had to solve the area using trigonometric function like sin(θ) and cos(θ) to solve for the area of right triangles that made up the polygon.
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In order to solve the area for each polygon, I organized my thoughts on a separate sheet of paper and recored each step as I solved for the area of the polygon. My first step was to multiply n by 2 to know how many triangles the polygon was made up by. Then I divided 360° by n x 2 to find my triangle's degree.
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Then I find the area of one triangle using trig functions and use the formula for finding the area of triangle to get my result so that I can multiply it by how many triangles there are in the polygon to get the area of the polygon.
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This is another example of an assignment I annotated. I think its important to use words in math to express the thinking process and to recored steps that got you your final result.
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