REFLECTION

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

The units that Ivanna and I chose for our project were the units that we both had difficulty in. The reason why we chose them because it would mean that we would have to practice it enough to actually teach it or explain it to someone else who didn't know a thing about that unit. By going through the units that were difficult for us would mean that we have to understand everything to teach it, so it would help us learn the unit itself.


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

Well, since the units we chose were the units where we struggled in probably won't show our best. However we did try our hardest to learn the units as much as possible to generate hard questions and solve them. Our best work would probably be how hard we tried to learn the units and how hard we worked on the project.


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

I learned some things from the assignment. Not very big but some things that will help in the future. I got a better understanding for the units and it defiantly got me to remember the units. I know how to explain how i arrived at my answers better as well. I learned how to generate my questions easier. By working backwards it will work out, like choose some numbers and make the question work for the answer. When I first saw this I was amazed at how easier it made everything. I tried it myself and it works better because now by working backwards I know how to explain it. This assignment was of much value to me, it got me to think and remember my units.

REFLECTION

For this project, we chose the concepts that Sam and I thought we had a firm enough grasp on to teach a regular problem, but still push our limits. We did this so we could get the most out of the project, as it is all about our learning through the teaching of others. By choosing problems in which we have great difficulty, we had to break it down to a level which we could understand, so we believe that everyone and anyone else would be able to understand it as well. By choosing problems on the zenith of our knowledge we show the extremes of what we can do while still being able to form coherent sentences explaining it afterwards. A sense of great achievement comes from pushing the brink as for ourselves we have done. "Go for Gold" by comparison, in our opinion, is much easier and we would much have rathered do that (to the uninformed it is an old math exam that you have to ace to get a mark). Even though it was so hard, that is what gives it educational value. Learning is best achieved by teaching because to teach you must know what your doing back and forth, so it therefore forces us to do the job well. One thing that we really found was that making problems is just as hard if not harder than solving them. Since the project is online it also forces you to do it well as you really don't want to seem... well... dim.