The most important mathematical concept I learned in this is the explanation of common terms in detail. Terms such as area, perimeter and diameter are explained in extreme detail. I also felt as though the Pythagorean theorem was explained and used in a clear matter. Knowing and understand terms and vocabulary are drastically different, I felt as though learning what these terms definitely mean was the most important in the course.

 

2.       Explain one non-mathematical concept you learned from taking this course. (For example: something about your own learning style, teaching or education, etc…) 

 

I learned the importance of repetition when learning new concepts. I would often rewrite problems and do them from the start to learn the process. I have used this to help me study in other courses such as sign language and public speaking. 

 

 

3.       What part or parts of the course did you find the most helpful in improving your mathematical reasoning and why? 

 

The part that I found the most helpful in improving my mathematical reason was the importance of coordinating with my group mates. Even more so than 148, I needed help and to discuss problems with my group. Our questions had multiple steps making a mistake in one step will cause the answer to be incorrect. Having 3-4 people working together helps getting through the problem less stressful. 

 

4.       What part or parts of the course did you find the least helpful in improving your mathematical reasoning and why?

The part that was the least helpful was moving too quickly for certain sections. There were a few occasions that my entire group was stuck and unable to figure it out together and required more time. The large amount of material for the semester makes it hard to slow down when it would be better to review more. 

 

For this question, I misunderstood exactly what I was looking at. By the time I got to this question, it was the final one on the exam I needed to finish before the exam was due. I put this question on a “carelessness” factor and being tired from the rest of the exam. 

 

I missed an important part of the problem-solving process, which is understanding the problem. In the future, I need to look at these multiple-choice questions like I look at the non-multiple-choice questions. 

 

We described serviced area as: The amount of material needed to cover the outside of the shape.

We described Volume as: a measure of how much stuff it takes to fill the shape.

 

We lost a point on this question because we did not include surface area as being a 2-Dimmensinal shape.

We also did not put volume as being a 3-dimensional shape. 

 

I think that we did not have a full definition of these terms before this exam. We had a general idea of what they mean. I personally had more experience with volume than service area. These are two terms that are easy 

I also think it would benefit to draw a picture to demonstrate to others the differences of these two. We did not devise the plan fully in the problem-solving process. However losing these points will help me know the fully definition of these terms. 

 

Jenny wants to know what it means when we say that a tank is 284 cubic feet 

 

I misunderstood what this question was asking completely. I wrote the formula for volume instead of explaining the problem to a person.

 

It means the tank will be filled with 284 1 foot by 1 foot by 1 foot cubes. Which would is known as volume. I misread this question to be an explanation as oppose to an answer to a math question.