Rachel's Reflection
I chose rational and quadratic functions because those were the units I understood the most. I especially like rational functions. They are easy for me to solve. These problems, I believe, explain perfectly what I have learned this trimester. In my quadratic I included some fractions to make it a little more interesting. I used to hate asymptotes but now I actually really like them because of the rational unit. To be honest, I didn't learn much from this assignment other than it was really difficult to make a problem that makes sense and doesn't have decimals. For the future, I suggest explaining things a little more detailed. I understand this is a pre-calculus class and it's fast pace but it's still difficult to leave that quickly. I really liked how you taught the rational unit and that you let us retake the first test and still do test corrections. That really helped my grade.
Jay's Reflection
I chose to teach about solving higher degree polynomials in a different way. That way would be Synthetic Division. I thought learning something in multiple ways are healthy. I was in a group with two other people and we hadn't reached the Exponential and Log Functions, however, those were the topics I volunteered to do. So the second thing I chose to do was to show an example of Cancelling and Distributing among terms in order to find solutions, in fact, real solutions. I really admired the idea of you letting us retake our first test and do test corrections for any test we choose of. Since you are so high maintenance about seeing if someone has developed and learned the material you are teaching you should give a pre-test and then at the end of the unit give the final test and grade them based on their improvement! Other than that I enjoyed the fights, the tears, the weird awkward moments, the tensions and the happy times... but like always, all good things come to an end.
Bridget's Reflections
I chose the functions basic problem because it is what we learned at the very beginning of this class and it was a good review to write the problem out. It’s also important for people to fully understand entering this class. I chose to do a high powered polynomial problem because for some odd reason, I kind of understand them. These problems are more complicated, so it helps to have a step by step process written right next to the work being done, and I feel like looking at the step by step, it would really help to teach a student. These problems provided as a good overview of my best mathematical understanding of what we have learned so far because they really made me think about the steps I was taking to solve each problem. I had to pretend that I was learning the problem for the first time again, and this helped me to remember it even better. I didn't learn a whole lot from this project. It did help to review the crap out of the two problems I did, but I think what would really benefit us, is if we got to see the previous class’ DEV projects at the beginning of the year. I think this project could be incorporated in teaching us somehow, and it would help a lot. From peer to peer teaching and learning.