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

The theme that Jamie and I decided to base our questions on was 'Across The Universe'. It's a movie that she seemed really enthusiastic about, and it was a movie that I've wanted to see anyways, so I was more than happy to agree with that suggestion. The questions can each be related to a scene in the movie. Basically, we chose problems that would make the most sense when fitted into the storyline. Though to be perfectly honest, Jamie was the one who wrote the storyline, so when I was making up questions, I was kind of at a loss with how to word the problems. Since I didn't know how the story went or which scene it would fit with. But it all worked out in the end, I'm not going to say it was easy to put the proper words with the questions, because it wasn't.



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

The questions that I chose, at least, were the ones that I needed help with, or the things that I needed to be refreshed on. By choosing these questions, and working with Jamie to solve them, I proved to myself (nevermind all of you guys) that I can do it. I don't really have a lot of confidence with math, so whatever achievements I make in the subject, I'm proud of.

There's concepts here, that was like, 'what is this alien language' to me BEFORE, and although I'm not an expert or anything on it now, it's no longer 'alien language', if you know what I'm saying.



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

I learned a lot of things from doing this project, not all of them math-related. I learned how to use the internet/computer to create a whole project. That's really big for me sine I usually do projects by hand. In fact, if Mr. Kuropatwa had given us a choice, I probably would've done it in a magazine format, or some other thing that included paper, glue and scissors. Aside from things like that, this really helped me with the actual math. It's one thing to ANSWER questions, but to be able to make one and solve it too? It's harder than it sounds. Mostly because of the wording. Jamie made up half of the questions, and she knew exactly what she was saying because she wrote it. But when I went to look it over and attempt at solving it, I went, 'what', or I answered a different thing than what the question was asking. There's just so many things that can confuse you if you don't say exactly what you want to be done.

But honestly, when DEV was first introduced I was thinking, "Man I don't need this, I have so many other projects and assignments to do." But it did prove to be valuable to me in the end. Sometime at the beginning/middle-ish period of class Mr. K was talking about this pyramid looking thing about a person's learning. I don't remember it exactly, but I do remember that somewhere at the top was 'teaching' or something like that. I know why now, to teach you have to know what you're doing. So if you can teach someone, that means you know the topic really well, so to be able to do something like this. I think that's pretty cool. I didn't only teach you guys, I taught myself, and that's probably the best part.

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