Philippa M. Rhodes
Final Project
Part III.
Select and present your discussion or solution to one
exercise/investigation from any of the assignments that meet each of the
following criteria:
A. You felt you learned the most
mathematics... Why?
Although I knew the definitions of
most of the terms in Assignment
4, I did not necessarily understand the concepts until I was able
to use GSP to help visualize and explore the topics.
My Write-up 4
B. You felt most satisfied/happy about... Why?
I
am most satisfied with my Write-up
8 because it is one that I can say is complete.From a my exploration,
I made a conjecture and I proved it. I feel that most of my write-ups are
at a 'stopping point', but that there is so much more that can be explored
or discovered.
C. You felt shows your best (most thorough? most creative?
most useful?) effort during the quarter.
I would have
to choose # 2 from Part 1
of the final as my most useful write-up because I use Algebra Xpressor,
GSP, and Microsoft Excel to demonstrate the same problem. This will afford
most students the opportunity to understand the concept.
D. You felt that your doing the exploration/problem opened
up new elements of mathematics for you... Why?
I was completely
unfamiliar with pedal triangles, so Assignment
9 definitely opened new elements of mathematics for me although
several other assignments contained explorations of topics in ways that
I had never considered.
My Write-up 9
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