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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