Week of inspirational math
The purpose of the week of inspirational math was to inspire us to want to learn and make mistakes and to recover from those mistakes. This week's purpose I think was to also let us as a class know that no one is a math person and that everyone can do math if they believe that they can.
Throughout the week we all did problems and watched videos. In the videos we learned how the brain works and how we learn things and what happens if we do. What you’re brain does when it learns something it fires a brain synapse, and if you keep going over the same thing that you learned you the connection that the synapse makes gets stronger and stronger. An other thing that we learned in the videos that we watched is that no one is a math person and that everyone can do math if they believe that they can.
Two of the important messages that the five videos gave me is the brain synapses fire off every time you learn something new. If you keep going over the same thing that you learned you the connection that the synapse makes gets stronger and stronger. These two important messages are significant to me because I find it very interesting that the brain need to repeat the same thing over and over again in order to fully understand something and become super strong in that subject.
The purpose of the week of inspirational math was to inspire us to want to learn and make mistakes and to recover from those mistakes. This week's purpose I think was to also let us as a class know that no one is a math person and that everyone can do math if they believe that they can.
Throughout the week we all did problems and watched videos. In the videos we learned how the brain works and how we learn things and what happens if we do. What you’re brain does when it learns something it fires a brain synapse, and if you keep going over the same thing that you learned you the connection that the synapse makes gets stronger and stronger. An other thing that we learned in the videos that we watched is that no one is a math person and that everyone can do math if they believe that they can.
Two of the important messages that the five videos gave me is the brain synapses fire off every time you learn something new. If you keep going over the same thing that you learned you the connection that the synapse makes gets stronger and stronger. These two important messages are significant to me because I find it very interesting that the brain need to repeat the same thing over and over again in order to fully understand something and become super strong in that subject.
11x13 Squares
In this project we had to come up with many different ways to successfully fit smaller squares into an 11 by 13 square. The lowest number of squares that I got was 6 perfect squares. This mini project took a while because there was a lot of trial and error I had to face, I had to use many different methods on calculating the smaller squares to fit in the bigger square. The reason that I chose this problem was because I thought this would be a good one to talk about because I struggled a lot on this one and I finished successfully. For this project I mainly had to do a lot of guessing and trouble shooting, along with a lot of estimations.
What I can take away from this project is that you don't have to be good at math to be a math person. All that you have to do is believe in yourself and not give up and that its ok to make mistakes, that's just how you learn. Speaking of learning I also learned more about brain synapses and that your brain synapses build a thought connection bridge in your brain because you keep on reviewing the subject you were just taught. This will affect the rest of my school year and beyond because now I know that not just a certain amount of people can do math we all can, this will push me to try harder in math and other subjects.