1) We have covered a lot of ground so far in this class. Out of all of the concepts we've covered, what has been the most difficult for you to grasp? What has been the easiest? Why were they difficult/easy?
2) What strategies have helped you keep up with the material in this fast-moving course? Is there anything you do inside or outside of class that helps you?
3) Do you still have foundational gaps in your mathematical knowledge? (aka: Are there concepts from class that you still do not understand?) If so, what are they? Be honest. If not, how do you know you have mastered all of the concepts?
4) What improvements could be made in class to better help you understand the material?
5) Name at least two ways that you will prepare for your mathematics final.
The hardest unit for me was unit 5. I think it was the hardest because it took a lot of time and the solving method was very complicated too. I think unit 1 was the easiest because it was just simply reviewing last year.
ReplyDeleteThere was no strategy to help me keep up with the materials. I just solved extra question at my house.
I don't have any gaps and I know because I had no difficulty solving chapter tests for every chapter we did.
I think students will be learn better if we slowed down a little because personally, I believe that our class is going very fast.
I will study the study guide and try to sleep earlier so I can concentrate more.
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ReplyDeleteI feel that the hardest unit was chapter 4. Right now it's easy for me because I learnt it but during the learning process I had to put much more time into studying chapter 4 more than the other chapters in the book. The easiest for me was chapter 1 because it was pretty much review from last year.
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The only thing I did outside to help me with this course is just studying by myself and giving myself a list of questions I can do. I think that keeping organized notes is a good idea to keep up with the material in this fast-moving course.
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I feel that I know how to do everything, like I know the concept and the structure of everything its just that I guess I can't really understand it and get good grades I need to master the material to get good grades.
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I could seek more help whenever I don't understand something.
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My plan is to write down everything we've covered, and list them from the ones I have most trouble with to the ones that I have least trouble with. I was going to look back at my old homework's and redo the questions that I got wrong, and do the test and quiz corrections again.
I feel that the hardest chapter was expressions and equations, it was difficult because I made many mistakes on the test and factoring was the easiest, since I’ve been practicing factoring for years.
ReplyDeleteDoing my homework and worksheets helped a lot in this fast-moving course because you can easily forget what you learned that day, but because I practice for homework, I was able to move on.
I understand majority of them and I don’t really know now. I need to see a problem and decide whether I know it or not.
To improve, I can do extra work and get it checked by Mr. Jobe.
One of my way is that I’m going to go over all of my previous tests and quizzes. Other way is that I’m going to study the study guide.
1. Yes, I do agree that we have progressed a lot this semester. To me, the most difficult concept to grasp was the factoring of trinomials. I was confused at first because I could not identify the different types of trinomials. On the other hand, expressions and equations unit was easy because it was something we learned in Pre-Algebra last year.
ReplyDelete2. I personally did not have strategies to keep up with the class for this semester. I do have one rule that I am determined to keep throughout the year; to always do homework because it is a great review of what I learned in class, and to ask if I do not understand how to solve problem(s), because it is better to get help than to stress about it alone.
3. No, I do not have any foundational gaps in my mathematical knowledge to this point. I know that I have mastered all of the concepts because I can check my skills by my test scores. It has been fine for this semester. I am not sure about the trinomial & factoring unit because i just took the test yesterday!
4. I believe that there should be short pop quizzes that you can gain extra points for the test if you get all of them right in a limited time period. This will make students study and review everyday before class in case for a pop quiz. It could also help students who need to raise their grades up.
5. Two ways I am preparing for my mathematics final are going through my previous homework assignments again to see what questions I got wrong on, and scheduling out how much minutes I will study each day on my calendar.
1. Unit 5 was the most difficult because it was very hard to try all the options to factor and it took a lot of time to solve a problem. Chapter 1 was the easiest because it wasn’t very abstract or complicated and I already knew the concept.
ReplyDelete2. To keep up with the material, I read the textbook at home. Also, doing the homework helps me review for the lesson that we went over in class. If I can’t solve a question, I go over my notes from class.
3. I don’t think I have any foundational gaps in my mathematical knowledge. I know this because I have had no major difficulty in understanding what we learn in school. I also know that I have mastered all of the concepts through my tests and quiz scores.
4. To help us understand the material, we should try some more challenging example questions when we are learning the lesson.
5. Firstly, I will go over the study guide and try some more problems from the textbook that are similar to the questions on there. Secondly, I will go over all the notes, homework, tests, and quizzes that we did so far and review them.
1. The hardest concept was merely factoring trinomials. It took a long time to figure out which factors would work in factoring a trinomial into two binomials. The easiest concept was solving equations. All I had to do was use inverse operations to isolate the variable and merely solve for it.
ReplyDelete2. In order to keep up with the material, I read the section that we learned in the textbook a few times. Also, I do go to an academy which explains more deeply about the concepts we learned at school.
3. Honestly, I do not think that there is any concept that I am struggling with right now. I understand the majority of the material and if I make mistakes, they are mostly calculation errors.
4. I think that we should do more activities that are related to the lesson we are going to learn in class. This would help the students to get their minds into algebra and be ready for the class's material.
5. First, I would review my tests and homework pieces and see if there are any errors. If there are, I will make sure to solve more problems similar to those I got errors on. Also, I will read the textbook to see if there is any material I have overlooked.
1. The most difficult was turning an incomplete scientific notation into scientific notation, because I struggled with whether I should decrease or increase the power of 10. This confused me, and it took me quite a long time. However, with enough practice in class, I was able to fully understand it.
ReplyDelete2. Mr. Jobe gave plenty of practice in class, so I was able to absorb the scientific notation part. We have solved a lot of problems inside class. Outside of class, I was still able to practice because the homework covered all of the things we had learned in class.
3. I think I do not have any foundational gaps from my class. I know that I have mastered all of the concepts, because most of my homework answers are correct. When I do get a few of them wrong, they are mostly mistakes.
4. I think the class is already doing a great job to help me understand new materials.
5. I will look over the textbook and solve some problems from each chapter. I will also go over all of my tests and quizzes to solve the ones that I had mistake on, so that I can get a good grade on my final.
1. Out of all the concepts we’ve covered until now, the hardest concepts we have covered so far for me was the Chapter 3 “Cost, Income, Value Problems”. The reason is because the word problems are sometimes pretty hard to understand while we also have to identify the cost, income and values of our given information. But now, they are not as challenging because I learned them. The easiest chapter so far was Chapter 1. Chapter 1 was very easy because the problems tend to be facile and straightforward. We could get the answer easily.
ReplyDelete2. One of the strategies that have helped me keep up with the material in this fast-moving course was to just solve questions from the textbook. When I study math, I always solve almost all the problems on the section I am struggling on which gradually improves my math skills. Also, when I get home form school, I always go over the notes, classwork sheets, homework corrections, and handed quizzes or tests.
3. I don’t really think I have any foundational gaps in my mathematical knowledge because whenever I get the test back, I learn my foundational gaps by re-solving the incorrect problems. Also, I sometimes review the sections whenever I learned something new in the class.
4. I think our class should pace down the speed when learning a little bit because our class’s speed for the lessons are very fast. Sometimes there are times I struggle and since we are going too fast, I get mixed up with what we are learning.
5. I think I should just keep continuing what I am doing right now..... But if I had to think of two ways that I will prepare for my mathematical final, I should review for few hours every day from now on until the final and keep solving problems in the textbook without skipping ANY problem!
1） I think the most difficult part for me is make the tables and solving word problems. Because sometimes it's really confuse which is the variable and what the question is actually asking. And solving the equation is easy to me because I've practiced a lot.
ReplyDelete2) I personally don't really have strategies helping me to catch up in the class, but I usually just practice more.
3) I don't think I still have foundational gaps in your mathematical knowledge, because up to this point all things goes fine. I can use the formula well I think...
4) I think it's good enough now:D
5) I will review all the tests we took and review formula
1) Well, the concepts were pretty much almost all reviews and they were straight forward, but among those, I think the hardest one was factoring trinomial with coefficient. It was hard because I had to plug in every single factors of numbers to check if it was prime or not. The easiest concept was polynomials, because I just had to distribute, add,multiply or subtract exponents of numbers or variables and find product or quotient of scientific notations.
ReplyDelete2) I think there was not really anything special that I did. I just paid attention during my classes, do my homework, and help my friends if they don't get the concept which helps me too to review the concept again.
3) I honestly think that I know all the concepts, and I really understood them. I have learned these concepts outside of school, so it was a review for me. Also, I can teach my friends who didn't understand about a concept, so I think I fully understood the concepts.
4) I think I can organize my notebook better to help me understand the material better.
5) I will look at my tests and look what mistakes I usually made and fix it, and then read text once so that if there is any vocal I am confused of I can memorize it.
1. It was the most difficult for me when we learned about the properties, because some of them were really confusing, and sometimes hard to recognize. The most easiest was in the beginning of the year when we worked with equations with different variables and like terms.
ReplyDelete2. Making sure that I understood the stuff really helped me in keeping up with the class. I do not do anything outside of class, and when I do not understand something, I pay really close attention the next class, and make sure I understand it before I leave the class.
3. I think I might need more help on getting to know the properties better for the future.
4. I sometimes feel like we are moving too fast, and it's hard for me to understand at once. I eventually understand it later on, but I think it would get into my head better if we slow down just a little bit, and really get them into our brains.
5. I can go back and look at my previous tests, quizzes, and homework to check for mistakes I've made, and fix them, or solve more problems. I can also pick problems from the textbook to solve, and make a note on the ones I forgot, and ask Mr.Jobe for help later before the final.
1) I agreed that we have covered a lot of ground so far in this class throughout 1 quarter. Out of all of the concepts we’ve learned, factoring the trinomials and factoring the polynomials were the most difficult for me to grasp. It was the most difficult things throughout this course because it was kind of confusing and made me complicated. The answer could be prime nor we’re able to take out a GCF and factor it out. Since, there are too many other ways to answer the factoring question. It was complicating. Moreover, solving for variable which is an equation was the easiest thing we’ve learn throughout the courses because this is what we’ve learned before and to do this unit we prepared a lot for this.
ReplyDelete2) To be honest, I don’t have any strategies to keep up with the material in this fast-moving course. I don’t do anything inside or outside of class that helps me. However, I’m checking myself that I’m not behind the other classmates and also I never missed my homework. Homework helped me a lot because homework can be an another good way for me to review what we’ve done so far. Lastly, I have to make sure that I’m paying attention during Mr. Jobe teaches us so then I don’t miss any important tips nor notes.
3) I don’t think I have foundational gaps in my mathematical knowledge. Throughout this semester, during I do my homework, I didn’t have any troubles and my test score showed me that I am doing perfectly fine throughout the whole unit. Maybe, I have some mistakes in factoring trinomial unit because I make some mistakes continuously but not these days.
4) We’re able to make games for other teammates to review with their classmates. Also, we can have more quizzes between the unit test. It will help other people a lot which will ensure better grade for next time.
5) There are two ways that I can prepare for my mathematics final. First of all, I can review my homework and notes that I’ve took before. Second of all, I can review my tests and quizzes to not make some same mistakes and solve some questions on textbook.
1. I think chapter 4 was the hardest concept because it was kind of a new concept and chapter 1 was the easiest because chapter one is basically what we learned last year.
ReplyDelete2. Usually when I don't get something or have problems with some concepts I ask my friends and try to understand but when I can't I go to Mr, Jobe after school or during lunch/advisory time and ask him questions about that concept.
3. I don't think I mastered all of the concepts because I kind of struggle with homework and quizzes and tests. I think is kind of confusing to put the right formula and remember how to do all that.
4. I think there is not that improvement that the class could make. I think I need to study harder and maybe do more problems other than the homework.
5. One way is to go to Mr, Jobe or my friends to ask a question if I don't know it other way is to do more problems and try to understand it better.
1.My most difficult concepts I learned was the value charts. It was difficult because I am first of all not really good at word problems, and when it comes to chart, I usually get confused on which boxes I write down the detail on. The easiest was multiplying binomials equally. This was the easiest because I could do it on mentally without any problems.
ReplyDelete2)The strategies I used was to review what I have learned in my hagwon and solving the question related to what we learned today. Yes, hagwon helps me outside of class prepare for math class.
3) Foundational gaps I still have are on the charts problems.
4)We could solve more questions to help me understand better and faster.
5) I will study the study guide and I will prepare it in my hagwon.
1) We have covered a lot of ground so far in this class. Out of all of the concepts we've covered, what has been the most difficult for you to grasp? What has been the easiest? Why were they difficult/easy?
ReplyDeleteOut of all the concepts we’ve covered, I believe the most difficult for me to grasp was about the “negative exponents.” I have never seen those before, and I got confused with all those negatives. The easiest was the polynomials, I believe. It was easy because, I solved those questions before.
2) What strategies have helped you keep up with the material in this fast-moving course? Is there anything you do inside or outside of class that helps you?
If there was anything I didn’t know, I went home and would review those. I do have a math tutor coming to my house, but I learn Korean math, not American math.
3) Do you still have foundational gaps in your mathematical knowledge? (aka: Are there concepts from class that you still do not understand?) If so, what are they? Be honest. If not, how do you know you have mastered all of the concepts?
I believe I do not have any concepts from class that I still do not understand. I had some problems with some types of questions but, I asked Mr.Jobe, and he taught me, so I know them now.
4) What improvements could be made in class to better help you understand the material?
I believe the class is already good enough. It gives me plenty of help to understand the material we are trying to learn.
5) Name at least two ways that you will prepare for your mathematics final.
I will review my notes that I took while Mr.Jobe was teaching us.
I will try solving some problems in the textbook and check answers to know if I understood them 100%.
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ReplyDelete1. I think that the most difficult concept through this semester was creating charts with word problems. There are three parts to making different kinds of charts, so it was confusing, and sometimes difficult. However, the easiest concept for me was the equations. I knew how to simplify the equations to get the answer, I didn't have difficulties through that chapter.
ReplyDelete2. I solved the textbook problems again to review for the tests and I have a tutor that helps me outside of class to help me understand more clearly about concepts.
3. I sometimes confused with the charts once in awhile.
4. I think maybe we could solve more difficult questions and talk about them to prepare for the test.
5. I will review for the finals by solving different kinds of questions from each chapter, and look at the previous tests we took before.
1) Out of all the concepts we've covered, the most difficult thing for me to grasp was dealing with negative exponents. When "10 ^-2 --> 1/100" this type of problem came out, I could solve it, but only with "10", not with any other numbers. They were hard because it confused me, it seemed more like a negative number itself instead of a negative exponent. However, at the end of the unit I could do it by myself without any help. The easiest thing for me was factoring especially with the GCF's. It was probably the most easiest for me because I knew how to do it before. I also had a lot of practice with it, so when the problem appeared, I was familiar to it.
ReplyDelete2) I review the things I learned at least 10 minutes a day. If I don't have enough time, I take a look at it during my bus ride. Every material is in my binder, so it is really easy for me to review everything at once. Outside of class, if I don't get a problem, I do variety of problems involving easy to challenging ones. This helps me a lot!
3) Obviously, I have a long way to go to master the whole math course. However, as of right now, I don't think I have any fundamental gaps in my knowledge in mathematics. I wish I could stop making silly calculation mistakes- whenever I get them wrong, it drives me crazy. To improve this, I think I should read the question thoroughly, and take time to double check.
4) I am delighted with how the class goes, especially when we have competitions/games with each other, not only does it let me socialize with my classmates, but helps me understand more concepts as well.
5) Two ways that I could practice for my mathematics final are:
- Review all the quizzes and tests we took so far during the semester, and re-do the problems that I got wrong.
- Solve word problems / equations from each section.
Out of all the concepts I think factoring trinomials with different coefficents. I find this fairly difficult because you may think is prime but there is a combination that you did not find. It is trick when you cannot find the right combination.
ReplyDeleteI have kept up with this class by previewing the material for next class. This helps me get an idea of what I am going to learn next and come up with questions to things that I do not understand.
I do not think I have foundational gaps in my learning because during the semester I have scored pretty well on all of the quizzes and tests. Since quizzes and tests are to see if I learned or not, I think I have learned.
I think understanding concepts could be made easier if we had more activities other than just a keynote. For example, the lego activity was one that helped me understand factoring well. It is easier to visualize concepts when you working hands on.
I will prepare for the final by reviewing the notes and solving questions in the textbook. Then, I can correct and check my answers.