Sunday, October 17, 2010

Alaina's blog, 17 October 2010

What concept do you feel like you mastered this nine weeks? What concept did you struggle with the most? Why? What can you change this nine weeks in your study habits, etc to improve your grade?

The concepts that we learned this nine weeks reflect on childhood math (elementary math). The GCD and LCM we learned in probably the 4th grade and had to learn again in 10th, 11th, and 12th grades. The concepts are fairly simple, but because we have been doing things much harder for a lot of years, we make them more complicated than they are.

The concept that I struggled with this nine weeks would be the product of all positive divisors of some number n. I can never remember the formula for this; therefore, I spend the majority of my time on tests doing this the long way. And I finally give up on it and move on to simpler problems.

This nine weeks, I could have studied a little bit more for the tests and quizzes in this class. Studying more would have improved my grades. I also procrastinate tremendously! So I need to work on these things.

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