MalPal

Okay. so the following:
What concept do you feel like you mastered this nine weeks?
Umm..Hello? Prime factorization. It gets intense sometimes, but you don't even have to really think about it, or at least I don't. I just divide and divide and divide till no end. So, to answer the question, I have indeed mastered prime factorization.

What concept did you struggle with the most? Why?
I struggled with the whole let's find all the multiples of whatever under 10000 that are perfect squares. I think I don't get this because I never know like what to put the prime factorization over like what you do with

What can you change this nine weeks in your study habits, etc to improve your grade?

Rework problems

Justin 6

What did i master this 9 weeks? Hehe prime factorization related stuff which includes gcd lcm #of divisors product of divisors and so on. i like this stuff cause i grasp it quickly and work relatively fast with it. what i could do to improve my grade would be to practice more so i'll be more accurate and quick. other than that, i think i did pretty good this 9 weeks

kmart(:

What i feel i've mastered the most this nine weeks is lcm and gcd. This is reallyy easy because all you have to do is find the prime factorization of your number and solve for it. It takes me no time at all to do this, i could probably do it in my sleep. Also with finding the prime numbers between a set of numbers like 1-100. The concept i struggled the most with was when we got more into the prime factorization concept, like finding the divisors and other things like that. It's really confusing for me and i'm not really good at understanding exponents. Other than that, i think i did pretty well this nine weeks.

Helen Melon :)

What I think that I mastered this nine weeks is how to find the gcd and lcm of two or more numbers by using the prime factorizations of the number. I also learned how to find the prime number between 1-100 by using the sieve. What I struggle the most with is finding the multiple divisors, conics, and exponents. What I should do to improve my grades is to pay more attention and study more

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.

10/17/2010

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?

This nine weeks I feel that I have mastered many new concepts that I never thought I would learn or have to learn. The concepts are basically elementary concepts, and I never knew something so complicated could be so simple, and I never knew something so simple could be so complicated.

Anyway, I feel that I definitely mastered the concept of finding prime factorizations for different numbers. Also, I feel totally comfortable with LCM and GCD now, more than ever before in my life, I feel like a pro at it.

The concept I struggled with the most this nine weeks would probably have to be conics, exponents, and finding the exact factors of a number once you find the prime factorization. I've always had trouble with conics, especially parabolas for some reason, exponents are ok, but sometimes they can be complicated, and finding those factors just takes a long time and I get lazy and don't feel like doing them I guess.

What I can change the next nine weeks is definitely just study more and more every night, and stop procrastinating in class and actually try to pay attention to the subject material being taught.

10/17/10

The concept I feel like I've mastered this nine weeks is definitely prime factorization, and using the prime factorization of numbers to find the lcm and gcd. That is extremely easy for me now and I don't even have to think about it. I know exactly what I have to do by simply glancing at the problem. I also feel I've gotten better with recognizing what you have to find in word problems. (For instance, if they're asking for the factors of a number, the gcd, etc.) The concept I struggled with the most I think is in Chapter 5..It has to with the number of divisors a number has, but that's all they give you in a problem and they ask you to find, for example, x^3 if x has 14 divisors. Problems like that still confuse me and I could use more practice with them...To improve my grade I can study more thoroughly the night before and actually rework the problems from the review pages, to make sure I know what I'm doing. Other than that, I think I'm doing okay in the class..it just takes me a little while to catch on to things ha