Final Reflection

During this course I learned a lot of things, some went very fast but I caught the trick of them really fast. Somethings like polynomials and algebra were familiar to me, but the behavior of parabolas and how to graph functions/polynomials were things that I liked to learn more about. While I was learning new things, I started to discover shortcuts or things that tended to repeat so it was way easier for me to solve the problems and be quicker to solve certain exercises. Somehow, I could say I learned to identify patterns, in order to solve or simplify problems, even to expand them. It fills me with curiosity to learn more in next semester.

I could say that my strengths were individual work, and problems of factoring and multiplying. Since there were a lot of things that we saw last semester it was easy to make a link to them. However there were some new topics with which I struggled a lot to understand how to solve them, specially module 7 was the hardest to understand. I need to say, sometimes I overestimate my knowledge and don't pay that much of attention and I need to fix that, because somethings that I might believe I already know sometimes end up making me having wrongs. I need to ask more questions when I have doubts. 

One thing I remember a lot was the day we had a kind of jeopardy and gathered in teams to win points. I liked it a lot because it was a very fun way to make a review of the things we saw in the course and it was highly amusing to work in teams to try to win points. 

I would say I still have the same recommendations of last semester: to be organized, listen to the explanations (specially formulas), take notes and to not forget to print the modules, as well as trying to have the works and HW complete to avoid problems when trying to repeat a module. But I would add: to ask a lot of questions, DO NOT overestimate your knowledge, and be productive in classes unless you want to accumulate everything because YOU WILL HAVE TO DO THOSE EXERCISES, I can tell you for my experience that even though you may say "Oh, it is just a couple of exercises. I can do them at home" I am pretty sure you will forget about them and remember it when you have to deliver the manual, and you will regret not doing those exercises. 
Notes if you take the course with my teacher: The teacher is really cool, specially for the fact that she believes that it is ok to be wrong. So don't worry if you make any mistake, she'll help you. Also listen to her, she is usually right when she points out to be careful on common mistakes. 

Module 9

Critical and Reflexive Thought

This is an evidence of use of critical and reflexive thought because I applied the mathematics in a proper way in order to solve the exercises in the quiz. I believe for this to be a good evidence to show that through the module I have learned and obtained the proper tools to solve a single polynomial whose leading term has an exponent greater than two. In order to learn this process, we had to have several exercises to just see the first steps of this process. I am pleased to present and find that I can answer this problems properly by the process we were taught. 

Module 8

Self Learning and Use of Technological Resources 

This is an evidence of self learning and use of technological resources because we are using flipped classroom, a method in which in your home and individually you take notes of a video on the topic and answer the activities. It indicates self learning because of how we take notes individually and answer activities with our own knowledge and explanations in the video. Self, because with this method you, yourself, you control the explanations to say if either it is just enough or you need to watch the video twice. I like a lot this method because usually (USUALLY, not always) I get the point really quick and don't need to watch the whole thing and work straight in my activities. 

Module 7

Capacity of Working With Others 

This is an evidence of capacity of working with others, even thought it only looks like my work but this was part of a bigger project and collaborative activity. Our mini-project consisted in work during the module with a certain team, the teacher would explain to us but we would need to solve our doubts between ourselves. So basically, my team and I finished this activity and many others by helping each other. I think this was good because in some way it brought us together and it also we learned how to be patient and share our knowledge by explaining. 

Module 6

Use of Technological Resources

This is an evidence of use of technological resources because during this module we used programs like GeoGebra to understand in a better way the behavior of functions. This specific screen-shot is from the introduction of the module, but after this function we saw how functions were not only linear like this one but also they formed shapes like parabolas. This parabolas according to certain properties they had (just like the sign of the leading term, the constant and others) they moved and shaped different. We documented those observations in our modules, from what we saw in GeoGebra, that was projected in the classroom. 

Module 5

Critical and Reflexive Thought

This is an evidence of use of critical and reflexive thought because you can see that we were learning how to solve an equation by a certain method. It is necessary for us to see the steps and be able to complete them with the examples, by analyzing the steps and then applying them to the example is making us have a critical and reflexive thought to process information and then apply it. Even after understanding this process, you may have the ability to synthesize it to solve the practice exercises in a faster way. I think I have applied this competence in the introduction of this topic and the practices we've made.

Module 4

Use of Mathematical Language 

This is an evidence of use of mathematical language because it is an exercise that consists in learning to classify by types a system of equations. Without knowing the concepts and proper names of each type of system of equations it would be both difficult and confusing to try to classify. In the activity we had to include the type of system in which the equations belonged, thanks to the knowledge of the proper concepts and the use of mathematical language, that activity could be made correctly.