Reflection of the Episode (DEV)

Why did you choose the concepts you did to create your problem set?

As a group we decided to create questions that involved the concepts that were difficult for other students as well as for ourselves. We figured why should we work on questions that everybody was comfortable with. We should help others as well as ourselves with the questions. From information that we received from other people throughout the semester combinatorics, probability, conics, and circular functions were the most troublesome out of the other units. So we decided to focus on those concepts.

How do these problems provide an overview of your best mathematical understanding of what you have learned so far?

The questions that we created were a bit troublesome for some of our fellow students. So we decided to merge all of our understanding of those concepts to fully create and answer the problems. Working together allowed us to learn from each other and fully understand the concepts. That gave us a better understanding of the unit because we were able to teach each other about the unit. The questions provided us a way to combine the stuff that we learned throughout the course. As a group these questions were a challenge to create. The mathematical understanding that was put into creating the questions were quite valuable towards answering and describing the steps of getting the answers.

Did you learn anything from this assignment? Was it educationally valuable to you? (Be honest with this. If you got nothing out of this assignment then say that, but be specific about what you didn't like and offer a suggestion to improve it in the future.)

From this assignment we learned and gained some valuable information. We worked as a team to come up with challenging questions that we believed were helpful to fellow students as well as us. We learned from each other. What we noticed was that all of us had different specialties in the course. So we used that to our advantage. We taught each other what we knew. So we actually learned from each other and used that knowledge to create those questions. What we got from this project was partly skills like time management, distribution of work, and teamwork all together. We used what we had to an advantage. Educationally, this project was very valuable. We were able to have some closure on the units that we covered. This Developing Expert Voices (DEV) project allowed us to conclude what we learned and to use that knowledge to help others. This reflection section was also very useful. It also gave us a chance to tell others as well as expressing our thoughts toward what we had done throughout the course.