On activity 1.8 I helped my group members understand the handshake problem, which we first experimented with in a class activity. At first some of my group members wanted to just count the amount of people there were and multiply it by the amount of handshakes that each person would perform if they shook hands with every person. I realized the problem with using this method is that some handshakes would be performed twice, we wanted the amount of handshakes if each person shook hands with every person only once. Once we realized this, it was easy to figure out how many handshakes would occur with a small group because we could just count, but with a large number this proved more difficult. Finding a formula that worked was easy, the more difficult
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This falls under the private reasoning time of the Habits of Interaction. My group did this very well on the activities that we did in class, this is because we were all very passionate about this habit. We did this particularly well on Activity 1.4, this was a longer activity that was a bit confusing, but each of us worked the problem out on our own before collaborating as a group. When we were talking we could understand where maybe a group member made a mistake or got confused, or if I made a mistake and they helped me better understand what I did …show more content…
It can be hard to explain your work in a way that makes sense to others and to get your thinking and logic behind it. I think we did this very well on all of our activities but Activity 1.8 was one that really stood out to me. This activity we debated a lot on, we each tried to figure out a process that worked for us, we then shared our ideas and explained each of our strategies. We had a hard time explaining why the formula that we had come up with was divided by 2. The best way that we finally came up with after each of us explaining it in our own way, was that there would be double handshakes and if there were twice as many handshakes than were actually performed you had to divide it by 2.
B)
I think in the future using Math reasoning to decide what is right and wrong instead of just using our logic. My group started to do more of this towards the end of the 2 weeks that we were together. It became easier the more that we learned and started better understanding the concepts. I am going to try my best to incorporate the math techniques that I already know and that we have learned to better understand my reasoning behind how I worked through a
This falls under the private reasoning time of the Habits of Interaction. My group did this very well on the activities that we did in class, this is because we were all very passionate about this habit. We did this particularly well on Activity 1.4, this was a longer activity that was a bit confusing, but each of us worked the problem out on our own before collaborating as a group. When we were talking we could understand where maybe a group member made a mistake or got confused, or if I made a mistake and they helped me better understand what I did …show more content…
It can be hard to explain your work in a way that makes sense to others and to get your thinking and logic behind it. I think we did this very well on all of our activities but Activity 1.8 was one that really stood out to me. This activity we debated a lot on, we each tried to figure out a process that worked for us, we then shared our ideas and explained each of our strategies. We had a hard time explaining why the formula that we had come up with was divided by 2. The best way that we finally came up with after each of us explaining it in our own way, was that there would be double handshakes and if there were twice as many handshakes than were actually performed you had to divide it by 2.
B)
I think in the future using Math reasoning to decide what is right and wrong instead of just using our logic. My group started to do more of this towards the end of the 2 weeks that we were together. It became easier the more that we learned and started better understanding the concepts. I am going to try my best to incorporate the math techniques that I already know and that we have learned to better understand my reasoning behind how I worked through a