Mathematics education

I googled “Marbles in Triangles”, followed by “Sequences and Patterns with Marbles”. I kept searching over and over, using every possible configuration of the question I could conjure up in my 12 year old brain in a feeble attempt to find the correct answer online. I was desperate to earn the extra credit points from Mrs. Liao’s math class so that I would attain that coveted A+. I spent the whole weekend struggling with it, toiling away at it, lashing out against it. Alas, it was of no use. I…

Related rates are used in a wide variety of different scenarios from finding how large a spill is increasing, to how fast it may take to empty something. Related rates deal with time, usually have two different variables like height, length, radius, or width; and have something that is changing like area, distance, or volume. In order to solve related rates problems you need to be able to recall or have access to basic geometry formulas like circle, cone, cylinder, rectangle, triangle and…

The history of Calculus can be traced back as early as the 5th Century B.C.E. in Ancient Greece. The first major discovery was made by a Greek scholar named Hippasus. Not much is known about this philosopher who studied under Pythagoras; but, he has sometimes been credited with the discovery of irrational numbers. \begin{center} \includegraphics[width = 6 cm]{triangle.png} \end{center} He described his reasoning as: \begin{enumerate} \item Start with an isosceles right triangle with side…

After surveying all of the options for my education as a child, my parents chose to send me to a Montessori school in central Chicago. This decision would end up shaping the rest of my life, as it put me in an environment where I could explore my fascination with everything mechanical. This fascination came from an intrinsic desire that I have to understand how things work, so naturally I channeled that interest and the destructive tendencies of a young boy into taking everything apart that I…

and organize any kind of data but I also had the passion in Science especially in Health Major. But the scholarship that I passed only offered Education and Sea farer courses. I did not have much option so I grabbed the education field and took the General Science Major. Although it was not my first choice, I studied hard and graduated the Secondary Education with flying colors. After my graduation, I knew I would not be teaching Science because I knew there’s something that I have to do. When I…

My expectations in the past for math class, was for me to do my absolute best that I can. In 5th grade, I was really good at math and I didn’t take the consideration of preparing for 6th grade at Scott M. Brame Middle School. When middle school had started, I expected for myself to do great because I believed I would. Though, there were times that I did struggle due to myself expecting for it to be easy. In the long run I managed to pass the 6th grade surprisingly. In 7th grade, I expected for…

Math had always came easily to me. I was known as the math know-it-all because I would be finished with homework assignments before class was even over. Thus, in ninth grade, my Algebra I teacher told me that I should go into a honor level math class. My first honors level class was a breeze to me. We could hand in homework late, revise tests and quizzes, and had perfect notes given to us in class. In Algebra II, that all changed. My first week of Algebra II, I realized things were going to be…

“A butter fly flaps its wings at the coast of Brazil we get a hurricane at the coast of Florida”. Chaos theory is mathematical theory that describe the behavior of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to very small starting forces then get huge response which is called the butterfly effect. CSI is investigating the case of Paige Rycoff, who has been missing for four days since she dropped out of college and was going home, but never arrived. The investigators started by analyzing where…

Module seven helped me to expand my knowledge on the major criticisms and ethical concerns relating to environmental crime prevention. The process of implementing responses to problems in Problem-Oriented policing states why or why not your response was effective to the problem. “There are six key factors that you should take into account before starting implementation”. (Brown & Scott, 2007). The six key factors are internal support, external support, leadership, communication, resources, and…

Numbers are everywhere connected to everything we do. We use them to measure years, months, weeks, days, hours, and seconds. We count them in dollars and cents. We measure in feet, inches, meters and yards. The food we eat has a caloric number attached to it. We regard success and failure and distinguish ourselves according to the number of each. We age by ever mounting time. We calculate and distribute. We find comfort in the fact that 2 + 2 will always equal 4. Numbers have definite effect on…