Math

Picking a workshop this year was a little scary for me. At the time I was still very new to the way the school worked and what a workshop even was. I didn't like a lot of the options available to me and I valued mathematics as one of the more important things that I wanted to continue learning.

Unfortunately for me, the only workshop available that had a chance of being challenging or teaching new content was Josie's Quadratics & Polynomials experience. Last year, I was enrolled in the Integrated 3 course at Treasure Valley Math and Science Center, where I learned a lot about quadratics and polynomials.

Because of my familiarity with the subject, I struggled to have any motivation to actually work on the assignments given. I noticed a lot of times there were cases where we were covering info that I knew but not by name, or Josie was covering in a way unfamiliar to me. I really like just seeing the numbers and the equations as they go, but Josie did a lot of teaching with diagrams. Trying to wrap my head around how to use area models again after years of not using them was hard.

This was also the first experience that really told me about the concept of a portfolio and I spent a while trying to figure out the best way to do things. I struggled on that for a while and still don't know the best. I ended up making a google slides project to show my learning.

This is an excerpt from my slideshow. Most of the slideshow was just notes about paper worksheets I did and this was the best visual I had, rather than just notes about communicating with Josie.

I tried to practice my Applied Mathematics here, but there was no new content shown, only content I already knew shown in a different way, often slower. I think it was a good introduction to the idea of a One Stone portfolio, though.