Professor Kate Poirier | D046 | Fall 2023

Author: Rainer Gamboa (Page 1 of 2)

Rainer Gamboa

To be fair in my opinion I always thought I was amazing in math. In every one of my classes people wouldn’t turn to me for help or guidence with any math questions. Now moving forward to my freshman year in college the tables have turned drastically. Something that I feel like makes people think they’re bad at math is the fact they second guess themselves on any calculations they may be doing, including myself. Now that I started college I feel like some of the classes that require having to get calculations, have humbled me to the core because now I feel like im not as advance as I thought I was prior college. I’ve always found math to be one of my strong subjects where I can solve any questions with ease and actually enjoy having to do the problems.

Prompt A:

I am curious about the origins of the components of map, did someone just wake up one day and was like “hmmmmm I should create math”. In my years of taking math courses I never actually asked myself the question “Is math real? ” . Now that I think about it I ask myself who even invented all of these formulas and specific ways to solve all of these equations, etc. like at the end of all , ‘ Are we even solving these correct’. If anything we can just make up something and state that this is the actual way to solve it and no one can say either yes or no, just how the inventor of mathematics did. While watching these three videos something that changed my mind about how I think is when Gracie started asking all the questions like ” where does math come from” because no one has actually gone into detail to figure out where we even got mathematics from.

Week one Group 2 post- community agreement

  1. Elias S. , Emmanuel O. , Emmanuel K. , Gelber G. Rainer G.
  2. Empowering, challenging , Devoting. As a group we decided that the most important is ” Please be prepared to take an active, critical, patient, and generous role in your own learning and that of your classmates” . As a group we decided to add an additional sentence saying ” Your own hard work and determination towards classwork will determine your success in the course.”
  3. In order to switch up our secretary frequently we will allow each member to get a chance to be secretary. Every week a new secretary will be chosen so everyone can get a chance to hold the responsibility. Also in order to remain on track with any assignments for the class there would be a instagram group chat in order to remain in contact and stay in touch for any questions one may have. If any fellow group members were to miss the Thursday group session then we would just try catching them up on our group chat to have everyone up to date on the classwork. We can make everyone feel included and not secluded by asking each and everyones opinion in the group in order to come up with one whole answer together. If we work together as a team we can push each other to achieve success.
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