During this semester here at Animas High school, we had gone over a few units with this being called the Meadows or Malls Unit. This unit consisted from variations of graphing and equation making from the book, to solving and making matrices problems. The main essential problem was to find the cost of 3 different locations for recreation and development using different methods of systems of equations and constants. To solve this we had sided all the skills we had learned from either the past or from this unit of what we had learned whether it was constraints, eliminations or substitution matrices, and such to solve those equations.
For the first piece of Evidence to explain this unit, this was when we first were getting into matrices and this was to solve the matrices whether it was adding, subtracting, and multiplying. Of course I answered them however some of them had no solution. This was led to that due to them being the same so if you had graphed them, they would be the same, or there could be infinite solutions. I choose this worksheet because it shows the understanding of simple problems to solve of matrices.
For the second sheet of evidence, it was the same as what we did for the first piece of evidence however, this was put into a real world scenario with things other than just numbers leaving us to justify what is what. This was a very useful piece of evidence that I choose because this was getting into how to convert things INTO matrices and how multiplication and such works with matrices.
And lastly the third piece of evidence. Now, this was a pretty easy if I am doing this right to this day. This was very useful because this was all about matrices BUT we were to find the inverse of EACH matrix. This could be help full due to that an inverse is basically a flipped backwards something which in this case an inverse. I choose this because it can be helpful in the real world if you wanted to flip the batch, or robotic equation around as what I have heard what matrices can be useful with.
Personal Growth
I think comparing the Cookies Problem last year as a unit, it has really helped me to push through this unit this year with Meadows or Malls Unit. It truly helped with \ through and kind of knowing what to expect due to the length of it and how long the Cookies unit was last year so definitely has shaped me as a person to keep pushing through and know that it's going to get harder as we get to the end of the unit such as how the Matrices were the hardest part of the unit and it was at the end as well. As far a what new mathematical topics I had learned from this unit, I would confidently say that I have learned so much in matrices and specifically the Hideout problems that contain areas, distance, and much more. With all of the topics of different math that went into this unit, they have all encouraged me to make and formulas and equations rather than have them being given. As stated in the last paragraph, we have covered many topics of math and one topic was geometry. These few weeks of this were solving the Orchard Hideout with involved geometry. This consisted of mostly all graph paper work with finding areas, distances between two point, 4 points, best possible place to put a power line- it goes on forever it seemed like. But at the end of that math and thinking now about it, it has shaped us into being able to making formulas. Strategies that I have to solve systems of equations are very different from many peoples it seems like. I would try to visualize if I were to graph it what would it be like, or memorizing the orders people have to solve equations like PEMDAS, and of course, thinking where and how these numbers in these equations come into play. I think that this whole unit was very helpful and all of the sections of different math came into play with what we were to solve and I felt like reflecting onto this unit, I would want to refine my work by not so much as to just do the equations or any of the math, but to practice it so I can get better.