Making the concept card was not that difficult for me. I have gone to a High Tech school for 3 years already, so, I've been using Illustrator and Photoshop for those 3 years. I'm good at the design part but for me the wording and what I needed to say was difficult. I didn't fully understand what I needed to put on my card. The information and what information exactly. I didn't understand part off my topic. Specifically what gear ratio was and how to find the ratio of two gears. So I made a first draft. It made sense but it wasn't all correct. My partner understood it so I asked him for help. He helped but I didn't quite understand yet. After a while of researching the topics and asking for help the end product looked great. In the end I was fully able to explain gear ratios to people so that they would be able to understand it. While doing this I used the critique and drafting process to my advantage. I also learned that it can really help your work. I would say that I got my concept card critiqued 4-5 times. If you would look at it from first to final draft you wouldn't see much of a difference in the design but the content was changed a lot. The people that critiqued my concept helped out a lot. Also me not knowing what my topic was and excepting that and knowing I needed to ask for help understanding it was a huge part in the success of my concept card. That is part of the mistake learn grow concept. I made the mistakes, I acknowledged them, I wanted to learn how to fix mistakes, and by learning about the concepts I grew by the amount of knowledge that I was gaining.
This past week we were given a math problem. There was a paperclip on the sheet in a graph with the graph measured in centimeters. It was not drawn to scale. The longest length of the paperclip was 4 centimeters. We had a problem to solve. It was if you had 10 meters of metal how many paperclips could you make out of it. After that everyone sat and tried to figure it out. My train of though immediately went to doing the 10 meters divided by 4 cm and that would make 250 paperclips. I did that and to me it didn't seem right so I went back to try to find out what I did wrong. After going back I realized what I did wrong. Using the 4 cm was wrong. You had to add up all the side and bend lengths. By looking at the different sides I used the graph to figure out the length of each side. I added all the sides and got 15 cm. As soon as I found that out I wanted to find out how many paperclips you could make with the 10 meters. You can make 66 paperclips with with the 10 meters of metal. In the end I ended up finding the correct answer or what I assumed was the right answer. I also learned that I can't jump to conclusions because I first thought it was 10 m/4 cm but that was wrong. You need to focus and take each possibility into account then from that make your best guess on what the answer is based on the information you have. I made the mistake of jumping to conclusions, I learned that there are many ways to solve a problem, I have grown by now focusing on each way to solve the problem and use the answer that I think answers the question the best.
This first week of school we've done some of the normal first week things. For example a name game or team building. One theme that I think we had this year was making mistakes and keeping track of them. We didn't play a traditional name game but what we did was have a seating chart then had to name who was sitting in each seat. For me that wasn't difficult because I'm pretty good at remembering peoples name. The first time around I knew 25 of 27 peoples names in my class. After we went over it as a class we did the same "test" at the end of the class. I got 27 out of 27. That wasn't a struggle for me. One struggle I did have though was trying to write my name in Arabic. I was a little surprised and confused on why we were writing our names in Arabic but it was pretty fun to try learn how to write my name. This task was hard for me because I didn't know anything about Arabic. The first time I tried writing my name was a mess. I tried connecting the sounds to the letter that was on the sheet. Apparently there were two sides to the sheet and I did't know that until we wrote our names a second time. So for the first time I wrote it the sounds were all over the place and it didn't really sound like my name. After that Adam told us a few things about the language. One being that it gets read right to left. That's a mark up on the mistake board. Later when we broke back into work time a classmate pointed out that there was a back page. On that back page I found the sounds that I needed to fully complete my name with the right sounds. That's more mark ups for mistakes. I found those sounds and from the help of what Adam said I was able to write my name in Arabic. I learned how to write my name in Arabic and that was possible because I made the mistakes and I had a will to push harder to understand what I'm learning so that I can understand it. Looking back at it making the mistakes helped me learn more about Arabic. I was able to grow in the sense that in the beginning I wasn't able to write my name and now I can easily do it.
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AuthorI'm a 9th grade math student at HTH. Archives
December 2015
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