This is my top 5 math blog post.
The first of the top 5 is my biggest aha moment was when we got a trig question and they asked to find a certain part of the question. All I had to do was to determine if the number in the fraction was on top or on the bottom, because if it was on top then you divide it, while if it is on the bottom it means that you multiply. When Mrs. Burton originally told us this, it felt like the answers kept on getting easier and easier.
The second part is not anything in the textbook or lessons, but when she gave us an ixl account it absolutely allowed me to excel and told me that the extra practice will help you in the long term and it is one of the most beneficial things I had done this year, It gave me immediate feedback which really helped because it let me know what I was doing wrong and what I was doing right. I will definately continue to do this site because it helped me do well in the class.
The third thing for me was when Mrs. Burton suggested that I do extra work when I come to school early in the mornings, I immediately saw results by my grades going up. After I got a 80% on my first test I wanted to do better, so I asked Mrs. Burton what to do and she said to do extra work in the morning when I had the chance and it worked for me, I opened the workbook early in the morning, and did all of the questions that no one else did, which allowed me to get way ahead of the class, and ended up with me getting above 90% on every test after that.
The 2nd last thing on this list is all of the blog post’s I had to post. While this might not seem like much, this may have been the most beneficial utility I had all year long. At the beginning of the year I didn’t like posting blogs at all because I felt like it was a waste of time but as I aimed for higher grades, I realized the fact that the blog posts allowed me to show my learning and showed me what I truly learned, and if I ever needed a reminder how to do a certain step in my math equation I could just look back at my blog post and have instant feedback and help with the question. One of the reasons I excelled in this class was because on weekend when I normally wouldn’t think about math, it kept the thought fresh in my head for when I came back to school that next week and had me prepared.
The final major thing I learned this year was BFSD, also know as best friends share desserts, but in math terms, Brackets, Fractions, Subtract, Divide, Which applied to exponents. When you get an exponents question you make sure you go in this order and you will get the correct answer if you do it the right way. If you dont go that way it give you a different answer, and over time it helped me a lot because I always wanted the most efficient way and this really made the exponent unit a lot easier for me.
