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ImageDAoM Yantra cvonrenesse07 years 7 months ago
Blog entrySteven Strogatz' Reflection (Part 1) cvonrenesse07 years 7 months ago
Blog entryThe Risk of not Knowing cvonrenesse07 years 8 months ago
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QuoteAs we progressed further throughout the math portion of the class, I always was learning new things. Professor Von and myself noted my improvement and confidence growth during the semester. At the beginning, I was unsure and hesitant about what I was doin cvonrenesse07 years 8 months ago
QuoteFrom the very first moment we started the Stone Game, I was able to understand it and was actually excited to discover more ways in which a player could win. After the class ended, I remember I went back to my dorm room, tore up a piece of paper into litt cvonrenesse07 years 9 months ago
QuoteMath had always been my favorite subject because of the equations and typically straight-forward approach to solving a problem, but now it still is my favorite subject but for a different reason. Now I enjoy math because it can be seen everywhere and that cvonrenesse07 years 9 months ago
QuoteThe original goal of math explorations was to provide an opportunity to increase our appreciation of mathematics and view it through a deeper lens of a proof rather than superficial numbers and equations. Through both Lockhart’s book, A Mathematicians L cvonrenesse07 years 9 months ago
QuoteI agree with Lockhart that student’s should explore math for themselves and discover equations so that they understand it better than being given a formula sheet and told to memorize them. In our class we did not use any equations or formulas and I feel cvonrenesse07 years 9 months ago
QuoteI did not consider myself a math person. Due to this, I felt as if my ideas did not have a lot of significance. I felt as if other people did not really care about what I had to say during the class. However, this was a very wrong assumption. Even when I cvonrenesse07 years 9 months ago
QuoteForbidding me to say that I dislike math has actually been very beneficial. I have censored myself from expressing hatred of math even outside of the hearing range of Professor Von. I do not actually hate math—something I have always known—I simply ha cvonrenesse07 years 9 months ago
QuoteI do not hate math anymore. My enthusiasm for the subject, and the mystery of numbers, has risen throughout the semester. While writing the first proof, I was incredibly reluctant. I had no idea what I was doing, and I complained almost constantly because cvonrenesse07 years 9 months ago
QuoteI remember being in sixth grade and completing sixty multiplication problems in under three minutes and how proud I felt that it came so easily to me. That is when I fell in love with math. I fell in love with its simplicity in regards to being so concr cvonrenesse07 years 9 months ago
QuoteAs I look back on the semester, I noticed how my effort and confidence has changed. I have gone from a student who was never confident in anything I did and would not put in any effort because of this, to a student who now believes he can accomplish any a cvonrenesse07 years 9 months ago
QuoteIn Math 110, we are not able to say that we hate Math, or that we aren’t good at Math. Now, I see why. In “Carol Dweck Revisits the ‘Growth Mindset’, published in 2015, Dweck addresses educators about the misuse of her previous work on the growth cvonrenesse07 years 9 months ago
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Blog entryNic's Story cvonrenesse07 years 10 months ago
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