ENCYCLOPEDIA Project
In this project, the goal was to select and study some of the basic subjects within Algebra 2, relating them to real-world professions. In previous years, students had gathered a wealth of information pertaining to their chosen topics and complied it into encyclopedic entries. This year, after choosing our topic and conducting extensive research, we not only revised the past entries, but also added our own work. These revisions included adding definitions for our topics, defining the basic mathematical skills required to learn each concept, specifying professions where the math is used; and providing very detailed examples.
At the conclusion of this project, I found that I have further developed my communication and independent learning skills. This project was completed primarily over the three-week period in which the Junior class was away at LINK. Each topic was assigned to a small group of people so that the work could be distributed. I was the only one to choose my topic, matrices. This meant that I would have some extra work upon my shoulders that needed to be completed outside of class. It didn't take me long to learn how to use effective search terms when conducting research! Because there were so many different students doing different projects at entirely different paces, my teacher, Effi, had us do our work on a Google Document. This allowed us to communicate using the comments option. I was able to ask questions about my work and to make sure I was on track, developing my web communications skills and greatly aiding my future scholarly endeavors for research that does not involve a teacher. Also because of the vast amount of previous knowledge present on my entry, I had to proofread the pages many times which added to my skills.
In summary, this project was interesting due to the fact that I discovered just a few of the many ways that matrices, and math in general, is used in the real world.
At the conclusion of this project, I found that I have further developed my communication and independent learning skills. This project was completed primarily over the three-week period in which the Junior class was away at LINK. Each topic was assigned to a small group of people so that the work could be distributed. I was the only one to choose my topic, matrices. This meant that I would have some extra work upon my shoulders that needed to be completed outside of class. It didn't take me long to learn how to use effective search terms when conducting research! Because there were so many different students doing different projects at entirely different paces, my teacher, Effi, had us do our work on a Google Document. This allowed us to communicate using the comments option. I was able to ask questions about my work and to make sure I was on track, developing my web communications skills and greatly aiding my future scholarly endeavors for research that does not involve a teacher. Also because of the vast amount of previous knowledge present on my entry, I had to proofread the pages many times which added to my skills.
In summary, this project was interesting due to the fact that I discovered just a few of the many ways that matrices, and math in general, is used in the real world.
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