Extra Blog: February

This month I began work on my independent component 2. In my independent component 2 I am going to be mentoring a group of students so that they may participate in a math field day at my mentors. Before I was able to do this however, I had to find the correct students and prepare practice problems and tests. In order to find students I chose from the top students in the class and had them take a test and the ones who scored highest were allowed to be on the team. After that I had to create practice problems. The most difficult part about that was finding problems that were difficult for the students to complete but still important for them to learn. I started off with basic linear equation problems and the group seemed to understand it more so next I will be working on implementing word problems. The math field day questions are essentially simple problems worded in order to confuse the students. So I believe it would be good to get students to take apart a question and see what it is truly asking. This will help students later in the math field day and in higher level math classes.