During Maths this year with Miss Fitzgerald, we have covered many topics such as Algebra, Positive and Negative numbers, Integers and more. What I have struggled with is not using the method of guess and check for some of the harder problems.
I intend to work on using other methods such as backtracking and inverse operations to help solve more difficult equations, as using guess and check is not very efficient. I hope to have achieved my goal by the end of the year.
For some of the topics I have been able to use other operations such as backtracking to find the solution, but with others such as linear graphs, when finding the rule, I have not been able to use other operations apart from guess and check, because you kind of just need to think about it and throw around a few ideas. Other times such as when we were doing percentages and algebra, I have used a few different operations and sometimes guess and check because I was stuck. So I believe that I have improved on this a bit, but sometimes I can't use other methods because they're aren't any other ways to solve the question.
I think I've achieved this goal, because I've been using other methods of solving the equations when I can. With certain topics I have had to use this method though because there aren't any other ways of solving the particular equation. I hope I can continue with this by not using this system but others.
I intend to work on using other methods such as backtracking and inverse operations to help solve more difficult equations, as using guess and check is not very efficient. I hope to have achieved my goal by the end of the year.
For some of the topics I have been able to use other operations such as backtracking to find the solution, but with others such as linear graphs, when finding the rule, I have not been able to use other operations apart from guess and check, because you kind of just need to think about it and throw around a few ideas. Other times such as when we were doing percentages and algebra, I have used a few different operations and sometimes guess and check because I was stuck. So I believe that I have improved on this a bit, but sometimes I can't use other methods because they're aren't any other ways to solve the question.
I think I've achieved this goal, because I've been using other methods of solving the equations when I can. With certain topics I have had to use this method though because there aren't any other ways of solving the particular equation. I hope I can continue with this by not using this system but others.