The mistake that I made on the Integrals worksheet was when we had to work out the calculus problems. When we needed to put in the numbers for x, I multiplied both numbers together and multiplies that number to the exponent that was in the equation. I learned from this mistake because I later realized that my numbers were becoming very large and I asked Adam what I was doing wrong. He told me that I needed to multiply x to the exponent and then multiply that number by the first. I grew from this because for the second problem we needed to solve, it didn't take me as long.
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When we worked on our rocket thrust calculations, I made the mistake of typing the frame numbers incorrectly. We had to type the frames in order from zero to wherever it stopped and mine stopped at fifty six. On our rocket thrust papers where we wrote down the thrust and frame per 1/30 of a second, the frames went to twenty nine and the thirtieth one started back at zero. I realized later on that we needed to increase the numbers by one each time because we didn't write down the seconds. I learned from this mistake by going back and checking my work because the data on the graph wasn't correct. I grew from this mistake because it helped me graph my data correctly in physics.
We were given a math worksheet that asked for us to put the planets, their orbits, and the distance from the sun into scientific notation. I made a mistake on this worksheet because I didn't show my work. I realized that when you don't show your work you can forget how you solved something and it can be hard to remember. There wasn't much room on the paper but I managed to make space and write out how I figured it out. After I finished writing out how I solved the problems, it helped me remember the correct way to solve the problems.
The mistake I made was that I didn't show my work and I learned from this mistake because I had to turn it in two times to realize how I was supposed to show my work. I grew from this because now I know to show my work because it can help me remember how I solved something and it can remind me about how something is supposed to be solved. This past week of school I realized what it means to persevere. The math emoji project that we worked on was not very difficult but when our project finally got critiqued, most people said it was copied or not original. This made me upset because I was the artist and I thought that I put in a lot of effort into my first draft and I had no idea that other groups would have the same idea. This made me persevere because no matter how many times someone said something negative about our project, we tried our best to modify it in the best way. This past week, something that I made a few mistakes on and had trouble with was the snake on the plane problem. We were given a sheet of paper with 3 problems on it. We had to find out first, how many pixels the snake would grow when it ate 1 pellet, 2 pellets, 3 pellets, and so on. Second, we needed to come up with an equation to find the length of the snake when it ate 100 pellets. Lastly, we needed to determine how many pellets the snake would eat when it filled up the 32 by 32 grid.
The first problem was simple since you used small numbers and started from the beginning. The third problem was a little difficult but easy to pick up on. The second problem was very difficult and challenging because it was mostly trial and error. I continued to try and figure out a perfect equation but then I realized that it was going to take a long time since you are not given examples. I remember my step mom telling me that scientist constantly use trial and error methods to come up with evidence. I tried my best and did not find an answer but I came up with many possibilities that needed some tweaking. I felt like a new kid just like everyone else on the first day of school even though I went to middle school at High Tech Middle for the past three years. I saw some familiar faces but most of them were brand new and I only knew a few names.
On the first day of school Mr. Ko decided to give us a challenge, the challenge was to see how many people in the class we could name. He each gave us a white piece of paper that had a seating chart printed on it, but no names, just blank tables. He explained to us that we had to try and write everyone's name on the seat that they were sitting in on the paper. I had trouble remembering people's names and he told us to guess the names of people we weren't sure about. That was challenging for me because I just wanted to leave them all blank and I couldn't think of a random because I knew that it would be so different from their actual name. The first day that we tried this name challenge, I got 9 mistakes, the second day that we did this, I got 0 mistakes and I realized then, that making mistakes really do help you learn and grow because I was given this challenging task with so many mistakes on my first attempt but the day after I was proud to say that I got no mistakes at all. |
AuthorMy name is Abby, I am a freshman, and I go to school at HTH. Archives
November 2015
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