Jonathan's+Reflections

At first i found the task of learning the mathematics from the book hard. It was hard to understand so I gave up and tried another method, researching on the internet.

Wednesday the 19th of February
Daniel showed us how to get the quartic reggretion for the number of regions on the circle and I documented how this was done. It was easy to do when he told us how to but I missed the Monday lesson so I didn't really understand how it worked.

Monday the 25th of February
Today Audrey and I started to make a spreadsheet for finding the number of regions, with the help of Jo Kellaway. We eventually worked it all out and I learned some new things you can do in Excel. So now we have two ways of predicting the number of regions that seem unrelated. Perhaps they are linked in some vague manner.

Wednesday the 27th February
Today I started writing up a solution for the problem. Doing this started me on understanding how the formula gives you the number of regions. It took up most of my lesson time and some homework time. The example also helped me to understand combination notation, although asking Sonya for help wasn't very fruitful. I still don't fully understand the concept of combination notation.

I also thought of a good extension to see if a circle that has the points evenly placed around it would produce a different sequence.

Friday the 29th of February
Today I explained factorial notation and combination notation to the rest of the group which helped me understand it more too. I was glad they understood it all and now it seems there is a consensus on the simplicity of the formula with the combination notation. Now the assignment is coming to a close I feel like it is a job well done where everyone has done their equal share of learning and input.

Sunday the 2nd of March
As I was cleaning up the wiki i noticed lots of errors in spelling grammar etc. But the one that stood out was the quartic reggretion formula in fraction form. It didn't work. Probably because there was no worked answer using it ( I tried and that's how I found it was wrong). So I'll meet with the group and we'll fix it up tomorrow.

Monday the 3rd of March
Today was mostly spent polishing up the wiki. For the mathematical learning part of the rubric I feel I should get an accomplished grade because I did learn a few new key mathematical concepts and then demonstrated them through a workshop and then in writing up explanations on the solutions page. Even though it may seem like I didn't exlpain it to its fullest feel I have learned them well. For the demonstration of written, visual and digital literacies I feel i should get an accomplished because the wiki is well organised and has a variety of media on it or otherwise linked.