How Math Changed Throughout The Year

Over the last three years math has transformed largely in both method, purpose, and teaching style. These factors have changed based on curriculum, final standardized tests, and the teachers themselves. Ninth grade geometry, tenth, Algebra II, today, precalculus, and next year, calculus. On a conceptual level math can be sorted into two categories, practical, everyday use, and the abstract: hypotheticals and imaginaries. Neither type is more important, with each serving a very different overall purpose for the learner. While practical math’s purpose is obvious, its a bit more complex for abstract math. This category of math is about analytical thinking, to see a problem, connect it with fundamental rules and mathematical formulas, and utilize

For reference, these exams are previous years Regents exam, the standardized test of New York state. The first of these tests was twenty-seven questions, without any short answer. All others had a similar amount of multiple choice, but included a number of open response questions. This extended to the fourth and final interim. After around two and a half hours of work, I finished. All the interims sharing many similarities, we can fairly compare the results of my first and fourth interim. On the first my knowledge of the content was minimal, and even after scaling I received a 75, a score I was disappointed with. On the fourth I felt much more confident in my understanding of the questions, and though it was a challenge, even with the added open response I received a 95. Other than the first interim, another assignment helped contribute to my success on the interim, the Graphing Trig Functions assignment. An understanding of trigonometric functions, and there manipulation, was an important element of the test, and this assignment helped prepare me for it. Though the fourth interim did challenge me, many of its parts are necessary to understand later mathematics, and as the growth in my score shows, I have improved my analytical thinking, and worked hard to develop a greater understanding of the