Mymathlab Maths Competency Report

This assignment is an account of my experience, in relation to the progress of mathematical learning, achieved during the process of study in this maths competency unit.

There are specific breakdowns of mathematical topics, which have been researched, experiences with weekly activities and my experiences with the Study Plan created from the results from having taken the MyMathLab Maths Competency Test (MCT) twice. What follows are literary snap shots, creating a word picture of the learning journey of the before, during and after, each learning experience, complete with explanations of the numeric topic in question and ending with a brief overall conclusion. Subsequent attachments in the form of jpeg’s can be found in the appendices, these

I had no trouble doing the study plan question and have no recollection of having any questions similar to them, come up in the Math Competency Test (MCT) (MyMathLab Global.Pearson2016). I can prove my competency in this area through the TTP provided in the appendix (E), where I convert imperial measurements to metric and work out how long 351 people holding hands may reach.

I found the reading of measurements history to be fascinating, I had never considered the origin, I had therefore had no prior thoughts pertaining to how many times it may have been changed, or replaced and for what reasons. I had vague knowledge of the origins of time telling, though I thought the Egyptians as once, “Sun God” worshipers, invented the sun dial, however the reading “Why are there 24 hours in a day”, (Andrews, 2011. para. 2), it appears the Egyptians had a clock called a “Shadow clock” which passed the daylight and twilight hours, perhaps it is the same thing, but with a different name. At night they told time via the 40 minutes it took for recognisable star systems took to come up.