Give a brief summary of the paper.
The author is analyzing how student's often ask how the content they are learning applies to the real world and when they'll use it in life. The essay questions why these questions seem to focus towards math, and not other subjects. The author clearly has a deep appreciation for studying equations, and finds a beauty in how the natural world can be explained in an equation of numbers. Calculus should be learned because it is another step on the ladder of further understanding of mathematics.
In what ways did this perspective get you thinking?
I've never thought of math as a beautiful concept, and how it can explain and even prove phenomenons. Math is foreign compared to our every day actions which, I believe, is why so many people have trouble grasping the concepts, and enjoying learning math.
What parts, of the paper, do you feel you agree with the writer? Why?
I agree there is a certain pleasure in learning for not just the sake of understanding, but to appreciate it's interesting qualities. I can completely relate to questioning why we learn certain branches of math, yet never thinking to question a lesson in history. In order to challenge one's self to succeed there has to be an interior motivation to drive forward, motivation can come from anywhere, but the most effective form is from a personal yearn for understanding and love for knowledge.
How do you anticipate this connecting our work this semester?
When I'm thinking to myself; why should I even try? I can think back to these perspective of calculus's importance.
The author is analyzing how student's often ask how the content they are learning applies to the real world and when they'll use it in life. The essay questions why these questions seem to focus towards math, and not other subjects. The author clearly has a deep appreciation for studying equations, and finds a beauty in how the natural world can be explained in an equation of numbers. Calculus should be learned because it is another step on the ladder of further understanding of mathematics.
In what ways did this perspective get you thinking?
I've never thought of math as a beautiful concept, and how it can explain and even prove phenomenons. Math is foreign compared to our every day actions which, I believe, is why so many people have trouble grasping the concepts, and enjoying learning math.
What parts, of the paper, do you feel you agree with the writer? Why?
I agree there is a certain pleasure in learning for not just the sake of understanding, but to appreciate it's interesting qualities. I can completely relate to questioning why we learn certain branches of math, yet never thinking to question a lesson in history. In order to challenge one's self to succeed there has to be an interior motivation to drive forward, motivation can come from anywhere, but the most effective form is from a personal yearn for understanding and love for knowledge.
How do you anticipate this connecting our work this semester?
When I'm thinking to myself; why should I even try? I can think back to these perspective of calculus's importance.