11th Grade Math

Corbin Williams

Logistic Function Presentation

September 28 (1st Quarter/2020)

Mrs. MacDonald

Junior Year - CCP College Algebra - Communicate Ideas - Selects and applies appropriate resources, such as technology and media, to communicate and collaborate effectively with diverse individuals and groups.

The artifact that I have selected for my junior year math course is a presentation that I did in my CCP college algebra class. This presentation was over the logistic function, which is one of the different parent functions that we were assigned to make presentations over. The presentation, which was a recording, is a perfect example of the “Communicating Ideas” ISSN domain. I communicated the different properties of logistic functions through a slideshow presentation, which I later recorded using a screen recording program. I was able to use this program and the slideshow to effectively communicate the information to my teacher and fellow classmates, as my video was selected as the best one about logistic functions and was posted to Mrs. MacDonald’s YouTube channel to be used as an instructional video for our class.

The instructions of the assignment were fairly simple. We were assigned one of twelve different parent functions, which we had just started learning about, and we were instructed to create a short video presentation to communicate the function and all of its properties to Mrs. MacDonald and the class. Like previously mentioned, I was assigned the logistic function. While some students came up with different ways to present, such as making videos with props, I decided to play around with Google Slides to try to learn the ins and outs of how to make a good presentation and then present that to the class. We were given a set list of things that we needed to include in the presentations about our functions. Some of these things included the equation, graph, domain, range, x-intercepts, y-intercepts, whether the function is even, odd, or neither, the asymptotes, the minimum and/or maximum, and the direction of the graph. All of these properties for the logistic function are included in my slideshow.

While the content of the slideshow may not be directly tied to global competency, that way that I communicated it definitely is. I was able to effectively take an equation that I did not know anything about prior to the assignment, research the equation, and give a presentation that taught this function to the rest of my classmates so that they could understand this as well and use that knowledge for homework and upcoming assignments. This type of verbal and visual communication is a very important skill to have. Whether it is a math presentation, a Model UN chamber, a business meeting, or a global convention, these types of communication skills will be vital to a successful presentation no matter what the situation is. This is why I believe that I can use the skills that I have learned from this presentation to apply it to projects that can help make me a better global citizen through communication.