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This is my SEL Journal~~ 📔
This is my SEL Reflection Journal for math class. In this journal, I connect my math learning with social-emotional growth. Each entry helps me think about my emotions, stress, and motivation, and also how I share ideas and work with classmates. 😁 By writing honestly, I can see my progress and learn more about myself as a math learner.👍
Ecohouse Project progress 🏠📚
The goal of our Ecohouse Project is to design a sustainable home and practice math like mean, median, mode, range, Q1, Q3, and IQR. We have data on material costs, such as solar panels, insulation, windows, and paint, and we calculated and compared the results. For example, the very high window price ($1000) showed us how outliers can change the mean and range, making the median more reliable. This project helped me see how math connects to real life and improved my ability to use data to explain and solve problems. 😆
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I learned the importance of working with others. In this group, we shared ideas, divided the work, and helped each other understand the calculations. Working together made the project easier and more enjoyable, and I realized that teamwork can make solving problems faster and more accurate.
Three things can be Improved 👍
Add clearer explanations for each calculation. 🧮
Use more real-life examples to show why the math matters. ✅
Reflect more deeply on challenges and how I solved them. 🌟
A class activity or math concept of your choice📚
One math concept I chose is ratios. We practiced using ratios to compare 🧫 and solve problems.
For example, if the ratio of cats to dogs is 2:3 and there are 10 dogs, then there must be 20 ÷ 3 × 2 = about 7 cats. This helped me see how ratios are used in real life, like recipes or maps. At first, I mixed up the order of the numbers, but by practicing more, I understood it better and became more confident. 😃👍
Connect to other classes🌟
Science🧬🧪⚗️🔬🧫:
My math portfolio connects to Science, because when we measure data in experiments, we need math to calculate averages and compare results.
PBL📔:
Although in PBL we didn't built ecohouses, but still our goal is to make a world a better place, and these houses can make our environment better.👍
Study habits and area of growth 🆙 📈
One area I need to grow is explaining my steps more clearly. Sometimes I know the answer but forget to show my process. I also want to manage my time better during tests. I plan to slow down, check my work, and practice writing steps neatly. 📚
And I need to be more careful when I solve problems. Sometimes I make small mistakes because I rush or don’t check my answers. If I slow down and double-check my steps, I can avoid these errors and feel more confident in my work. 😆
Connect your Math portfolio work to an assignment, assessment, or project from a previous Math class.
My math portfolio connects to an algebra assignment from my previous math class. Before, I practiced solving simple equations like 2x + 5 = 15. Now I use the same skills to solve harder problems and check my steps more carefully.
This shows me that learning algebra earlier helped me build a stronger base for new math topics.👍
Appreciation and Depreciation
For our Appreciation and Depreciation project, Anndor and I worked together to study how gold changes in value over time. We used formulas like appreciation, simple interest, and compound interest to calculate gold’s value for ten years, and we made a graph and a short presentation to explain our results. From this project, I learned how interest grows differently depending on the method, and how data tables and graphs help show patterns clearly. Working as a team made the calculations easier, and we checked each other’s work to make sure everything was accurate.
Ecohouse Project
For my Ecohouse Project, I designed a sustainable home based on Taiwan’s hot, humid, and typhoon-prone climate.
The digital layout shows all the rooms I planned, including the living room, bedrooms, gym, and a swimming pool. I used environmental data, such as temperature, rainfall, and wind, to decide which materials and features were needed. Because Taiwan has a lot of rain and typhoons, I added dehumidifiers, solar panels, small wind turbines, a 1000 L rain collector, typhoon shutters, and roof anchors to make the house safer and more efficient. I also completed the measurements, cost sheet, and reflection sections.
The pictures show my floor plan and the final report document I created. Through this project, I learned how math, design, and real-world weather conditions connect to help create a practical and sustainable home.
Eco-House Project Peer Feedback
For the peer feedback part of our Eco-House project, Anndor and I shared suggestions to help each other improve our designs. I received feedback that I should make my Eco-House more affordable by choosing materials that save money and reducing features that cost too much. Based on this feedback, I adjusted some items in my cost sheet, explained how certain choices save energy or money, and made my design more realistic for a family budget.
I also removed older feedback that I no longer needed after making these changes. This helped me improve both the design and the explanation in my final report.
Appreciation & Depreciation Calculations in Eco-projects
Another math concept I worked on was calculating appreciation, simple interest, and compound interest. I chose gold and used the formula to find how its value changes over five to ten years.
From this project, I learned that different types of interest grow money at different speeds, and that formulas and graphs make financial changes easier to understand.
This connects to real life because it shows how savings and investments can grow over time or sometimes
Eco-House Area Calculations
Another math concept I worked on was calculating appreciation, simple interest, compound interest, and depreciation.
I chose gold and used formulas to find how its value changes over five to ten years. From this project, I learned that different types of interest grow money at different speeds, while depreciation shows how some items lose value over time. Formulas and graphs helped me understand these changes more clearly.
This connects to real life because it shows how savings and investments can grow, and how things we buy, like cars or electronics, can also lose value over time.
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