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Unit 1 Summative Assessment
This was the first test of the semester, it was about systems of equations. Although my grade of this assessment wasn’t bad, I’d still like to make a change. The one thing that I would change is the neatness of my paper. I wrote in a pretty messy manner, which affects how well I can check my answers. So if I can organize my equations more neatly, it would definitely save me some time and make the process of checking my answers more efficient. This assignment was also heavily connected to my future plans, I plan on studying business in university. And math is heavily used in the business field, so doing assessments like this would be beneficial.
Food Truck Mini Project
In this project we had to plan and design a food truck, we used Math in many different areas like analyzing sales, figuring out which food truck to buy, and picking a place to park our food truck. The food truck we chose to purchase was the green one, because although we need to repair the food truck to make it fully functional, we can do the repairs by ourselves, which would save us the repair fees and also cut down on our final costs. We chose to sell ice cream because it is one of the more common food truck options that is not only iconic but nostalgic, we also picked a few flavors that are more suitable for the adult taste (matcha), that way both adults and children can come purchase our ice cream. Analyzing the sales were done by solving algebra equations. I’ve solved most of the equations by using elimination since the coefficients were all easy to multiply and eliminate, we then came to the conclusion that the flavor Vanilla had the highest sales (9 sold that day). Although the project went pretty smoothly, I would still like to make some changes. The first thing I would change would be our accuracy in solving the equations, one classmate gave me the suggestion to plug our answers back in the equation to check the answers, and it did work perfectly when I tried that out in other assignments, so I will definitely be using this technique in future projects. Another change that I would like to make is that I would like to add more creative elements into this project. For example, I can apply what we did when designing our eco house to this project and make the truck eco-friendly, we could power the truck using solar panels since air pollution from burning fossil fuels in Taiwan is pretty bad. So we can apply the knowledge from Science class to this project and make the truck more sustainable. And the final question, what does the math here mean when applied to real life scenarios? I personally believe that math is everywhere in our lives, whether it’s getting something from the convenience store or figuring out the distance for a road trip. So I think that the real world connection here is mainly the use of analyzing, we had to analyze between food trucks to figure out which one is cheaper and more suitable for us, we also had to analyze between sales to tailor our menu to the customers taste. All these things happen on a daily basis, so us doing these creative projects now, all build to a bigger picture.
Road Trip Project
This is a project we’ve done where we had to plan a detailed trip across America and calculate the shortest distance between the states we chose to go to. Although I really enjoyed the process of this project, I still noticed some places where I could improve. Firstly, I would like to make my trip more detailed by labeling what museum, what Broadway show, and what park we want to go to instead of just writing a general answer. The second improvement that I could make is that I would organize what I wrote more neatly, especially in the Google Maps section. The third and final change that I would like to make is that I would spend less time planning the trip and more time actually calculating the distance, since my teammate and I spent way too much time planning the states that we wanted to go to instead of calculating, which made the calculating process feel a lot more rushed.
This project connects to our science eco house project since the concept of choosing the shortest route supports SDG13 (climate action), as it saves a lot of gas, and my eco house is also designed to save resources. Taiwan, in particular, is highly vulnerable to climate change due to frequent typhoons. This project is also connected to my science and research writing class since, in this class, I had to read a lot of research papers, and some of the research papers that I read are about relocation and distance, which, if you think hard enough, is connected to this road trip project since they’re both about moving.
This project can also be connected to our free trip project since, when I was talking about the food truck project, I mentioned that I wanted it to run on solar panels, and that is connected to the fact that we had to choose the shortest route since they both save energy and gas. Finally, this project is also connected to my PBL project since, during this project, I’ve learned how to work as a team more efficiently. Something new that I’ve learned in this project is how unfamiliar I was with the term “road trip,” mostly due to the fact that most of my trips and vacations did not involve driving multiple hours a day. This was definitely something new for me, so I’ve learned a lot about why some people might prefer to go on a road trip. Annabel actually gave me feedback on making our planning more detailed since it was really generic at first.
Unit 2 Summitive Assessment
This was the second test of the semester, I personally found it more challenging than the first. But I still scored high by recalling everything I knew about circles. I will definetely try to memorize the names of significant people in the math field next time so I can get that extra bonus question!
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