Gwens DEV

Here. is my DEV.


Reflection: I think this project was a really good challenge for me in that I had to both explain and create problems for "others". I was challenged because I have overall had a fairly difficult time understanding the content of this course in general. I chose the two problems I did because they seemed like a big challenge to me (being that I have a hard time with the content in general) but not so much so that they were impossible. I enjoyed thinking about the problems from the "other end" when I was creating them because that gave me a unique perspective of what the problems really entail. When I created the problems I got to see all that goes into a problem like this and gain a deeper understanding of the content as a whole. I chose to do the first problem about the travel to Vienna via Seattle for two reasons. First because it is a good problem that provides a good example of an application of what we learned in the first "Unit Circle" unit. Secondly I chose this problem because then I would be able to include a "travel theme" to my DEV project. I specifically chose Vienna and Seattle because that is relate-able actually will be flying out of Seattle (where my travel agent actually is) to Vienna for a year. I thought this problem would be especially cool because I could find out how far it actually is to Vienna and apply what I learned in Trig to do it. I chose the Ferris Wheel problem sticking with the "travel theme" and also because I really did struggle with the ferris wheel problem the first time we did one, and thought that some extra practice would be very good. I chose the London Eye because it is one of the most well known Ferris Wheels in the world, and is a place I will travel next year. This problem provided a challenge to me because I had no indication whether or no my work was right, and had to trust all of the knowledge I learned in class. I was particularly challenged by this problem because the outputs changed so much, into number that were so different that the typical 0, pi/2, pi, 3pi/2, 2pi. This challenged me to really work and check my work in more ways than usual. Overall I feel like this project was a great challenge for me and helped me prepare for the exam a lot because I had to include problems that encompassed two units and apply them at a higher level than usual. One thing that helped me with this project was that I did not really understand the content much at one point, so I tried to make my explanations simple so that the reader could understand how to do the problem and as my explanations became more complicated would be able to apply their knowledge to a higher level as well.