The purpose of the videos show us that we learn from our mistakes. This video showed me that synapses fire off more when you make a mistake than you get the answer right. Day one we watched a video on brain growth and did an activity called Tiling a 11x13 rectangle. Day two we watched a video on mistakes and mindset. We also did an activity where we had to find patterns withs stars. Day three we did Hailstone Sequences and watched a video on speed. Day four we did Painted Cube and watched a video on visualizing. Mistake: I can connect with making mistakes and getting that feel of failure and thinking I can’t do this. Mindset: I can personally connect to mindset because I was in the mindset of i can’t do math with this video showed me that is good to make mistakes.
Tiling a 11x13 rectangle
With this problem we had a 11x13 rectangle that we have to make the fewest amount of squares. The rules was that the squares could not overlap.I decided to chose this one because it pushed me to get lower amount of squares every time. How I approached this problem was to make the biggest square then fill in what was left with the 11x13 with 2x2. One challenge was trying to get lower squares. I overcame this by talking to me peers and working it out this theme. One Habit of a Mathematician was to guess and check I used this because i did not know where to start. I think I put a lot of effort in these problems with my group. This week would help the in the future showing me I can talk to my peers for help.