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Final Project: Part III

In Part III of the Final Project you develop a cumulative reflection of your experience in this course.

To prepare for this Assignment:

• Think about the concepts that you have studied so far and identify how they might relate to you.
• Consider how you have grown in knowledge and perspective since the beginning of the course.
• Think about the ways in which you use math in your everyday life that you may not have been aware of before this course.
• Reflect on any changes in the way you view math now versus when you began this course. If nothing changed, reflect on why.

Assignment: Prepare a 2- to 3-page paper demonstrating your understanding of how mathematical thinking can be applied to your personal and professional life.

• Identify three skills you have acquired or improved upon in this course (this includes the two you have already identified in previous assignments).
• Explain how these skills can be applied in two of the following areas: your personal, academic, and/or professional life.
• Include an example to support and/or represent each of the skills you have identified.
• Describe two skills you would like to improve upon.
• Identify how improving these skills will help you in your personal, academic, and/or professional life.
• Cite any resources you may have used.

Final Project: Part III

In Part III of the Final Project you develop a cumulative reflection of your experience in this course.

To prepare for this Assignment:

• Think about the concepts that you have studied so far and identify how they might relate to you.
• Consider how you have grown in knowledge and perspective since the beginning of the course.
• Think about the ways in which you use math in your everyday life that you may not have been aware of before this course.
• Reflect on any changes in the way you view math now versus when you began this course. If nothing changed, reflect on why.

Assignment: Prepare a 2- to 3-page paper demonstrating your understanding of how mathematical thinking can be applied to your personal and professional life.

• Identify three skills you have acquired or improved upon in this course (this includes the two you have already identified in previous assignments).
• Explain how these skills can be applied in two of the following areas: your personal, academic, and/or professional life.
• Include an example to support and/or represent each of the skills you have identified.
• Describe two skills you would like to improve upon.
• Identify how improving these skills will help you in your personal, academic, and/or professional life.
• Cite any resources you may have used.

Readings

• Blitzer, R. (2014). Thinking mathematically (6th ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson.
  • Chapter 5, “Number Theory and the Real Number System” (p. 247)
    • Section 5.5, “Real Numbers and Their Properties; Clock Addition” (pp. 300–307)
    • Section 5.7, “Arithmetic and Geometric Sequence” (pp. 322–328)