Week-6:Reaction to Private Universe Workshop-Problems and Possibilities

The 6th video demonastrated a problem that was asked to solve it as a part of Rutgers long Term study. The main idea for the whole purpose was that to introduce a calculus problem to a group of senior high school student who never got a chance to do that kind of problem and also to justify a calculus problem can be solved by everyone eventhough they never had calculus. The problem was a picture of a cat with 24 pictures of different movements. The problem was called ' Cat Walk' where the picture had a background so distance can be determined and the students were provided times. The groups were asked to find out the speed of the cat in the 10th and 20th frame. the students were devided in several groups and worked with in groups by sharing the individuals assesment. On the other hand the Researcher were allowing studens discoveries and cllaborations. The video demonastrated how students need oppourtunities to build personal representations by using science and mathematical skills. The students tried to find accelaration of cats speed in the 10th and 20th frame and putting infomations in a graph and able to draw picture of cat's walking eventhough each group came out with different data because each group follow different scientific method for measurement. the groups also able to put that information in a real life experiences. They expanded the distance from 10 times to 50times from the cat's walking distance and tried to follow the cat's speed when they walked like a cat with the distance. This such practice helped to visualize the cat's accelarartion lively. Then they able to findout the motion of the cat and where it was certainpoints and relate to the graph. This practice took couple of days in a two week camp that shows how a mathematical problem solving ability grown. In my opinion this such practice would never possible in a real life classroom setup but it shows that how it could be different and interesting to show others an ideaa of solving a math problem.