Pre-Ap Math Practice

I chose Mathematical practice 1 because it said, “Make sense of problems and persevere in serving them”. I think we use this practice all the time in math, especially in Pre-Ap Math because we are in an advanced class with some advanced problems. With the advanced problems we definitely must persevere in solving them. As for the making sense of problems part the extension problems were a little hard to make sense of at first but once I started working on them they got easier but I still had to persevere in solving them. So I definitely use Mathematical practice 1.
I chose math practice 6 also because it said, “Attend to precision” or in other words, “I can check to see if my strategy and calculations are correct”. I think we use this practice

in math because when we measure angles in complex problems if I am say 10 degrees off it messes up the problem, if it’s a multistep problem. Also if I don’t attend to precision when I do regular math problems I will usually end up with the wrong number. Also if I draw a square and it doesn’t have all equal sides and angles, then it isn’t a square anymore. The same thing would happen with angles, if I was supposed to draw a 45 degree angle and I draw something such as a 60 degree angle then I would have the wrong angle. So paying attention to precision is important also.
I believe that engineers, some olympic sports competitors, and many more careers use this type of math. I also believe skateboarders, ice skaters, and road sign creator's work with this type of math. I believe that this math practice would be important to them because engineers use angles, rotations, polygons, and properties to design everything they build. I believe road sign creators use this type of math because they use polygons like triangles to make yield signs and octagons to make stop signs. All of the other careers I listed definitely use this type of math too.
I am comfortable with this type of math, but there is so much more to learn and there always will be. But since we need to cover a lot this year I am comfortable with moving on. Some places I failed were with the Design Challenge 1.5 assignment. I failed on some of the questions like drawing the triangles, but I had to persevere in solving them. I feel I succeeded on the Geometrical Summer assignment because I feel I drew everything relatively well for having to use only polygons. So this area can be challenging yet fun, but I am ready to move on to the next subject.