Unit 1 Blog Thoughts

Activity 1.1

Answer the following prompt from Check Your Understanding. Remember to write in complete sentences. Please give at least 2 examples in you explanation.


  • Explain how creating multiple representations of the same situation can be helpful in solving problems.

40 comments:

  1. creating multiple represenation's of the same situation can be helpful in solving problem's because it can help you make sure that your answer is right and there isn't any mistakes in your problem.

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  2. JPattersonP-19/12/12, 9:52 AM

    multiple representations of the same representations of the same problemscan help because if you dont understand one problem you can look at the same problem reworded you can say ok i get it now.
    it will help people in the future when they're in college and they are like hey i remenber that question

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  3. C Bustos-fernandez.9/12/12, 9:54 AM

    Creating muliple representationsof the same situation can be helpful in solving problems because it can help yout see it from a another point of veiw and get a better understanding.

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  4. Creating representations of the same situation helps me by giving me more choices. For example if one way does not got correctly I will always have other ways to solve the problem.

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  5. You can solve in multiple ways and check your answer. When we did our level activity. we had to do it in diffrent ways. Then we had plot are numbers to see if they are right.

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  6. It Can Be Helpful In Many Ways. It Can Help You Find A Easier Way To Find The Solution,(Anwser). It Can Help You Understand More Ways To Solve The Problem Or Write It. It Just Mainly Helps You By Teaching You Diffrent Ways, And Repeating It.

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  7. Creating multiple representations can be helpful because some people learn different than others. Such as im a person if you keep teaching me ill learn it but some people can just hear it and know it. Or they can see it and know how to do it. Also there are people who have to do it hear it and see it just to learn it. So showing many representations is helpful because multiple people learn algebra different ways

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  8. When creating multiple representations of the same situation can be helpful in solving problems because you can use different things to help you solve something. Such as using a graph, or table, or expression and so on. You could use either one to find if u is right about something. If you were asked to answer a expression to find out of you got the answer right make a table and other sorts of things to find out if you are right about something and of its boundaries.

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  9. Creating multiple representations of the same situation can be helpful in solving problems because you can use two different graphs, or tables. For the graph you can show a picture of how it looks and how helpful it will be. You can use a table to show the different numbers so you can show expressions to show the difference between the sets of numbers. Also you can use the table to solve the problems easier if you need to write an expression and you use graphs to show the different relationship between the two.

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  10. showing multiple represetations of the same situation can be helpful because you can look at something in serveral different ways thus causing you to learn so much more from the situtation than what you saw/experienced the first time.

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  11. V.Tenorio P.59/16/12, 9:15 PM

    Creating multiple representations of the same situation can be helpful in solving promblems, by showing you they all are the same but just have one of the four different properties of math in them.To let you see which one works best for you.Therefor you want get confused or stuck on a problem that is the same, but just written in a different format.For example 2+2=4 or 2x2=4, see they're the same problem but just written in a different format using different math properties.

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  12. How it can be helpful in solving problems is a ways to symbolize or to describe the same mathematical entity. They are used to understand, to develop, and to communicate different mathematical features of the same object or operation, as well as connections between different properties.

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  13. I think that creating multiple representations of the same situation can help you see how a problem works with other methods. It can also help you see the representation and how things are surpose to work.

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  14. Creating Multiple Representations Can Be Helpful Because Seeing The Same Things In Different Ways Helps You Process And Interpret Data. And Example Would Be, You Might Not Understand Something In Word Form, But Seeing It In a Graph Might Help You Comprehend.

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  15. If Your trying to teach somebody a problem and they don't understand you can use something like a real world situation like farming. How big is the fence going to be or in business, how much money are you going to get if you spend this much on product.

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  16. Creating multiple representations of the same situation can be helpful in solving problems by helping someone who may not understand a problem and show them how to get the answer with a different equation. It also helps you get a better understanding of the problem if you show the steps in multiple ways because one way is good, but there is always another way to write it.

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  17. The way creating multiple representation of the same situation can be helpful in solving problems is by they show different aspects of the same equation or problem helping you to understand it better, they also show you similarities by showing you trends in equations or between patterns.

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  18. If you make multiple representations for the same situation, it sometimes makes things more easy to understand. For example, say the equation says "twice a number, decreased by twenty-nine." I, for one, would not quite understand what to do. But if it said "2t-29," I would understand it more. Also, another example; say on a test it said "the product of a number and 20." Again, I wouldn't know what to do when I saw that, but if I saw "20x" I would know what to do.

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  19. Representations of the same situation can be helpful in solving problems because with many trials you can narrow your solution down into the right answer.

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  20. It can help you think differently and help you procces things better .For example on page 6 on 9b we could've shown the expression 2 ways L*L or L squared ,another example is on page 12 when we had the table and we had to determine the numbers that came next you could've made a drawing or an expression to show it.

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  21. I think coming up with more than one way to do something can be helpful. It shows that you actually know how to do it rather than just guess! Also if one way doesn't show up in a multiply choice question you have more options.

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  22. Creating multiple representations of the same situation can be helpful in solving problems. When you use more than one way to represent a problem or situation, it gives you more examples so you can think of more possible ways to come up with a solution to your problem. But, sometimes, there is only one solution. But in either case, it would still be better to represent your situation in different ways.

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  23. Creating multiple representations helps create different ways for people to solve equations. One example would be using graphs and tables to help visualize the data, instead of just words. Another reason would be that creating multiple representations would help find the answer simpler for yourself.

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  24. Using multiple representations you are able to check your work. Example: if 7-3=4 because 3+4=7. Another reason, many people have trouble with fractions, by changing a fraction to a decimal the perspective of the problem changes. Example: 1/2 is the same as .5 or 50%. The problem appears different but the answer will remain the same.

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  25. Creating multiple representations of the same situation can help someone understand the problem better. If you are better or understand better by reading percents, you can make a pie chart of the problem. If you prefer to see a patter, you may want to choose a table or a line graph to see a patter and figure it out. It really just depends on how the person wants to view the problem. Also, if you are trying to find different solutions to the problem, a different type of graph or chart may help with the problem

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  26. Creating multiple representations of the same situation can show you that there is more than one way to do something; by doing so, it may also help you get a better understanding to the problem.

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  27. --Your work will be more accurate--
    If you have to solve a problem and you created a graph and an expression, then your answer will be more accurate. Also, you could check your work because, you would have more than one way to get the right answer and make corrections if your work was wrong using the other methods.

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  28. Creating multiple represenations is helpful in solving problumes because it allows us to figure out and understand mathematical feature of the same operation or problume.

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  29. DBurnsed P.69/22/12, 3:54 PM

    Creating more than one representation of the same situation can be helpful because you would have more than one way to solve the problem. Ex. 2+2=4 1+1+1+1 or 3+1 as you can see they all equal 4. This is really the only thing that I thought of that would help.

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  30. It would be helpful because it showes there are other ways to solve a problem. One way might be more faster then the other way.

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  31. Multiple representation ofthe same situation can be helpful with solving problems because people learn/interpet things differently. not every person is the same so a visual representaion may e helpful for one person but not others. a table represention may help a mathematically genius chilren more rather than a pciture.

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  32. THammondsp.69/23/12, 2:05 PM

    Creating multiple represetation of the same situation can be helpful in solving problems because the more representations you use the easier it'll be for people to relate to and understand what your saying. Example 1 : In baseball quick runners steal bases and make it to home plate. Some times in life you have to way your odds and take chances in order to reach your goals. Example 2: Some high school athletes don't quite have the grades or the talent to go to division 1 schools right out of high school but they make it there by going to junior colleges where they can better their grades and talents and once they do they transfer to division 1 schools. So in the end they reach their goals.

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  33. Tristan R. P.39/23/12, 2:28 PM

    Creating multiple representations of a situation can be helpful because you might not understand one way but if you rewrite it, it may be easier to understand. Or one way could show you what the problem means or how to solve it better than another. it could also represent the data in a better way.

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  34. Creating multiple representation of the same situation can be helpful because if you have trouble understanding the problem the way it is showed, you might understand it better another way. Also, it helps you to make connections between the different reprsentations.

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  35. Showing multiple representations to a problem can be helpful because if someone dosent understand it then showing them different ways can also help them with the problem. As well as if someone works better with visuals and being shown step by step can help as well.

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  36. Creating multiple representations for one situation makes the situation more understandable. Using different situations helps other people understand because if they don’t understand one way, they can use the other ways to solve it. Another reason they use multiple representations is to practice doing the situation so, they know how to do it.

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  37. How creating multiple representations the same situation can be helpful in solving problems is because it helps us and others understand the problem better. Giving different representations shows different ways in showing the problem. For example, some students may enjoy the problem written in words, equations, or pictures, these are different representations. For me I prefer pictures, a visual as for others they might like seeing the equation

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  38. Micah Patel - 2nd Period.9/23/12, 11:05 PM

    If you only give one explanation for a problem or idea, then you might not detect a pattern. you're assumption might be a one time thing. like if you watched a baseball game and saw some one strike out once. It would be wrong to jump to a conclusion that that person is not good at baseball right? If you saw many of his/her games you would see that he/she might be good. You just caught them on a bad game. Or doing one math problem of a certain form of algebra and say its hard. maybe you got a tough problem? maybe you did not understand it the first time? That is why you should give multiple representations of the same situation.

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  39. mcallejas Per.29/24/12, 7:03 AM

    It can be very helpful because you can understand more the comcept of what you are trying to understand. It's like takeing multiple trials on a science lab so that you can get a better result.Anew concept in math class. You have to do it multiple times to understand how it is done.

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  40. It is often helpful to create multiple representations of the same situation to solve problems. It can be helpful to graph in a situation and it can also be helpful to diagram or draw a picture of a situation. This allows you to see the problem from different perspectives.

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