Math Learning Reflection
Write a response of 250-300 words addressing the following three prompts. Address all items for each prompt. This is not a question-and-answer assignment but three flowing paragraphs and possibly references.
1. Current and Future Applications: Choose a specific topic or concept studied in Modules 1-4 (listed below) that you find applicable in your work AS AN AIRPLANE MECHANIC now or in the future. You can include the prerequisite topics also. If it is in the future, you may need to research job duties in your career area of studies.
o Describe the topic or concept and give an example of how and where it is applicable (currently or in the future). If applicable, include a link to the topic or concept.
o What did you know and understand about this concept before studying it in MATH 106?
o Describe what (more) you learned about it.
o What do you find (more) interesting about the topic now? Explain.
o Do you think it will be applicable in more ways now? How and why?
2. Retroactive Applications: Have you learned about a topic or concept that has helped you in the past without realizing it?
o Give the concept and explain your experience.
o Are you using it currently? Where?
3. More General Education Competencies: Refer to the General Education Competencies page (Links to an external site.) inside Ernie and your Module 1 Discussion: Introduction and Career Connections posts.
o List the competencies from your Module 1 post.
o Add any additional competencies you feel have applied in this class or will apply in your IN THE AVIATION FIELD based on the learning in Modules 1-4. Explain how and why.
Details on TOPICS Modules:
Module1: Review of Real Numbers and Solving Equation
Module2: Linear Equations and Graphs
Module3: Linear Systems and Polynomial Basics
Module4: Roots and Radical Expressions
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One specific topic or concept I studied in the modules that I find applicable in my work as an airplane mechanic is extracting roots and raising numbers to a given power. Knowing how to calculate the result of a number raised to another number or the root of a multiple is a concept with varied applications in airplane mechanics (Wrigley, 1957). An example of where and how I can currently apply the concept in my work is in the maintenance and repair of aircraft equipment such as in assessing the effects of air mass, density, and pressure on the performance of an aircraft and engine power. I did not know much about extracting roots or raising numbers to a given power before studying them in MATH 106. I learned how to find the square root of any numb...