Personal Concerns and Next Steps -Blog2

I have always enjoyed doing math and being in math class. This class has definitely been a different view on math and challenging me in different ways. I really like the activities we have been doing in class. Like finding the formulas of a trapezoid and parallelogram by breaking down the shape into simpler shapes. I have never thought of doing it this way before. I have always just memorized formulas and never knew where they came from. Looking at in a different way was very challenging for me, but it made sense. I also liked using the chop strategy for finding polygons. I have never thought of surrounding it with a rectangle and decomposing shapes from it. I really like all the new ideas that we have been learning in class.