Summary and Synthesis

The past week in class we worked on making our own algorithms and testing them. This was something that I had never experienced before. After looking at the different polygons and trying to decide how to find the area, it was interesting to put our thoughts and hypothesis into action with different polygons. It was also interesting to see how the formula works with the algorithms that we created. Our algorithms would only work with correctly inscribed triangles, whereas, the formula will work with any triangles whether correctly inscribed or not. I enjoyed getting to work with the numbers and formulas and algorithms in order to find the area of the triangle. I definitely used my prior knowledge of geometry to try and solve the algorithms and its problems before we were able to discuss it as a class. I learned that prior knowledge and deeper thinking and understanding are important in order for students to learn, comprehend, and apply what they learn to every day life.