Cues

Question 1

1. What elements of the goals you set yourself did you achieve? Explain the effort and time you put into reaching those goals.

Answer 1

• Initial idea of tangibility
• Realization it could be non-tangible about what I was most passionate about, spreading mathematical nomenclature and articulation
• Very riveting, changed my goals from something tangible to something non-tangible in nature, bigger audience dominate concepts they were unable to reach before.
• Jayden inspired me to make my math lessons. I put a lot of time into cramming several lessons into an inspiring and gamified website
• I was able to reach my goals by implementing all of these lessons, whether it was guitar or math, into my website.

Question 2

2. What resources did you use to achieve your goals? Describe organizations contacted and put into action, friends who became involved, money raised, etc.

Answer 2

• I had several resources when it came to achieving my goals.
• My inspiration was Khan Academy
• It inspired me to take similar courses that make the knowledge more absorbable and clear-cut
• A challenge I experienced was that my first several ideas wouldn’t seem to work out due to certain circumstances
• Jayden came in and allowed me to work with him to create a website to improve musical and mathematical literacy.
• To accomplish my goals even further, I interviewed someone who had experience in this leadership and teaching, Daniel Hodge

Question 3

3. What did you achieve to make a change from the status quo?

Answer 3

• To change the status quo in this world of increasingly declining mathematical literacy, I have created several practice applications to repeat practice problems and learn mathematics.
• Many people in our high school cannot even do critical algebra, I strive to stop this at all costs and supply new learning opportunities for those who might not have access to the right resources.
• Whether it’s simple algebra or calculus.

Question 4

4. What you learned about the structures surrounding the existing conditions of your topic–laws, funding, societal expectations, etc.

Answer 4

• The existing conditions of this current issue was very shocking to research.
• From my searching online for mathematical learning and resources to learn math, I started to realize the true lack of practical applications.
• Most of these websites were just plain text plastered on a webpage.
• AP courses have consistently gotten easier and easier due to the lack of ability to do simple math and analyzing skills; we shouldn’t have to lower these societal expectations to do such simple tasks.
• The United States ranks 38th out of 71 countries, a statistic that is rather unflattering and embarrassing considering our economy compared to the rest of the world.
• The average mathematics literacy of a 15-year-old in the US has only declined since 2003 which is something that should not happen at all.
• My project strives to fix this issue and although we may have accomplished much now; this is something that will go into even my college life to improve current global affairs and fix the ever-decreasing societal expectations when it comes to mathematics.