We Recently in math we have been working on a concept called like terms. We have also been working on like terms in real life and where we can find them in day day to day situations. Once we learned all this we would be creating a unstructured project with a partner about like terms in a way we wanted.

If you don’t know what like terms are, it’s actually pretty simple. An example is 2x to the power of 2 and 3x to the power of 2 are like terms because they have the same variable (which is x) and the same exponent (which is to the power of 2). An example of unlike terms is 2b to the power of 3 and 8x to the power of 4 because they have different variables and exponents. After we learned all of that we had to look into different jobs, activities and everyday doings to see where this math will apply in our future. 

After lots of research, lessons, learning and improving our knowledge of like terms and the surrounding topics and vocabulary we decided to look through the real world and see where we could find like terms. One example is in a grocery store where different costs are associated with different fruits. An apple could be A and banana B so if you bought five apples and six bananas you would have 5a + 6b which is a polynomial and a like term.

 I started my project with Luca J. And we decided to work on a keynote that would explain and show like terms in everyday life. At the end of the project we were going to present to our class so we had to keep that in mind to. We had two scenes plus and intro and outro, one was in a grocery store and one was was building costs of a bird house. As we went through the math we added multiplication and other things that would increase the difficulty and complexity of the problems. We already knew the answer but when we presented to our class we tried to make it interactive by asking them the questions. After the project we were really happy with our final product because it enabled us to learn a lot while staying engaged and having a nice final product.

Looking back and reflecting on this project I think its greatest attribute was really getting like terms and polynomials into our heads to stay. Now whenever I go out I always see things in like terms too. This project was really engaging too because we got to do it in whatever form we really wanted. If I could do one thing differently I would do the math part of the project before the presentation part because I feel like that would’ve made our project run smoothly. One thing I think we really did well was pulling it together in the end and making it nice.