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Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Blog 3

1 Hunter

1.     In the story 1 Hunter  by Pat Hutchins, depicts the adventures of a hunter on his journey through the jungle as he counts the different animals he sees on his journey. The story begins with the single hunter and continues to add 2 elephants, 3 giraffes and so on. The story does not use many words but the images that are shown are very colorful and descriptive in themselves.

2.     The story 1 Hunter explains the concept of linear growth. Because as each group of animals is found the original number gets added by one. The equation in other words is f(x)=x+1. X being the previous number. For example x=1 hunter, f(1)=1+1 which then results in f(1)=2, 2 being the number of elephants which follows.


3.     Literature is a very effective way to learn a mathematical concept because it allows people to understand the concept in a far simpler way and can provide visual aid to those who need it.

4 comments:

  1. I like how you showed the equation for the story, it helps put it into perspective.

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  2. Number 3 is very simply explained but I couldn't have said it better myself.

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  3. Dope job on this one. I really dig your summary of the story, your words really bring it to life. Kind of short but maybe mine is just too long.

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  4. jenna,

    good story! i have never heard of it! i will add it to my collection! =] i really like how you used this text to talk about linear growth, but i also really like how you showed a mathematical formula to connect the simple concepts in the text to the complex concepts in our class. kudos!

    professor little

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