Supposedly I'm on holiday, but what with one thing and another I find myself at work-work, with no intentions of doing work-work work, why should I? So I'll write this instead.
I posted my TMAs off about four this afternoon. As I was walking back to the school in the sunshine something that had been worrying me suddenly became clear. About ten minutes after it would have done me any good. Still, I now understand something about quotient groups that I knew, but didn't quite get.
These TMAs have been a nightmare, a nightmare caused by me not having done the work and being forced to rush things. With maths [and computing] TMAs you need time to come up with the best solutions, sometimes to come up with any solutions.
The groups TMA was particularly bad as I had a whole unit unit book unread, and I was relying on what I already knew, or thought that I did [hence the quotient groups debacle]. The one good thing here was that I suddenly grokked the standard form and what it was for on Monday night. Which allowed me to shoot through a whole lot of questions that had been worrying me. [There's a post about the new notation that we are using forming in my hind-brain.]
How will I have done? Not sure is the answer—I think I was in the right area most of the time, but because I was rushing...
We'll see.
Tonight I'm taking the night off. Tomorrow I start the long haul to catch up and get ahead.
On another note it's likely that I'll hit 20, 000 views today or tomorrow. I think that says more about you, dear reader, than it does about me.
tmas away...
Supposedly I'm on holiday, but what with one thing and another I find myself at work-work, with no intentions of doing work-work work, why should I? So I'll write this instead.
I posted my TMAs off about four this afternoon. As I was walking back to the school in the sunshine something that had been worrying me suddenly became clear. About ten minutes after it would have done me any good. Still, I now understand something about quotient groups that I knew, but didn't quite get.
These TMAs have been a nightmare, a nightmare caused by me not having done the work and being forced to rush things. With maths [and computing] TMAs you need time to come up with the best solutions, sometimes to come up with any solutions.
The groups TMA was particularly bad as I had a whole unit unit book unread, and I was relying on what I already knew, or thought that I did [hence the quotient groups debacle]. The one good thing here was that I suddenly grokked the standard form and what it was for on Monday night. Which allowed me to shoot through a whole lot of questions that had been worrying me. [There's a post about the new notation that we are using forming in my hind-brain.]
How will I have done? Not sure is the answer—I think I was in the right area most of the time, but because I was rushing...
We'll see.
Tonight I'm taking the night off. Tomorrow I start the long haul to catch up and get ahead.
On another note it's likely that I'll hit 20, 000 views today or tomorrow. I think that says more about you, dear reader, than it does about me.