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Chris Wasnetsky Field 1 9/4/13 If I Had My Six Minutes Back Overall I think I performed better than I has expected

to. Normally when I give a lecture-type speech, I need to look down at my notes (not that there is anything wrong with that). I was surprised at how easily I made transitions flow; I did not prepare for how to transition into different phases of my lecture and I just focused on the content. That being said, I do not think my speech was perfect and I still have nagging thoughts about what I should have done better with my time. I was clocked at roughly 5 minutes 40 seconds, so I did not have too much time to spare. However, I wish I could have added two more items to my speech. The first was an assessment of the answer we received when I gave the Susies house example. In mathematics and science classes, it is very important to assess your answer, quickly make sure without doing any more calculations that your answer seems correct. Word problems, like the problem I went over, tend to mimic a real life scenario and thus have reasonable answers. The answer of square root of 2 is approximately 1.4. To explain the assessment I would have mentioned that our answer should have been greater than 1 (the distance of Susie going 1 mile south from her house) and less than 2 (the total distance she actually went). Since it is obvious she traveled greater than 1 mile and less than 2 miles, our answer seems appropriate. Another item I wish I had mentioned was how the ancient Greeks (like Pythagoras) tended to think of mathematics in terms of Geometry, not Algebra as we tend to think. Its a minor point, but I think it would help provide a background as to how the ancient Greeks thought of this problem. They literally thought of the sum of the areas of the squares were equal to each other, whereas we think of the actual numbers being equal to each other. A closing like this would have ended a content-rich lecture and help close out the lecture better than my simple and that is it.

However, looking back at how long it took me to lecture, I realize that if I went into in depth of the two issues I brought up would make me go over 6 minutes. So now it becomes a question of did I say anything redundant and can I cut anything out of what I talked about? My answer is no, I received good feedback from the class and I think it would not be wise to change up the lecture I gave to cut information out. As much as I would have liked to include the material above in my lecture, given my time constraints it was not possible.

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