An Individual Report for Algebra

                On the first meeting of MST3 section B, the whole class was divided into 5 groups. Also, there were five topics in this course that would be taken up namely Number Systems, Algebra, Geometry, Statistics and Computer. We were asked by our teacher to select one among the five topics and we were tasked to have a debate and make a creative presentation and a game about that. Our group selected Algebra and we were scheduled to have our presentation and debate on the first week of February.

                First, I thought that presenting Algebra in a creative way would be easy and also having a debate about it won’t be so hard but when the week were we would perform came,  we started to panic because we didn’t know what to do and by that time, we were busy for our other major subjects.

                We didn’t have much time to prepare for our presentation because we haven’t planned anything so we decided to have our game first and we had a quiz bowl show. The whole quiz bowl duration, I was so nervous because there was some misunderstanding with the rules and regulation of our game but eventually, it went fine. Then there was a game where a puzzle was scattered at the school grounds then again, there was a little problem because a puzzle set was not done for the Computer group but one of my group mate decided to add points to all of the groups so that it wouldn’t be unfair to the Computer group. The next meeting, we had our presentation, it was impromptu and I was so nervous and ashamed because we had a live performance. It was about a girl who had problems in Algebra and her friends encouraged her by sharing what were the history and other important uses of Algebra in the society. In the live performance, I was the one who acted as the problematic girl and I was ashamed because I really don’t do something like that. After the life performance, we had our debate. It was about whether Algebra is essential to our everyday life or not. Of course, it was essential. You are not aware but you are already doing algebra everyday because it is an organized arithmetic.

                Presenting algebra, having games and debate about it is not that easy especially when your group mates came from a different bloc and even from a different course. It was hard because you have no same free time and it was in the midst of many examinations. But at least, we still have done our task and we are thankful that were not reprimanded by our professor. I have learned one thing in what we have done. When there is something to do, you should not do it the night before or even minutes before it is going to be submitted or performed.