Have you ever written about math? If you have, how has it helped you? Writing about math helped me because it makes me think more about what we are doing. If we are writing about exponents, I can't just say 4x4x4, I have to explain how to do it and how to read exponents.

Writing about math everyday has also helped me with memorizing how to do different kinds of math techniques because if we are blogging about something, I say a technique that I like to use and that is easy for me. It has also helped me with my typing skills because we have to type about 2 or 3 paragraphs in a short amount of time. It has also helped me with my writing skills, like a space after commas or periods, and things like that. This is what typing about math everyday has helped me learn this year.

Do you have any math skills that were challenging to learn? I have one. A skill that I struggled to learn was tax, sale, sales tax, markups, and things like that. I think it was hard for me because there were some steps that I forgot to do. We did a little bit of problems like these in 6th grade but I didn't remember what to do. The thing that helped learn how to do it was by trying it again to get my math grade up because that would make my math grade go down when I got it wrong.

Whenever I would hand in a sheet, I would get about 4 right and 6 wrong. I tried to do the wrong one like how I did the right ones but I still got them wrong. I kept trying to learn it and I eventually did by doing good on my homework assignments. That is how I learned a challenging thing.