Measurements
"Measurements" was the first chapter that we studied this year in Physics, and I feel like it was by far the simplest and easiest thing all year, but as the saying goes, you have to be able to walk before you can run. In this chapter, we studied measurements, obviously. We studied inches, feet, yards, miles, centimeters, meters, kilometers, and how to convert between them all. We had to memorize that 12 inches are in a foot, and 5,280 feet are in a mile, that 100 centimeters are in a meter, and that 1,000 meters are in a kilometer. We also studied the SI System, which is the international system of measuring that uses decibels of 10, which is much simpler than the American foot.
The thing that I was most proud of myself for in this chapter was the math that I was able to do when converting between miles and kilometers, kilometers to yards, or anything else of that sort that required converting from one unit of measurement to another. If I could improve something from this chapter it would have been the amount of problems that I did that involved converting from the American System to the SI System because now I feel like those would have been the best practice problems. The Habit of the Heart and Mind that I used the most was Evidence because every problem we did required to show my work, so that if I made a mistake, it would be easier to find where I started to go wrong.
The thing that I was most proud of myself for in this chapter was the math that I was able to do when converting between miles and kilometers, kilometers to yards, or anything else of that sort that required converting from one unit of measurement to another. If I could improve something from this chapter it would have been the amount of problems that I did that involved converting from the American System to the SI System because now I feel like those would have been the best practice problems. The Habit of the Heart and Mind that I used the most was Evidence because every problem we did required to show my work, so that if I made a mistake, it would be easier to find where I started to go wrong.