d me determining the type of person she was and whether or not she was a threat to me.Quantitative Reasoning & Representation of Numerical DataThroughout my life, I have suffered from “math anxiety”. I become anxious when a problem involves figuring mathematical relationships. This is an area in learning where I have always had to take time. I keep track of productivity and time by keeping an activity log at work and a journal at home. When I prepare an overtime report, my partner sums together the hours and minutes because I usually make a mistake. Computing ratios and statistics is difficult and the best way to overcome this is by remembering the formulas necessary to achieve the correct answer. In school, I hated word problems and when I help my children with their schoolwork, I assist them in almost all areas, except math. Once, in the military, I had to convert and implement degrees and “clicks” on a compass and relate it to my point in the woods. I was off by twenty degrees and got lost. I learned why I got lost and compensated for the deficiency by learning how to adapt my position by two ‘clicks”. I’ve always been aware of my difficulty with quantitative reasoning and make extra effort in order to lessen the possibility of errors. Communication Skills: Listening, Speaking, and WritingCommunication skills are an integral part of learning. The educational planning book for this course states that communication skills aren’t “neat” and occurs “simultaneously as the transfer of information takes place”. I strongly agree with this statement as it pertains to my learning abilities and experiences. When I listen to people, I listen to the words they choose as well as which words were not chosen. In order to limit the possibility of miscommunication, I try to clarify what has been said by “paraphrasing”. My concentration tends to wan when t...
