WGU Master's in Elementary Education - Progress Thread

[nykorn]

Aug 24th - with 7 days left of my 1st term, I finished all reading for “Mathematics for Elementary Educators - D128”. This course was written very badly compared to all the previous courses & it looks like they actually outsourced the writing to a company. A lot of the terms in their quizzes or end of section flashcards weren’t taught in their text. They made some equations unnecessarily complicated (taking the long way around), yet in other equations - which I never learned in high school - didn’t show their thinking process almost at all. When I asked ChatGPT for help, it spit out the same stuff as their course - skipping the same steps, etc - so I don't know if some of it was machine written. They renamed terms compared to what I learned in school in the 2000’s but didn’t introduce the old terms.

Some of the stuff I am required to learn which I wasn't taught in high school:
- Statistics & Probability - stuff like multiplying branches on flow charts to get the probability of an outcome.
- Different names for "flip, rotate, transform" on a coordinate plane
- Calculating the area of 3D objects
- Calculating the rotation of an object based on a point elsewhere (not inside the object) on a coordinate plane
- Determining what type of geometric shape a series of coordinates is based on applying equations to the coordinates
- Determining the distance or difference (when an enlarged or shrunken shape) between coordinates based on applying equations

I did a bunch of flashcards and took the pre-assessment but failed it. So now I've started trying to speed-run a lot of math through Khan Academy, which teaches much better than this course. My mentor has put a notice on my course saying it will be incomplete before the term, and then I'll be required to complete it within the first month of my 2nd term.