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Group 8 Plan to Improve our Basic Skills

As a group, we will contribute to the Basic Skills page on “polynomial division”. This is a section that not everyone in the group is comfortable with, however this will give us an opportunity to understand it, where those of us who do understand can help those in our group who do not. In the process of group teaching we will better be able to come up with multiple ways to explain how to do polynomial division in a hopefully comprehensive and simplified manner.

As a group we came up with a basic but effective plan to help others understand:

Since the wiki pages are very useful resources we thought we could post a set of notes outlining the following in a section called “Basic Skills Notes” on the wiki:

Firstly, we would provide a short definition of polynomial division that is simple enough for everyone to understand but also comprehensive, as well as a summary of the theory behind polynomial division.

This will be followed by one simple practice example – where we will provide an explanation for each line or step in the work out process of the equation like we do in part 2 of the homework – this will also include useful tips and tricks

After this simple example we will demonstrate another, harder, example with the same layout as the easy example (with the explanations for each step and tips and tricks)

Next we will provide a few practice problems for everyone to try for themselves

Then we will have a problem solving question where polynomial division would be used to solve the question in order to not only understand but also apply this process to a more complicated question

Finally we will present a practice quiz for everyone to try out.

We as a group feel that this would be very useful to have up on the wiki because if every group does this for one of the basic skills topics then we can go online and print all these notes out. These notes will then let us understand and also practice lots of problems.