Section 10 due 26 September

I LOVE set theory! It was a main reason I became a mathematician. I love the idea of defining any set you want and then messing around in the universe defined by that set to see what you can do. I would always ask math teachers in middle and high school how on earth people created new theorems and invented calculus and came up with all of the brilliant math that they did. None of them had an answer for me. When Ken (my professor my senior year) learned that I wanted an answer to that question he began to stay after class to teach me about creating universes through sets and new laws to solve problems and create new math. That is when I fell in love with math and realized I wanted to study it. Now I'm here.

Anyway, as far as something challenging about this section, I am still mixing up the ∩ and ∪ symbols. I just need a good way to remember which is which.  Also, I don't remember learning what a set with a bar over it means. Maybe the negation or inverse or something? We might have learned it and I'm just being forgetful...

How long have you spent on the homework assignments? Did lecture and the reading prepare you for them?
I feel that the lecture and the reading did prepare me adequately for the homework. I probably spend about 2-4 hours per class on this class.

What has contributed most to your learning in this class thus far?

I like the current format where we read the chapter to gain an initial impression of the content, then review it in class, then practice it on the homework. I think this strategy of reviewing everything several times helps me learn it more thoroughly and help commit it to long term memory.

What do you think would help you learn more effectively or make the class better for you? (This can be feedback for me, or goals for yourself.)

I think there are some homework assignments that get immensely repetitive. Even though there are only 6-10 problems, on some assignments most of the problems require the same technique on nearly all ten problems. I understand that lots of practice is beneficial, but after four problems of nearly identical work, I start to get bored. Maybe cut back on identical homework problems so I am not spending as much time on homework assignments?

Your truly,

Batman