Writing in math has definitely been a change. Has it been a change for a better? Yes, it has. Now that the policy is changing, we're definitely going to have to get used to it.  Common Core testing is going to require us to use evidence and support our answers in every subject we test in.

Going back to the question: How has writing in math helped me this year? Well, it definitely helped improve my math AND writing skills since we are doing both at the same time. Another thing is that it helped me improve my ability to provide evidence and support my reasoning. Although I don't like the change that is being applied, it definitely will improve our ability to do these things. 

As the school year is almost over, we come to a conclusion with our learning. There definitely were some challenges in math. But, some subjects were more challenging than others. Out of all the subjects that I have studied this year, I must say that graphing multiple step equations was the most difficult subject. Here are some reasons to why I believe so.

First of all, solving the equation was the easy part. I didn't really struggle with solving them (most of the time). The hassle was when I had to solve that long equation and then graph it. Not only was it difficult doing all the work, but it was really tedious. It was a hard decision between this and graphing line equations. But in the end, I believe this was the more difficult subject.