Oct 7 - Assignment 1 reflection

Doing this assignment was very interesting, as both of my colleagues have a slightly different background in mathematics than me. I also learned something that I could use in my future classes, as I did not know about the slicing of the pyramid in 3 parts, in order to derive the volume. I also did not know about part c) as well, which is basically a generalization of the previous parts. I proved the whole problem rigorously but then I realized it would be impossible to present it, given the time. Therefore, I showed only the important steps, and took out the technical details (i.e. finding the diagonal). The hardest part was presenting the history of how the Egyptians did it, since there is so much to say. Deciding what to keep and what to throw are key things in a successful presentation. Zoe and Jacob were easy to work with and we didn't have issues getting along.