Difficult: The difficult part of this section's reading was 4.2. For the beginning of the reading for 4.2 I was on track since it was mostly just review of past sections. However, I started to get a little lost when the book moved to introducing the two terms congruent and modulo. I do not understand what the definitions of these two terms are. I assume that congruent has the same meaning now as it has in previous math concepts, but I was not able to verify that for sure. On the other hand, I have no idea what modulo is. As I continued to study this section on congruence of integers, I started to notice a pattern for modulo. But I do not trust it without a secure grasp on the term's definition.
Reflective: I liked section 4.1. I thought that it was written in a way that it made sense to me. This section was probably also easier to understand because the terms that were introduced here were already familiar words so I just had to understand their application for this situation. The idea of this section relates directly to algebra which is actually one of my favorite areas in math. Therefore, it was easy to draw parallels between the new concepts being introduced with knowledge from previous algebra classes.
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