What was the most difficult part of the material for me?
The Most difficult part of the material is the main idea of the section, congruence classes. I'm sure it will be seen later, but I have no idea what these are used for, which makes it difficult to understand it right now. So to me right now, it is just an(vague)idea. I'm sure once we have the lecture it will be a bit more clear. It's hard to say what exactly is difficult about this, other than I'm wondering why we care about this.
Reflection
I'd say the most interesting thing about this is that it's just so different than what I'm used to dealing with (this whole class is). I remember discussing congruence classes and mod for a couple weeks in Math 190, but even then we just learned how to solve the problems given to us--we weren't exposed to anything done at a higher level with it. That reminds me, what is mod and why do we care about it? Basically, I don't have time to read ahead in the textbook because I need to stay caught up in other classes, but I'm actually a bit excited to see what will come. I'm used to working with partial differential equations, matrices, etc. Something like this is a whole other branch of math of which I know nothing, and this section reminded me of that.
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