T1. Working with others can be beneficial not only on the job, but also in the classroom. For this team project, introduce yourself to three or four classmates and work with them for this problem. Spend at least 30 minutes getting to know one another, specifically focusing on these statements about your previous mathematics experiences:
"Everybody knows what to do, except me!"
"I got the right answer, but I don't know how!"
"I'm sure I learned it, but I can't remember what to do!"
"This may be
a stupid question, but ." "I'm no good at numbers!"
"Math is unrelated to my life!" "Math is my worst subject!"
"I don't have a math mind!" Write a paper summarizing your discussion, and submit one paper for your team.

T2. In the B.C. cartoon, Peter has a mental block against 4s. See whether you can handle 4s by writing the numbers from 1 to 10 using four 4s for each.

Here are the first three completed for you:

More than one answer is possible. For example,