2.2, due on January 11

Part I: What was the most difficult part of the material for you?

     The most difficult part was when they used an example to show that addition and multiplication works with those congruence classes in the integers modulo n. This was on the first page of the section and I wanted them to explain it more. I feel like there is a lot of ambiguity. If they broke it down from congruence  classes, then to integers, and back into the classes, I would believe the example.

Part II: Write something reflective about the reading.

     I think it is really cool that many of the properties that work in the integers carry over in the integers modulo n. I feel like a whole new world has been opened up and there is so many new things to discover about the integers modulo n. It will seem difficult though to follow the changes the  books make in representing the congruence classes and to remind myself that they are classes, not integers.