Imagination with one of your IB HL Classes

1. Pick one of your IB higher level subjects and one non-academic activity that you do.  In what ways do you use imagination to gain, evaluate, understand, apply or enjoy knowledge in each of these two cases?  Without imagination, would your knowledge be diminished?  

One of my higher level classes which I gain a lot from by using imagination is HL math. In math we do and talk about a lot of complex concepts that we need to use are imaginations to understand. For one, when doing complex numbers and graphing complex numbers we need to consider that it is possible to graph the numbers, even though technically you cannot because they are not real numbers, in order to get a better understand of it. Also when using our imagination it helps us remember certain things. For example, when learning about related rates in calculus we made up problems about gnomes in order to make it more interesting and fun, which made us understand the concept better. Also, we need to imagine that we can do the problems and that we understand the math so that we don't get frustrated and give up. Without using our imagination and creativity in math things would just be boring and dull and we would not be able to learn as much. 

  A non-academic activity that I do is cheer leading. In cheer we need to use a lot of imagination. We need to imagine the moves, dances, and stunts in order to create something new that has not been done before. Every one on the team imagines different things that we can do and how it would improve our routines. Without the use of imagination in cheer, it would be boring and we would not have as much fun as we do.