I underestimated how difficult Precalculus would be. I assumed it would mostly be review and I would more-or-less breeze through it but this week I learned a number of brand new and difficult concepts that I’d never been shown before. I was a bit under 20% of the way through Matrices when the week began and finished the week… Read More Week 77 – Precalculus Is Harder Than I Expected

This was one of the most enjoyable weeks I’ve had working through KA so far. I finished the unit Vectors on Thursday and was able to get ~20% of the way through the following unit Matrices. Even though I wish I’d gotten further into Matrices, I was happy with my progress this week because 1) I still had to… Read More Week 76 – Vectors Complete: On to Matrices!

I was close to reaching my goal for this week which was to get 50% of the way through the unit Vectors but came up a bit short. I finished reviewing the unit Trigonometry on Thursday and got 40% of the way through Vectors by the end of Saturday. Working through the remaining two sections in Trigonometry, which… Read More Week 75 – Trigonometric Identities: Still a Mystery, Vectors: A New Adventure

I was pretty happy with how this week went. I finished the unit Composite Functions on Wednesday and got halfway through Trigonometry before the week ended. As I hoped, I was able to make a lot more sense of trig this week than I was able to when I first learned it. It did take me a bit of… Read More Week 74 – Trigonometry: When Everything Finally Clicks