I finally made it to the unit test of Series this week but things didn’t go very well. I made it through 7 questions on the test and got 1 wrong. More of a disappointment than getting a question wrong was that of the 6 questions I got correct, I didn’t know what the hell I was… Read More Week 178 – Three Months of Series—and Still Out of My Depth

I should go back and see how many weeks in a row I’ve said something along the lines of, “my progress this week was very slow.” This week was more of the same. 😔 I made it through 4 videos and 1 exercise but am still struggling to understand what the hell is going on. I can’t… Read More Week 177 – Power Series: When the Math Makes Sense but the Concepts Don’t

I’m getting more and more frustrated as the weeks go on as I still can’t visualize what’s happening with series. Whenever I feel like I’m making progress and starting to get a handle on what’s happening, I watch another video and everything I think I understand falls apart. It feels like I’m trying to juggle… Read More Week 176 – 2.5 Months of Series: Still Trying to See the Bigger Picture

This week was another one where I felt like I was finally starting to get a solid grasp on T-series and T-polynomials and yet at the same time felt just as confused as ever about them. 😔 I do think I’m starting to get a better grasp on how they work, i.e. memorizing the formulas… Read More Week 175 – Taylor Series: Starting to Understand, Then Getting Stuck Again

This week was an interesting one. After 3 weeks I FINALLY made it through the exercise in the section Lagrange Error Bound and, believe it or not, am pretty sure I now understand what I was doing wrong. I then crushed the following section, Power Series Intro, and got through the two vids and 1 exercise in… Read More Week 174 – Three Weeks, One Exercise, and a Much-Needed Breakthrough