This was one of those weeks where I felt like I was quite productive and am happy with the effort I put in but didn’t make very much progress in terms of the number videos and exercises I got through in KA. The majority of my week was spent working on an exercise titled Multivariable Chain… Read More Week 199 – The Multivariable Chain Rule: Solving the Puzzles, but Still Asking Why

I didn’t get as far this week as I hoped I would but still had a fairly productive week, nonetheless. I made it through six videos and two exercises which covered two topics. The first was vector valued functions which represented speed/position and finding the derivative of those functions which represented their velocity (I still… Read More Week 198 – Vector-Valued Functions: Connecting Position, Velocity, and Derivatives

Last week I spent a few days trying to get through the final exercise in the section Gradient and Directional Derivatives, so I was happy when I got through it on my first attempt this past Tuesday. I’m glad that I now have a decent understanding of HOW to solve the directional derivative but am still pretty lost on WHY it… Read More Week 197 – Directional Derivatives: Making Progress, Even Without Understanding Why

I spent this entire week working through the single section Gradient and Directional Derivatives but still don’t really know what’s going on. 😒 I ended up watching all seven videos in the section and made it through two of three exercises, but struggled with and didn’t make it through the third exercise. I got a fairly decent… Read More Week 196 – Gradients and Directional Derivatives: Learning the How Before the Why