I had a VERY productive week on KA and learned a lot but once again didn’t make much progress earning Mastery Points. Most disappointingly, I still didn’t make it through the Line Integrals in Vector Fields section. 😔 I did, however, read four of the five articles from the following section, Line Integrals in Vector Fields (Articles), which helped… Read More Week 217 – Conservative Vector Fields: When the Fog Finally Starts to Lift

This week was a bit like the opposite of last week. I actually made it through quite a few videos and a handful of exercises but I felt like I didn’t learn very much. 😒 I was introduced to a concept known as “path independence” and spent the majority of the week trying to wrap my head… Read More Week 216 – Path Independence: Plenty of Videos, but Still Searching for Understanding

In terms of getting through videos and exercises, I made very little progress this week on KA but overall, I put in a pretty solid effort and actually learned quite a bit. 😌 I made it through the final article in the section Line Integrals for Scaler Functions (Articles) which took me until the end of Wednesday to finish.… Read More Week 215 – Line Integrals: Getting the Math Right, but Still Asking Why

I had a pretty abysmal week. I started the week reviewing implicit differentiation and after spending ~2 days watching videos, I didn’t really get a better understanding of what, how, or why implicit differentiation works. 😒 The rest of my week was spent reading three articles, all of which had to do with using integrals to find the arc length of… Read More Week 214 – A Rough Week with Implicit Differentiation—and Progress with Arc Length

This week was a fairly productive one for me working through KA. I FINALLY made it through the Applications of Multivariable Functions unit test which I got through on Tuesday. It turned out not to be too difficult, but I had to do two attempts at it. (I actually got a question wrong on my… Read More Week 213 – Applications of Multivariable Functions Complete: A New Calculus Challenge