I had a bad week on KA. 😔 It was close, but I don’t think I reached my weekly goal of studying for five hours. Two weeks ago, in my Week 230 post, I mentioned that I’ve been working on “other exciting projects” and I didn’t want them to interfere with my effort towards KA. Well, that hasn’t been… Read More Week 232 – Calculus, New Projects, and the Challenge of Staying on Track

I didn’t have the most productive week, but I FINALLY passed the Integrating Multivariable Functions unit test. 😮‍💨 For the most part I knew how to solve all the questions and generally knew what was going on in the big picture with all the questions. But for most of the questions I still didn’t have a firm grasp on why the match worked and I… Read More Week 231 – Integrating Multivariable Functions Complete After 18 Weeks!

So… I still didn’t pass the Integrating Multivariable Functions unit test this week. 😣 It’s starting to get a but ridiculous. I’ve been working on it for four weeks. I didn’t put enough effort in this week which is what makes it so much worse. I’ve been slacking pretty hard (I’ve also been working on another project that… Read More Week 230 – Four Weeks on One Test, but Finally Making Sense of Line Integrals

I didn’t pass the Integrating Multivariable Functions unit test this week. 😔 As I mentioned at the end of my last post, I was fairly confident going into this week that I’d get through the unit test, so I’m pretty disappointed that I didn’t. The silver lining is that on average I was getting something like seven or eight… Read More Week 229 – A Disappointing Test Result, but Real Progress with Multivariable Calculus

I started this week by getting crushed pretty badly by the Integrating Multivariable Functions unit test. After going back and reviewing a bunch of the concepts however, I finished the week getting seven correct in a row and feeling like I had a decent understanding of what I was doing. It was helpful going back and reviewing… Read More Week 228 – Getting Crushed by the Test, Then Finding My Footing

I had a fairly productive week working on KA but didn’t reach my goal of making it through the unit test. I got through both the Flux in 3D and Flux in 3D (Articles) sections and then started the unit test, but I only made it through a single question on the test. 😅 I got a much stronger understanding of what flux… Read More Week 227 – Flux in 3D and a Reminder That Math Connects

I reached my goal this week of getting through the Surface Integrals (Articles) section. I also worked through the final four videos in the previous section, Surface Integrals, which were a mini-series that worked through a single question (which FYI is the first question below). The latter section helped me understand the difference between a ‘surface AREA integral’ and a… Read More Week 226 – Surface Integrals Articles Complete, and a Motivated Start to the New Year

I had an absolute monstrous week on KA. I got through everything in the Surface Integrals unit, however I’ll need to go back and make notes on the final four videos in the series which all worked through a single question. Nonetheless, as you’ll see in this post, I CRUSHED this week and got a ton of… Read More Week 225 – Four and a Half Years In, Math Starts to Feel Practical

I’m sad to say that this week my progress on KA was pretty average if not underwhelming. I got through seven videos and one exercise which is probably slightly better than average for me, but I didn’t take any notes on the last four videos which I definitely should have done. The exercise I worked… Read More Week 224 – Surface Integrals Begin with a Donut and Plenty of Questions

This week was the same as my past few weeks working through KA. I felt like I didn’t make much progress and only got through half an article and two exercises, but the silver lining is that the exercises worked out to be worth 10% of the M.P. in the unit. I’m frustrated that I… Read More Week 223 – Triple Integrals and the Frustration of Knowing How, but Not Why