I got my butt kicked on KA this week. My goal was to get through 3 videos and 5 exercises and I barely managed to get through 2 exercises. Both exercises had to do with polar coordinates which I have a very weak understanding of. They both also used what’s called ‘polar curves’ which I… Read More Week 162 – Polar Coordinates: Lost in a Fog of Curves
This week on KA I made it through 6 videos and 3 exercises from two sections of the unit Parametric Equations, Polar Coordinates, and Vector-Valued Functions. I was pretty busy at my work this week which played a part in me falling short of the ≥9 hours of studying KA I’ve been trying to get done each… Read More Week 161 – Planar Motion: When Parametric Equations Start to Make Sense
I think I fell short this week of working on KA for >9 hours but I’m happy with the progress I made. I got through 9 videos and 4 exercises, started to get a better feel for how to solve parametric equations, and got a slightly better understanding of what they are. Like last week,… Read More Week 160 – Parametric Equations: Learning the How Before the Why
This week I finally – FINALLY! – made it through the Applications of Integrals unit test. I passed it with a perfect score on my second attempt on Thursday. I’m relieved to be moving forward but, at the same time, as frustrating as it was, it’s probably a good thing that it took me so many attempts… Read More Week 159 – Applications of Integrals Complete: A Perfect Score and a New Adventure
I’m getting pretty sick of saying this, but I didn’t make very much progress working through KA this week. I worked through the unit test for Applications of Integrals two times but still didn’t pass it. I just realized, however, that I ended up writing 61 pages of notes this week (😳) so, even though I… Read More Week 158 – 61 Pages of Notes, Two Failed Attempts, and Still Getting Better at Math
It was unfortunately another disappointing week for me working through KA. I got through the 3 exercises I needed to redo before retaking the unit test, but it took me until Friday to get through them and I only ended up getting through 7 questions on the unit test, AND got two of them wrong… 😔 I… Read More Week 157 – 23 Pages of Notes, One Tough Question, and More Calculus to Figure Out
My final week of my third year working on KA was unfortunately not the most productive. I had a few things come up this week that got in my way of working through KA. On Monday I had a big–ish meeting with my boss which I spent the entire morning preparing for, on Saturday I spent… Read More Week 156 – Three Years of Khan Academy: Still Battling Integrals
I started this week pretty strong but ended off on a bit of a low note. I made it through the Differential Equations unit test on Tuesday which was a relief but a was a bit stressful going through it. I felt fairly confident with my understanding of the questions but was slightly unsure of myself… Read More Week 155 – Differential Equations Complete: One Step Closer to Calculus 2
I said at the end of my post last week that I thought it was going to take me at least 2 weeks to get through Differential Equations. I was SO close to getting through it this week but fell just a bit short. I managed to get through all 17 videos and the single exercise… Read More Week 154 – 17 Videos, Three Failed Tests, and Gradual Progress
I had another setback this week working through KA. I began this week by getting back into the unit Differential Equations as there were still two sections left in this unit to complete. The first section was titled Approximation with Euler’s Method which contained 2 videos and 1 exercise. I’d already watched the first video and so I assumed… Read More Week 153 – Differential Equations: Back to the Drawing Board