In the ~2.5 years I’ve been working on KA, I’ve never had as devastating of a start to a week as I did this week. 😔 After having spent the last month reviewing the FToC and redoing the 5 exercises necessary to get my score back up to 80% M.P. (which is what you need… Read More Week 132 – One Wrong Answer, Five Months of Work, and Still Going

This week was another week where I didn’t get nearly as far through KA as I wanted to but still feel like I made a lot of progress. My goal at the start of this week was to at least get through the exercise Integration Using Completing the Square which I didn’t even end up starting… I… Read More Week 131 – 2.5 Years of Khan Academy: Still Figuring Out Calculus

This week I got through quite a bit of content and made some solid progress towards grasping integrals and with it calculus, in general. I only finished 3 of the 4 exercises in Integrals but, nonetheless, I’m still really happy with what I was able to accomplish this week. My big news is that I FINALLY… Read More Week 130 – The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus: A Breakthrough at Last!

I feel like I’m SO close to having the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus figured out but I’m still not quite there. 😔  I didn’t actually spend any time this week working through the exercises I need to redo in Integrals before attempting the unit test again because the next exercise I have to redo has to do with the Fundamental Theorem… Read More Week 129 – So Close, Yet So Far: The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus

I had a more successful week this week than I did last week. I made it through the Integrals unit test on Thursday but got 5 of the 32 questions wrong. Considering I had gotten 3 of 8 wrong the week before, however, I was happy that I only missed 2 of the remaining questions. I’m still… Read More Week 128 – Integrals: Progress, Frustration, and Five Wrong Answers

I once again got my ass kicked on KA this week. I didn’t get remotely close to finishing the Unit Test let alone get through it twice which is what I said I wanted to do at the end of my last post. I made it through a grand total of 8 questions and got… Read More Week 127 – Five Months of Integrals—and Still Learning

After ~ 6 weeks, this week I FINALLY made it through that trig substitution section. 🥵 In fact, I actually got 4/4 on the exercise 3 times but wanted to make sure I knew what I was doing which is why I did it multiple times. Getting through this section has been the hardest thing I’ve thing… Read More Week 126 – Trigonometric Substitution Complete: A Huge Relief!

(Disclaimer: This was a very frustrating week and so I swear a lot in this post. In other posts I’ve written, I’ll often write a first draft which might include swear words but I’ll edit them out before I post it. I’ve decided to leave them in this week because 1) it paints a more… Read More Week 125 – Trigonometric Integrals: Fighting the God of Math

I only made it through 2 articles and 1 exercise this week from the unit Integration by Parts, but, just like last week, I’m actually fairly happy with the progress I made and what I was able to learn. I got a much stronger feel for how to use the integration by parts technique and came… Read More Week 124 – The Long Road to Understanding Integrals

For the first time in what feels like forever, I’m actually happy with the progress I made this week on KA. It took me three days but I finally got through the exercise in the section Trigonometric Substitution and was able to wrap my head around how this particular type of trig substitution works (with one frustrating… Read More Week 123 – Integrals: More Practice, More Progress