This week was one of the most productive weeks I’ve had in a very long time. 😊 I began the unit Integrals and made it 13% of the way through by the time Sunday rolled around. (Actually, I had watched the first 3 videos in the unit last week but hadn’t made any notes until this week.) Everything… Read More Week 112 – Riemann Sums, Sigma Notation, and a Long-Awaited 100%
I’m happy to say that I finally (FINALLY) got through the Analyzing Functions unit test. 🥵 I passed it on Friday on my fourth attempt and it took me close to 2 hours to get through it. I used Desmos to double check each of my answers which I think was cheating in a way. There were only 1… Read More Week 111 – Analyzing Functions Complete: Integrals, Here I Come!
I had another relatively disappointing week this week. 😔 I got one question wrong on my first attempt at the Analyzing Functions unit test and scored 17/18. I’m now halfway through my second attempt at the test but have already gotten 2 questions wrong so I’ll need to do it at least one more time next week. The silver… Read More Week 110 – One Test, Multiple Mistakes, and a Lesson in Patience
This week was one where I didn’t learn anything new but got a lot of good practice working with and a better understanding of functions and their derivatives. I didn’t finish the unit Analyzing Functions but am working on the unit test (I’m only through 2/18 questions though 😔). Besides starting the unit test, all I got… Read More Week 109 – Optimization Complete: One Step Closer to Integrals
In case you were wondering, calculus Optimization questions are hard. 😔 I spent the entire week working through the section Solving Optimization Questions in the unit Analyzing Functions and only managed to get through 4 videos and tried (but failed) to get through the single exercise. That said, I wrote out 47 pages worth of notes so I don’t think my… Read More Week 108 – 47 Pages of Notes, One Tough Week, and a Failed Test
This week was pretty normal in terms of how much work I got through on KA. I began the week ~53% of the way through the unit Analyzing Functions and ended off ~67% of the way through it. Unlike last week, I didn’t learn anything brand new but I did get a much stronger grasp on the… Read More Week 107 – Optimization Problems: When Calculus Gets Complicated
Every once in a while I have a week where everything goes smoothly and I don’t struggle to understand any thing that I work through. This was one of those weeks!! 🥳 I managed to get through 10 videos, 3 articles, and 7 exercises this week which means I’m now 53% of the way through the unit Analyzing… Read More Week 106 – A Week Where Everything Clicked—and My First Tutoring Certification!
I had one of those weeks this week where it felt like I got a lot of work done yet didn’t make much progress in terms of completing M.P. I ended up writing ~40 pages of notes but only made it 4% of way further through the unit Analyzing Functions. 😞 That being said, I started… Read More Week 105 – Third Year of Khan Academy: Lots of Notes, Slow Progress
Going by the, “there are 52 weeks in a year” saying, I’m offcically 2 years into using KA! (Although technically that’s not accurate since there are actually 52 weeks and 1 day per year, plus last year was a leap year, so I won’t hit the official 2-year mark until this coming Wednesday.) Reflecting on… Read More Week 104 🥳 – Two Years of Khan Academy: Calculus Is Starting to Click
I didn’t get very far through the unit Analyzing Functions this week. In total I only made it through 4 videos and 4 exercises. I finished the section on Mean Value Theorem (MVT) and started working through the following section which dealt with Extreme Value Theorem (EVT). There were only 3 videos on EVT which I finished watching but wasn’t able… Read More Week 103 – Theorems, Tough Algebra, and Gradual Progress