It took me 3 days, 2 attempts, and ~40 pages of notes but I finally passed the Applications of Derivatives unit test. I scored 12/15 on my first attempt but luckily didn’t have to redo any exercises in order to keep my overall score at 80% (as I’ve said before, each exercise needs to be at 80%… Read More Week 102 – 40 Pages of Notes, Three Days, and a Perfect 15/15

I struggled again this week and didn’t manage to get through the unit test for Applications of Derivatives. I spent the first 2 days working through the final exercise and didn’t start the test until Thursday. I made one careless mistake on the test which resulted in me getting a single question wrong which was annoying.… Read More Week 101 – One Careless Mistake—and a Lesson in Knowing When to Review

I unfortunately didn’t get through the Applications of Derivatives unit test this week, but I only have 1 exercise left to get through so I should be able to finish the unit by early next week. I hate making excuses but my summer schedule has made it tough to get through the ≥ 5 hours of… Read More Week 100 – 100 Weeks of Khan Academy: Triple Digits!

Well, I didn’t get through the 7 videos and 5 exercises that I was hoping to this week. It took me 3 days and 26 pages of notes to get through 2 exercises (😳) which set me back, but the good news is the final two sections of the unit weren’t too difficult to understand… Read More Week 99 – Three Days, 26 Pages, and a Breakthrough with Related Rates

I had a bit of a pitiful week. Working through Applications of Derivatives, I only made it through 2 exercises and 5 videos, but I did get a lot of practice working through new types of questions that involved derivatives and started to feel a bit more confident with how to solve them. I still feel lost… Read More Week 98 – 90% of the Way to Understanding?

This week felt like a blur. I made it through the first four sections of the unit Applications of Derivatives, all of which were interrelated but also had their differences. The first and third sections were titled Meaning of the Derivative in Context and Non-motion Applications of Derivatives respectively only had a handful of videos between them. They weren’t difficult… Read More Week 97 – Applications of Derivatives: A Whole New Challenge

This week I went through 59 pages of notes. 59 pages!!! 🤯 It took me two attempts but I scored 15/15 on the Derivatives: Chain Rule and Other Advanced Topics unit test on Sunday after getting 13/15 on my first attempt on Friday. I would say my grasp on the questions for the most part was pretty… Read More Week 96 – 59 Pages of Notes, One Perfect Test

One again, I was very happy with the amount of work I did this week but I didn’t get through nearly as many videos or exercises as I was hoping. At the beginning of the week, I had 6 videos and 5 exercises left in the unit Derivatives: Chain Rule and Other Advanced Topics and only got… Read More Week 95 – More Than 7.5 Hours of Calculus—and Still Going!

I was happy with the amount of work I managed to get through this week. I watched 11 of the 17 videos left in Derivatives: Chain Rule and Other Advanced Topics but only got through 4 of the final 9 exercises. I spent the majority of the week learning about the derivatives of inverse sine, cosine, and… Read More Week 94 – Derivative Rules: Getting Complicated, but Staying Confident

Even though I spent most of this week working through equations, which is what I typically like doing most on KA, this week was very tough and frustrating for me. I went through 28 pages of notes yet I still feel like I didn’t get through very much. The majority of my week was spent… Read More Week 93 – 28 Pages of Notes, One Frustrating Concept: Implicit Differentiation