Last week I said that I should be able to get through this unit, Derivatives: Chain Rule and Other Advanced Topics, before the end of June without much difficulty as long as nothing comes up that stumps me for too long. Well, I definitely jinxed myself and spent about ~95% of this week trying to… Read More Week 92 – One Formula, a Week of Work, and a Satisfying Breakthrough

I finally got through the unit Derivatives: Definitions and Basic Rules this week and managed to get 15% of the way through the following unit, Derivatives: Chain Rule and Other Advanced Topics. It took me 2 days to get through the former unit but scored 25/25 on the unit test on my first attempt! I was pumped to… Read More Week 91 – Derivatives Complete: A Perfect 25/25!

It was a disappointing week. Not only did I not get through the unit Derivatives: Definitions and Basic Rules, but I didn’t even start the unit test. I did manage to get everything finished besides the test, however, and actually got much better at understanding trig functions, but, regardless, I’m still very disappointed that I… Read More Week 90 – A Frustrating Week with the Quotient Rule

I had another enjoyable week working through Derivatives: Definitions and Basic Rules and managed to get a good amount of work done though I probably (once again) only worked for about 5-6 hours in total. I was able to grasp around ~90% of what I went through this week without too much difficulty, all of which… Read More Week 89 – A Miniature Mind-Blown Moment: The Derivative of Sine

I hit my goal this week by getting 50% of the way through the unit Derivatives: Definitions and Basic Rules. I enjoyed what I went through this week as a lot of what I did was use algebra to solve equations, plus I didn’t have to learn too much theory which I always find a bit… Read More Week 88 – Halfway Through Derivatives—and Enjoying the Ride

First and foremost, you’ll be happy to know I survived the canker sore that just about killed me last week. It slowly healed throughout the week and was gone by Saturday, THANK GOD. Overall, I’m pretty happy with the amount of work I got done this week although I probably could (and should) have gotten… Read More Week 87 – Derivatives: A Marathon, Not a Sprint

This was the first week in the last few that I’m disappointed with the amount of work I got through. I did manage to finish the unit test of Limits and Continuity (though not with a perfect score which I’ll get to) and was happy that I began the following unit, Derivatives: Definitions and Basic Rules, though I… Read More Week 86 – One Tough Test and a Very Unwelcome Distraction

I was happy with the amount of progress I made this week. I’m now 75% of the way through the unit Limits and Continuity with only have handful of videos and exercises, as well as the unit test to get through so I think there’s a strong chance I’ll finish the unit by next week. It… Read More Week 85 – 27 Videos, Fewer Notes, and the Squeeze Theorem

It was a bit of a weird week. I had to spend ~50% of the week reviewing trigonometric identities which, by the end of it, I started to get a better picture of but still haven’t figured them out completely. I also had to combine using trig identities with algebra to solve for limits which… Read More Week 84 – Limits, Trig Identities, and the Value of a Different Perspective

Since the last course I worked through, Precalculus, was mostly all review, it’s been a long time since I worked through a course that taught me new concepts (mid-December to be exact). Getting started with Calculus 1 this week, it was nice getting back into a groove of slowly working through new concepts and trying to… Read More Week 83 – Calculus at Last: A Third of the Way Through the First Unit!