FINALLY, after 82 weeks, I’ve made it to calculus. It took me three days to get through the Precalculus course challenge this week, which is the longest amount of time I’ve spent working on a single test/challenge, but I finished it with 29/30 questions correct! For the most part I felt pretty good about my understanding of… Read More Week 82 – 82 Weeks Later: Calculus at Last!
I was so close to getting through the unit Probability and Combinatorics this week but fell just short. I’m happy with the effort I put in having watched 38 of the 41 videos and working through all the questions ahead of time before watching how each question was solved. ‘m also happy with what I was able… Read More Week 81 – Three Videos from the Finish Line
I didn’t make much progress getting further into Precalculus this week. I only just got through the unit Conic Sections on Sunday morning. I did get a much better handle on each type of conic section and their respective formulas, however. This is partly because it took me FOUR attempts to get through the unit test! 😡 As often happens, even… Read More Week 80 – Four Attempts, One Conic Sections Test
I was disappointed as I sat down to write this post as I didn’t get through the unit Conic Sections this week but, after going through my notes to create the outline for this post, in retrospect I realized I got through a TON of work this week and am actually really happy with my effort. I… Read More Week 79 – A Disappointing Week That Wasn’t So Disappointing
I ended up getting more done this week than I thought I would. I got through the unit Matrices on Wednesday, which I was surprised but happy about to have gotten through so early in the week, and then managed to pass the unit test of the following unit, Series, on my first attempt on Sunday morning. I… Read More Week 78 – Matrices Complete, Series Underway
I underestimated how difficult Precalculus would be. I assumed it would mostly be review and I would more-or-less breeze through it but this week I learned a number of brand new and difficult concepts that I’d never been shown before. I was a bit under 20% of the way through Matrices when the week began and finished the week… Read More Week 77 – Precalculus Is Harder Than I Expected
This was one of the most enjoyable weeks I’ve had working through KA so far. I finished the unit Vectors on Thursday and was able to get ~20% of the way through the following unit Matrices. Even though I wish I’d gotten further into Matrices, I was happy with my progress this week because 1) I still had to… Read More Week 76 – Vectors Complete: On to Matrices!
I was close to reaching my goal for this week which was to get 50% of the way through the unit Vectors but came up a bit short. I finished reviewing the unit Trigonometry on Thursday and got 40% of the way through Vectors by the end of Saturday. Working through the remaining two sections in Trigonometry, which… Read More Week 75 – Trigonometric Identities: Still a Mystery, Vectors: A New Adventure
I was pretty happy with how this week went. I finished the unit Composite Functions on Wednesday and got halfway through Trigonometry before the week ended. As I hoped, I was able to make a lot more sense of trig this week than I was able to when I first learned it. It did take me a bit of… Read More Week 74 – Trigonometry: When Everything Finally Clicks
This week was pretty typical. I didn’t get as far as I hoped I would but feel good about my effort having spent ~6.5-7 hours on KA. I finished the unit Polynomials on Friday and got through a few videos in the first section of Composite Functions on Saturday. I spent most of this week solving equations which was… Read More Week 73 – Polynomials, Long Division, and Growing Confidence