My favorite sport to watch is hockey (go Leafs go!). If you didn’t already know, in hockey, if a team scores 3 goals in one game it’s called getting a hat trick. This week I got the KA equivalent of a hat trick. I’m happy to say I finished three units this week, Solving Equations… Read More Week 9 – Oct. 28th to Nov. 3rd

I did it. This week I achieved my goal of finishing the units Quadratics and Polynomials and Equations and Geometry, AND finished the Algebraic Basics course challenge. In Quadratics and Polynomials, I started getting a much better understanding of how polynomials and quadratics work, and understanding how to factor and distribute them. I found out… Read More Week 8 – Oct. 21st to Oct. 27th

WARNING: Excuses incoming…. This week was not the successful week I envisioned. Up to this point, I’ve managed to get a minimum of 5 hours of work done on Khan Academy every seven days. This week I think I got 3… Excuses: I spent all of Monday driving from Toronto to Stratford (my hometown) and… Read More Week 7 – Oct. 14th to Oct. 21st

I didn’t get as much work done this week as I had hoped. I started the week working on the Unit Systems of Equations where I learned that two related equations equal a “System of Equations” (ex. 5f + 10t = 5500 and f + t = 900) and how to solve for the point… Read More Week 6 – Oct. 7th to Oct. 13th

In Week 5 I was able to start and finish two units, Linear Equations and Inequalities and Graphing Lines and Slope. As the names would suggest, this week I spent all of my time learning more about graphs and how to determine where to draw a line and its slope based on a given equation on… Read More Week 5 – Sept. 30th to Oct. 6th

This week I managed to get through two units, Foundations and Algebraic Equation. I’m happy to say I passed each unit test with 100% on the first try. I have six more units to go in the Algebraic Basics course. The Foundations unit was about 60-70% complete before I began it. As mentioned in a… Read More Week 4 – Sept. 23rd to 29th

This week I finished the unit Exponents, Radicals, and Scientific Notation and, with it, the entire course Pre-algebra. For the most part I found understanding exponents not to be too difficult. It turned out I still had a good understanding of exponents from high school. Things I learned/re-learned included: It’s helpful to imagine you’re always… Read More Week 3 – Sept. 16th to 22nd

I’m happy to say this week was even more successful than my first week. I spent closer to 6 hours this week on KA and managed to finish off two units, Ratios, Rates, Proportions and Equations, Expressions, and Inequalities (although, to be fair, I was about 85% of the way through the former when I… Read More Week 2 – Sept. 9th to 15th

My first week “back-to-school” was a success. Monday to Friday, I opened up KhanAcademy at 9am and spent an hour watching videos and working through problems. I’m currently going through the Pre-algebra course, working through the Ratios, Rates, Proportions section. The week started with the question, “What is a Constant of Proportionality?” The short answer… Read More Week 1 – Sept. 2nd – 8th