This week has been so far a pretty difficult week. I've had a lot of problems with the U  substitution and chain rule. I like the concepts but they are hard to follow. So far this has been my first real trouble with the concepts this year. Even though I am studying I fear for the quiz tomorrow. I don’t think that I will do well on it given how hard the concepts were for me this week. I hope that I study enough to be adequately prepared to take the quiz tomorrow. The Ted talk this week was pretty interesting.. I looked ahead in the chapter and it seems to get easier from here. This seems to be a massive chapter. I just can’t wait to get it over with. I get some of the concepts. I am getting better with implicit differentiation. Today I was finally able to figure it out. With u substitution it is still pretty difficult. I think I got most of the major concepts with that, but the application is still pretty difficult for me. The chain rule  is also pretty hard for me . I am slowly starting to understand it, but it still remains as one of the hardest concepts this chapter. I got my quiz back. I can say I did about as well as I expected. I am happy with the score I got and am glad that this might offset some of the worse quiz grades. Friday will be an interesting day I hope that I end up doing better than I expected on the quiz. I hope that by the end of tonight that I figure some of the concepts out. Overall this has been a pretty hard week. I hope that the next one is easier.

This week was great. The quiz retake went really well. With the knowledge that I gained before I took the retake greatly helped. When I figured how to find the tangent line of a line it made the rest of the quiz pretty easy. The Ted talk this week was really interesting. I liked his take on jobs. Like how if you don’t follow what you want to do you will not have a great job. I also liked when he said that there is no such thing as a good job. I believe in a lot of the points that he made. I am also trying to find my perfect job. I want to succeed with this process. I like talks like this. That the motivate you with negativity. This is a pretty rare thing to see. I really like the concept of showing these in the classroom. They really motivate and is a great teaching tool. I saw the new Alma math question. I think that this one will be pretty easy to solve. Though I missed the quiz I think I am pretty well prepared when I make it up. I think that with the retake I greatly increased my grade and ended the marking period on a good note. I learned a lot about the derivatives as related to trigonometry and it’s functions I also managed to figure out antiderivatives and how they relate to the concept. This week has been pretty hectic. With marching band, a football game, a concert, a marching band show, and senior pictures. I’m glad that it is over with. Over all this has been a pretty progressive week . Though I’ve been insanely busy with all the thing that I had to do I managed to survive.


P.S. Ends up we ended up getting back late anyway… Sorry!

Well here it is, the final week of the marking period. I think that this was the worst week that I had so far.. With the concepts it was pretty difficult. The worse thing was the day that I was sick was the day you went over tangent lines which was an essential part of the quiz. The next day I didn't even realize that a quiz would happen that day. The quiz I though I did well. Until I got it back. Seems that my struggle with understanding the tangent lines really showed. The concepts to some  of them also escaped me. I also sadly lost points because of the wording that 8 used on some of my answers. Disappointingly I also found that it significantly affected my grade bringing it down a whole letter grade. So far that was the worse quiz I have taken. I do hope that here is something that I can do to maybe bring my grade up to an at least acceptable range. Though overall the concepts now I think are pretty easy. I get the tangent lines now after they have been explained to me and the concept questions no longer seem as hard as thy were. The work sheet that we just got is interesting. I like that the anti derivative of a function doesn't have a constant and has to be replaced by the letter c. The 4 step process I think I now understand pretty well, through I’m still working on finding the anti derivative. I hope I have better luck next week with understanding the concepts first thing and not until it is to late and hopefully that next weeks subject will be easier to grasp and learn.

This week was very interesting. I liked the concept about the slope at a point. The introduction to it with the real life example using speed in relation to the distance that the car traveled was a great way to start out the week. After that the assignments wee surprisingly easy to figure out. The usage of the four step rule made the problems surprisingly easy. It was interesting to me when the solution of the tangent was found it would be one less square then the original line. I liked how the line that you ended up with the points that it crosses 0 were the minimums and maximums of the original problem. I had trouble with the concept at first, but when I figured it out it became really easy. What really helped me with the concept was the four step  rule to solve the problem. When that was introduced it all became very clear how to solve the problems and what the concept was in general. All in all it was a very interesting concept and I am glad to have learned it. Because of my ability to grasp the problem so, I think that this week’s quiz will be pretty easy for me. I hope that it will be easier for me than the last one. My group really were the one that helped me figure out the concept. They really helped me understand it. The one sad ting this week was on Friday the lack of techno Friday was sad… Though I expect a techno Monday to make up for it. Overall this was a pretty good week. I expect that the quiz for this subject will be pretty easy and I can’t wait to take it. I don’t know why but I think this was my most favorite subject so far.

PS. This will be the last time that I am writing this on a mobile device. Seems that it dislikes publishing my posts.

I really liked this week. What really surprised me was with the Ted talk on Tuesday. It was unbelievable that a child from the video was able to make such a difference to his community.  I was amazed that he took a difficult problem with the tigers and turn it into a way to protect his cattle. I liked how he decided to put out the lights to simulate him being out there to scare the tigers. It might have been out of an act of desperation because if the cattle didn’t survive the family might not have either. I like the videos that are shown because they are really inspiring. I just too the quiz and I’m worried that I got a few wrong, what through me off was the rules of a horizontal asymptote. After the quiz I looked it up and I found out that I got it wrong. I do hope that I don’t lose too many points because of my answer. Other than that this week was pretty easy. It was a review week and the subject was fairly easy. The review was pretty through. I enjoyed most of the week, even though this is an AP class I like the pace being somewhat slower because of the full year course. I wonder if we will pick up steam soon or it will be this way the entire year. I hope that this will be the case, because my other AP classes also needs TLC and I am working on everything at the same time. This made it easier to juggle all the assignments for my other classes. Overall everything went well, though the quiz was a bit harder the week was overall easy.