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This week was a pretty hard week at first. But it got easier over time. The disk method and solid objects were pretty easy to learn, but when you got to the shell method it became much more difficult. Though now after looking at the subject matter again I feel much more confident in taking the quiz on Monday. It was a surprise we got the whole day off Friday . I hope that the basketball team doesn’t squander it. This week I was back to college. It is weird to have the college’s spring break and our spring break on different weeks. It still doesn’t feel like spring at all. I hope that it warms up soon. I saw it snow earlier. Well at least it wasn’t enough for me to shovel. After this week I think that I understand the chapter and I am glad this will be the last one we have to take. Then its just studying for the AP test. I am glad that this is the last week before spring break. I hope that the quiz is like the questions that I have been studying. I’ve been pretty exhausted this week. I am ready for the weekend. Over all this has been a pretty hard week at first. Then it gradually got easier over time and I think that I am adequately prepared to take the test on Monday. I also am glad I will be able to sleep in this weekend.

 
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This week was pretty difficult. The new concepts with volume was pretty easy when just working with solid shapes. When we started to work on the shell and washer method it became much more difficult. Especially without help from you. I don’t think that I will be ready for the quiz on Monday. Though I will try to study and be more ready to take the quiz. I don’t remember what we talked about for TED talk this week so I think it was good… maybe. What I had problems with was more with the washer method than anything and the shell method was also pretty confusing. So now I have to figure up something to say for another 150 words. Guess I’ll talk about how that our group is great. Yep I like being in a group with Michael and Ben. They are both my friends and they keep me occupied. The sub was fine. Though I do wish she knew more about what we were going over but she did know a lot as it was. Overall she helped us a lot and did very well in subbing an AP Calculus class And I am glad to have a sub so knowledgeable about the subject. For the college search I think that its between Kettering, Alma, and Michigan Tech. It is a number game now. Its all what they can offer me for financial aid and scholarships. The winner gets my money. Overall I think that it has been a pretty hard week. I am glad to get it over with and continue on with my life. I hope that you will go over what we learned somewhat before the test on Monday

 
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This week we continued work on my favorite thing in calculus…more slope fields! We took a test this week and I had trouble on the u-substitution part so I wasn't able to finish. I will need to finish it on Monday its just been really busy every day after the quiz so there wasn't a good chance to finish it. I think I will be able to finish pretty quickly I was really close to being done. What is hilarious is that in my first hour there is a puzzle on the desk next to me, its like 500 pieces. The entire class I am able to work on it while Ms. Spycher is lecturing. I'm still paying attention and answering questions and all that but I things it pretty funny. Back to calculus, it felt like a review week again the assignment were really spread out and the new concepts with implicit differentiation I think that I will actually be able to get for the first time ever. I'm usually terrible at it but now I think I will be able to do much better than I was usually able to do. The TED talk this week was fun. I like how he talked about how everyone was in a tribe and how there was so many stages within a tribe. Crap, I just realized we never played any techno music today…#Blame_Cresswell. Over all though its been a pretty laid back week and I think that I was able to easily understand the new things that we went over this week. I think that I will be well be well be well prepared for the test.

 
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This week was pretty easy. I think that so far this was my favorite week of calculus. We just finished an introduction into slope fields. I think that these are my favorite thing in calculus so far. They are really easy and fun to do. What I struggled with was the u- substitution part of the chapter. There was a lot of new rules that you needed to know to apply u -substitution with calculus. But, I think I did pretty well in understanding the chapter. It was fun to choose t shirt designs this week. The one that won wasn't my favorite but Its still pretty cool. This week was pretty tough in my other classes. I guess there was this big push to make up for lost time last week. So ive been pretty swamped with homework. This weekend I want to alma Con. It was really fun and the reason why I couldn't finish this on Friday. Given you graduated from Alma I think you understand ;) I watched a few panels there and hung out with my friends. See I can get distracted from calculus too. I think that overall this has been a pretty fun  week and I hope that next week that we will continue to work on slope fields and their applications. Other than that I am pretty glad that I went to Alma Con and I had a great time. What I am not excited about is the massive pile of Homework behind me staring me down. Maybe if I don’t look at it, it will go away… I need to test this.

 
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Well, this is going to be difficult to write. I’ll have to explain all we did this week in 300 words when I could just condense it into one. The one word that describes all we did this week is this…Review. That’s it, so now its time for me to ramble on for 250 words so enjoy. I think that the concepts covered this chapter were really easy I don’t think I will have any trouble on the test. I understood it very well. Anti differentiation in my opinion is much easier then doing the derivative of a equation. It is also very easy now for me to find an area under a graph using all of the different rules that tell you different ways how to do so. I don’t think I had any trouble with any of the concepts or proofs. This week was all about review which made it really easy. I liked how easy it was and I think I am ready to take the test. I like the newest format the tests are now using with the multiple choice and short answers. I hope that the next test will be done in the same format. Well I would say something here about the TED Talk to get more words but we didn’t have one so I’m going to ramble here about the lack of one and say that I was very very disappointed. I could have at least’s if we had one gotten like 50 to 90 words out of it and it would make my life easier. The bad news is that I’m 40 words short and have nothing else so say so I’m adding this sentence. Over all it was a very very easy week. At least we had techno Friday.

 
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This was a good week. I found out that this week that my mastery sheet was missing so I had to draw up a new one. We learned the most important mathematical concept in calculus this week and that was the 
Fundamental Theorem of Calculus. I was excited to see how integrals and derivative finally fit together. Its funny how that we haven't had a full week of school since before winter break. It hasn't seemed like it has gummed up our schedule too much. My other classes are panicking because all their time is running out and they can't move the marking period because of the ACT test. This week’s TED talk I think was my favorite so far. I was really nice to see a person at such an old age take on such a challenge and be able to get it done. It’s amazing to see how she was able to accomplish this task even with her crew. We worked with areas some more and they have become pretty easy by now I think this is far easier than doing derivatives. I am really glad we are done with them for now. Integrals seem really easy to solve and I think that I am ready to test over them. The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus was pretty easy to understand and I am glad to have learned it. It is very easy to use applications with it and  had no trouble on the homework. My group was able to fill in the gaps that I struggled with on a few of the harder problems. So I am grateful to be in the group that I am in.  Overall I think this has been a pretty easy week. I hope that this trend continues into next week.

 
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This week was pretty easy. I got all of the concepts and it was pretty easy to understand what to do. I had to do the optimization mastery. After the test over it I was really able to figure out optimization based problems.  The Ted talk this week was really interesting, it was neat that the kid went a separate path than conventional schooling and pursues a curriculum that solved real life problems. We seemed to have gotten sidetracked a lot this week. Especially with Mr. Creswell’s super amazing sandwich. The concepts this week was really easy. This was reflected in the homework. The homework didn't have too many assignment and was pretty easy as well. This week was also the first week of my engineering course it was fun.  So far it is going really well. In my other classes I'm getting a lot of assignments to get done because it is getting closer to the end of the marking period. Because of all of those snow days it has been interesting to try to get everything done. The student that came in today seemed really cool. He seemed like a nice guy. I think I am prepared for a test over the material we covered this week. I like it when I am able to understand and apply concepts. So this week ended up being much better than I expected it to be. I hope that next week will end up being as easy and I am able to understand it as well as this week. Overall this has been a pretty easy week. Other than all of my other classes and the mounds of homework I have it has been pretty easy.

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12/20/2013

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This week was surprising. II finally got how to do optimization and rates of change. I hope that It is ok that I do the mastery form when I get back from break. It’s going to be awkward finishing the test given that the 2nd part we were supposed to do on Friday. With optimization I finally found out how to solve problem s like it. How I use 2 equations to relate the problems to one another and find the x in terms of the y and plug it back in to find the equation then you take the derivative and find where it crosses 0 and that is the answer. I've always struggled with this and I'm glad that it finally clicked. Rates of change has become really easy I found out the trick to solving those. Now I think I am ready to do the mastery. I'm just really glad that everything is finally clicking with this chapter. The one thing that I’m really worried about is the last part of the quiz. I think that I will be able to do it. But I will not have done any math for a while so I am unsure. Well at least its pretty easy, all we are doing with that really is interpreting the graph and I have all of that stuff in my notes So I think I'm pretty set in that matter. I'm excited for break my parents said that we might go on vacation though Christmas and New Years is pretty nice to. I can't wait to see all of my friends and family again. Overall this has been a pretty interesting week I am glad that everything finally clicked for me.


PS Saved it to draft again just realized it… Sorry!

 
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This week was very difficult. I am worrying about the test  on Monday. I don’t think I am ready. I was lost on most of the concepts introduced. I think it might be my weakness with story problems. Im just not that good with linearization or rates of change. I am studying a lot this weekend so I hope that I will be ready when it comes time to take the test. It looks like it is going to snow. I wish that it snowed on the weekdays not on the weekends. I got my quiz back… well I can’t say it wasn’t as I expected it to be. I’m just not that good at story problems. Optimization was not my strong point. I plan on doing the mastery and hopefully I am able to boost my grade up to where it should be. Its hard for me to understand rates of change its just really difficult to use the mathematical modal in relation to the derivative to find the answer. The good news is I’m starting o understand it and I hope that I will be even better by Monday. I hope that when I take the quiz it would be a lot easier and I will be able to solve it without too much trouble. I hope it ends up being less then the optimization quiz. This week I had tons of homework. The  homework and trying to understand the problems was really difficult. I was also getting a lot of homework from my AP US History class. Hopefully this week it will be a little easier. Overall It has been a very hard week. I hope with chapter 6 coming along it will be easier.

 
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This week was interesting. I liked having only one section to work on. But I didn’t like how difficult it was. I wasn’t able to finish the quiz so I will finish it on Monday. Hopefully I will do well on it. This week I would say was more difficult than the other weeks in this class. The application used everything… This was pretty unlike what we had to deal with before so it was more difficult. I liked the Ted talk this week, especially the 2nd one about the billion dollar IPod. Oh copyright logic. That was a good one to watch and I’m glad we did. Overall I think that because this being a more difficult section and all I am glad that we took more time to look over it. I am glad also how through we were with it. I mean we took a week, we did a lab, and now were doing a project just over optimization. I liked the extra time we took over it but near the end it started to feel a little stretched out. I really liked the group time we took to look over some of the answers. My group I’m lucky to be in. Michael really helped me to understand some of the concepts of optimization. I’m glad that I have him at my table this year. With this being a more difficult subject he was able to make it easier for me. Over all this has been a pretty difficult week. All that I can hope for now is that I am able to finish and do well on my quiz Monday.