I said last week that I liked that things were being brought back from other classes into the things we were working on, and now I see trig is being brought back, and that was my favorite math course. I still don't understand radians though. Putting the derivative in relation to time was genius, who ever came up with that should be acknowledged, I would have never thought of that. So far calculus has been surprisingly easy, with only a few hiccups here and there. This was one of the easier portions of the course in my opinion.
I like how all of these concepts are coming together as we go through the year. Bringing back the ol' substitution rules to figure out optimization was cool, and using concepts we just recently learned like the derivitive zeroes shows that what we're learning actually has uses later on; it's not just learn it, take the test, forget it forever. It gives us motivation and a sense of accomplishment. I hope we do something similar with the anti-derivitives because I quite liked those. Except for the +C part. I also see now how the finding the shortest path assignment we did on the computers goes with this section, although I had completely forgotten about it until I saw it in my folder. I feel like this section was really easy because I did the quiz no problem (I think) even though I only finished half the homework so far (sorry). Maybe it was because of how it all tied into the things we'd already learned.
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