Week 8
This week's theme was chain rule madness. My brain is currently a soup of dx/dy and fraction bars.
This is by far the most complicated math I have ever done. It's the kind of math which makes total sense in the classroom, and then the second I crack open a math book, it's Greek. I am going to have to study a lot for this test, but even with the studying, I'm worried about my preparedness level on Monday. Being sick is like taking an anti-math brain pill, which I think I was already forced to take as a child. I'm definitely more of an English and words person, and variables DO NOT COUNT. This week, during notes we did a lot of in-class examples, in which you gave us a function, and then as a pod, we attempted to find the answer before we went over the process. I think that this method was really effective in getting the content to stick just a little better in my brain, as well as the brains of my classmates.
One major revelation I had this week is that in order to really understand the more difficult concepts, I need to aggressively fight to understand them. I need to bare my teeth at my scribbled notes and let my eyes voraciously feast on the dry erase symbols on the board. If I don't, I wont absorb anything. If my eyes glaze over for one second, all of the math just bounced off of them.
Hoping for an easier week next week.
Mia
This week's theme was chain rule madness. My brain is currently a soup of dx/dy and fraction bars.
This is by far the most complicated math I have ever done. It's the kind of math which makes total sense in the classroom, and then the second I crack open a math book, it's Greek. I am going to have to study a lot for this test, but even with the studying, I'm worried about my preparedness level on Monday. Being sick is like taking an anti-math brain pill, which I think I was already forced to take as a child. I'm definitely more of an English and words person, and variables DO NOT COUNT. This week, during notes we did a lot of in-class examples, in which you gave us a function, and then as a pod, we attempted to find the answer before we went over the process. I think that this method was really effective in getting the content to stick just a little better in my brain, as well as the brains of my classmates.
One major revelation I had this week is that in order to really understand the more difficult concepts, I need to aggressively fight to understand them. I need to bare my teeth at my scribbled notes and let my eyes voraciously feast on the dry erase symbols on the board. If I don't, I wont absorb anything. If my eyes glaze over for one second, all of the math just bounced off of them.
Hoping for an easier week next week.
Mia