I feel like the magic has really died in these blogs. Oh, well. A trimester and a half of senior year will do that to you. I'm a hardened, bitter adult now. I'm all about realism and taxes and darn youngsters now. Where's my newspaper?
Anyway, this last week I was able to successfully take notes and listen. I think maybe I was just out of practice. I feel good. SPIDERS!!!**
However, my note taking-skills and my understanding skills apparently have an inverse relationship (LOOK AT THAT MATH-RELATED LITERARY DEVICE). There were too many equations, sums, and value theorems this week for me to be able to know how to answer a problem when I saw one. I just didn't recognize what questions were asking me to do, and often I just panicked and punched things into the nint( function in my calculator. I think my main problem is that I didn't completely master the basics. I need to go back to the definition of an integral and how to read sigma sums. Maybe the symbols just make me nervous. To be honest, I get intimidated by any letter besides x or y in calculus. Maybe if I keep learning new concepts, the basics will just become part of my vocabulary. It's bound to make sense eventually.
How is a squiggle an area?
I'll figure it out.
Until next week,
Mia
**I couldn't find a witty/relevant picture for this blog, so I panicked and attached a picture of a spider. Mentioning it randomly in my blog makes it related, right?
Anyway, this last week I was able to successfully take notes and listen. I think maybe I was just out of practice. I feel good. SPIDERS!!!**
However, my note taking-skills and my understanding skills apparently have an inverse relationship (LOOK AT THAT MATH-RELATED LITERARY DEVICE). There were too many equations, sums, and value theorems this week for me to be able to know how to answer a problem when I saw one. I just didn't recognize what questions were asking me to do, and often I just panicked and punched things into the nint( function in my calculator. I think my main problem is that I didn't completely master the basics. I need to go back to the definition of an integral and how to read sigma sums. Maybe the symbols just make me nervous. To be honest, I get intimidated by any letter besides x or y in calculus. Maybe if I keep learning new concepts, the basics will just become part of my vocabulary. It's bound to make sense eventually.
How is a squiggle an area?
I'll figure it out.
Until next week,
Mia
**I couldn't find a witty/relevant picture for this blog, so I panicked and attached a picture of a spider. Mentioning it randomly in my blog makes it related, right?