This week was all about limits. Well, we finished the packet for the first two days, then we went on to limits. At first, I struggled a little with this as well. Not just because I had forgotten what I learned in my third trimester of Precalc, but also because I was away at BPA Nationals when the class was actually learning limits. However, I managed to bounce back by the second half of the week.
First day of limits, we had a limit lab to do, which was a packet of six questions on limits. The first few were pretty basic limit problems, but the last one had quite a bit of analysis, and we had to go to the media center to do that one. Mr. Cresswell provided us with some charts on GDocs and a Desmos graph. At first, I was confused as to the point of all of this, but I quickly realized that it's to help us analyze the charts and find the pattern.
That one wasn't too bad, but then we had a limits lesson. After the lesson, we had some limit problems to do as groups. This, I struggled with quite hard, especially the question with the tangent, since I forgot nearly all the properties of sine, cosine, and tangent. I furiously flipped through the textbook, but to no avail. I just couldn't find it. In the end, it was only because Connor solved the problem for the class that I saw exactly how the problem was solved. In the end, I felt a little sheepish, but I did understand it a lot better.
As for the homework, I mostly had no problems, even with the limits from the left and right, the stuff that we didn't go through, although some questions were worded a little weirdly. Overall, I feel like I have a very good grasp of limits now. I would call this week of learning pretty successful.
First day of limits, we had a limit lab to do, which was a packet of six questions on limits. The first few were pretty basic limit problems, but the last one had quite a bit of analysis, and we had to go to the media center to do that one. Mr. Cresswell provided us with some charts on GDocs and a Desmos graph. At first, I was confused as to the point of all of this, but I quickly realized that it's to help us analyze the charts and find the pattern.
That one wasn't too bad, but then we had a limits lesson. After the lesson, we had some limit problems to do as groups. This, I struggled with quite hard, especially the question with the tangent, since I forgot nearly all the properties of sine, cosine, and tangent. I furiously flipped through the textbook, but to no avail. I just couldn't find it. In the end, it was only because Connor solved the problem for the class that I saw exactly how the problem was solved. In the end, I felt a little sheepish, but I did understand it a lot better.
As for the homework, I mostly had no problems, even with the limits from the left and right, the stuff that we didn't go through, although some questions were worded a little weirdly. Overall, I feel like I have a very good grasp of limits now. I would call this week of learning pretty successful.