It is the beginning of a new trimester here in AP Calc, and we got our exam and test grades back. I did better than Connor, so you better believe that I rubbed it in his face.
Other than that, we started a new unit on optimization. We went over an introductory packet first where we found either the most efficient route on a map or the biggest volume of a prism or the two numbers that would provide the largest sum of squares with the same sum. We were supposed to guess when we first did it, but we learned afterwards that we could use formulas to figure out optimizations.
We haven't done a lot with this due to how short the week was, but I could see that one thing I might have some trouble with is the mass of algebra that I have to do. I'm not super motivated for that. I also don't think I'm very good at creating my own formulas, so that might be a problem as well. It may have been because I was tired, but I didn't do too much on Tuesday when we went over the examples. We'll see how that turns out for me.
Other than that, we started a new unit on optimization. We went over an introductory packet first where we found either the most efficient route on a map or the biggest volume of a prism or the two numbers that would provide the largest sum of squares with the same sum. We were supposed to guess when we first did it, but we learned afterwards that we could use formulas to figure out optimizations.
We haven't done a lot with this due to how short the week was, but I could see that one thing I might have some trouble with is the mass of algebra that I have to do. I'm not super motivated for that. I also don't think I'm very good at creating my own formulas, so that might be a problem as well. It may have been because I was tired, but I didn't do too much on Tuesday when we went over the examples. We'll see how that turns out for me.