You told us last week to try to synthesize our understanding of the fundamental theorem of calculus on our blog post. I gave it shot. I didn't quite get it totally correct, but I think your comment helped me to understand where I went wrong. I see why you said to do that. Today is Friday, and we have a test on Monday. I'm not sure I'm totally ready for it as I'm typing up this blog, but provided that I study a lot on Sunday, I should be alright. I understand Riemann sums, and I understand the trapezoidal rule, I just need to work a little more with some of the rules of integrals and the mean value theorem and things like that. In order to help me, I took a picture of Savanah's notes with my phone. She has much better handwriting than I do, and it should be a lot easier to work with. I should be ready for the test by the time monday rolls around.

 

This week, we learned the fundamental theorem of calculus. This theorem essentially states that for every function, there is both a derivative, and an antiderivative, or an integral. I don't feel like I learned the first part of chapter 5 very well. I did very poorly on the quiz. You said that was to be expected, but I really did poorly. I will have to go back and relearn the sections before any other tests we take. So in conclusion, I think that 5.1-5.3 went poorly, but 5.4 went very well.

 
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At this point in the year, I think I have written an entire blog post and then deleted it by accident at least 5 times. I can learn complicated calculus, but I can't learn to save my work. I accidentally deleted the entire post from my phone today because I quit the app before it was finished posting and before I had saved. But basically what I talked about was that I feel really good coming out of chapter 4. I did well on the test. I think I did well on the project. I did poorly on one quiz, but I did a mastery, and that helped me learn how to optimize. So chapter 4 went pretty well for me. So far chapter five seems to be going well too. I understand RAM. I think it will be really interesting to learn everything else in the chapter. I missed part of the day on friday, but I took a picture of Shane's notes so I can teach myself.