Going into Friday, I was unsure about whether or not I should take the quiz. I decided against it as I missed Thursday and I think I made the right choice. I didn't fully understand the concept we learned Wednesday, so missing Thursday really screwed me over in that I didn't learn the new concept, or the old one. On Friday, I spent the class period working through problems in the book to give myself the practice I needed. That really helped me understand the concepts and I think I should be ready to take the quiz on Monday. Implicit differentiation is actually a lot more fun than u substitution I think. You just follow the rules and plug in the numbers. I like it! Here is a picture of a problem that me and Shane raced to finish a few days ago. We got the same answer, but I beat him to it.

Last week, in my blog post, I wrote about how disappointed I was. I was disappointed because I got the grade for my last quiz back. I got a C-. That is just not a grade I am ok with. As you can imagine, I was extremely excited when you announced that we would be able to retake the quiz. I enlisted the help of Michael Wyman. There were three problems that I did not know how to solve. He showed me a step by step method to solve all three. One thing I had struggled with in the past was finding the equation of the tangent line when you are provided with f'(4)=5 and f(4)=7. He explained that you simply use 4 as m, and use (4,7) as your ordered pair and then plug it into y=mx+b. Its that simple. I'm fairly confident that I answered both of those questions correctly on the quiz retake earlier today. I included my work schedule. Last week was hell. I picked up two extra shifts and I had a cross meet. I worked Sunday-Tuesday, 4:30 to 10:30 and had a cross meet on Wednesday 2 hours away, then worked Thursday 4:30 to 10:30. I was very busy, however I managed to get most of my work done, I hope.

A few minutes ago, Ishan reminded me and Shane of a trick for solving for cubed functions. Pascal's Triangle. We learned this in the 10th grade, but it had escaped my memory. When finding derivitives, it really helps to be able to do these calculations quickly. Ishan also encroaches upon my personal space daily. He likes to put his elbow on my table. Enclosed below, is a picture I snagged when he wasn't looking. I really enjoyed the problems this week, because they were long, and not especially difficult. They are the fun kind of problem.