This week in AP Calculus we worked on an assignment over secant and tangent lines. This activity helped me understand how the slope of the tangent line is related to the curve. Although I struggled a little bit at the start of the activity, I figured it out working together with classmates. The change from the first graph to the second graph was adding another slider point in and adding a slope equation to the formula for the slope line.
0 Comments
This week in AP Calculus we learned about section 2.2, Limits Involving Infinity, and section 2.3, Continuity; we also took a quiz over section 2.1 and 2.2. Section 2.2, Limits involving infinity, was very similar to Section 2.1 which was about limits. The only difference was we looked at the limit of a function as it approaches infinity instead of approaching a certain number. I did not have any problems with understanding most of the information in section 2.2 although there were a couple problems that made me think and I did not understand at first. After asking my classmates and our teacher, I understood how to do the problems that I struggled with for the most part. We also got a worksheet over the topic of limits that helped me further understand the topic and it also made me think more about how to solve limit problems. On Wednesday, we took a quiz over section 2.1 and 2.2 and although I thought that I understood the topic of limits, I did not score as well on the quiz as I would have liked to. After I get my quiz back, I will look over it and decide whether or not to retake the quiz to try to score better on it. On Thursday, we learned about section 2.3 which is the topic of continuity. Although I was not in class on Thursday due to a tennis match, after talking about the section on Friday with classmates and going through the assignment, I believe that I have a pretty strong hold on the subject.
This week in AP Calculus we spent the majority of the week working on a review packet of things that we should have learned in past math classes. Most of the stuff was fairly simple for me once I started to remember the past topics. After a long summer of not doing very much school work, it can sometimes be hard to get back into the right frame of mind right away. After a little while of working on the packet I began to get back into thinking in the way of math and I started to remember more of the topics. Once I started remembering things mostly everything began coming back to me and it became easier. Although, there were a couple topics that it took me a little while to understand. One topic that I really understand and remember well is functions. Functions may be a tough topic for some people, but when I learned about functions it just stuck with me and I picked it up very quickly. Reviewing this stuff this week is really helpful not only because we have a test over it but also because they are very important topics in math. Moving forward this year in calculus, the topics will definitely be tied into the things that we learn. There are still a few things that I need to study before the test, but I do believe that I will do well on the test. To help myself be prepared for the test I can watch some review videos and look over the packet.
|
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. Archives
January 2018
Categories |