Reflection

I've been looking over my prior worksheets and just linking everything together and understanding how it works and it's a nice feeling. 

Weekly blog post 3

So we had our first big test this week and I have to say that it was not even that bad as I thought. I feel pretty good with how it went and now I'm looking forward to the next upcoming tests!

Week 3 blog post

Alright so the first test last week... it really wasnt that bad. Although I took a very long time finishing it, I feel I did decent on it. The only thing that seemed unclear to me were the inverse function methods of proving and whatnot. Overall, not too bad for the first test.

Moment of clarity

I wasn't sure of what I was doing until my sister and her friend helped me review before the test.  I feel that it really helps to get have someone teach it in a different just to be completely sure about it.

Finally understanding

This week I finally started to understand how all this math stuff worked and I not as confused as I was last week.

reflection

I don't quite know how to reflect on this week. I was a very angry teenager this whole week and math is hard. I found it really hard to focus when I was upset. I did, however, at the end of the week manage to focus and see some light at the end of the tunnel of mathness... I'm hoping I can stay motivated and keep working with Senor Jackson to really learn what I need to.

reflection. blog post 3

Since I have been staying awake I have found the concepts in class rather easy. The test I felt was a piece of cake. And since I haven't been missing the lessons as much I have caught back on really quickly and have applied it in class while also asking questions for further understanding. And more complex problems.

Week 3

This week was a tough week.  I understand most of the concepts when we talk about them but sometimes struggle to solve problems with them. The test was a lot more difficult then I thought it was going to be! For future test I will defiantly study and prepare more then I did for this one.  Over all not a bad week just a difficult one for me.

reflection

if im going to be honest, math has always come very easy to me; and so I came into this course thinking it was going to be quite simple for me to pass with a good grade. however, this class is unlike any math class I have ever taken. every day seems to be a new challenge and even though its not the easiest, I really have been enjoying the fact that im able to learn something new every day. major props to Jackson.

Reflection of this week

This week was a lot easier than the previous weeks in this course. The test was difficult but not as hard as I was expecting, there were a few things that were confusing on the test but overall I believe that looking over the homework and the review helped me to do my best on the test!

Blog post 3

When I went into class Friday I thought I was going to do really bad on the test, but after I finished it I couldn't believe how much information I retained. Hope to stay caught up in everything and keep a good grade.

third post - JBreezy

This past week was pretty swell until test day. I honestly have alot of fun in class.I love the challenges. I just need you to give me the first step when we learn something new and tell me why and ill enjoy going to the problem. I dont like when you give us something we havent seen before and just tell us to take a stab. I mean thats totally fine, but we know SO MUCH about math and how it works but there is SO many rules and regulations. Like addition might not work the second step but it will in the 9th step or whatever. So I mean, give us a hint at first or extend OUR knowledge (that you know for sure we have) and build off of it. Work off of our knowledge not the deadlines. Just some advice. Cause I know this class is suppose to be challenging but NO ONE should be crying about not understanding math. Something isnt right.

Week 3

When Mr. Jackson talks about concepts sometimes it doesn't make sense at first but when I start to work on different problems it starts to click with me! I think my down fall on the test was the simple things that I didn't practice enough and I couldn't remember how to do them. 

Blog post - Rose

Personally I think that this week went really well for me. I understood everything that was taught and the homework wasn't bad. But on Friday when we received the test there were many things that we learned at the beginning of the year or just didn't go over enough that I had a hard time on. Maybe it's just me but I'm just not used to having tests be so spaced out because I tend to forget some of the material or just feel like Im cramming at the last minute to study everything. Maybe we could have a review day? I think that would work a lot better than just getting free work time and asking Mr. Jackson questions.

Week 3: Moment of Clarity

On Friday, as everyone knows, we took the very first pre-calculus test. As soon as I looked at it, I completely blanked! Not even over exaggerating, I did not remember what an inequality was. I realized that I was over reacting, and took a deep breath. I started to finish problems left and right. As I was nearing the end, I had roughly five questions that I could not figure out! These were simple problems, such as simplifying and finding the domain with the problems of "or" & "and". I read the little sheet that Mr. Jackson gave us, and it made me even more confused. Then, I had my moment of clarity. I went through the lessons in class and remembered all of the notes I took. I know that I did not get all the questions right, but I feel decent about the test. Hopefully, I will not be proved wrong when I get it back.

Week three

This week I was really understanding inverse functions and how to recognize that they are the opposite of the original function. So, on the review I didn't need any clarification. I feel like I struggled most with the stuff we learned at the beginning of the unit just because I hadn't practiced it as much.

Week 3

When Mr. Jackson explains some of the things for the first time, it sometimes doesn't really click, but once I get to practice it on the homework it starts to make more sense. I guess I had my light bulb moment when I was at home doing my precalc homework.

Week 3

Well, this week overall went pretty well for me, I suppose.  When I saw how well I did on all of my homework, I finally felt very confident in my calculative ability (is that a thing?) in this class.  I feel fairly strong in the region of inverse functions, and I fell confident in using interval notation at last.  I hope that now I will be able to boldly look forward in this class and maser the mysterious ways of the mathematicians!

--Remember, if you give up on yourself, you give up on the world.--

Week 2: option 3

I gotta say, my progress is a lot better this week than the last's.  As the time progressed and so did the work, the subjects seemed to be getting easier and easier.  I could remember more about what to do and I could see how things would work easier.  While at the start of the course I was worried about what overall would happen, after the test on Friday I am rather confident and willing to continue on since I felt that I had done relatively well on the test.  I had been rather worried going into the test but after looking it over I was surprised to see how easy it compared to my own daunting thoughts.  I would say I am happy about the progress I have made so far.  

Something new I learned

I learned that math is actually really easy if you work at it. This unit was tough at first but then every thing started to click. 

friday test

I went into the class thinking that I was going to completely understand it, but as i started to take it I freaked out. It was a lot of information to remember and I felt like as soon as I got my test I blanked out. I really didn't understand the paper that was given to help us it just made me more confused. I really hope that I'm just overthink it and I did okay on my test.

I think the hardest part of the unit was the radicals that where being divided by each other and the combining functions. I feel better about both now but it took me a lot of practice. I tried asking my dad but he had no idea.

the test

The test in my opinion was difficult in some parts but easy in others. I think i did pretty well but I'm afraid I did bad.

Week 3

This week made a lot of things clearer.  I finally understand why we use interval notation.  Also, Inequalities and Domain and range finally clicked.  I'm finally getting it!  My one weak spot though is finding rational inverses.

3rd blog post

This week I had a moment of clarity with inverse functions. I understood that it had to be the complete opposite of the regular function but didn't know how to get there. My moment of clarity was when I realized you had to set x equal to y but do whatever you were going to do to x. This helped me a lot because then it was easier to do the inverse operations. 

Third Week Blog Post

This week I kind of struggled with the inverse functions part of this unit. But after doing all the practice and the review, I felt better about it and I feel like I did well on that part of the test. One part of inverse functions I'm still not very clear on is when proving they are inverse by using the composition method. I will have to come in to have it explained to me again!

Third blog post

This week I was feeling confident until the review. The review helped me notice my weak points so I was able to focus on certain things when I was studying. I struggled sometimes when I had to find the domain of a function that said "and".  I think I understand it now but we will see how I did on the test.

Third Blog Post

To be honest, I was not planning on trying terribly hard. I have never had to try very hard ever at school and fortunately it has always come easy to me. We took a pop quiz and I got half of the possible points on it and it was a wake up call. I didn't expect any better but I guess it took me seeing the poor grade to realize that I was going to have to put in effort to get the grade I desire. Prior to the test I actually practiced with the material I had learned in the past week and I was about a million times more confident taking the test than when I had taken the pop quiz. I have never had to try before at school, and to be fair, at first it kind of irritated me that I wasn't understanding the material naturally like I usually do. I'm super appreciative of being "forced" to learn things on my own and work harder though, it'll prepare me a little more thoroughly for my future. So, I suppose that is how I feel I have progressed within the time we've been in the class. 

week 3

At the beginning of the week when we started inverse equations I was very confused. I did not understand how to do it with the composition method. It took me a day to figure out , but after I focused on those problems I was able to figure it out.

Week 3

I think the test went well. I really liked all the practice because I felt like I had it down I just still needed a little bit of work. Overall I didn't really struggle this week.