Since this week is review, there hasn't been any new information to learn, but it's definitely been a slow hike back to where I was last year. With a little brain prodding I remember most of the concepts and how to do most of the problems; the struggle has mostly been getting my brain to work at a decent speed. I saw this when we did our first activity, where we found as many numbers between one and forty using four fours and whichever computations we wanted. Even though I was getting to answers, it felt like I was wading through mud in my mind to get there. One the few things I have no memory from last year of how to solve is finding the domain and range of f(x)=√(x^2-1) without a calculator. I'm familiar with f(x)=√(x-a)+b but with the exponent under the root, I'm unsure. I don't know if everything in the packet is going to be relevant to what we learn and are tested on in AP Calculus, but if that is something we need to know in the future I'm going to need some extra help on how to solve that problem. I think that the algebra portion of the review packet was the easiest and came back the quickest, I feel like algebra just clicks for me. I was surprised that I was doing the geometry pretty easily, as that has been one subject of math I have struggled with in the past. Overall, this week has gone fine, but we'll see how confident I feel a trimester in!
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