- What did I understand incredibly well during the week? What did I really struggle with during the week?
This week, with the Pre-Requisite packet, I started to remember a lot of aspects of math that we had learned last year in Pre-Calculus. Accompanying the math that I remembered, was also a lot of math that I forgot. Collectively, I remembered doing most of the math, but I did not necessarily remember exactly how to do it. I remembered how to find zeros incredibly well, and I remembered how to find inverse functions and their purposes as well. Something I struggled with more was remembering how to decompose functions into f(x) and g(x).
The problems on the Pre-Requisite packet that I grasped the most strongly and am the most confident about were the questions on graphical reasoning skills. I find it on the easier side to analyze a graph, and answer the corresponding questions. However, I tend to second guess myself on certain questions especially if it's answer is similar to an answer I have already given. Despite that, I have learned to just trust my instinct and solve the problem in the best way I know how, and stick to my answer.
I also found one of the easier problems in the packet to be the problem on Position vs. Time and Speed vs. Time. The video of Mr. Kelly riding a bicycle for 1.01 miles for 4 minutes and 21 seconds gave me all the information I needed to make two separate tables, one for Position and Time and one for Speed and Time. Then, all I had to do was choose my intervals for the two different graphs, draw the graphs, and label them both. After that, I plotted my points and answered the corresponding question regarding the relationship of the two graphs. This was a multiple step problem, but once I took the time to obtain all the information I needed, it became a quite simple problem to solve.
The problems that were challenging for me to recall were the Composition of Functions questions. I had a hard time remembering how to solve them, and which function went into the other function. I think I struggle more with problems when they offer the possibility of multiple answers. I tend to second guess my