Abbey's Final Reflection

Well I'm late on blogs...again haha.

So, this year is coming to a close, and all I can say is yessss! Calculus this year has made me laugh and cry at the same time. I feel this year I really became close to the seniors. Seniors I like to thank you: to Kaitlyn, I now know about a new brand of goldfish; Aimee, for using all my loose leaf paper; John, for answering my 215445585 questions about the same thing; Mamie, for letting me borrow pencils. And obviously thanks to this calculus class I have Ryan G. now haha. I'm really going to miss yall and the random late night study groups trying to finish corrections. Also to the six juniors of our class...yall have become some of my closest friends. I can't wait until next year when we are seniors! :)

Now let me tell you one concept, perhaps the only concept I knew all year long...AVERAGE VALUE. formula: 1/b-a aSb equation
*just plug in and if you have a calcultor it is even easier

Also, I now love area, graph, and table free response questions because I know what I'm doing! haha

Something that took me until two days before the ap test to learn was tram. Mrs. Robinson had to teach me a completely different formula just because it wouldn't click! (b-rob: thanks for answering all my questions and helping me at sixth hour!)
So, the new formula is: [(b2-b1/2)(h) + (b2-b1/2)(h)...]

Some things I just want to point out that I always forgot...but now I know!
1. use your calculator, it is your friend not enemy
2. that calculator that I just talked about can actually find derivatives, integrals, intersection or bounds, and x-intercepts
3. when the original graph is increasing the derivative will be positve, original decreasing then derivative negative
4. if you get a graph and they want area, look to see if you can divide the graph into shapes

This year flew by. Good luck to all of the seniors and yall will be missed!

Finally I just want to say: I defintily stuggled with learing calculus, but now that we are done with the ap and I take a look back, I feel like I have learned a lot! Bring on Calculus BC HAHAHA


Abbey has left the building....