Finally, a whole year is gone. There have been many things that we learned in Calculus, like derivatives, integrals, limits, related rates, optimization, angle of elevation, and other mathematical processes that could help us in our near future.
Calculus, for the most part, came easy to me, whether it was memorizing the long list of differentials to applying our knowledge of graphs to find how many cars passed by within 3 hours, it was like a fun, challenging puzzle. One particular subject we were learning that through me off for a bit was integrating where the area was a base and the cross sections were squares or semi-circles. After a bit of playing around with some problems, I finally figured out how to work them correctly and moved on to something new.
One thing that Alex mentioned was by-parts integration. With things winding down in the last couple of months of school, Brandi decided to teach some of us how to integrate by parts one day during lunch. That was definitely a challenge, but John managed to create a funny saying that helped me learn it, 'uv minus vdu'. Saying that over and over again, anyone can memorize the by-parts integration formula with ease, and eventually be able to integrate fairly tricky problems with ease.
One last thing; I feel sorry for the juniors. Spending the entire year with Alex during seventh hour showed me a bit of Calculus BC, which was very annoying. There is going to be a lot to memorize and everything has little tricks that will annoy the hell out of you. He's not joking about sequences and series!!! One day, he showed me some work he was doing with Taylor and MacClaurin Series and it blew my mind. Good luck and spend your last year of high school wisely Juniors.
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