Thursday, October 22, 2009

IM SO JAZZED, about this new unit.
Double Angle Identities was the name of it, and I was actually following along with everything you said at an even pace today. I got how you used to formulas to substitute a new equation in from the old one. Most of the simplification, solving ECT. was quite easy. I will likely be able to complete all my exercises this weekend.

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Sum and Difference identites, is what we learned about today. It was all extremely confusing and had long equations that i got lost in almost half way through every time. If i came face to face with a question like the one in our notes i'm am not positive that i could try it, ever.

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Today we had a continuatiton on proving identities, and we also learned about extraneous roots. The quote before the notes turned out to be very true.. They make no sense. I get how to solve trig functions, but the identities catch me off guard. Once i am told they are there it make sense, but they are going to be tough to memorize, and i have got to make sure i know all the steps and follow them one by one so i don't fall off track because that is very easily done for me.

Monday, October 19, 2009

Mental math today.. was confusing, but i did alright i guess.
The simplifying techniques that were explained today were extremely confusing. My head hurts. I am going to need to go through some more proofing examples before i even attempt to a question on my own.

Friday, October 16, 2009

Today we had a lesson on trigonometric identities. I understood all the basic identities and why they occured the way they did. In the equation i got how to substitute the values, but i dont get how there can be many different answers. I think it will be easy to do the questions when i have examples to refer back to in my notes.
An identity is an equality that is true for any value of a variable. An equation is an equality that is only true for certain values of a variable.

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Yesterday, October.14th, I wrote my test on Transformations, and i bombed. Absoloutley. I did study, with classmates and i attempted my excercises and i thought i understood the practice test, but i guess not. Not looking forward to getting it back, wow.