After this trimester of AP Calculus, I feel like I've comes to understand the gist of how this class will flow throughout the school year.
I can't tell of what is to come, but this trimester we went through Limits and Derivatives, mainly Derivatives, and ended with the beginning of applying those derivatives to other problems. Limits were relatively easy to understand because I took the third trimester of Pre-Calc, but Derivatives were a new thing altogether, causing me to have a few problems here and there. I still have problems figuring out complicated derivatives that involve strange situations with the chain rule and such, but I'm pretty confident that I could solve most things given enough time and maybe a little nudge in the right direction.
As for how the class goes, I think the group activities we do really help with learning new material, or even just making older material concrete. The CCCs are helpful because not only can you get help with problems that other people got, but you can also work together with other people that didn't get the problem and solve it together. Along with the group activities, the CCC time helped me learn to fix the mistakes I made.
I can't tell of what is to come, but this trimester we went through Limits and Derivatives, mainly Derivatives, and ended with the beginning of applying those derivatives to other problems. Limits were relatively easy to understand because I took the third trimester of Pre-Calc, but Derivatives were a new thing altogether, causing me to have a few problems here and there. I still have problems figuring out complicated derivatives that involve strange situations with the chain rule and such, but I'm pretty confident that I could solve most things given enough time and maybe a little nudge in the right direction.
As for how the class goes, I think the group activities we do really help with learning new material, or even just making older material concrete. The CCCs are helpful because not only can you get help with problems that other people got, but you can also work together with other people that didn't get the problem and solve it together. Along with the group activities, the CCC time helped me learn to fix the mistakes I made.