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This math class did not go that bad. I was able to understand it some more so that is good. This class was about derivatives, which seem to be parts of math that are not terribly difficult. The teacher described that different types as two different “flavors,” specific formulas and general formulas. The general formals seem a bit abstract. But the specific formulas seem to be a bit easier. That is because they have a known formula to follow, I think, or at least they have a certain outcome. Apparently you need both of these types of formulas for polynomials so I guess I will be dealing with all of them eventually.

There are a bunch of things with trigonometry. I do not really like trig. A lot of that has to do with the fact that I did not like geometry I think. Something with the “try” at the end of those two words. It just seems to spell doom. Some of the formulas can be a bit confusing. The class had a really weird moment though when the teacher was explaining a property of Sin(a+b). The teacher said it was one thing and then a bunch of the students said that he was wrong. Then the teacher changed it and I knew that it was wrong. It just seemed wrong. And then a bunch more students protested so the teacher changed it back. He said that the first way was the right way. The most annoying part was that teacher seemed like he did not know which one was the right equation. Sometimes it is easy to tell when the teacher is asking a question where they know the answer and they are just testing you. But in this case I was really concerned that the teacher did not know what he was talking about. It was one of those weird “ya I was totally testing you” times when you really do not know what you are talking about and want to make people think you are.  But I guess that the teacher really did know what he was talking about? I am not sure. But eventually he got it right? I guess. It was kind of hard to tell.

Either way we moved on but he did the same thing when he came to the extended equation for a cosine function. It was just really bazar. I did not like it at all. Made me loose a bit of my confidence in his ability to teach. Other than that the videos are going well. I am hopefully able to grasp some of the information better with this new material. This section also has the videos with the teaching assistances so those will be helpfully if I start to loose understanding.  I am pretty interested in the way the next videos will go. For some reason it feels like there are not that many left but I think that is because I am getting done with part A when there is still part B left.