This week we ventured further into the land of fun and derivatives :). On Monday we learned how to take the derivatives of trig. functions, this wasn't too difficult of a concept to get down. The rules were pretty straight forward and simple just like the trig. identities we learned about last year. Then on Tuesday we got time to work on the assignments and clear up any problems we had. I really do like that part about this class, that we actually have time to work on our assignments in class so we can ask questions and get help from others if we need it. A lot of other math classes are just lessons all hour then hand out the homework and do it all by yourself every night, that gets difficult when you don't completely understand the topic you are working on. This led to Wednesday where we had a quiz over 3.3 and 3.5 which I did pretty well on, just had a few minor mistakes that I could have prevented easily. Then on Thursday and Friday we worked on the composition of functions and more importantly the Chain Rule. The Chain Rule is also a pretty easy concept that came to me easy so I am confident going forward and learning more about different derivatives.
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