This week in AP Calculus, we finished up chapter four. We learned more about related rates and differentials and had a quiz over it. We did some more review and had a chapter review assignment. It is important that we went over this stuff because we have a test over chapter four next week. All of this relates to previous topics because chapter tests are over the entire chapter plus previous chapters. I assume this will be leading us into chapter 5. I can only guess what is in chapter 5. I think I understood optimization pretty well. I didn't like related rates as much, but I got most of it. I struggled with a question on the related rates quiz. It confused me a little bit, but I understand how to do it now. To figure out a related rates problem, you have to set up equations that involve what you know from the problem. You take the derivative of the equation and plug in anything that you can. Since you took the derivative, you can now solve for any missing rates. My participation was really great this week. I still need to prepare for the test next week.
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