Today's soundtrack is Green Day: Dookie. This evening, I'm doing the Unit 2 practice test in preparation for the unit test that I'll be taking tomorrow evening.

Today's soundtrack is Warlord: Warlord, this Christian hardcore band's self-titled EP. This afternoon, I'm doing the unit review for this past unit of absolute values and radicals. This unit was a big one; it covered the following topics: Absolute Value Simplifying Radical Expressions Adding and Subtracting Radical Expressions Multiplying and Dividing Radical Expressions Solving Linear … Continue reading 10.29.2018: One Lesson of Math – Unit 2 Review

Today's soundtrack is Dissection: Storm of the Light's Bane/Where Dead Angels Lie, a classic black metal album. This morning, I'm putting together the past few lessons about radicals - absolute value, simplifying radical expressions, adding and subtracting radical expressions, and multiplying and dividing radical expressions - and now I'm learning how to solve radical linear … Continue reading 10.28.2018: One Lesson of Math – Solving Radical Equations

Today's soundtrack is Telegraph: Mir, a gorgeous 70s-style prog rock album from this Israeli band that sounds like the perfect mixture between Camel, Wishbone Ash, Porcupine Tree, and Yes. I adore this album; I'll definitely be adding it to my personal playlist. I made some more headway on my math assignment. It's slow going, but … Continue reading 10.26.2018: One Lesson of Math

Today's soundtrack is Death Grips: Year of the Snitch, an album that's really out there. It's trippy like CLPPNG, but with more synths. This evening, I'm working on the assignment portion of the math lesson about multiplying and dividing radical expressions.

Today's soundtrack is Kraftwerk: Autobahn, an utterly mesmerizing synth-driven ode to driving. This afternoon, I am learning about multiplying and dividing radical expressions. When multiplying a binomial expression including radicals, we use two properties: the distributive property and the multiplication property of radicals. When multiplying a binomial expression which includes variable radicands, we first identify … Continue reading 10.24.2018: One Lesson of Math – Multiplying and Dividing Radical Expressions

Today's soundtrack is God is an Astronaut: Epitaph, an instrumental album that is beautifully atmospheric and so inspiring. It could be the soundtrack to a movie. It reminds me of a perfectly-executed fusion between Agalloch and Sigur Rós. This afternoon, I'm learning about adding and subtracting radical expressions. We can simplify radical expressions in the … Continue reading 10.22.2018: One Lesson of Math – Adding and Subtracting Radical Expressions

Today's soundtrack is Converge: The Dusk in Us, an incredibly passionate melodic hardcore album. The intro to "Reptilian" is epic; it sounds like something from Nile's heyday. This afternoon, I'm doing the assignment that accompanies the lesson I recently did on simplifying radical expressions.

Today's soundtrack is Lil Wayne: Tha Carter V, an album that shows how much better the father of mumble rap is at rapping than he is at playing guitar. To arrange radicals in order from least to greatest, if they have coefficients, first we put the same number of coefficients inside of the radical as … Continue reading 10.15.2018: One Lesson of Math – Simplifying Radical Expressions

Today's soundtrack is Starflyer 59: Leave Here a Stranger. I still haven't found what I'm looking for. This evening, I'm working on the first part of the second chapter of my math course, "Absolute Value of a Real Number." A number's absolute value is its distance from 0, regardless of whether it is positive or … Continue reading 10.12.2018: One Lesson of Math – Absolute Value

Today's soundtrack is Leeched: You Took the Sun When You Left, a brutally heavy hardcore album. This afternoon, I wrote my first Pre-Calculus 11 test, covering arithmetic sequences, arithmetic series, geometric sequences, and finite/infinite geometric series. I think I did well on it; I look forward to getting my mark!