10/17/10

The concept I feel like I've mastered this nine weeks is definitely prime factorization, and using the prime factorization of numbers to find the lcm and gcd. That is extremely easy for me now and I don't even have to think about it. I know exactly what I have to do by simply glancing at the problem. I also feel I've gotten better with recognizing what you have to find in word problems. (For instance, if they're asking for the factors of a number, the gcd, etc.) The concept I struggled with the most I think is in Chapter 5..It has to with the number of divisors a number has, but that's all they give you in a problem and they ask you to find, for example, x^3 if x has 14 divisors. Problems like that still confuse me and I could use more practice with them...To improve my grade I can study more thoroughly the night before and actually rework the problems from the review pages, to make sure I know what I'm doing. Other than that, I think I'm doing okay in the class..it just takes me a little while to catch on to things ha