this is the equation on another skills check I did, after wanting some more practice with this type of question.

this week it was another “ah-ha” moment. this time it was with the Pythagorean Theorem and solving for “a” “b” or “c”. at first I didn’t know how to solve these, then I thought you had to add everything up in the end, but it is really like any other equation. when you are solving for “c” you have to follow the equation a^2 + b^2= c^2. BUT if you are solving for a or a or b, then you have to subtract c from the other given number. like this equation I did here (and got right!)

for me, week 1 was filled with a late ah-ha moment. my moment was when I understood how to convert mixed radicals into entire radicals. It’s as easy as multiplication! here you see a photo of what I mean…

For me remembering how to do this was quite the achievement because normally I don’t remember how to do everything after class, but here I remembered and got the questions right and I was super happy about it! All I did to help me was put in the invisible 2 as the exponant, and in just visualize it as a multiplication question and I get it right.