what good shall I do this day
complete course by khan academy and then afterwards I would love to be able to write about what I have learned in the handbook in style that would be easy to consume in the future, try to simplify it as much as possible
that alone task might take the majority of my day aside from exercising I don’t usually want that to be the case but I’m making an exception for this course, but if I there is time to spare or I wish to work on something else a good place to start might be to learn some math or create a habit tracker app that measures various specific activities and habits with a style that is similar to how the github contribution would look like
what good have I done this day
Math
it’s 11:07AM right now, I got a bit off plan and finished 10 Arithmetic unit tests until I decided to stop, I couldn’t complete 10 while getting 10/10 and my goal is to have them all correct but it was starting to get hard for me especially starting from unit 9 I realized very quickly that my brain is not understanding the topic and much as it should, it’s clear this was a problem in the core of my math foundation and I have been ignore it my entire life, not only this I’m also not very comfortable with odd numbers which is something that bothered me, I would love to feel as comfortable with odd numbers as much as I’m comfortable with even numbers, even better as much as the counting by 5’s which is where I feel most comfortable, I believe this might enable my brain to see the world from a new point of view, knowing counting seems to me like the foundation of most information we know today, getting as comfortable as possible with it seems like a logical choice
as kids we started by counting up to 5, then 10 using our fingers and if you used the lines in each finger you can count up to 30, eventually teachers taught us to practice mental math (a group of skills that allow people to do math “in their head” without using pencil and paper or a calculator), so counting by 5’s might seem the natural simpler thing and it might be, but I think the way we learned counting to begin with played a huge role
mental counting odd numbers puts too much stress on my brain and I’m starting to think I should do that more until it feels normal
- I should work towards getting comfortable with counting odd numbers until they are as close to counting by 5’s as possible
- I should be able to divide, multiply, add and subtract positive or negative numbers in fractions with ease
Course
while I have completed the course I wasn’t able to write about it because I couldn’t figure out the best way to go about doing it, I dislike writing a lot of notes because I know that I will rarely go back to read them but I do want to write something that would make me able to recall and very easily explain this information even to someone who didn’t learn it, I would love it to be easily digestible in a way that just gets you the idea and if you would like to know more you could go back to the sources to go deeper, maybe having a wikipedia like website for this sort of stuff is best, who knows I will need to learn and experiment before starting to write