Pathway, the third semester.

Beginning again is always fun, but this is math...I feel like running...

Anyway, I started out by reading an Orientation for Online Courses with Pathway and it was short, but very detailed. We can't use our calculators for the first four weeks and we have to memorize the multiplication tables from 1 through 15. I've never been good at extensive memorization.

I then made a nice little discussion post introducing myself and then went on to the syllabus before I watched the video. It is not an open book course, so I am very scared about that.

Brother Baird's video
1. We are taking the course to fulfill the mission of BYU-Idaho.
-Producing disciples...not scientists...
-develop in your character those things that would be most valuable to building up a kingdom.

2. Learn Math
-class is essential...designed so we need each other.
-Education is not just individual.
-"Education is first an individual matter and then a collective matter. It is something you are expected to act, to learn, to prepare, and then to share with others what you have done and then to ponder and think about those things that you have learned and be able to apply them."

I finally took the syllabus quiz and ended up taking it only twice, as it was a closed book quiz, before I got 100%. I then took the Orientation quiz three times before I got 100%

After that, I watched a video on Flash cards for multiplication.

I then worked on these timed worksheets of multiplication and addition, which I didn't do so badly on.


I spent like an hour and a half or so on all this and I still have to make flash cards.