When learning the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, I think I relied more on deductive learning. I understood it much better when I was shown the proof and it was explained to me, and then reinforced through examples. When we did the activity on Friday, I understood the questions and sort of got what we were doing, but it all really connected for me after seeing the proofs and having it thoroughly explained. I think this theorem is so fundamental because it really shows how the derivative, the antiderivative and integrals are related. We have been working a lot with derivatives and while they have been useful before, this proves to me how important they really are. The theorem ended up being much more simple than I thought it would be and I think I understand it pretty well.
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