The past semester took "forever" to complete, but now that it's over we only what we can remember about it. I remember that at the beginning of the year I didn't know how to do all those math problems that we did. Now, I think those are like addition facts, easy as adding 2+2, or 1+1. The time it took me to learn the concept wasn't all that great, because if I would struggle I wouldn't want to continue learning but, I did and now I know more then I used to.
     I remembered doing "pirate codes" with the videos where Mr.Erickson would use his pirate voice to explain to us how to find x. Then, from there we had to learn longer pirate codes that would only make sense if we had studied and assured ourselves we knew what we were doing. I also remember at the very beginning of the year we had to make 

Y=MX+B is an equation that helps you find anything. It helps you find how fast something is going, or how to graph a point. Let's say you had a problem and you didn't know how to fill in the equation in order to solve your problem. Y, you would have to fill out the y-coordinate. Every time you have a problem, you either have a graph or coordinates that they give you. 
     The m is the slope, and if you have a graph you see how many points you go over and up or over and down, with that you find your rate of change, or slope. The x is just like the y except you use the x-coordinate. The first number in the coordinates is the x. The b is the starting point, there you start on graph and then continue with the slope.