diff --git a/lectures/jax_intro.md b/lectures/jax_intro.md
index 7b83ac96..9b695bc8 100644
--- a/lectures/jax_intro.md
+++ b/lectures/jax_intro.md
@@ -585,85 +585,16 @@ And we produce the correct answer:
 jnp.allclose(z_vmap, z_mesh)
 ```
 
-## Exercises
-
-
-
-```{exercise-start}
-:label: jax_intro_ex1
-```
-
-Recall that Newton's method for solving for the root of $f$ involves iterating on 
-
-
-$$ 
-    q(x) = x - \frac{f(x)}{f'(x)} 
-$$
-
-Write a function called `newton` that takes a function $f$ plus a guess $x_0$ and returns an approximate fixed point.
-
-Your `newton` implementation should use automatic differentiation to calculate $f'$.
-
-Test your `newton` method on the function shown below.
-
-```{code-cell} ipython3
-f = lambda x: jnp.sin(4 * (x - 1/4)) + x + x**20 - 1
-x = jnp.linspace(0, 1, 100)
-
-fig, ax = plt.subplots()
-ax.plot(x, f(x), label='$f(x)$')
-ax.axhline(ls='--', c='k')
-ax.set_xlabel('$x$', fontsize=12)
-ax.set_ylabel('$f(x)$', fontsize=12)
-ax.legend(fontsize=12)
-plt.show()
-```
-
-```{exercise-end}
-```
-
-```{solution-start} jax_intro_ex1
-:class: dropdown
-```
-
-Here's a suitable function:
-
-```{code-cell} ipython3
-def newton(f, x_0, tol=1e-5):
-    f_prime = jax.grad(f)
-    def q(x):
-        return x - f(x) / f_prime(x)
-
-    error = tol + 1
-    x = x_0
-    while error > tol:
-        y = q(x)
-        error = abs(x - y)
-        x = y
-        
-    return x
-```
-
-Let's try it:
-
-```{code-cell} ipython3
-newton(f, 0.2)
-```
 
-This number looks good, given the figure.
-
-
-```{solution-end}
-```
 
+## Exercises
 
 
 ```{exercise-start}
 :label: jax_intro_ex2
 ```
 
-In {ref}`an earlier exercise on parallelization <jax_intro_ex1>`, we used Monte
-Carlo to price a European call option.
+In the Exercise section of [a lecture on Numba and parallelization](https://python-programming.quantecon.org/parallelization.html), we used Monte Carlo to price a European call option.
 
 The code was accelerated by Numba-based multithreading.
 
diff --git a/lectures/newtons_method.md b/lectures/newtons_method.md
index 10d7e49f..afe52aef 100644
--- a/lectures/newtons_method.md
+++ b/lectures/newtons_method.md
@@ -39,12 +39,74 @@ Let's check the GPU we are running
 
 ```{code-cell} ipython3
 !nvidia-smi
+
+```
+
+
+## Newton in one dimension
+
+As a warm up, let's implement Newton's method in JAX for a simple
+one-dimensional root-finding problem.
+
+[Recall](https://python.quantecon.org/newton_method.html) that Newton's method for solving for the root of $f$ involves iterating with the map $q$ defined by
+
+$$ 
+    q(x) = x - \frac{f(x)}{f'(x)} 
+$$
+
+
+Here is a function called `newton` that takes a function $f$ plus a guess $x_0$, iterates with $q$ starting from $x0$, and returns an approximate fixed point.
+
+
+```{code-cell} ipython3
+def newton(f, x_0, tol=1e-5):
+    f_prime = jax.grad(f)
+    def q(x):
+        return x - f(x) / f_prime(x)
+
+    error = tol + 1
+    x = x_0
+    while error > tol:
+        y = q(x)
+        error = abs(x - y)
+        x = y
+        
+    return x
+```
+
+The code above uses automatic differentiation to calculate $f'$ via the call to `jax.grad`.
+
+Let's test our `newton` routine on the function shown below.
+
+```{code-cell} ipython3
+f = lambda x: jnp.sin(4 * (x - 1/4)) + x + x**20 - 1
+x = jnp.linspace(0, 1, 100)
+
+import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
+fig, ax = plt.subplots()
+ax.plot(x, f(x), label='$f(x)$')
+ax.axhline(ls='--', c='k')
+ax.set_xlabel('$x$', fontsize=12)
+ax.set_ylabel('$f(x)$', fontsize=12)
+ax.legend(fontsize=12)
+plt.show()
 ```
 
-## The Equilibrium Problem
+Here we go
+
+```{code-cell} ipython3
+newton(f, 0.2)
+```
+
+This number looks good, given the figure.
+
+
+
+## An Equilibrium Problem
+
+Now let's move up to higher dimensions.
 
-In this section we describe the market equilibrium problem we will solve with
-JAX.
+First we describe a market equilibrium problem we will solve with JAX via root-finding.
 
 We begin with a two good case, 
 which is borrowed from [an earlier lecture](https://python.quantecon.org/newton_method.html).