Exam Review Discussion Post

Please comment on this post for questions, concerns or general thoughts regarding Calculus.

Homework due 12/10/08

Open to pages 35-36 and do problems 1-18, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 30, 33, 32, 38 & 39.

Homework due 12/9/08

Read pages 29-34 from your textbook.

Test on Thursday, 11/13/08

You will be tested on everything we will have covered in the course up until Tuesday, November 11th. Remember, you will be given a formula sheet for the rules of differentiation we have learned so you do not need to memorize them as such.

Homework due 11/7/08

Page 130-131;
# 1, 4, 5, 8, 33, 34, 49 and 61.

Homework due 11/3/08

Do the listed problems from following pages of your textbook:
Page 121; # 41 & 42
Page 124; #1, 2, 5, 6, 9, 13, 14, 17, 20, 21, 23, 27 & 30.

Quiz on Tuesday, 10/28/08

You will have a quiz on the new differentiation techniques such as the power rule and finding derivatives of exponential functions.

Homework due 10/24/08

Page 120, problems 1, 3, 5, 7, 10, 11, 13, 19, 32, 33, 36 - 40.

Homework due 10/21/08

Any unfinished problems from the classwork and then # 62 - 65 on page 116. However, unfinished problems from class should remain in your notebooks and only #62-65 should be in the homework journal.

Homework due 10/20/08

The following video is an MIT Calculus class lecture. I would like for you to watch the whole video and compare what is covered to the material we have covered in Calculus. Then notice the format of the lecture, the expectations and how the acquisition of content is achieved. Take notes on the video in your homework journal and be ready to discuss all this in class.

Take-Home Test due 10/17/08

Folks you can use this post to comment back and forth if you are consulting each other about questions on the test. This way I can monitor the conversations and/or intervene with my own comments if I feel compelled enough.

Remember, start early and do not wait for the last minute as you will surely suffer if you do. The questions are compelling and some are designed to make you think beyond the work done in class. I am testing what you have already understood and how you can extend your understanding to different situations. Please read the rubric carefully and check your solutions to see whether your work fulfills the criteria for evaluation.

Homework due 10/07/08

Do problems on page 86-88; #1, 4, 8, 9, 26, 29, 31, 33, 35, & 37. Remember your sketches aren't supposed to be perfect but are supposed to convey the general behavior of the instantaneous rate of change function / slope function. For some of the functions, it may be a good idea to mark where the slopes are zero, if at all there are any such places.

Homework due 10/06/08

Do problems 15 and 16 on page 86. Make sure to use the definition of the derivative to solve these. Also, check your derivative functions by testing points and comparing the slope values from our previous average rate of change process.

Homework due 10/02/08

Read pages 88-91 and then do problems 1, 2, 11, 13 & 14 on pages 91-92.

Homework due 9/29/08

Read pages 66-70, 72-77 & 80-83. You will have a quiz on this reading so make sure to read, process and understand it. You can help each other with questions you have through this blog.

Homework due 9/26/08

Find expressions for the instantaneous rate of change (slope functions) for any input value for the given functions in the handout from class. A copy of the handout is attached to the conference folder message.

Reading for 9/25/08

Read the handout on the biographies of Newton and Leibniz and the interpretations of limits through history. The handout is attached to the conference folder message if you misplace your handout.

Homework due 9/23/08

Do problems on page 78 - 80; # 2 and 24.

Note:
Number 2 should seem familiar in that it deals with similar ideas to the previous homework assignment. Number 24, however, is now asking for estimates of two instantaneous rates of change on an exponential function. You will be using the difference quotient here and I suggest trying values of h (the change in t) that are closer and closer to zero. Don't just do one calculation, do a few, say h=0.1, 0.01, 0.0001, and see what the value is converging to in each case.

Homework due 9/22/08

Finish the problems on pages 71-72; # 1, 3, 5, 13, 14, 15 and 17. Make sure to show all your work and for many questions provide the reasons for you answers. Also, you can find solutions to the first test on the class conference folder.

Test on 9/15/08

You will have a test on everything we have covered in the review of functions.

Homework due 9/11/08

Do the following problems on pages 21-23:
#1-4, 8, 9-13, 17, 19, 21, 28, 29, 39, 40, 43 & 46

Homework due 9/9/08

Read pages 17-21 & 37-41 from the textbook. In your homework journal, take some notes on things that may be confusing for you or hard to understand and formulate questions that you can ask in class.

Quiz on Monday 9/8/08

Folks, your quiz will be on everything we have covered up to and including Friday's class. We have looked at functions as relationships that can be expressed in four different ways; verbal, visual, numerical and symbolic. A good review of function notation, the language of inputs and outputs and understanding the behavior of functions is recommended. In addition, keep in mind the key distinction between functions that are linear and ones that are not. We had a detailed review of exponential functions and a refresher on logarithms as inverse functions of exponential functions. You should be able to work with logarithms with ease. You will have the properties of logarithms available to you on the quiz.

Homework Assignments so far..

Previous Homework Assignments:

8/28/08 - Read pages 2-6 and do problems on pages 7-8; # 2, 3, 6, 11, 13, 16, 17 & 20.

8/29/08 - Page 8; # 22-24, 25, 27, 29, 31. (Look for solutions to this homework on the class conference folder. This way we'll save time on Tuesday when going over homework.)

Homework due 9/2/08:
Read pages 9-14 and do problems on page 14-15; # 1, 2, 5, 6, 7-11, 12, 13, 17 & 19.