WebWork — Sunday, September 28 and Tuesday, September 30

Posted on September 17, 2014 by Kate Poirier

In Monday’s class we’ll finally get back to instantaneous rates of change and slopes of tangent lines. Now we know all about evaluating limits, so we won’t have to go through creating these tables of values to guess the slopes of tangent lines. On Monday we’ll work through material from 3.1 and 3.2 of your text. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your perspective), there are only four problems on the corresponding WebWork set DerivativeDefinition. So WebWork won’t really give you enough practice and you’ll want to make sure to work through all of the assigned textbook exercises as well, to make sure you know what you’re doing. You should also try out the exercises from the WebWork set DerivativeFunction after Monday’s class. You won’t officially know what the “power rule” is yet, but you can do those problems without the power rule. We’ll see the power rule for the first time the Monday after next.

  1. DerivativeDefintion is due Sunday, September 28
  2. DerivativeFunction is due Tuesday, September 30
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Quiz #2 – Wednesday, September 17

Posted on September 14, 2014 by Kate Poirier

This week’s quiz will cover material/problems from sections 2.1, 2.2, and 2.3 of your text as well as from the Limits – Intro and Limits – Continuity WebWork sets.

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WebWork – Sunday, September 21

Posted on September 14, 2014 by Kate Poirier

You have two WebWork sets due next Sunday night:

  1. Limits – Continuity
  2. Limits – Algebraic – Trig

After completing the Limits – Intro set you should have a pretty good idea of how to start these two sets.

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Study resources.

Posted on September 10, 2014 by Kevin.M

These are some web sites and YouTube channel that might help you when the professor isn’t available for help.(please add more under this post, in the comment section,if you have other websites or YouTube channel, that could be useful.

Khan academy (website and YouTube)

Patrick jmt (YouTube channel)

Mathisfun(website)

freemathhelp(website)

sparknotes(website, search “calculus ab”)

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A limit example on YouTube

Posted on September 10, 2014 by Kate Poirier

There are lots of videos all over the internet that can help you with the topics you’ll see in this class. I happened upon one today that relates to the topics we talked about in today’s class. If you’re interested in seeing another limit example, you can try this video. It’s part of a full online calculus class, so if you like this video, you might be interested in using the videos in the playlist to supplement your reading and the lectures throughout the semester.

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WebWork – Discussion

Posted on September 10, 2014 by Kate Poirier

You can create a post and add the category Discussion (from the categories at the lower-right of the “Add New Post” screen) and it will appear on the Discussion page of the site.  This can be used for any classroom discussion but I think it will probably prove most useful if you have a WebWork question, particularly if it is close to a WebWork deadline. I receive a lot of emails with questions from WebWork and the closer to a deadline, the less likely I’ll be able to answer in time. This will be a good alternative, especially if people are in the habit of asking and answering questions throughout the week, not only when a deadline is approaching.

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My mathematical history – Malik

Posted on September 9, 2014 by Malik

My name is Malik Folkes I am eighteen years old and was born and raised in Queens, New York. My major as of right now is computer engineering and I’m taking this class because it is mandatory. I enjoy playing the piano and have been for about five years, I also enjoy playing football, and baseball. The only math I regularly use involves the use of percentages when I have to figure out how much something costs after a certain percent off. I do enjoy math but if I had the choice I would have stopped taking it a long time ago. I hate this specific class because I don’t like getting up so early in the morning and it’s causing me to rethink how i feel about math as a whole.

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My mathmatical history-ye，fan

Posted on September 9, 2014 by fan

Hello. My name is Fan，21years old and this my second years in America.Also I am majoring in civil Engineering.In my free time, I prefer to reading at home, but that not means I am a quiet boy. In fact, I’m outgoing and like to talk with anyone. In the class, I don’t care work by myself or work with other classmates,I think I can do well under any circumstances.In fact, I don’t like math. Maybe a lot of people will say you’re a Chinese, math is not difficult for you, why you don’ like it. Honestly, my math teacher all are not kind, so I don’ like my teacher, therefor I also don’t like to learn the math. But my math is quite good, I usually got over 90 in the test.If I want to be a engineering, calculus is the necessary class that I have to pass. Certainly, I decide to work hard in math, because I am a man who never allow yourself to fail. For this reason that I will push myself and pass this class with good grade. All in all,I’m happy to be in Calculus and in this class with my new classmates .

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My mathmatical history- Jorge Albuja

Posted on September 9, 2014 by Jorge Albuja

Hey everyone how are you? My name is Jorge Albuja, I’m 18 and just graduated from James Madison high school this year on June. I was born and raised here in Brooklyn New York and plan on staying here for maybe 10 years or more. I want to study mechanical engineering because I love learning a lot about math and science. Math I love learning about numbers and graphs and for science I enjoy learning about animals and the enviornment. I’m taking calculus and physics here in city tech so I can prepare myself to become the engineer I want to be. I took pre-calculus in high school so I’m sure I’ll be fine for calculus, and for physics, I’ve been told it’s the same so I’m not too worried about it. I am a bit worried about the web work because my computer just loves to freeze on me and I’m not too used to using it often. Guess I have to use break that and use my PC more often 🙂 Hope you all enjoy calculus!!!

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My mathematical history – Eddie Diaz

Posted on September 8, 2014 by Eddie D

Hey Everyone! My name is Eddie, I was born and raised here in Brooklyn, NY my whole life. I am 18, currently a freshman and plan to major in Computer Science. I am taking Calculus because it is a requirement, however, I would have still taken the class if it wasn’t because I have great interest and passion for it.

Math and science are my favorite subjects since Elementary School and I don’t think that will ever change. I was in honors math throughout high school and all of my math teachers except one were amazing. My trigonometry teacher couldn’t control his class and barely taught which resulted in my lack of understanding in that course and barely passing the regents (apart from the fact that it IS a hard class). I took Calculus my junior year of high school but was placed in this course because I didn’t meet the passing requirement for the AP Calculus test. I finished high school with a 3.7 GPA and look to better that in college, I look forward to learning a whole lot more in this course and many more to come.

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