MAT1575 Calculus II

Professor Kate Poirier | OL30 | Fall 2020

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Assignment: time machine

Due on the OpenLab Sunday, December 20

What a semester! We made it! How did we make it??? Your assignment, roughly, is to answer that question.

Instructions

Imagine you have a time machine that can go back to August 2020. Write a letter to deliver to your past self about this class. Answer questions like:

  • What is the most important advice you could give your past self about succeeding in this class?
  • What do know now that you wish you had known about this class before you started?
  • What do you wish you had done differently?
  • How did you learn to give a successful HOT topic presentation?
  • What have you learned about yourself this semester? What surprised you?
  • What are you most proud of?

Make your answers as detailed and as specific to this class as possible. They may be used to help future students of this class succeed!

Submit your letter as a comment on this post for participation credit.

Week 16 checklist (the last one!)

Monday, December 14 to…

COLD session: Tuesday, December 15, 10am-11:40am

Final exam: Thursday, December 17 & Friday, December 18

  • Final exam checklist will be posted soon!
  • Final exam interviews will be conducted Sunday to Tuesday. Sign up here.
  • Zoom link for interviews: usual HOT topic link and usual password.

OpenLab: due Sunday, December 20

  • Anthony’s week 16 assignment (instructions here)
  • Time machine assignment (instructions here)
  • Extra credit video (deadline extended; instruction and upload links here)

Other:

  • Update on credit/no credit grades (check your email)
  • Student evaluation of teaching now due December 18
    • check your email with a subject NYCCT Student Evaluation of Teaching -Fall 2020- MAT1575
    • this email was sent to the email address on file with CUNYFirst
    • check your junk email folder if you can’t find it

Anthony’s prompt for Week 16

Hi all, I would like to ask you the following (Choose at least one prompt)

  1. In your opinion, what math topic(s) you have learned in Calculus 2 (this class) are the hardest? What about the easiest? Explain your reasoning.
  2. Is there a math topic that took you a while to understand? (For example, I didn’t understand basic substitution until we learned improper integrals). Explain how that particular math topic took you a while to understand. When did you start understanding that topic after a while?
  3. What is the most enjoyable part of this class? Provide details.

Add your answer as a comment below for participation credit.

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