WEEK OF MAY 20th
- Created on Saturday, 18 May 2013 10:33
- Written by Joe Chamberlin
ONLY THREE MORE WEEKS TO GO! This week we cover the highlights of Chapters 9 and 10. MONDAY: Shapes and Formulas of conics, including circles, ellipses, and hyperbolas. We will also start our next project... cutting shapes with stained glass. TUESDAY: We go 3-D again, with cones and spheres, along with distances and midpoints in x-y-z space. Watch out for a quiz sometime! WEDNESDAY: Polar coordinates (another way to locate a point) and polar equations, along with some honors level engineering math. And we will try to finish up our projects. THURSDAY: Multi-chapter review, and TEST.
The following WEEK OF MAY 27: We will just do Chapter 11, more thoroughly, because it contains the two basic ideas of calculus. And we will have gone thru the major ideas of the book. So the final week will be preparing for the class final!
WEEK OF MAY 13
- Created on Friday, 10 May 2013 12:48
- Written by Joe Chamberlin
Six chapters down, six more to go! Again, we are just skimming the highlights of functions, reviewing your algebra and introducing some new formulas and notations.
MONDAY: In the AM, a little Ch.6 review on vectors, and then a Ch. 4-6 REVIEW TEST. For the PM, Chapter 7.1 and 7.2 on solving systems, and a brief look at how matrices do it. And maybe we will try to float our boats again. TUESDAY: Jump into Chapter 8, which is more "beginning calculus" oriented... 8.1 thru 8.3 are on series, and introduce summation notation. Expect a pop quiz in there somewhere. WEDNESDAY: Sections 8.5 thru 8.7 are on counting and probability, which will be a fun way to challenge your lovely brains. And THURSDAY: will be, as usual, Chapter review and TEST.
SPECIAL NOTE FOR HAYDEN, LEVI AND STEPHEN: Make sure you get a worksheet for Chapter 9 before you leave for Israel. Have fun! Maseltov!
3RD WEEK OF PRECAL: MORE TRIG
- Created on Wednesday, 08 May 2013 11:51
- Written by Joe Chamberlin
Monday we will do Chapter 4, part of 5, Review and TEST. Tuesday we have solemn assembly, but we will still do Law of Sines and Cosines at start of Chapter 6. We will also look at waves (heart, brain, and tidal), and start building our boats. Wednesday we will review Law of Sines and Cosines, and throw in Herons rule for figuring out area, before we have more boats and a special afternoon chapel. Thursday we finish up Chapter 6 with Vectors, another Trig TEST, and hopefully, float our boats!
