Calculus 12 - Derivatives of Polynomials

Only one assignment for Chapter 3 so far.

Complete 3.1 Exercises p.181
#3-6 (pick 1)
#7-16 (pick 2 odd, 1 even)
#17-20 (pick 1)
#37

I did not have time to make a video for the class yet (lost power Saturday and busy Sunday) so the ones from Khan Academy will have to do.

https://www.khanacademy.org/math/differential-calculus/taking-derivatives/power_rule_tutorial/v/power-rule

You probably only need to watch the first video (Power Rule) and the third video (Derivative Properties and Polynomial Derivatives).

I'll try to get my own uploaded soon so it's a better match to what we normally do in class.

Also congrats to Team Asia for winning our Pi Day Street Fighter challenge.  This brings them up to 9 points (within 1 from the first place Conquistadors).  I will add more once I finish going over the rest of the Pi Day Challenge assignment.

Calculus 12 - Chapter 2 Assignments

Below are the videos for 2.6 and 2.7.

2.6 - Limits at Infinity

2.7 - Derivatives

Chapter 2 test tomorrow so please have the following assignments completed!

Calculus 12 - Assignments so far for Chapter 2

So here are the assignments for chapter 2 so far.

2.1 Exercises p.86
• #1, 2, 5, 6, 9
2.2 Exercises p.96
• #2-4
• #10, 11, 17
• #19-22 (pick 1)
• 2.2b Worksheet
2.3 Exercises p.106
• #1,2 (pick 3 in each)
• #3-9 (pick 3)
• #15, 18, 24, 31
• #35, 37, 48, 54
2.5 Exercises p.127
• #3
• #5-8 (pick 2)
• #13, 16, 20, 23
• #40, 44, 45
• #50, 51, 67
2.6 Exercises p.140
• #1, 4
• #5-10 (pick 2)
• #11
• #15-20 (pick 2)
• #21-28 (pick 2)
• #36-38 (pick 1)
• #47

I will put up videos of our lessons later this weekend in case you needed a refresher on what we did this week.

Here are videos to help explain 2.5. I will try to get a video up of 2.6 tomorrow along with a video for 2.7.

Calculus 12 - Arocena Cup Update

So no actual new material on Friday.  Not enough of the class was present so we just went over some questions from the 2.2 assignments.

And then continued with the Arocena Cup competition.

Suffice to say Team Conquistadors (formerly Team BAE) is pretty dominant in the Friday tournament with Emile winning again (though Carrie appears to be getting the hang of it and put up a decent fight in the final round).  This earns another point for Team Conquistadors and puts them at 3 points now with Team ?? at 1 and the others still at 0.

Hopefully this coming week will allow the other teams to earn some points.

Calculus 12 - More Limit Laws!

Today's assignment:
 - Complete Exercises p.107 #15, 18, 24, 31

And here's a video about today's lesson!

Math 12

Complete the following for tomorrow's test

Complete Check Your Understanding p.72-77
• Practice #1-4, 5 (pick 3)
• Apply #7, 10, 12, 13, 16
• Extend #19
Complete Check Your Understanding p.86-88
• Practice #2-4, 5-8 (pick 2 in each)
• Apply #10-12, 14
• Extend #19
Complete Check Your Understanding p.96-98
• #2, 3 (pick 2), 4
• #5-7(pick 2 from each)
• #9, 11, 14
BONUS:  Chapter 2 Review p.99-101  (+30)
#1-18 (for questions with multiple equations, pick 1)

Calculus 12 - Limit Laws!

Today's assignment:
 - Complete Exercises p.106
 - #1,2 (pick 3 in each)
 - #3-9 (pick any 3)

Hopefully I can put a video up of this lesson later tonight.

And here is the video!

Calculus 12

Today's lesson can be found here
http://youtu.be/izy-aEIsl1I

The assignment can be found here

Yesterday's assignment was
p.96

• #2-4
• #10, 11, 17,
• #19-22 (pick 1)

Math 11 - New Way of Grading

So here is a slightly more in-depth explanation to my new grading practice in Math 11.

Here is the section taken directly from the course outline I provided to everyone in class.

Grades

In this class you will earn credits for things you do.  Your grade will be dependent on how many credits you earn by the time you reach the end of the semester.  What follows is how many credits are necessary to earn a particular grade.

Grade	Credits Needed
A	650
B	550
C+	500
C	450
C-	400
D	300
F	0

The attached sheet gives details on how you can earn credits as well as how you can lose credits.  All credits are tracked on the Class Dojo website (https://www.classdojo.com/) and smartphone app.

My reason for marking this way is quite simple.  It mirrors many things students would encounter in life outside of school.  For instance, the idea of getting credits (or as I refer to it, getting paid) for doing something is basically what our entire lives are built on.  You do work you get paid.

The idea of starting at 0 is common place in a lot of things as well, most notably games.  Most games you start with nothing and work your way up by doing stuff.  You do something in a game and you often get rewarded if it's completed.

I based the credit requirements on a lot of factors, how many days of school, the number of assignments, labs, projects and tests I would give as well as the number of achievements.  I left a little room for flexibility and added the idea of overtime assignments to make up or gain extra credits (what a novel idea, extra pay for extra work).  I also only took account one block per day when calculating the credits based on days and since we have a double block day once a week, the students have the potential to earn 6 credits for that day instead of the usual 3.

Below is a short sampling of what students can do to get credits

Task	Credits Earned
Arriving to Class	+3 per block
Completed Assignment	+3 per assignment
Completed Project/Lab	+5 per project/lab
Test, Lab, Project Passed	+5 per pass
Scored A on Test, Lab or Project	+5 per A
Scored B on Test, Lab or Project	+4 per B
Scored C+ on Test, Lab or Project	+3 per C+
Scored C on Test, Lab or Project	+2 per C
Scored C- on Test, Lab or Project	+1 per C-
Achievement Earned	+5 per achievement
Overtime Assignment	Variable

and listed here are things students can do to lose credits

Task	Credits Lost
Arriving Late to Class	-1 per incident
Leaving Class Early	-2 per incident
Test Rewrite	-1 per rewrite
Inappropriate use of Technology	-1 per incident
Disrespect	-1 per incident

I tried to mirror the losses to things that might reflect a workplace.  So I keep referring to if you go to work late you make less,  Similarly if you leave work early you make less.  Test rewrites were meant to mirror tests you take outside of school like driving tests and professional qualifying tests.  They all require a fee to write and if you write them multiple times you have to pay the fee multiple times.  I also know many work places have negative consequences surrounding inappropriate technological use or disrespect towards employees, employers or customers.

One of the neat things about doing this is that it actually meets a few of the Prescribed Learning Outcomes for this class.

• C2 - Solve problems involving personal budgets
• The students have an actual income and can budget it appropriately.  They have something they have to save towards (a grade) and have expenses (test rewrites, lates, leaving early, etc)
• E1 - Solve problems that involve creating and interpreting graphs
• ClassDojo does a great job of displaying their data in a nice circle graph that I can use to run analytic exercises with the students once we have accumulated enough data.
• C1 - Analyze puzzles and games that involve numerical reasoning using problem-solving strategies.
• The whole class is now a game involving numbers and it's up to them to solve it,

Calculus 12

Test time tomorrow!

Please have the following assignments completed.

1.1 Exercises p.19
• #1-4
• #6-10
• #11, 13, 17
1.2 Exercises p.33
• #1, 3
• #8, 10
• #15, 17, 19, 25
1.3 Exercises p.43
• #1, 3 (pick 2 in each)
• #4, 5 (pick 2 in each)
• #10, 15, 21
• #29, 35, 37, 41, 43
• #51 (pick 2)
1.5 Exercises p.57
• #3, 4
• #5, 9
• #17 (pick 3)
• #21, 22
• #24, 29
1.6 Exercises p.69
• #1, 2
• #3, 5, 6, 11, 12
• #15, 18, 20
• #21, 23
• #29
• #33, 34
• #35, 37, 39
• #51, 53, 55, 61
BONUS: Ch. 1 Review p.73 (+30)
• #1, 5, 7
• #9, 10 (pick 2 in each)
• #11, 15, 17
• #19, 21, 24, 25ab, 27