Monthly Schedule

(Honors AP Calculus, Period C)

M 3/3/08	HW due: Read §10-4; then work through this text-based tutorial on related rates, followed by this more graphical and interactive tutorial. Be sure to do both tutorials! Take notes on what you have learned. In my opinion, these tutorials actually do a better job of teaching the topic than I, your humble teacher, can do with a conventional chalk-talk presentation. I will “add value” by helping you work through textbook problems together in class. However, for learning material at your own pace, the only thing I can think of that can beat an on-line tutorial is an interactive game. Perhaps tutorials and games will be the future of education!
T 3/4/08	HW due: Write §10-4 #1, 5. Both of these are quite similar to the tutorial problems. Mr. Kelley will take you through the standard setup for related rates problems, and I will be back on Wednesday.
W 3/5/08	HW due: Correct the existing §10-4 problems and write §10-4 #9, 10, 15.
Th 3/6/08	HW due: Read §10-5 plus #14 on p. 529 (do not solve for now, just read carefully), write §10-4 #13, 14, 18.
F 3/7/08	HW due: Write §10-5 #1, 6, 10, §10-6 #6. Note: Feel free to use #6 in §10-5 to speed up the solution to #10 in the same section.
M 3/10/08	HW due: Read through all of the problems on pp. 548-553, satisfying yourself that you could do them, and then work a suitable selection that includes R4, T2, and T4. All of the problems on pp. 548-553 are fair game for the test, with the exception of R7, C6, and T6-T14. Please note that you should be able to do the setup for T15 even if you don’t know how to solve it yet. You may also find last year’s quest to be helpful as you review. In class: Discuss R4, T2, T4, and any other topics that need to be reviewed.
T 3/11/08	Test (100 pts.) on Chapter 10, omitting §10-7 for now. You may find last year’s quest to be helpful as you prepare for the test.
W 3/12/08	HW due: Read §10-7; find and correct the typo on p. 536 in the solution to part a; attempt to write §10-7 #14. Important notes: 1. There is no substitute for reading this section. (Often, it is possible to skim the textbook and let the classroom presentation fill in the gaps. However, that will not work this time. You need to do the reading in advance.) 2. We will use the following notational conventions:      Norm bars: instead of to indicate the norm (a.k.a. magnitude or “absolute value”) of a vector      Angle brackets: <3, 4> instead of (textbook notation) or (AP notation) 3. If vector has components <a, b>, then , as you probably remember from Precal. 4. The angle bracket notation should be acceptable for use on the AP, though you are of course free to use the textbook notation if there is any doubt. The printed AP notation (using boldface for the unit vectors i and j) is clearly unacceptable for written work, since you have no way of indicating boldface in your pencil work. The advantage of the angle bracket notation is that it is much more compact and faster to work with, especially when there are variables involved. For example, here is how we would notate the answers to #1a and part of #1b on p. 541:
Th 3/13/08	HW due: §10-7 #1, 2, 12; Bob will present #14 using an approach that does not rely upon the clunky distributive property.
F 3/14/08	(Pi Day, also the end of the third quarter) No additional HW is due today, in merciful consideration of the Class of 2009. However, it is expected that the assignment due Thursday (which will be rescanned today) is now complete. Use Bob’s method to find the vector, namely . Then use the equation to solve for . All typos, crossword puzzles, and other extra credit of any type must be given in person to Mr. Hansen by noon today. Late submissions, as well as submissions left in the office or in the mailroom, will be applied toward the fourth quarter.
M 3/31/08	Classes resume.

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