The first half of Chapter 3

This the the syllabus up to the next test.  We will probably have a test after section 3.5.

9/21  Finish up the intro  HW p.102-104/16-18,20,22,23,25,26,28 plus nDeriv Worksheet
9/22  Continuity, Local Linearity, etc.  HW p.111-112/4-20 by 4's, 21-23,29,30 plus Smoothness Worksheet
9/23  Rules of Differentiation  HW  p.120/1-19 odd, 20-23, 25
9/24  Proofs of Rules  HW p.120-121/27-31 odd, 33-39

9/28  Yom Kippur (no school)
9/29  3.4 (Rates of Change)
          HW p.129-133/1-3,5,8,9,12,13,16,20,21,23-32,34,36
9/30  3.5 (Trig Differentiation)
          HW p.140-141/1-13 odd,17-21,23,27-29,31-33,35
10/1  Review of 3.1-3.5 (all questions answered)

10/5  Test of 3.1-3.5
          HW read 3.6, do p.146-147/1-27 odd

Upcoming "events"
10/01 Back to School Night
10/12 Columbus Day
10/14 Professional Development Day
11/06 Term 1 ends

Computer Lab Links

The computer lab deals with rate of change using actual data recorded by Mr. Richardson when he used to ride his bike from his old apartment in Bedford.

http://lhs.lexingtonma.org/Teachers/Kelly/calcbc/bikeride/

The link is to a page of Mr. Kelly's.  His page mentions that the directions were handed out in class.  I am going paperless with this.  You will open the directions, type your answers directly into the document, and email it to me, along with any other work required.  Please use a different font or color so it is easy to find your answers.

Fixing the dates on the syllabus

As was pointed out in class, I forgot that we meet on Mondays, not Fridays but this really only impacted one day of the syllabus.  The test is still on the 17th!  Here is the updated syllabus for this week:

9/14  2.4 Rate of Change and Tangent lines
         HW p.87-90/3-21 by 3's,37,38,41,42,43
9/15  Computer Lab 700 (Bicycle Lab)
         HW finish lab and email it to me by 9/17
9/16  2.4 and Review
         HW (suggested) p.91-93/3-12 by 3's, 15,24,30,33,39-42,45,47,48,52
9/17  Ch 2 Test
         HW read section 3.1, do p.101/1-6, 11-13

To begin... Chapter 2

Chapter 1 is prerequisite material that you are expected to remember so we will start with chapter 2...

Here is the plan for the whole chapter.  Things may change so check back if you are not sure.

9/02  2.1 Review Limits: what they are, notation, rules for operations
               HW Worksheet of limit problems
9/03  2.1 Review 7 ways of finding limits, especially the Sandwich Theorem
               HW p.64/63 (Sandwich Thrm proof of limit of sin(x)/x as x -> 0)
9/04  no school

9/07  Labor Day
9/08  2.1 Limit of Composed Functions, substitution
               HW finish worksheet and p.64/53-56, read section 2.2
9/09  2.2 Horizontal & Vertical Asymptotes, End Behavio
               HW p.71-73/1,3,5,11-49 odd, 52-54, 56, 58, 59
9/10  2.3 Continuity and 4 kinds of Discontinuities   Half Day C B A G
               HW p.80-81 1,5,9,11,14,15-29 odd,33-38,41,42,45-47
9/11  2.4 Rate of Change and Tangent lines
               HW p.87-90/3-21 by 3's,37,38,41,42,43

9/15  Computer Lab 700 (Bicycle Lab)
               HW finish lab and email it to me by 9/17
9/16  2.4 and Review
               HW (suggested) p.91-93/3-12 by 3's, 15, 24,
               30, 33, 39-42, 45, 47, 48, 52
9/17  Ch 2 Test

        HW read section 3.1, do p.101/1-6, 11-13

Welcome!

Welcome to BC Calculus.  This year we will do two semesters of college calculus by May 5th, 2010 (the date of the AP Exam).  After that we will do some other fun things because the math never ends...

This class goes very quickly so there are many homework problems each night, certainly more than you want to do the night before a test.  KEEP UP!!!  We learn lots of cool stuff and you don't want to waste time not understanding it.