Friday, May 30, 2008

Final work

The schedule for the rest of the school year is as follows:

6/02  Sequences and Series Test (review answer key posted in First Class)
6/03  MCAS (Hr  G  H  E)  no class
6/04  MCAS (E  F  A  D)  no class
6/05  Review Day 1  (Functions, Polynomials, and Limits)
6/06  Review Day 2  (Trigonometry)

6/09  Review Day 3  (Vectors, Parametrics, Polar, and Conics)
6/10  Review Day 4  (Exponential and Log Functions, Matrices)
6/11  English Final 8am   Science Final 11am
6/12  ForLang 1 Final 8am    Math Final 11am in room 710
6/13  SocStds Final 8am  ForLang 2 Final 11am

6/16  Last Day of School  (BC students get Calculus books)
6/17  Get your grades

Monday, May 19, 2008

Sequences and Series

We are going to study our last topic of the year:  Sequences and Series (Ch 13 in the Brown book).  Below is the syllabus.  I expect to give you time to start all of the homework problems in class and some of them may become assigned classwork.

5/19 Explicit Definitions; Geometric, Arithmetic Sequences
          HW pp.477-479/18-33 by 3's, 34, 37, 39, 43-45, 48-50, 53,56

5/20 Recursive Definitions of Sequences
          CW pp.481/1,2,11,12,13-17 odd
          HW pp.481-485/19,20,22,23,26,27,29,32-34

5/23 Finite and Infinite Series; Sigma Notation
          CW pp.508-510/9,11,25,27,39
          HW pp.489-492/10-13,17,19,27,29,35,39,41,44

5/27 Limits of Infinite Sequences and Series
          HW pp.496-498/3-33 by 3's, 34-36

5/29 Sums of Infinite Series
          HW pp.502-505/9-21 odd, 29,31,33,37,38,41-43

5/30 Extra Problems

6/02 Sequences and Series Test

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Review Answer Key

The answer key, such as it is, has been uploaded in the FirstClass conference in both Word and pdf formats.  I can't promise I didn't make mistakes but that kind of discussion is what the conference is for. ;-)