Shadowfax Cluster Rant 2009-2024 Release 36.07: Teaching Math 5H UNIT 4 Applications of Differentiation Quarter I Week 9

Saturday, November 9, 2013

Teaching Math 5H UNIT 4 Applications of Differentiation Quarter I Week 9

Teaching Math 5H

UNIT 4 Applications of Differentiation

Quarter I Week 9: 11/4-11/8

We finally finished with UNIT 4: Application of Differentiation this week. We programmed Newton's Method in TI89-BASIC. We also covered related rates. Next week is all about AntiDerivatives and Reimann Sums!

Quarter I Week 8: 10/28-11/1

We're nearly finished with UNIT 4: Application of Differentiation this week. We programmed Newton's Method in TI89-BASIC. We also started related rates this week.

Quarter I Week 7: 10/21-10/25

We started UNIT 4: Application of Differentiation this week. We started talking about IVT, MVT, Min/Max and Optimization!

Quarter I Week 6: 10/14-10/18

This week we finished UNIT 3 with a discussion of the Chain Rule, Implicit Differentiation, Min/Max and Related Rates.

Quarter I Week 5: 10/07-10/11

Out sick.... However, I did start using DropBox, see below!

Quarter I Week 4: 9/30-10/04

We started UNIT 3 about Differentiation! We derived the Product and Quotient Rules. We did all 6 Trig Rules. We started talking about the Chain Rule.

Quarter I Week 3: 9/23-9/27

We finished UNIT 2 with a test! Our last topic concerned the existence of the derivative. BTW, we start with UNIT 2 since UNIT 1 is just a review of PreCalculus. We did a bit of that in 106 and 107 on Conics and Polar Notation.

Quarter I Week 2: 9/16-9/20

We are almost finished with UNIT 2: Continuity and Differentiablility! We demostrated the Power Rule using the Definition of the Derivative as the limit of the Difference Quotient. We even started the Trig Rules!

Quarter I Week 1: 9/9-9/13

AP Calculus BC started with a preCalc review in the form of the topic of Conic Sections! This is a great topic to review Cartesian and Polar Coordinates, as well as some algebra, trig and TI89 usage!

This month YouTube Wednesday is about Astronomy since preCalculus class is doing Conics! So here's Phil Plait on Asteroids (this is really a TED Tuesday).

ScreenCasts and SmartNotes and Code,
oh my:

Below, you will usually find ScreenCasts from this week. SmartNotes are from a previous year's TI89 based course. We don't code much in this class except for programming the TI89.