Sunday, August 19, 2012
Welcome to a new year!
Welcome 2012 - 2013 calculus students! I hope you are as excited to get started with a great year of calculus as I am! I promise that if you work hard an give it your best to honor God, you will not be disappointed in May. Each week, you will have to comment on the class blog by Friday in order to receive your class participation points. I may have a prompt for you to respond to, or you can just write about your feelings that week in class or you can comment about what we are doing. You can also ask me or other classmates questions. For this week, I'd like you to watch the short video to the right, which explains in a nutshell what calculus is. Hopefully through calculus this year, you will begin to see the use of mathematics in real life and why you had to learn all of the math you know. Then, I'd like you to tell me about your initial feelings going into AP calculus this year. For example, what are you excited/nervous about, what do you expect, etc.
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I am ecstatic that I can take AP calculus this year. With a whole year of knowledge waiting to be grasped I am intrigued to find what it has in store for us. Knowing that we have learned all of the basics of math, but never being able to really apply them to any legitimate real world problem gets frustrating, but I cannot wait to use calculus for real world applications. I am a little nervous to see how the beginning starts but I'm sure it will turn out well.
ReplyDeleteI am really looking forward to AP calculus this year. After a struggle of last year and not really learning that much, I am excited that in calculus I will be learning new things, which will help me in my major of chemical engineering. I always wanted to figure out how to relate math to the real world and real world problems. I am scared of the hard work that will be needed but in the end, it will be worth it.
ReplyDeleteI'm really nervous for AP Calc this year. My math career has often times been shaky and in need of more structure. However, the challenge of AP is, in a weird way, exciting. I feel this class will significantly prepare me for the challenging courses that await me in college.
ReplyDeleteI worry about AP calculus class because I heard this class is more difficult than pre-calculus. But I am also excited about listening AP calculus class because I can learn new things. Actually, I'm not sure I can do well. But I will do my best. Please help me understand this class. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteI have mixed emotions about taking AP this year. I am excited to take it because that means that I won't have to in college. I am also nervous because I have heard that it is the hardest AP test and I struggled some with pre-calc last year.
ReplyDeleteI expect AP calculus to be a difficult challenge for me. I understand I must put the time in and work very hard on a daily basis. I know I will also need the help of my classmates. It will be exciting to learn new things and be able to apply them to real world problems.
ReplyDeleteWhile math is not my strongest subject, I am looking forward to working hard and learning a lot of new things. I also am really interested in problems that deal with real-world situations, as past math class problems felt too abstract. I expect AP Calc to be difficult, but I believe that with hard work and dedication I can pass it.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I didnt learn much last year, and still havent totally memorized the unit circle, I am really excited to take AP calculus! I hope that tis year will wrap up everything I have learned in previous math classes and prepare me to get a 5 on my AP exam at the end of the year(:
ReplyDeleteI am kind of afriad taking this class because it is hard class for me... But i want to learn more math. I will need your help. But i will enjoy this class
ReplyDeleteAp calculus will be a huge challenge for me this year. I feel that last year I did not learn as much as I need to learn for this class. I want to learn and do well on the ap exam and I know it will take a lot of hard work, and im ready to put in the work. -Brian Freeman
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ReplyDeleteI am here to help all of you. Please don't be afraid to ask me for help or ask questions during class or on this blog. With some hard work, you all will get there. I promise. I have seen it done year after year! :)
ReplyDeleteI am excited to take Calculus this year because there will finally be a real answer to the question: "When are we going to ever use this?" I like math and being able to apply it to real world situations will be enjoyable. My only fear is that calculus might take a little longer for me to grasp. I want to be successful in this class and on the AP exam so I am willing to work hard to understand even when it is frustrating.
ReplyDeleteComing into AP Calc this year, I was very hesitant. If I do not understand a piece of math, I get really frustrated. Considering last year was a bit of a struggle actually grasping the concepts of how to actually do the math instead of just knowing how to spit back an answer without actually understanding the problem, I knew this year was going to be a challenge. But, I am glad that we will be learning math that is applicable and more realistic than other simple forms of math.
ReplyDeleteWhen I started Ap Calculus I wasn't too concerned because my brother said all the talk about it being difficult wasn't accurate and he said it was just like any other math class. Now that I've started it, I completely disagree with him. It's difficult learning entirely new information, especially because I don't feel like I learned much in Pre-Calculus. I am excited to be able to do complex problems, though.
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