Welcome to Mrs. Young's calculus class blog! Each week, I will start a new post. Students, you can write questions for me or chat with each other about how to solve a particular problem. As part of your class participation grade each week, every student must comment at least once to my post or another student's comment. I look forward to spending this year with you. Enjoy!

Sunday, October 21, 2012

October 22nd - 26th

You've made it through the first quarter of calculus class! This week we are going to finish chapter 3. We still have to learn how to find the derivative of inverse trig functions and exponential and logarithmic functions. There will be a quiz over sections 3.7 - 3.9 on Friday, 10/26. The chapter 3 test will be next week. I'm going to extend the deadline for your chapter 3 project until Wednesday, 10/31. For your post this week, in order to sum up the first quarter of calculus, I'd like you to tell me one important thing that you learned during the quarter and why you think it is important.
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  1. Carly CannonOctober 23, 2012 at 8:44 AM

    One important thing I learned during this quarter is how difficult calculus is! I never thought it would be this challenging. From our lessons I learned how to find the derivative of a position function. I feel this is important because there are so many different ways to get the derivative and because it relates to so many other parts of calculus. (ex. velocity; acceleration)

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  2. UnknownOctober 23, 2012 at 9:49 AM

    In the first quarter of calculus, the most important thing that i have learned would be that calculus is extremely hard and i dont understand most of it. the reason i say this is important because this has helped me decide that in the future i do not want to do anything that involves a lot of math.

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  3. Mrs. YoungOctober 23, 2012 at 10:11 AM

    Please try not to be so negative. You guys are doing fine. Most of you have A's and B's in the class! You just need to relax and keep working hard.

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  4. Mrs. YoungOctober 23, 2012 at 10:12 AM

    I also need to know which calculus concept you think is important. Learning that it is difficult doesn't count!

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  5. UnknownOctober 23, 2012 at 1:09 PM

    I learned the importance of homework in this quarter. If I didn't understand class work, I can study again what I didn't understand. One time, I didn't do homework and turned homework pass. But I couldn't understand next day’s class work! This experience makes me realize the importance of homework.

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  6. Mrs. YoungOctober 23, 2012 at 3:57 PM

    That still is not an important calculus concept. When I asked you guys to name one important thing you learned during the 1st quarter, I meant what important calculus concept did you learn? Please respond with that. :)

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  7. BenIvanOctober 24, 2012 at 10:20 AM

    Calculus has been a very informational class in the first quarter. We have learned many things thus far but I would say that the most important thing I have learned would be the concept of derivatives. We have had many applications of derivatives in chapter 3 and they are all helpful in finding things such as velocity and acceleration.

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    1. AnonymousOctober 24, 2012 at 5:04 PM

      The most important concept that I have learned during the first quater would have to be learning how to find the derivative of different functions. By knowing how to find the derivative I am able to understand and apply most of what I have learned so far. This involves knowing how to find velocity, accleration and sketching the graph of a derivative.

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  8. UnknownOctober 25, 2012 at 5:43 PM

    The important thing is review becuase i forgot the most of pre calculus that i have to know for calculus.

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  9. jacob eversoleOctober 26, 2012 at 6:19 AM

    The most important concept so far for me has been the power, quotient, and chain rules. These keep reappearing and I have been struggling remembering in which scenario to use some of the rules which is part of the reason I have not been doing very well on quizzes and tests.

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  10. Grace HillOctober 26, 2012 at 8:46 AM

    I think one concept that I find particularly important is finding the derivative of a function. This concept can be applicable in many ways such as finding the velocity from a position function and finding acceleration from a velocity function. It seems that derivatives are very useful in the real world and an important concept to learn.

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  11. Daniel BurketOctober 26, 2012 at 1:51 PM

    One important thing I learned during this quarter is what a derivative is and how to find it. For example, in a position-time graph the first derivative is the velocity function. You do this by finding the slope of certain points and then turning the slope into the y values. If you take the derivative of the velocity function (so it’s the second derivative of position-time) you get the acceleration function. This has a lot of practical uses and we have used it a lot so far in calculus. It can be used to find the maximum height of a baseball, or the acceleration of a football.

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