Thursday, August 19, 2010

Welcome, AP students! I'm so glad that you're here. The study of calculus is amazing in its "complicated simplicity" and I'm excited to watch you learn it. Newton and Leibniz (the fathers of calculus) were brilliant indeed but their discoveries were inevitable. The Creator of our universe is the Creator of math - no doubt in my mind. I firmly believe that most of math is discovered ~ not invented ~ and I hope that I can convince you of that (if you're not already there).

For your first post, I'd like you to take a few minutes to think about topics in high school math that you have found difficult. If you've done a complete brain-dump since May, google 'pre-calculus topics' or something similar and look through the contents. Even if you eventually nailed a topic, let me know if it was tough for you at first. This will help me to target specific holes that you all might have.

Again, welcome aboard. Take this class seriously - I promise you that I will! Have a great weekend.

6 comments:

  1. I had a few problems with the more complex vector problems last year in pre calc, but that was mostly it.

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  2. The more advanced Trig from last year was what I struggled with.

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  4. Even though it wasn't a major part of what we learned last year, I struggled with verifying trigonometric identities.

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  5. I had problems with vctors in general

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  6. No worries, neither vectors nor trig proofs are going to appear this year. Well, maybe a few vector problems... As for trig, you'll just want to know a few of the identities down pat and know where to find the others. More on that later. Thanks for your posts.

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