Teaching
Note; * - slides have been presented in class, any corrections have been uploaded to the website.
| Timeline January - May | Trigonometry | AP Calculus |
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| March 31 - April 4 |
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Integrals Worksheet 03
Integrals Worksheet 02
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| March 25 - 28 |
Unit Overview: Graphing the Trigonometric Functions
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Integrals Worksheet 01
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| March 17 - 20 |
Unit Overview: The Unit Circle
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| Feb 19 - 22 |
Thurs: Slides Part 13
Introducing the Law of Cosines
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Fri: Unit Test Chap 4.1 to 4.3
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| Feb 11 - 15 |
Mon: Slides Part 12
Introducing the Law of Sines
Unit Overview: Solving the oblique triangle
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Mon: Slides Part 14, Semester 2
Mean Value Theorem.
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| Feb 04 - 08 |
Wednesday: UNIT TEST
Monday, Tuesday: review for UNIT TEST
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Wed: Slides Part 13, Semester 2*
Finding Extrema analytically.
Tue: Slides Part 12, Semester 2*
Defining critical points.
Mon: Slides Part 11, Semester 2*
Introducing Absolute and Local Extrema
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| January 28 - Feb 01 |
Slides Part 11*
Using angles of elevation indirectly
Slides Part 10*
Using angles as bearings, or directions (part 2)
Slides Part 9*
Using angles as bearings, or directions.
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| January 22 - 25 |
Slides Part 8*
Angles of elevation and depression.
Slides Part 7*
Solving Right Angled Triangles (cont.)
Slides Part 6*
Solving Right Angled Triangles
Unit Overview*
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Friday: Sect 3.9, problems 29 to 32 and 51 to 53.
Slides Part 10*, Semester 2
Logarithmic differentiation
Slides Part 9*, Semester 2
Finding the derivative of logarithmic functions
Slides Part 8*, Semester 2
Finding the derivative of exponential functions
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| January 14 - 18 |
Friday; UNIT TEST
Thursday:Practice Unit Test
Wednesday; Practice chapter problems.
Naming Triangles Project
Project due January 23rd.
Slides Part 5*
Trigonometric Functions and Function Values (cont)
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Slides Part 7, Semester 2
Using implicit differentiation to find higher order derivatives.
Slides Part 6, Semester 2
More examples of implicit differentiation. (See also Slides part 3, Semester 2 below)
Slides Part 5, Semester 2
Practicing the Chain Rule and derivatives of parametric equations.
Due at the end of class on Monday, Jan 14th.
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| January 8 - 11 |
Slides Part 4*
Trigonometric Functions and Function Values
Slides Part 3*
Similar Angles and similar triangles
Slides Part 2*
Angular velocity, Degrees Minutes Seconds
Slides Part 1*
Definitions of basic terminology
Slides Intro*
Classroom procedures - includes details on classroom binder
Trigonometry Facts;
will be updated as the course progresses.
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Slides Part 4, Semester 2
Practicing the Chain Rule. Due at the end of class on Friday, Jan 11th.
Slides Part 3, Semester 2
Introducing implicit differentiation.
Slides Part 2, Semester 2*
Finding the slope of the line tangent or normal to parametric curves.
Slides Part 1, Semester 2*
Reviewing the derivative rules, especially the Chain Rule
Trig Identities
Handed out previous semester.
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| Timeline August - December | Advanced Algebra | AP Calculus |
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Dec 3 - 7, 2007
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Logarithms 02
- rewriting and solving logarithmic and exponential equations
Logarithms 01
- rewriting and simplifying logarithmic expressions
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Nov 26 - 30, 2007
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Exponential Functions 01
- Simplifying exponential expressions, calculating exponential growth and decay.
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Oct 29 - Nov 02, 2007
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Factoring Higher Degree Polynomials
- Factoring higher degree polynomials one factor at a time.
Polynomial Division 01 -
Polynomial Long Division problems
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Oct 22 - 26, 2007
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Oct 15 - 19, 2007
Note: No classes Oct 18; Parent Teacher conferences 10am - 6pm
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| Oct 8 - 12, 2007 |
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| Oct 1 - 5, 2007 |
Functions Worksheet 3 - Finding the inverse of a quadratic function by completing the square.
Functions Worksheet 2 - Finding the inverse of a polynomial function.
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Note: we have switched from slides to boardwork.
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| Sept 24 - 28, 2007 |
Functions Worksheet 1 - Recognizing parent graphs and transformations
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Note: we have switched from slides to boardwork.
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| Sept 17 - 21, 2007 |
Reading asmt Sect 3.1 - Symmetry of graphs of relations
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Part 17: Horizontal Asymptotes
Reading Asmt Sect 2.2: Infinite limits
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| Sept 10 - 14, 2007 |
Graphs Review Worksheet - Piecewise graphs, absolute value, and domain and range
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Part 16: Intro Sandwich Theorem and Polynomial Long Division
Part 15: Left and Righthanded limits
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| Sept 4 - 7, 2007 |
Graphs Worksheet 5 - Absolute values
Graphs Worksheet 4
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Part 14: Calculating limits
Part 13: Properties of limits
Part 12: The start of limits
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| Aug 27 - 31, 2007 |
Graphs Worksheet 3
Graphs Worksheet 2
Graphs Worksheet 1
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Notepaper for sketching trig functions
Part 11 Slides (Note the change in homework assignment, from the weekly organizer.
Part 10 Slides
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| Aug 20 - 24, 2007 |
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Part 9 Slides
Part 8 Slides
Part 7 Slides
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| Aug 13 - 17, 2007 |
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Part 6 Slides
Part 5 Slides
Part 4 Slides
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| Aug 8 - 10, 2007 |
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Part 3 Slides
Part 2 Slides
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Useful Links
Binder Rubric
Winplot: A windows utility to graph functions in two and three dimensions, including derivatives.
Graphs Notepaper (6 to a page)
Blank Slides
First Day Slide Show with classroom procedures
Quick-and-Dirty Guide to the TI-83, TI-83+, TI-84,
and TI-84+
Copyright (c) 2004 by Kenny Felder
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