Blog 18-- Your Conglomeration of Resources

Dear Class,

This week,  your assignment is to visit on of the following review videos below.  Choose a topic that you feel you need a little extra insight on.  Please inform me of which # video you chose, the topic, and 5+ reflection sentences about what you did (hopefully) learn from it.

This blog is due Thursday 4/14 @11:59pm.

Mrs. Guthrie

Review Videos [in no particular order]

#1 Position Velocity Acceleration on YouTube-- found by Leigh Ann

#2  Differential Equations from Brightstorm -- found by Kevin

#3  Differential Equations on YouTube (teacher lead example with tablet)-- found by Kevin

#4  Inverse Trig Functions on YouTube-- found by Kevin

#5  FR:  Implicit Differentiation and Finding Tangent Line on YouTube-- found by Conor

#6  Related Rates on YouTube (right triangle problem, similar to one of our past test problems)-- found by Sean

#7  Related Rates on YouTube (enforces how to set up, problems with right triangles)-- found by Chris

#8  Related Rates on YouTube (everything you wanted to know about related rate problems, but were afraid to ask)-- found by Matt

#9  Related Rates on YouTube (teacher example with volume of a sphere)-- found by Crystells

#10 Derivatives & Integrals with Ln & e on Brightstorm (includes common mistakes)-- found by David

#11  Exponential Growth & Decay on HippoCampus-- found by Elizabeth

#12  Integrals involving tricky substitution & radicals on Brightstorm-- found by Daniel

#13  Solids of Revolution Using Disks/Washers on YouTube-- found by Khalid

#14  Differentiation of Trig Functions on YouTube-- found by Robby

Blog 17: Hop On The Review Train

Dear Class,

For this week's post, I would like for you to review your last blog and look over the topics that you felt were your "weaknesses" on your Practice Exam.  You are to visit YouTube.com (or find any other videos from the websites listed on the "Calculus Help" page) and search for a video that covers this topic.

Please do a little research, as while there are many videos out there on Calculus topics -- let's face it-- some of them are just plain boring.  Please choose a video that you feel is worthy of showing to the whole class.  I plan on showing these throughout the next couple of weeks.

For your blog, please provide the following:

1. Calculus topic.  What is one concept that you need to thoroughly review?
2. The hyperlink to the video.  Where can we find it?
3. What you like about the video.  Why did you choose this one?  Or why do you think it is "worthy" to share with the class?
4. What you learned from the video.  How did it help you?

Of course, you are welcome to find more videos on the other concepts you need help on.  That, of course, would be the smart AP Calculus thing to do.  But for this blog, you are only required to share one of them.

Mrs. Guthrie

Dear AP Calculus Class,

Hooray!  It's Review Time!

Image from Google Images.


You have just completed your first full length Practice Exam.  I would like for you to reflect on the following; please reference specific problems from your Practice Exam.

Name the top 3 concepts you need to work on.  Please tell me what it is you feel you need to work on regarding these concepts.

Name the top 2 concepts you feel you don't need to review as much.  These are topics that you feel very confident in and scored well with on our Practice Exam.

Note:  Please make sure your responses are thoughtful and at least 3-4 sentences for each.  Thank you.

Mrs. Guthrie

Blog 15: Stand & Deliver

Hi class,

I hope you enjoyed Stand and Deliver especially as we prepare for the AP Calculus Exam in May.  This is one of my favorite movies, not just because I'm a Calculus nerd, but I thought that it addressed some very important issues facing our education culture today. 

For the blog assignment, please respond to two of the following questions:

1. How did Escalantes approach his class at the beginning of the year?  What was he thinking? 
2. Describe the adversity the students of Garfield High have to face in their daily lives.
3.  What did you think of the scene where Escalantes confronts the two ETS representatives about why they were investigating the students' scores?
4. What did the students admire about their teacher, Mr. Escalantes?
5. If you could play a role in the movie, which student would you be and why?  Or, what character would you bring to the group of students?

Due Friday Thursday 11:59pm.

Blog 14 Movie Reflection

Hi class,

I hope you enjoyed our film, as I believe it is important to be aware of such issues that face our country (world).

For your blog assignment, I simply want you to write a reflection on your take of what Food, Inc. had to say.  This could include your reaction(s), arguments for or against, personal stories, etc.

Here are some other websites you might find interesting (to save my behind... these by no means represent the beliefs of QGHS):

Food, Inc.'s Website
The Future of Food (the other documentary I mentioned in class... available for streaming on Netflix)
Monsanto News (has links to articles about Monsanto and current issues being raised)
Local Harvest (an organization promoting local farming)
Wikipedia's take on Fair Trade

Blog #14 is due Wednesday 2/16/11 @ 11:59pm

Blog 13: T-Shirt Design

Here are some of the t-shirt designs (in no particular order) from CustomInk.com.  For this assignment:

• Please select your top two favorite designs (include design #)
• Share why you like them
• Share any thoughts or ideas on improving the design (color, font, text, etc.)
• Please feel free to incorporate ideas from others

Design #1

Design #2

Design #3

Design #4

Design #5

Design #6

Design #7

Design #8

Design #9

Design #10

Design #11

Design #12

 

Design #13

Blog 12: T-Shirt Design

For this week's "blog", please visit our friendly site at customink.com to design a 2011 AP Calculus t-shirt.  Feel free to search for "math" symbols/images.  They have quite a bit.

If you choose not to use the site above, feel free to submit your design on the paper t-shirt handout I gave you after the Midterm Exam.

Blog #12 is due Friday @ 11:59pm.

Mrs. Guthrie