1. Questions? Roll:
2. Review:
a) Points and Covenent: Don’t dig a hole
b) Content: Functions
3. GOAL: What will you remember a year from today?
*I buy the pizza??
*alt title… Memory and Math
4. How can I increase what I get into long term memory?
-On time, Over time (prepare to forget, Helping verbs)
-WORK… talk to your brain
-Practice: wear in the path
-Practice recall… after short term memory.. long term
-Intensity: Adreneline, 911, sit close
-All your senses
-Try different learning styles and activities
-LINK Roy G Biv
-Models and Analogies: Fit what you don’t know
with what you do
-WHY? (how does work?) (Why should I learn this?)
-Others… This is just mindless drill??!! Mindless???
5. Problem solving: Know the tools, Build with the tools
-GRE is about problems solving, assumes basic tools
6. How will this change our class?
-Sit close, get your intensity up
-3 groups in your groups..
forgot it all: ask for and get help
rusty: regenerate and practice, teach
it’s in there: how do you remember?
-Recycle: new, practice, old, practice, new…
-Let’s not waste time!! Lots to learn
7. How will this change out-of-class time?
-More problems… go through faster
-Group email.. how is your group functioning?
-personal practice outside of group: before/after
-get help.. Review HELP section
8. Review Quiz #2.
9. Read a graph. Section 1.4
Example: How far are you from home? Profits?
-do: 1.4 #3, #6, #7, #8
10. Linear Functions:
-How do I recognize a linear function?
graph?
equation? y=3x+2, y=(1/3)x -1
what if the y is not all by itself??
-Average Rate of change: Non linear
Examples:
-Do 1.5 1a; 2 a,b; 3a-c; 4a,b; 8a-c; 9a; 11a,b
-Review:
11. How can I practice, #16, p 42
12. Integers, Rational, Irrational, and Real numbers
Identify: Can you write an irrational number?
13. Negative Numbers: +, -, x, /
Examples
14. Order of operations and ( )
*Review.. Average rate of change. ordered pairs
15. Slope of a line
16. Slope-intercept form of a line: y=mx+b
-given an equation, plot the graph
-given a graph, plot the equation
-intercepts
-Do: Act. 1.6, #9 a-d
17. Graph 1 point and slope
-Do Act 1.7 #5a-c; #6a,b; #11a-d
18. Balance: the essence of Algebra