Week 10 Part 1: Work to be done individulally before your group meeting
1. Print out copies of old quizzes (From Resources/Week?) and practice tests. Print out answers to these quizzes. Review yourself, and identify questions you still have for your group to discuss. Come to group with specific problems you are still having difficulty with.
2. Below are some example new problems which will represent the new questions you will have on your final from parts of chapters 4 and 5. I put them here this time instead of under the Practice tab. Do these before your group and check your answers before your group. Again, come with specific problems you are having difficulty with.
1. For each equation below, identify a,b, and c, the y intercept, the axis of symetry, and tell if it opens up or down. Then graph the function in gcalc.net or other graphing program. The last 2 you will need to get into y = ax^2 + bx + c format
a. y = -3x^2 – 2x + 1
b. y = 5x^2 + 3x – 7
c. 2y – 5 + 3x^2 = y + x^2 – 3x + 2
d. 3 + y = 7 – 3x + 2x^2
2. for each of the above, find the x intercept using the quadratic equation, found in the book. Tell if it actually has x intercepts, and what that means if it does not.
3. Factor: 3(x^3) + 12(x^2) + 9x
4. Solve: (x + 2)^(1/2) + 2 = 5
5. Find an x that would make this equation true: 3 + 2x = 2x^2 – 3x + 1
6. Do number 18 for the exercises for 4.2. This is the problem to find the dimensions to enclose the maximum area given you need 3 sides covered (Lake Erie) (A challenge)
7. Sove: x^(2/3) = 4
Week 9, Part 2, Group work:
1. Pull out each group member’s Week 7 Tools exam. For no more than 20 minutes, work review and help each other with the missed or still unmastered problems.
2. This week’s quiz will be over logs and trig only. Review the problems and answers for the Logs Practice for week 8. Give each other similar questions to solve
3. Review and discuss the Week 9 Practice questions you completed prior to your group meeting. Make sure you understand and can do these types of problems
4. REVEIW: As a group, do the following problems
a. If you invest 5000 at 5% interest, how long before you have 100,000? (answer- 61.4 years)
b. If you have an oil spill, and dispersant shrinks the spill at the rate of 2% per day, how long before the 5 square mile spill is only 1 square mile? (about 80 days)
c. Make a right triangle. label each side. Give the sin, cos, and tan for each non-right angle in terms of the length of each side.
d. You have a 15 foot ladder. You put the bottom on the ground and the very top on the ledge of a second story window. The ladder makes a 53 degree angle with the ground. What is the height of the window above the ground? How far away from the base of the building is the bottom of the ladder? (11.97 feet high, 9.03 feet from the base of the building)
e. You want to see how tall a tree is. On flat ground, you start at the base of the tree and walk 100 yards in a straight line. You measure the angle between looking at the base of the tree and the top of the tree to be 48 degrees. How tall is the tree? (111 yards )
5. Make sure you email me with your group summary with every group member’s name before Wednesday evening. I will post the practice test for week 9 later this week. Review the questions and check the answers. Come ready to take the quiz.
Week 9, Part 1: To be done before your group meeting. Email me with a summary of your work on these tasks before your group meeting. Do not get stuck on one or two problems, but do keep track of what you can and cannot yet do. You should have notes from class, and your book will help.
1. Spend no more than 20 minutes on the answers to the quizzes and practice tests reviewing old material. Come with continuing problems to your group for help and discussion.. ie I still do not get how to…..
2. Work though the problems on the Practice tab above, Part 2, Week 9. Record how you fared on the problems. Review notes and your book for help
3. Prepare specific questions for your group on this material. Check NOTES for answers
4. Make sure your group has a time and place arranged. Make sure your emailer is doing their job and is including your name in the text of the summary.
5. Head to the QUASR center, online help, or email/IM me with questions
Week 8, Part 2: Group work
1. Print out last week TOOLS quiz. Together work through ones still giving your group members problems. If your group is still stuck on a problem after looking at similar problems on the practice test and answers, email me with the problem in your group email. Do not spend more than 20-25 minutes on this review.
2. Do not work throught the problem solving quiz questions, as some of you are still finishing up thest problems.
3. Review the questions and answers from Part 1 for week 8. Help each other with these problems. (no more than 20 min.)
5. Collectively, write out your best answer for the following. Some will be on the quiz this week. Spend 3-5 minutes on each and write out your best answer. Be ready to share them in class.
a. Why do we need logarithms?
b. Explain how logs and exponents are related
c. How would you find log(base8 ) 59 using a calculator (no log 8 key)
d. Why is log(xy) equal to log(x) + log(y)
e. Why is log(x/y) equal to log(x) – log(y)
f. Why is log x^t equal to t(logx)
5. Solve the following together in group: If you are given an inheritance of $50,000, and invest it at 6 percent interest, how long before you are a millionaire?
6. Smallville has a population of 12,000 but has a growth rate of 15% per year. Bigville has a population of 350,000 but is declining in population at the rate of 12% per year; How long before the cities have the same population?
Week 8 Part 1.
1. Review textbook, Chapter 3, Cluster 2.
2. Do the Practice problems, found on the Practice tab
3. Prepare questions for ones you are confused about for your group discussion
4. Practice old problems.. especially the Practice test and answers for Week 7, found under the Resource link and the answers under the Answer tab above
5. Email me with your progress and questions on the Practice problems before you meet with your group this week
6. Make sure you are on for your group.. time and place
7. If you need to, finish the Problems Solving exam and turn it in first thing next Thursday. Do not use other folks for help, but you can use your book, internet, or the Answers on the website for similar problems.
Week 7, Part 2: Group work: After your group goes over the Practice questions you worked on individually, Work together on the Practice Test for Week 7, found under the Practice test link. There are 30 questions, just like the on in class on Thursday. You should be able to do each problem in around 1 minute, so practice not only doing the problem, but get so that you don’t spend time trying to remember how to do it.. you can remember quickly how to answer the question. Struggling to remember is preparing to forget. The conections are not strong enough. Exercise them. We will also have a Problem Solving test this week, and I will post a Problem Solving practice test later this week. There will be 4 questions: a 3×3, finding the solution for a linear equation, a geometry or modular arithmetic problem, and a growth/decay problem.
Week 7, Part 1:
1. Do the problems found under the Practice tab for Week 7
2. email me with your summary by noon Monday
3. Double and triple review the old quizzes and practice tests along with the answers. Print them out and quiz yourself on problems when you have a spare few minutes. Our quiz next week will have a bigger dose of review problems. Make sure you get them down. I will be available before class next Thursday. Let me know if you are planning to come in early. I will not be online Monday or Tuesday evening, but I should be online Wednesday evening for help.
Week 6, Part 2: Group work.
1. Review Practice problems from Part 1 (20 minutes)
2. Review Week 5 quizzes and answers, along with Week 5 Practice test (20 minutes)
3. Simplify: x^(-3/4)y^(2/3)/(x^(5/2)(y^(-1/4))) Mathway.com
4. Make your own examples and check. (15 mintutes)
5. Determine the inverse of the equation y = (2x-3)/5
6. Solve: (-27)^(4/3)
7. Solve 16^(5/4)
8. f(x) = x^2 – x + 3 g(x) = 3x – 2 Find f(g(x))
9. Suppose you need to buy 50 gloves. Gloves cost $1, or $3, or some cost $5. You must spend $140. You must buy as many $3 gloves as you buy the $1 and $5 gloves combined.
Week 6, Part 1:
1. Do the Week 6 Part 1 problems found on the Practice tab above
2. Review examples in the textbook, Cluster 2, Chapter 2
3. Make sure of your group time and place
4. email me with a summary of your Part 1 work before noon on Monday
5. Prepare questions for your group meeting
Week 5, Part 2: Group work. Make sure you email me your Part 1 summary before Monday at noon. I have included time estimates for each piece for your consideration, but remember the goal is to help each other succeed.
1. Review old quizzes, Week 3 and Week 4. Work with each other so you can get these problems, or similar ones, correct on Thursday. If you have members still with issues, refer them to go to the Quasr, email or IM me, or get other help. (20 minutes)
2. Review Part 1 problems, Under Practice tab. Look at answers. Make sure you can do these problems. They are similar to what you will see this Thursday on the Tool test. (20 minutes)
3. Work on this problems together. Solve for x,y, and z. The sum of the 3 numbers are 8. The first number equals the sum of the second number plus the third number. Twice the second number equals twice the third number plus the first number. (15 minutes)
4. Walk through Exercise 2.1 #1. Check answers in the back of the text ( 15 minutes)
5 . Review other exercise questions for 2.1, 2.3, and 2.4. Pick the ones you have answers for in your edition of the textbook, and the ones your group is not sure about. On tables and graphs, sketch answers quickly or just talk through how to do them. Help each other.(20 minutes)
6. You will have a practice test posted some time on Tuesday. If your group meets after the Week 5 practice test is posted, you can look through these questions. If not, you might want to exchange phone/email/IM information so you can talk to each other if you get stumped on a question.
Week 5, Part 1 To me completed before noon, April 26:
1. Make sure of your group meeting time, date and place
2. Review Quiz 2 and answers
3. Do the problems found under the Practice tab
Week 5, Part 1
4. Make SURE you email me with your summary of your work on these problems before noon on Monday, April 26. This will be worth 10 points, or 0 points if it is not submitted on time.
5. Review sections 2.1, 2.3 and 2.4 in your text.
6. Prepare questions for your group about problems you need help with.
7. Use your HELP resources to get help, including IMing me
Week 4, Part 2: Group work: If your group is having trouble meeting, let me know right away and see if you can join another group for the week. It is very important to put a high priority on your group work. Focus on your learning and helping your group mates to learn the material. The only thing you will turn in will be the email summary of your group emailer.
1. Review the Practice problems you all did before your group meeting. Discuss any confusions and problems.
2. Check your understanding by quickly working through these similar probelms:
1. Solve for y: 3y/2 – x + 4 = (-2) – 3x – 7
2. Make up other similar problems, check using www.mathway.com
3. 1.9 Ex 1 (use regression calc.. discuss)
4. 1.10 Ex 7c
5. 1.11 Ex 3a
6. 1.12 Ex 3
7. 1.13 #18
8. 1.14 #2
9. 1.15 Ex 5c, 9
3. Correct and discuss as you go. Get help with ones you cannot figure out. These will be the foundation of Quiz 2 in class.
4. Review Quiz 1
5. We will have a 2 question quiz on problems solving in class. They will be similar to these samples:
a. College A has an enrollment of 5,000 and is growing at the rate of 50 students per quarter. College B has an enrollment 3,500 and is growing at the rate of 200 per quarter. How many quarters until College B has more students than College A, and how big will it be then?
b. The sum of 3 numbers is 11. The third number is equal to twice the second number plus the first number. Twice the first number plus the third number is equal to three times the second number. Find each number. answers to the above 2 problems:
6. Make sure you have your emailer email me before Thursday with the people who attended your group, where and when you met, and a summary of how the session went. Include problems you are having. Every person attending and participating will get credit for the activity, but only if you submit and email and are listed as a participant.
Week 4 Part 1: Do before next group meeting
1. Make sure you add me to your messenger contacts. See me online some time soon. I may post an assignment under NOTES on the home page, so check this regularly
2. Do the problems on the PRACTICE tab above for week 4. Make sure you prepare questions for your group members for any problems you cannot do or do not understand well. Correct your answers on the ANSWER tab above
3. As you have time, quiz yourself on the sample test questions… on the bus, in the shower.. etc. Practice recall. I will post the first quiz under the Practice Test tab
4. Review resource website, including graphing sites and tutorial sites
5. Get help if you need it
Week 3, Part 2: Group work
1. Elect a group emailer. This person will record what you do in this session and email me by Wednesday. This person will get an extra 10 points for their efforts. Plan to keep the same person in this position for the quarter. Write down who is present, when and where you are meeting.
2. Review and correct the problems for Part 1 below. These should be finished BEFORE your session. Review and discuss
3. Review the Activity Walking for Fitness, Activity 1.5 Review the concept of Average Rate of Change. Check your understanding by doing Exercise 1.5 #9. After you finish, check your answers. If you are incorrect, find your errors. Try another similar problem if needed. If stumpted, prepare a question for class.
4. Review the Objectives, Definitions, and Examples for Activity 1.6. Reveiw the 1.6 summary. Do Ex 1.6 #7 (jet plane). Check your answers. Do #8. Check.
5. Review Activity 1.7, Check Definitions, Examples, and Summary. Try Ex 1.7 #1-#3. Check answers. Do Ex 1.7 #9, #11
6. Discuss how to find the equation for a line (y=mx+b) given 2 points. You will have problems and answers for these on the Practice test.
7. Skip 1.8 and 1.9 for now.
8. Read through Activity 1.10. Study the definition and Substitution method. Do together Ex 1.10 #1 a,c , #2 a-c. Check
9. Do the Practice Test for Week #3 together, on the tab above. Check your answers on the Answers tab. Discuss
10. Support each other in preparation for the exam on Thursday
Week 3, Part 1: Do BEFORE your Week 3 group meeting
1. Review the text of Lessons/Week 2. Questions??
2. Make sure of your group meeting time and place
3. Do the review problems, Week 3 Part 1 found on the
Practice tab at the top of the About Page.
4. Review the Week 1 practice problems and your
notes for week 2.
5. Email me if you have concerns or questions
6. Add atsp10abve@hotmail.com to your contacts
for Instant Messaging. Install MS Messenger
7. Play with the Week 2 resources.. Tutorials & Graph
8. Practice problems at www.mathway.com
Assignment: April 1
1. Do not finish Activity 1.1 or start Activity 1.2 until you meet in your groups Monday or Tuesday. Try to schedule over an hour for your group meeting this next week so you can have time to finish these 2 Activities as well as Activity 1.3. I will also post a practice quiz Sunday evening that you can practice together in your groups. You will turn in 1 set of papers for your entire group, that will include all of 1.1 along with the assigned sections of 1.2 and 1.3. I will post the problems you want to do on Sunday. Make sure you include the names of all the people who attended your group meeting and worked on the assignment.
Complete by next Thursday, April 8L
a. Activity 1.1
b. Activity 1.2 (skip problem 8 and 9, page 17, 10e page 18))
c. Activity 1.3 (skip problem 3, page 23, 4 and 5 page 24, 9 page 27)
d. Prepare 1 set of papers per group for submission at the start of class on Thursday. Include the names of every member who worked on the assignment and include the Date, time, and place where you met to complete the assignment.
e. Go to the Home Page (About). Go to the Practice link. Work together in your groups and separately on the practice test so you are prepared for the quiz on Thursday. Make sure you are following the Notes section on the About home page.
2. Download GRE from the Resources link. Try a test
3. Email me at atsp10abve@hotmail.com. Use the email
you want folks in the class to use to contact you. In the
note tell me why you are taking this class and an
an idea of your math past and future.
4. Get communication tools on your computer (IM, Skype..)
5. Explore web tools, resources, websites