02 Sep 08 Document Updates
Over on the right you will see links to handout pages for AB Calculus and Algebra II ACC. On these pages you will find class and chapter syllabi as well as class notes. All files are in PDF format. If you need a PDF reader I recommend either Adobe Reader or FoxIt Reader. Both are free.
Also on the right you will find homework assignment lists for each class. Each page is a Google spreadsheet that each class member has the ability to edit. I will do my best to update each page each day, but I’d like as much help as I can get. So, if you notice that a page is missing information, please update it.
26 Aug 08 Homework: 8/26/08
Here is the first day homework for all of my classes:
1) Fill out the Student Information Survey.
2) Write a two page essay outlining your history with math. Tell me how you feel about math. Be creative. You MUST bring the essay into class in digital form on a usb thumb drive. If you do not have a usb thumb drive email the essay to yourself and go out a buy a thumb drive as soon as possible. I will not accept paper copies of your essay.
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11 May 08 Congrats Everyone….
Hey Everyone,
Congrats…. The AP Calculus exam is over. Give yourself a pat on the back for a job well done. WE DID IT.
17 Mar 08 The Tablet PC Experience
Using the Tablet PC was pretty cool. You can do alot of neat things with it and it is a great way to make organized notes due to the many different colors that you can use. The key thing to using the tablet is writing the way you normaly would so don’t be afraid to put you hand and wrist on the screen (like if you writing on a piece of paper). Don’t worry, the screen can handle it. Plus this makes everything a lot easier. I found it to be easier than taking notes with paper. Today we took notes on section 6.2 and I found it to be extemely useful in making visuals. I had a litttle bit of trouble with the Quickplay button in the beginning. My hand kept hitting it so the DVD player would turn on. Other than that I think that it was a really cool experience and anyone who hasn’t tried it should try it. I know I may like to try it again sometime. It isn’t everyday that you get to use a piece of technology like this (only in AP Calculus).
17 Mar 08 tablet fun
The tablet pc has been very helpful during class. i can just listen and understand it more and don’t have to worry about writing whats on the board down. With the tablet its just sent to us in a email and theres no problem with writing something down wrong or just not getting it down fast enough. this is what i like most about the tablet pc.
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17 Mar 08 My tablet experience
My tablet experience
My first experience of using a tablet was absolutely fun. I felt like I was one of a head student in this class.
Using a tablet PC experience felt like my first experience of using IPod. Just like first experience of using iPod, it was so complicated, and hard to use it until I get comfortable. Once I felt convenient for using Ipot became my most important stuff as other people consider their lovely pet.. Using tablet experience was similar to those experiences. First time when I used it, I could not even draw the first line. Well, It got me into not falling sleep during class, which I spent 100% concentration to take notes during calculus notes. I even hardly draw lines especially when Mr Seamon draw a x-y graph, it was hard to and doing both listening and writing in one time. After that, I became comfortable, and liked to use, and eventually I enjoyed. I mean I did not want to give a chance to others; I started peerless thinking about having all to myself.
Well, it was a good experience to begin my day.
Well, since I am lazy boy, I would rather put class notes some steps only with the abbreviation of Mr. Season’s work. But by using this, I could even make some highlights of some important work.
The one that I didn’t like, I don’t know for sure; maybe takes sometime to adjust using it? I guess that is it.
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18 Feb 08 Chapter 5.2
Working with a tablet PC makes a lot of fun. I thought that it might be more difficult than it was in reality. Using the tablet is like writing on normal paper; I was able to erase easily and to change my colors even faster than it would have been with normal paper. Furthermore, all the notes are organized and well arranged. In addition, it is easier to call up the files in the computer than searching for them in your folder. It will be nice, if the school arranges those tablets for the math department, so that each student will be able to write on them and to use the notes as they wish. Although this tablet program is very comfortable (the students do not have to write everything down on their own) I have the feeling that when I write the notes from the class on my own, that I am able to understand and to follow the class better than without taking notes. This part is the only disadvantage that I can figure out by just one student using a tablet per class.
During class, we corrected the homework problems # 18, # 19, # 23, # 24 and # 28. Basically, we exercised a lot and deepened chapter 5.2, and the most important things to remember are the formulas of i, i^2 and i^3. The homework is on page 391 # 21 and 22.
I hope that I am able to use the tablet as soon as possible, because I definitely prefer to work with it than with my paper notes.
11 Feb 08 Using a tablet PC
Well, to start off, I have never used a tablet before and I thought it was going to be a very hard tool to get used to. Boy I was wrong. I really like that kind of computer, it allows you to write everything down that you could ever think of, best of all you can take notes on the monitor and then review them later without having the ink or pencil get washed away or erased.
In class today, our tests were handed back and we went over a few of the questions. To be exact, they were questions number 1, 4, and 5. We then decided when the due date would be for the corrections for the test, and that date was set to be Thursday February 14th.
From the end of that discussion we started working on Chapter 5 material. The first part of chapter 5 deals with estimating the area under a curve. (You can see how we did the problems in the attached document. We also determined that you can estimate or calculate the total distance traveled by a system using the same process of equations as finding the area under a curve (the area being the total distance traveled).
Comments on using a Tablet PC:
First- Don’t be afraid to press down on the screen when you are writing… The monitor is meant to take some pressure, and it makes writing much much easier.
Second- Use lots of colors, they add to the visual effect of the document and they also stimulate your eyes rather then looking over a black and white text the whole time.
Finally- Calibrate the pencil before you use it, when you are writing nothing is worse then the text coming up in a different place from where you write it. (Mr. Seamon can show you where to do it)
Thats all….. Hope it helps.
11 Feb 08 My tablet experience.
My tablet PC experience was something new for me, because it was the first time I saw one. The minute Mr Seamon brought them to the class everybody was so happy and excited, exept for me, and I asked Pedro what was that and he told me ” Its amazing, you’ll see” he was right it was amazing.
I have to say that iy was more easy to work on than a paper, also you can keep all your work clean and organized, you can change color easily and erase thing fast. but all this good things has its bad things, for example, its uncomfortable to put your arm in it, you can’t put find a way to put it. Also talking about myself I got so distracted with all the things, so I started to check it out forgetting the time I had for my exam.
I would definitely use the tablet PC, but not in a test or something like that, because I was so nervous for the first thing Mr Seamon told us ” if you mess this things up, you will need to pay all your College Tuition” and i didn’t want to lose all that, and for the test too.
17 Feb 08 2/15/08 Tablet
2/15/08 Notes A blockThis was the first time that I have used a tablet pc and it was more than a bit frustrating at first. The computer itself worked fine, but I did not pick up on it as quickly as I had hoped. The one major problem that I had was I hit the button on the pen several times in the middle of taking notes…very annoying. The good things about the tablet was that you are able to take colorful notes that are much easier to read when you want to go over them at a later time using any computer.
In class we went over problem #23 from the 5.2 homework. I didn’t get the question for homework the night before so I spent most of the class attempting to understand what was being taught instead of taking notes on the tablet. Basically what I learned was that you need to know the formulas on page 383.
I’m hoping that my next experience with the tablet will go much more smoothly, and that what I learned the first time will make me a bit faster at taking notes and much more comfortable at using the tablet pc overall.
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