Saturday, November 20th

Hi all,

We got where we needed to today - finished chapter 9, talked briefly about section 8.1, and then a bit on exponents - enough so that we could appreciate scientific notation.

Next Saturday - the Saturday after Thanksgiving - is review. I won't have any new material planned - bring your questions and we'll figure stuff out.

The week after that is the final exam! A third to a half of the questions will come from the new material - section 8.1, chapter 9, section 10.1 and the appendix. There is NO redo on the final, so gear up! We get a page of notes and a calculator for the final. The exam starts at 9am on Saturday, December 4th, in our regular classroom, and it'll be about as long as the first two exams.

Homework for Saturday:

Section 8.1: 21-24, 45-97 EOO

Chapter 9 test, pages 942-945: 1-38, 42, 46

Section 10.1: 25-85 EOO

Appendix 4.3 (pages 295-298 in the appendix): 1-93 EOO



ADDITIONAL PRACTICE FOR THE FINAL:

Chapters 1-9 cumulative review, pages 946-947 (skip 46-50)

Chapters 1-10 cumulative review, pages 980-985 (skip 82-88, 105-108, and 113-120) (OR: do 1-81, 89-104, and 109-114)


Good luck everyone - have a nice Thanksgiving!

-Dave

Saturday, November 13th

Hi everyone,

We covered the first five sections of chapter 9 today, and then redid the exam in the afternoon section.

Next week is jam-packed with excitement! We will:

-Finish chapter 9 in the morning

-Do course evaluations first thing when we come back after lunch (1:10 pm)

-Cover section 8.1 on graphs and tables

-Cover section 10.1 on exponents, and the appendix on scientific notation

Whee! Next week is the end of the new content. We have class on the Saturday of Thanksgiving weekend, but I will not cover any new stuff - it will all be review for the final exam.

Homework for next week:

Section 9.1 : 1 - 21 ODD, 65, 69, 71, 87, 92

Section 9.2: 15, 23, 25, 31, 33, 35, 37, 46

Section 9.3: 13 - 19 odd, 25-39 odd, 65, 67, 71, 73

Section 9.4: 11 - 59 EOO

Section 9.5: 13. 29. 31, 35, 37, 41 - 55 odd, 71, 73, 77, 81, 83, 87, 89

See you next Saturday!

-Dave

Saturday, November 6th

We took the second exam today. How did you do? We will get them back next week to make changes and get some partial credit, same as we did for the first exam.

We also covered chapter seven today (percentages).

Next week we will talk about section 8.1 and start chapter 9, and redo the exam. The week after that we will finish chapter 9, and cover section 10.1 and the appendix on Scientific Notation. The Saturday after Thanksgiving we review for the final, and then the final exam and whew!

Homework for Saturday, November 13th - Chapter seven test, pages 732-734, 1 - 36. You might look at some of the chapter test problems, or homework from section 7.4 to review the hard stuff from this chapter.

See you next week!

-DAve