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Reactions Wanted!! Due Monday 8/22
Read "A Mathematician's Lament" by Paul Lockhart. You will take a side on this argument. Write a one-page reaction to the provocative document. I'm really digging here for your true opinions. Don't be shy and don't think the 'establishment' will root you out as a dissenter for thinking out of the box on this one...

Limit Videos--Watch before Wed 8/24
Calculus for math-phobes (watch Limits 1 and Limits 2)

University of Houston Limits
Watch this after reading "Lament"--(~11 min)
MC Mondays Limits Packet--due 9/16
Limits Wiki for assistance (designed by Mark Pickering)
Answers to Limits WKST #4
What the heck is a derivative? video
9/22 Talk about parallel a universe all you IdeaFest folks!!! Now here's the alternate definition of the derivative! NOTES
9/26--Power Rule Notes
Test Corrections-- Using a two-column template, detail your wrongdoings in the left column, and correct your errors in the "right" column. Do this for each problem you got incorrect. This will help you decide what packet you need to work on.

1.2--Graphically & Numerically
1.3--Analytical
1.4--Continuity and One-sided Limits
1.5--Infinite limits and Vertical Asynptotes
3.5--Limits at Infinity
Test Corxns Due Wed. 10/5
EC Packets Due Fri 10/7
9/28 Product and Quotient Rule Notes
10/3 Chain Rule (Book chapter 2.4) Packet of derivative work from today
(solutions to chain rule homework)

10/5 Double Trouble Solutions (from the questionably infallible Purvis himself)

10/7 Review Worksheet--What you should know about derivatives so far... (Solutions)
10/19 Implicit Differentiation Notes
Download this program (grafEQ) for your home computer. It can graph any relation you can think of. It will help you get a picture of some of the more gnarly problems...
11/2--Related Rates Answers--cecbcdda
Derivative matching game 1, game 2, game 3
Multiple choice mondays--definition of derivative will be due next thursday (11/10) In addition, you will have a set of 45 (yes, forty-five), MC questions that deal with all topics covered to this point. These questions are also due on 11/10.
Due 12/9 --Multiple Choice MVT & Rolle's and Implicit Differentiation.
12/1 In case you missed it, Applications of derivative FUN worksheet and curve sketching review
Multiple Choice--Demystifying the AP Exam

Solutions 1-26
Read this article for class discussion on Monday 1/30: