February

Here are the class documents, links, and other materials for the month of February.

**Week 1 (February 3--4)**
 * == **February 3**: Clicker questions on Alice and Betty's race - [|Calculus concept activity.pdf] (//ANSWERS//: C (It's a tie), B (Betty)) ==
 * **February 4**:
 * Class presentation on Functions [|Stewart1-1.pdf]
 * Class Technology Resources page: Download and install Winplot, and work through the instructional videos linked at the third bullet point.

**Week 2 (February 7--11)**
 * **February 7**: Math Placement Exam. [|Click here to log in to myFC], then go to **Math Placement Test** in the right sidebar and click Take Test. Follow the instructions; there are TWO parts to the MPE you need to take. Each will take 25-30 minutes.
 * **February 8:**
 * Videos referenced in class that pertain to exercises in 1.1:
 * [|Domain, Range, and Interval Notation]
 * [|Functions, Part 1]
 * [|Functions, Part 2]
 * Class presentation on Mathematical Models- [|Stewart1-2.pdf]
 * Section 1.2 Clicker questions- [|Stewart1-2clicker.pdf] (ANSWERS: B; C; B; B ; A; A; A)
 * **February 10**:
 * Data file: Gas prices in January- [|January gas prices.xls]
 * Data file: US unemployment rate- [|U.S. Unemployment Rates.xls]
 * [|Winplot-excel activity]
 * [|Debrief of this activity] (Click the link to go to Screencast.com, where you can watch a video)
 * Videos on using Excel:
 * [|Creating a nice scatter plot in Excel] (7:15) (<- This one refers to "Concept Test 8" because it was made for a previous MAT 135 class. Ignore all references to that assignment.)
 * [|Using Excel to plot data and get linear models] (5:48)

Week 3 (Feb 14--18)

 * **February 14:**
 * Video: [|Fitting an exponential function through two points] (8:58) -- goes with exercises 17 and 18 in Stewart 1.5.
 * Blog post: [|How to memorize the value of //e// to 15 decimal places]
 * **February 15**:
 * Clicker questions on logarithms (1.6)- [|Stewart1-6clicker.pdf] (ANSWERS: B; A; B; B; B; B)
 * Quiz 1 with complete solutions - [|Quiz1soln.pdf]
 * **February 17:**
 * Slides for Stewart 2.1 presentation - [|Stewart2-1 slides.pdf] I have full-page versions of these too, available upon request.
 * Larger version of graphic near the end of that presentation - [|Alice-eps-converted-to.png] Note: The orange text is supposed to say "s(1.75)" not "s(1.5)".
 * Alice's position graph - [|Alice position graph.pdf]
 * Clicker questions for 2.1 - [|Stewart2-1clicker.pdf] (Answers: C, A, C, C, C, C)
 * **February 18:**
 * Clicker question review of average/instantaneous velocity - [|Stewart2-2clicker.pdf] (ANSWERS: A, A, C)
 * Graph referenced in clicker question review - [|2-1 clicker review graph.pdf]
 * Presentation on limits - [|2-2 presentation slides.pdf]

Week 4 (Feb 21--25)

 * February 21: Slides for Stewart 2.3 presentation - [|Stewart2-3 slides.pdf]
 * February 22: [|Concept Check 1] assigned.
 * Video: [|Finding the equation of a tangent line] (9:51)
 * Video: [|Calculating limits with the limit laws, part 1] (9:38)
 * Video: [|Calculating limits with the limit laws, part 2] (4:43)
 * Video: [|Calculating limits with the limit laws, part 3] (5:32)
 * Video: [|Calculating limits with the limit laws, part 4] (4:58)
 * February 24:
 * Slides for Stewart 2.5 presentation - [|Stewart2-5 slides.pdf] (Clicker questions handed out in class)
 * Quiz 2 with solutions - 
 * February 25:
 * Clicker questions from 2.6 - [|Stewart2-6clicker.pdf] (Answers: B, E, A, B, D, C, E, B, A)
 * Assessment 1 from Fall 2010 - [|F10 Assessment 1.pdf] Your Assessment 1 will not be broken into three parts like this one is, but it covers the same material and in the same kinds of ways.
 * Here's Assessment 1 from Fall 2010 with the solutions - [|F10 Assessment 1 Solutions.pdf]

Week 5 (Feb 28)

 * February 28
 * Review clicker questions - [|A1review.pdf] (Answers: E, E, C, D, instantaneous velocity is about 53.1428, A, B, A, B, A, C, C, A)
 * Large version of graph of car's position - [|a1review-plot1.pdf]