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Wednesday, 5 September 2012

Sept 5. First Day of Class!

Welcome to Functions and Applications!

Learning Goals:

  1. Understand the expectations for the course.
  2. Review essential skills: Evaluating and graphing by table of values.

Here are some important handouts from today:

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We then discussed what an ideal classroom Looks Like, Sounds Like and Feels Like:

LOOKS LIKE
Organized, tidy, clean
Proper use of technology

SOUNDS LIKE
Listening, quiet (music on personal devices)
No cell phones going off.

FEELS LIKE
Everyone Understands, on the same page
Warm
Safe, No put downs, no bully


These are all great ideas!  We will add to these items as more ideas come up throughout the course.
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Next we began to review some material that will be essential to this course.



Example: Evaulate   when
Solution: 




Example: Sketch  using a table of values.
Solution: 


We then plotted the ordered pairs on a graph and got a parabola.

Now try questions #1-12 from page 2 of the textbook (photocopied for you).

See how much you remember from last year and be prepared with questions to ask me tomorrow.


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