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Article 13, Al Upton, and the minilegends
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You can also read more about Article 13 and the Convention on the Rights of the Child here. This movie illustrates what it's all about:
You can also read more about Article 13 and the Convention on the Rights of the Child here. This movie illustrates what it's all about:
March 17, 2008
Today's class went similar to the class last Friday. Mr. K assigned people into different groups of three or four students, each group having at least one AP Calculus student. He wants the non-AP students to learn from their peers and the AP students to apply what they've learned before. The first proof that was done was the derivative of the power function, but before that Mr. K refreshed our memory about the binomial theorem. Next we worked on the proof of the derivative of a constant times a function. Then, we applied what we know about limits to prove the derivative of sum and difference of functions. Thats about everything that happened in class today. The next scribe will be rusz.l.
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Scribe #1
Sorry for the late scribe everyone, but this week has been very hectic for me. Well Tuesday's class began very differently than usual. The class began with Mr. K splitting everyone into groups of two or three students, with each group having at least one AP calculus student. Mr. K wanted the AP calc students to be the teachers and the intro calc students to be attentive and learn what the AP calc students were teaching them. The first proof that was to be solved was (F(x+h) - F(x)) /h where (mx+b) was plugged in for (x). The derivative of mx+b is m, as shown in the slides from Class below this blog post. The second proof was plugging in a constant (K) in for x. Where the derivative of the constant is always zero (0). The derivative of K is zero (0). That was the class for the shown proofs scroll down below this post to see the proof slides. The next scribe is M@rk.
Friday, March 14, 2008
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