Schedule of Topics and Assignments (2021-22)
Week of May 16 - May 20
Mon: Trig Derivatives and the Chain Rule (11-2)
Week of May 23 - May 27
Final Exams
May 28: Graduation
PAST ASSIGNMENTS
August 20
Fri: Course Introduction
Screencasts to watch before class
How to Watch a Screen cast
PreCalc Honors Course Design
PreCalc Honors Syllabus
Homework due before next class
Read the article Retrieval Practice
Take the Myers-Briggs Test
Complete the Student Information Survey
Watch the Screencast for the Chapter 2 Overview
Week of August 23 - August 27
Mon: Analytic Trig (1-1), Calculator use (1-3)
p. 25 # 3, 5, 8, 10, 15, 18
Screencast: The Unit Circle (1-2)
Wed (Red): The Unit Circle (1-2)
18 # 1 – 17 odd
Thurs: Quiz on 1-1 & 1-3
Introduce yourself through FlipGrid
Watch the screencast for Vector Basics (1-4)
Chapter 1 Prep Quiz opens
Week of August 30 - September 3
Mon: Vectors (1-4)
p 36 # 1 – 15 odd
Wed (Blue): Watch the screencast for Vector Conversions and Sums (1-4)
Thurs: Unit Circle Quiz; Vectors (1-4)
p 36 # 17 – 23 odd
Week of September 6 - September 11
Tues: Review Day
Th (Red Wed): Chapter 1 Test
Week of September 13 - September 17
Mon: Graphs of Sinusoidal Equations
Thurs: Sinusoidal Graphing Quiz, Solving Sinusoidal Equations (2-2)
Week of September 20 - September 24
Mon: Mathematical Modeling with Sinusoidals
Thurs: Quiz on 2-1 to 2-3; Intro to Reciprocal and Quotient Graphs
Week of September 27 - October 1
Mon: Review Day; Reciprocal and Quotient Graphs
Week of October 4 - October 8
Mon: Quotient, Reciprocal, and Pythagorean Identities (3-1)
Week of October 11 - October 16
Mon: Composite Argument Identities
Thurs: Double Angle Argument Identities
Week of October 18 - October 22
Mon: Double Angle Argument Identities
Week of October 25 - October 29
Mon: Review Day
Thurs: Chapter 3 Group Test
Watch the Screencast for the Chapter 4 Overview, Review of Linear Equations (4-1), Review of Linear Equations (4-2)
Week of November 1 - November 5
Mon: Review of Linear and Quadratic Equations (4-1 & 4-2)
Week of November 8 - November 12
Mon: Optimization by Calculator (4-4)
Thurs: Higher Order Zeros by Synthetic Substitution (4-5)
Week of November 15 - November 19
Mon: Sign Patterns (4-6)
Thurs: Review Day
Week of November 22 – November 23
Mon: Chapter 4 Test
Week of November 31 - December 3
Mon: The Indeterminate Form and Limits (5-1); Slope of a Tangent Line (5-2)
Thurs: The Power Rule (5-3); Local Linearity (5-4)
Week of December 6 - December 10
Mon: Rectilinear Motion (5-5)
Week of December 13 - December 17
Final Exams
December 19- January 1:
Christmas Vacation
Week of January 3 - January 7
Wed: Review Final
Thurs: Review Motion (5.5); Parametric Motion (5.6)
Week of January 10 - January 14
Mon: Chapter 6 Overview; Critical Values and Extremes (6-1)
Week of January 17 - January 21
Mon: MLK Holiday
Tues: General Polynomial Sketching (6-4)
Week of January 24 - January 28
Mon: Chapter 6 Review Day
Week of January 31- February 5
Mon: Chapter 7 Overview; Zeros, Vertical Asymptotes, and POEs (7-1)
Week of February 7 - February 11
Mon: End Behavior (7-3 and 7-4)
Thurs: The Quotient Rule (7-5)
Week of February 14 - February 18
Mon: General Rational Sketching (7-6)
Week of February 21 - February 26
Mon: Presidents’ Day
Tues: Chapter 8 Overview; Zeros and Domains of Radicals (8-1)
Week of February 28 - March 4
Mon: Chapter 8 Overview; Zeros and Domains of Radicals (8-1); The Chain Rule (8-2)
Thurs: Extreme Points of Radicals (8-3)
Week of March 7 - March 11
Mon: Radical Curve Sketching (8-4)
Week of March 14 - March 17
Mon: Related Rates (8-6)
Week of March 21 - March 25
Mon: Continuity (9-2); Differentiability (9-3)
Week of March 28 - April 1
Mon: Sketching Piece-wise Defined Functions
Week of April 4 - April 8
Mon: Chapter 10 Overview; Exponential and Log Review (10-1); Zeros, VAs and Domains (10-2)
Thurs: Log and Exponential Derivative Rules (10-3)
Week of April 11 - April 13
Mon: The Product Rule (10-4)
Easter Break
Week of April 25 - April 29
Mon: Limits and L’Hopital’s Rule (10-5)
Thurs: End Behavior (10-6)
Week of May 2 - May 6
Mon: Exponential and Product Graphing (10-7)
Week of May 9 - May 13
Mon: Logarithmic Sketching (10-8)
Week of May 16 - May 20
Mon: Trig Derivatives and the Chain Rule (11-2)
- 849 # 1 – 17 odd;
- 855 #1 – 17 odd
Week of May 23 - May 27
Final Exams
May 28: Graduation
PAST ASSIGNMENTS
August 20
Fri: Course Introduction
Screencasts to watch before class
How to Watch a Screen cast
PreCalc Honors Course Design
PreCalc Honors Syllabus
Homework due before next class
Read the article Retrieval Practice
Take the Myers-Briggs Test
Complete the Student Information Survey
Watch the Screencast for the Chapter 2 Overview
Week of August 23 - August 27
Mon: Analytic Trig (1-1), Calculator use (1-3)
p. 25 # 3, 5, 8, 10, 15, 18
Screencast: The Unit Circle (1-2)
Wed (Red): The Unit Circle (1-2)
18 # 1 – 17 odd
Thurs: Quiz on 1-1 & 1-3
Introduce yourself through FlipGrid
Watch the screencast for Vector Basics (1-4)
Chapter 1 Prep Quiz opens
Week of August 30 - September 3
Mon: Vectors (1-4)
p 36 # 1 – 15 odd
Wed (Blue): Watch the screencast for Vector Conversions and Sums (1-4)
Thurs: Unit Circle Quiz; Vectors (1-4)
p 36 # 17 – 23 odd
Week of September 6 - September 11
Tues: Review Day
- Ch 1 Summary Sheet due
- Do 2017-18 Chapter 1 Test for Practice
Th (Red Wed): Chapter 1 Test
- Watch the Screencast for the Chapter 2 Overview
Week of September 13 - September 17
Mon: Graphs of Sinusoidal Equations
- p 60 # 1 – 25 odd
Thurs: Sinusoidal Graphing Quiz, Solving Sinusoidal Equations (2-2)
- p 72 # 1 – 15 odd
Week of September 20 - September 24
Mon: Mathematical Modeling with Sinusoidals
- p 81 # 1 – 15 odd
Thurs: Quiz on 2-1 to 2-3; Intro to Reciprocal and Quotient Graphs
- Chapter 2 Prep Quiz opens
Week of September 27 - October 1
Mon: Review Day; Reciprocal and Quotient Graphs
- p 92 # 1, 4, 5, 9, 11, 13, 14, 15
- Summary Sheet due
- Chapter 2 Prep Quiz closes
- Watch the Screencast for the Chapter 3 Overview
Week of October 4 - October 8
Mon: Quotient, Reciprocal, and Pythagorean Identities (3-1)
- p. 127 # 1 – 15 odd, 16
- Watch the Screencast for Trig Identities and Factoring (3-2)
- p. 136 # 1 – 21 e.o. odd
Week of October 11 - October 16
Mon: Composite Argument Identities
- p. 145 # 1 – 13 odd
Thurs: Double Angle Argument Identities
- p. 151 # 1 – 13 odd
Week of October 18 - October 22
Mon: Double Angle Argument Identities
- p. 151 # 1 – 13 odd
- p. 170 #1 - 33 e.o. odd
Week of October 25 - October 29
Mon: Review Day
- Summary Sheet Due
Thurs: Chapter 3 Group Test
Watch the Screencast for the Chapter 4 Overview, Review of Linear Equations (4-1), Review of Linear Equations (4-2)
Week of November 1 - November 5
Mon: Review of Linear and Quadratic Equations (4-1 & 4-2)
- p. 213 # 1 – 13 odd; p. 222 # 1 – 15 odd, 21
- Watch the Screencast for Complete Graphs Parts 1, 2, and 3 (4-3)
- p. 234 # 1 – 8
- Watch the Screencast for Optimization by Calculator (4-4)
Week of November 8 - November 12
Mon: Optimization by Calculator (4-4)
- p. 245 # 1 - 8
Thurs: Higher Order Zeros by Synthetic Substitution (4-5)
- p. 258 # 1, 5 – 15 odd, 16, 18
Week of November 15 - November 19
Mon: Sign Patterns (4-6)
- p. 268 # 1 – 15 odd
- Ch 4 Prep Quiz opens
Thurs: Review Day
- Summary Sheet Due
Week of November 22 – November 23
Mon: Chapter 4 Test
- Watch the Screencast for Chapter 5 Overview; The Indeterminate Form and Limits (5-1); Slope of a Tangent Line (5-2)
Week of November 31 - December 3
Mon: The Indeterminate Form and Limits (5-1); Slope of a Tangent Line (5-2)
- p. 292 # 1 – 19 odd, skip 13; p. 300 # 1 – 15 odd
Thurs: The Power Rule (5-3); Local Linearity (5-4)
- p 307 # 1 – 11 odd
- Watch the screencast for Rectilinear Motion (5-5)
Week of December 6 - December 10
Mon: Rectilinear Motion (5-5)
- p 314 # 1 – 15 odd
- Practice Final Exam
- Summary Sheet due
- Practice Final Exam KEY
Week of December 13 - December 17
Final Exams
December 19- January 1:
Christmas Vacation
Week of January 3 - January 7
Wed: Review Final
Thurs: Review Motion (5.5); Parametric Motion (5.6)
- p. 323 # 1 – 15 odd, 330 # 1 – 9 odd
- Chapter 5 Prep Quiz opens
Week of January 10 - January 14
Mon: Chapter 6 Overview; Critical Values and Extremes (6-1)
- p. 352 # 1 – 19 e.o.odd
- p. 362 # 1, 3, 11, 13, 16, 19, 21, 25, 27, 29
- Chapter 5 Prep Quiz Closes
Week of January 17 - January 21
Mon: MLK Holiday
Tues: General Polynomial Sketching (6-4)
- p 388 # 3 - 9 odd
- p 388 17, 18, 19, 21
- Chapter 6 Prep Quiz opens
Week of January 24 - January 28
Mon: Chapter 6 Review Day
- Summary Sheet due
- Chapter 6 Prep Quiz closes at 10pm
Week of January 31- February 5
Mon: Chapter 7 Overview; Zeros, Vertical Asymptotes, and POEs (7-1)
- p. 438 #1 – 21 e.o.odd
- p. 450 # 1, 3, 5, 7, 10, 13, 15, 17, 21
Week of February 7 - February 11
Mon: End Behavior (7-3 and 7-4)
- p. 461 # 7 - 19 odd; p 468 # 5, 7, 9, 11
Thurs: The Quotient Rule (7-5)
- p. 479 # 1 – 9 odd, 11, 13, 18, 19, 22, 25, 27; p 482 #4
Week of February 14 - February 18
Mon: General Rational Sketching (7-6)
- p. 496 # 4 – 7 (do one each), 9, 14, 19 or 21, 22 or 25
- p. 507 # 1 - 7 odd;
- Chapter 7 Prep Quiz opens
Week of February 21 - February 26
Mon: Presidents’ Day
Tues: Chapter 8 Overview; Zeros and Domains of Radicals (8-1)
- p. 550 # 1 – 19 odd
Week of February 28 - March 4
Mon: Chapter 8 Overview; Zeros and Domains of Radicals (8-1); The Chain Rule (8-2)
- 550 # 3, 7, 8, 10, 13, 17, 19
- 558 # 1, 2, 3, 7, 9; p. 560 # 1 – 5 odd
Thurs: Extreme Points of Radicals (8-3)
- p. 570 # 5, 10, 11, 14, 15, 18, 19
- Quiz on 8-1 to 8-3 opens
Week of March 7 - March 11
Mon: Radical Curve Sketching (8-4)
- 586 # 3, 7, 9, 11, 13
- 593 # 1 – 13 odd
Week of March 14 - March 17
Mon: Related Rates (8-6)
- 602 # 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 14
- 639 # 1 – 4, p. 640 1, 2, 3
- Chapter 8 Prep Quiz opens
Week of March 21 - March 25
Mon: Continuity (9-2); Differentiability (9-3)
- p. 651 # 4, 6; p. 652 # 3, 5
- p. 660 # 1, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11; p. 661 # 1, 6, 7
- Chapter 8 Summary Sheet due
- Chapter 8 Prep Quiz closes at 10pm
- Chapter 9 Prep Quiz opens
Week of March 28 - April 1
Mon: Sketching Piece-wise Defined Functions
- 679 # 1, 4, 8, 13
- Chapter 9 Summary Sheet due
- Chapter 9 Prep Quiz closes at 10pm
Week of April 4 - April 8
Mon: Chapter 10 Overview; Exponential and Log Review (10-1); Zeros, VAs and Domains (10-2)
- 724 # 2, 5, 7, 9, 15, 17, 25
Thurs: Log and Exponential Derivative Rules (10-3)
- 732 # 1, 2, 5, 6, 7 – 13 odd
Week of April 11 - April 13
Mon: The Product Rule (10-4)
- p745 # 5 (MCQ), p. 742 # 1, 4 or 5, 11, 13 or 15
- 742 # 15, 16, 23, 29, 31
Easter Break
Week of April 25 - April 29
Mon: Limits and L’Hopital’s Rule (10-5)
- 750 # 1, 3, 5, 9, 10, 11, 13
Thurs: End Behavior (10-6)
- 758 # 1 25 e.o.odd
Week of May 2 - May 6
Mon: Exponential and Product Graphing (10-7)
- In-Class: 770 # 7, 9, 11, 12, 15
- Turn in one problem from p 770 # 7, 9, 11, 15
- In-Class: p771 # 18 – 21, 24, 26, 28
Week of May 9 - May 13
Mon: Logarithmic Sketching (10-8)
- 788 # 3, 5, 8, 9, 10, 13
- Chapter 10 Summary Sheet due
- Chapter 10 Prep Quiz closes at 10pm