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Welcome to our mutual venture into the land of math blogging. This is the place to come when you did not quite understand that last topic from class, or you were too shy to ask your question, or you want to share an interesting and useful math website or new problem-solving strategy, or maybe just to chat about your math struggles and/or successes.
As with everything, you will get out what you put in.
So let's get started. Here is your 1st assignment. The first 2 people that respond appropriately will receive a 105% for this assignment. (It will be your job to help others figure out how to get here and post.) Everyone must respond by midnight, Friday April 13.
Go here http://www.adm.uwaterloo.ca/infocs/study/curve.html and read about The Forgetting Curve.
1. Describe how this relates to your study habits. Do those numbers seem accurate? What specific changes could you make which would make learning math easier for you?
Blogging is just one way to revisit a new piece of information. Below each post you will see a section for comments. Use these comments to help and learn from your friends but also as way to review new info. Keep that curve high!
2. Think back over this past year and identify one or two particular calculus concepts that were, and maybe still are, particularly troubling for you. Ask 1 or 2 questions (on the blog) about these topics whose answers might help give you a better understanding. Remember, the final still awaits. This is your chance to get your questions heard.
Once you finish your assignment, go here http://oos.moxiecode.com/examples/cubeoban/ to play a fun and deceptively challenging game. Level 1 is automatic. Level 2 is a quick hello. It's not until level 3 that you will appreciate the game. Remember, this is for AFTER you finish your assignment!
Happy bloggin'.
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9 comments:
-In the forgetting curve, the % lost in the second day seems hard to believe, however it appears to be true (at least in my experience)for the rest of the days since by a 30 day period of time can remember almost nothing of what I learned. The curve created by reviewing is amazing too cause i never thought that reveiwing just a little could help so much. I think this method could be somthing not so time consuming and easy to do and could help a lot to keep the math concepts (and those from other subjects) fresh in my mind.
I don't really have any question for a particular topic that i can remember, however the optimization is still a little complicated for me and it would be good if it were reexplained to me
1. The forgetting curve is seems a real conclucion about how your brains work with the things we learn everyday. This demostrates that homework really work and revising it every some time works a lot making your life easier in mid terms.
2. I am having trouble in the topics of Extrema, Optimization, and Concavity. I dont know why really bust since y learned ths i have had problems. I dont really have a question about this topic because I dont know it in general.
Sir, the game ends on level 30!!! I don't like it anymore
100% to 50% in 24 hrs?! Not so drastic actually. I’ve seen people drop from 100 to 0 as they walk out of the classroom. So that curve is way too general. I enjoy my learning fully. I have no regrets. However, I have a tip for you math lovers, even if you never struggle. Solve your mysteries in the shower. During your sleep. While you walk. Unleash the demon inside you. That demon that dies and lives for knowledge. Enjoy time where there is none. Life is too short to be passive. I wish I could follow my own tip fully.
I do have a question about the test: As one deals with an equation and performs integration, constants come up. As we have witnessed previously, a constant may vary throughout the process of simplifying such equation. And although the last step or result is what matters, the previous steps are false. Does the AP test require the test-takers to point out which constants are different from one another?
I believe that the forgetting curve is too exagerated. I have a really bad memory, however, I forget less than 50% of a lesson after a day and less than 97% after a month. That is too much. Furthermore, I am conscious that if I practice and refresh my memory daily I will better at math.
I have problems with optimization problems. My struggle is in the word problem and generating its equation. Once I have the equation I can easily differentiate it and apply the first derivative test.
hehe well, that honestly amazes me and makes me think that all of us should study a few minutes daily in order to come fully prepared for the next class. Although i dont think you loose 50% of what you learned on a day, you should loose about 25% and thats a reason of why we should all study.
For questions, i am not fully happy on resolving those integrations where you need to split the problem into fractions to get to the answer.
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