SL – Review Set 2

Review Set 2 is set up exactly like the quiz – what’s different are the numbers.  🙂  This is your opportunity to see how I would work through a problem, but if you still don’t understand, here are your next steps:

1. Call a friend (or better yet, review with a friend in person!) and ask if they understand/can explain it to you
2. Call me if you still don’t get it (call me until 10pm or after 6am – you can text in between, and if I’m up, I’ll text back!)

Click here for the electronic copy of the Review Set on domain and range of equations, sign diagrams and the reciprocal function. 

And here are the links for the worked answers (there are several… sorry, I’m trying to figure out how to combine them):

• Page 1
• Page 2
• Page 3

Good luck studying!

Studies & SL: Your Math Interactive Notebook (MIN)

The IB exam in May 2013 is not that far away – and yet, it is far enough in the future that you may have forgotten some of the things we are studying now by the time you start revising for the exam.  Your MIN is your review guide for the IB test.

I will not tell you exactly what to put in your MIN.  All I require is that I can tell that you are preparing a review guide for yourself that will be valuable in the Spring of 2013.  That being said, here are recommendations for how to use the pages in your MIN (you have one page per objective).

• Flashcard pockets (envelopes or cut-out pockets)
• Diagrams
• Hidden-Answers
• Real-Life Examples
• Pictures
• Comic Strips (you make them or change dialogue in existing ones using white-out)
• Worked-out example (correct!)

As I have more examples that I include in my model MINs, I will scan them in and link to them on this page.

Basically, this is your notebook.  The only requirements I have are:

• Table of Contents
• Syllabus pasted in front inside cover
• MIN Requirements (full page, with criteria – NOT the halfsheet) pasted in back inside cover
• Every page numbered (or at least every odd page)
• Unit Mastery Tracking Page
• One review page per objective

Please see the “Today’s Homework” page for your subject to see the current requirements and due date for your class’s MIN.

Math Studies Sl – Information

Studies starts from the ground up and is primarily intended for students who do not intend to take engineering, science, pre-med or math in college.  We will still cover some review of what you did in Algebra II, so we won’t go in as much depth into topics as the SL class will, but we will cover a broader scope in general.  The Studies class includes financial mathematics, more statistics, and more number theory than SL does.  This will let you develop a broader appreciation for why math is important and how it relates to every subject.  [ Click here for the Studies syllabus. ]

Over the next two years, we will cover these items:

• Unit 1: Numbers (number sets, approximation, unit conversion, scientific notation…)
• Unit 2: Functions (domain/range, parent functions, linear functions…)
• Unit 3: Quadratic Functions (quad. formula, factorization, vertex…)
• Unit 4: Exponential Functions (composite functions, inverse functions, growth/decay…)
• Unit 5: Trigonometry (SOHCAHTOA, secant/cosecant/cotangent, sine/cosine rules…)
• Unit 6: Trigonometric Functions (periodic behavior, graphing, modeling…)
• Unit 7: Numbers and Algebra (arithmetic/geometric sequences and series)
• Unit 8: Financial Mathematics (currency, simple/compound interest, depreciation)
• Unit 9: Sets and Probability (set notation, Venn diagrams, compound events…)
• Unit 10: Logic (propositions, truth tables, converse/inverse/contrapositive)
• Unit 11: One-Variable Statistics (collecting data, measures of dispersion, standard descriptors)
• Unit 12: Two-Variable Statistics (correlation, regression, chi-square)
• Unit 13: Calculus (rate of change, differentiation, properties of curves)

In addition, we will be practicing the Studies Project (internal assessment) and reviewing ACT material throughout the course.

Math SL – Class Info

SL starts right where Algebra II left off and focuses a little bit more on algebra and calculus.  If you are considering engineering, science, pre-med or another math/science-related field (including some business schools) and have a solid foundation in math, you should take SL.  You can still take this class without a high grade in Algebra II, but you should be committed to calling me to ask questions about homework and review sets regularly – especially since we pick up where Alg. II left off.   [ Click here for the SL syllabus. ]

Over the next two years, we will cover these items:

• Unit 1: Functions and Equations (domain/range, composite functions, parent functions…)
• Unit 2: Quadratic Equations (factoring, formula, optimization…)
• Unit 3: Exponential and Logarithmic Functions (characteristics, growth/decay, graphing…)
• Unit 4: Sequences and Series (binomials, arithmetic/geometric patterns, sums)
• Unit 5: Trigonometry (SOHCAHTOA, modeling, graphing…)
• Unit 6: Geometry (sine/cosine rules, area, application problems…)
• Unit 7: Matrices (operations, inverse, solving systems)
• Unit 8: Vectors (equivalency, magnitude, scalar/dot products)
• Unit 9: Intro to Calculus (limits, derivative function, limit formula)
• Unit 10: Derivatives (chain/product/quotient rules, specific derivatives, tangent/normal lines)
• Unit 11: Integration (areas under curves, anti-differentiation, revolution)
• Unit 12: One-Variable Statistics (dispersion of data, displaying data, variance)
• Unit 13: Probability (complement events, binomials, independent events…)
• Unit 14: Statistical Distributions (discrete random variables, binomial distribution, z-values…)

In addition, we will be practicing the SL portfolios (internal assessments to measure modeling and investigation skills) and reviewing ACT material throughout the course.