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AP Calculus AB

An interactive log for students and parents in my AP Calculus class. This ongoing dialogue is as rich as YOU make it. Visit often and post your comments freely.

Monday, December 19, 2005

Applications of Derivatives Acrostics

Here's the new set of acrostics for you.

Blogging Prompt
Your task is to create an acrostic "poem" that demonstrates an understanding of applications of derivatives related to any one of these concepts:

DERIVATIVE
OPTIMIZATION
ANTIDERIVATIVE
MEAN VALUE
INFINITY
APPLICATION

As an extra challenge (worth an additional bonus mark) try to make a Double Acrostic, that is, each line should begin and end with a letter of the word you are working with.

Remember, this is a bit of a race. Your answers have to be posted to the blog in the comments to this post. If someone has already used a word or phrase in their acrostic you cannot use the same word or phrase. i.e. It gets harder to do the longer you wait. ;-)

Here is an example of an acrostic that Mrs. Armstrong wrote:

Always in 2 dimensions
Region between the boundaries
Entire surface is calculated
Answer is in units2

Be creative and have fun with this!!



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Sunday, December 18, 2005

Sunday 3x the Funday!

A triple header this weekend.

Mr. Zhong Kui will make you laugh. I think his "problems" are the easiest ones to solve.

Rat is another "escape" puzzle. Every time you do something wrong he squeaks.

No. 5 is a set of three puzzle/adventures to get a little boy out of trouble.

Have Fun!



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Sunday, December 11, 2005

Sunday Jumping Funday!



'The goal of the puzzle is to switch the the pegs on the left with the pegs on the right by moving one peg at a time.

Move pegs by clicking and dragging them to open slots. A peg may only be moved to an open slot directly in front of it or by jumping over a peg to an open slot on the other side of it. You may not move backwards. The game ends when you win or get stuck.'

Play the game here. Can you win the 8 peg game? ;-)

(Thanks again to Think Again!)



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Saturday, December 03, 2005

Cubeoban Sunday



The objective of Cubeoban is to push/pull all the blocks to their corresponding lights. Do this by clicking on the blocks and drag them in the direction you want to push them. Play it here.

Level 1 was so easy that even I could do it. Level 2 (the image), started my thinking.

(Thanks again to Think Again!)



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