Getting to know you - Jackson Yellen

Jackson Yellen

January 13th 2014

Applied Calculus

Professor Little

Blog 1

1. Jackson Yellen

2. No

3. 72 inches

4. 18

5. 10 - 11 am

6. Sour Patch Kids

7. Potato Chips

8. Flume or Arctic Monkeys

9. Play soccer and look up new music.

10. Basic math, algebra 1, algebra 2, probability, trigonometry, Precalculus

11. Comfort levels with Calculus concepts

   Curve Sketching – U

   Instantaneous rate of change - U

   Derivatives (of constant, linear, polynomial, power, rational, exponential,

   trigonometric, logarithmic functions) - C

   Difference quotient - U

   Limits- U

   Continuity - U

   Chain rule (an application of composition of functions) - U

   Product and quotient rules for dervatives - C

   Finding local and global maximums and minimums - C

   Determining inflection points - U

   Area under a curve - C

   Anti-derivatives - C

   Integration (of constant, linear, polynomial, power, rational, trigonometric,

  exponential, logarithmic functions) - C

  Integration by parts - C

  Integration by substitution – C

12. Comfort levels with precalculus concepts

  Equations - VC

  Factoring  - VC

  Adding/subtracting/multiplying/dividing fractions/rational expressions - VC

  Simplifying expressions - VC

  Simplifying rational expressions (fractions and fractional polynomials) - VC

  Operations on roots and fractional exponent expressions - C

  Operations involving whole number exponent expressions - C

  Finding common denominators  - VC

  Inequalities - VC

  Functions - C

  Absolute value - VC

  Linear functions - C

  Systems of equations -U

  Domain and range - U

  Inverse functions - U

  Transformations (shifting, scaling, stretching, etc) - U

  Quadratic functions – U

  Completing the square - C

  Exponential functions - C

  Logarithmic functions - UV

  Base e - U

  Graphing(trigonometric quadratic linear exponential and logarithmic functions) - U

  Trigonometric concepts - C

13. Yes.

15. Texting, Facebook, Pinterest, fFickr, Wordpress, Tumblr, Twitter, Instagram

16. Texting, Facebook, and Instagram

17. Business and Entertainment with a concentration in film

18. Because it is a requirement.

19. I am taking statistics next year.

20. I hope to learn Calculus concepts that will help me in the future.

21. Nothing else to say.