Getting To Know You Karolina Bonnier

1. What is your full name?
Karolina Bonnier

2. Do you have a nickname that you prefer to go by?
Ina

3. What is your height in inches?
5"10

4. What is your age in years?
20

5. What time do you generally wake up on any given day?
830 am

6. What is your favorite candy?
KitKat

7. What is your favorite snack food?
Carrots!

8. Who is your favorite musical artist/band?
Passion Pit

9. Do you have any hobbies/things you like to do for fun?
Take photos & Cook

10. What is your mathematical background? (Not limited to the list below…list other topics if needed)

Statistics

Precalculus

11. What is your comfort level with any of the following calculus concepts?

Write one of the following next to each topic:

Very comfortable (V) comfortable (C) uncomfortable (U) extremely uncomfortable (E)

Curve sketching (C)

Instantaneous rate of change (U)

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

logarithmic functions) (U)

Difference quotient (U)

Limits (U)

Continuity (U)

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

Product and quotient rules for dervatives (U)

Finding local and global maximums and minimums (U)

Determining inflection points (U)

Area under a curve (U)

Anti-derivatives (U)

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

functions) (E)

Integration by parts (E)

Integration by substitution (E)

12. The following are concepts from algebra and precalculus that students taking applied calculus

should be comfortable with.

What is your comfort level with any of the following algebraic and precalculus concepts? (please

note that weakness in any of these areas may make most aspects of this class more challenging

than others)

Write one of the following next to each topic:

Very comfortable (V) comfortable (C) uncomfortable (U) extremely uncomfortable (E)

Equations (V)

Factoring  (C)

Adding/subtracting/multiplying/dividing fractions/rational expressions (V)

Simplifying expressions (C)

Simplifying rational expressions (fractions and fractional polynomials) (C)

Operations on roots and fractional exponent expressions (C)

Operations involving whole number exponent expressions (E)

Finding common denominators (E)

Inequalities (E)

Functions (E)

Absolute value (E)

Linear functions (E)

Systems of equations (E)

Domain and range (C)

Inverse functions (E)

Transformations (shifting, scaling, stretching, etc) (C)

Quadratic functions (C)

Completing the square (U)

Exponential functions (C)

Logarithmic functions (C)

Base e (C)

Graphing (trigonometric, quadratic, linear, exponential, and logarithmic functions) (C)

Trigonometric concepts (C)

13. Have you taken American university’s math 160 (applied precalculus) class? If yes, was your

grade a “b” or better?
Yes, Yes

14. If you have not taken American university’s math 160 (applied precalculus) class, have you taken

a college level (not a college equivalent high school class) equivalent? If yes, was your grade a

“b” or better?
-

15. Which social media formats are you familiar with?
Facebook, Instagram, Wordpress

16. Which social media formats do you use most frequently?

Texting, Facebook, Instagram

17. What is your major?
Business

18. Why are you taking this math class?
For the business requirement

19. Will you take other math classes in the future at American University or will this be your only math

class? If yes, which classes will you take?
Maybe more calc, depends on this class :)

20. What do you hope to learn in this class?
Derivatives!