Sam B's Blog Post

1. Samuel Hinman Bellavance
2. Sam
3. 75"
4. 19
5. 10am
6. Snickers
7. Cape Cod potato chips
8. The Rolling Stones
9. Pretty much any outdoor activity: biking, skiing, hiking, etc.
10. My math experience in high school covered Algebra 1, Algebra 2, pre-Calculus and non AP Calculus. I took basic statistics at AU last year,

11.
Curve sketching (V)
Instantaneous rate of change (V)
Derivatives (of constant, linear, polynomial, power, rational, exponential, trigonometric, logarithmic functions) (C)
Difference quotient (U)
Limits (C)
Continuity (U)
Chain rule (an application of composition of functions) (C)
Product and quotient rules for dervatives (U)
Finding local and global maximums and minimums (U)
Determining inflection points (C)
Area under a curve (C)
Anti-derivatives (U)
Integration (of constant, linear, polynomial, power, rational, trigonometric, exponential, logarithmic functions) (U)
Integration by parts (U)
Integration by substitution (U)

12.
Equations V
Factoring V
Adding/subtracting/multiplying/dividing fractions/rational expressions V
Simplifying expressions V
Simplifying rational expressions (fractions and fractional polynomials) V
Operations on roots and fractional exponent expressions V
Operations involving whole number exponent expressions C
Finding common denominators V
Inequalities C
Functions V
Absolute value V
Linear functions V
Systems of equations C
Domain and range C
Inverse functions V
Transformations (shifting, scaling, stretching, etc) C
Quadratic functions V
Completing the square U
Exponential functions V
Logarithmic functions C
Base e C
Graphing (trigonometric, quadratic, linear, exponential, and logarithmic functions) V
Trigonometric concepts C

13. I took pre-calculus in high school but have not taken any college level pre-calculus classes. 

14. I am familiar with: Texting, facebook, tumblr, flickr.

      I am not familiar with: twitter, google plus, Instagram, wordpress, blogspot, pinterest.

15. B.S Business Administration with a  minor in Economics 

16. It's a Major requirement

17. This will probably be my only math class

18. I'd like to learn how calculus is used in finance and economics

19. Nope!