Thanks to all that could make it to Open House tonight.  It's always nice to meet the parents of my students!

If this is your first time visiting, welcome!  I hope you find this page helpful throughout the year.

I'll be working with Credit Recovery in the afternoons down in B105, which starts at 2:45 on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.  If any of my students need help after school, however, they are welcome to come down there.  I'll still be in my room after school on Mondays and Friday, though.

All assignments and copies of handouts can be found on my RHS faculty site.  The link to the school's directory is here - my name is about two-thirds of the way down.

Please remember that I am available before and after school most days for additional help (with Power Mondays being an exception).  I keep an open door policy... if I'm there, I don't mind helping out with whatever is needed.

We decided to bump our unit test to Wednesday, 9/1.  I think the extra day of practice really helped, so the extension was well worth it.

Next up is a unit on the graphs of the trigonometric functions.  Most students find it a little easier than the first unit, but it does require some skill with graph behavior.

There isn't much else to report right now... please check back later for an update!

We have been trucking along with the concept of limits.  I think the students have the concept down well, but a little more practice was needed on the computational side.  We spent today "mixing it up", and it seems like the students improved by doing so.

Students can expect a little quiz over limit computations on either Thursday or Friday of this week (I'll let them decide which works better).  I suspect it will be very similar to those we worked on today.

Next up is the concept of continuity.  A big part of that involves one-sided limits, which we have been discussing a little bit already.

The students have been given the grading rubric for the circle problem (the one they already did a rough draft for), and we decided the final draft is due on Wednesday, 9/8.

Just a little reminder that the grades posted in Parent Connection do not include the extra 3 points for honors courses.  That is only added at the end of the semester.

The students had their test over limits and continuity today.  I'm hoping to finish grading those by tomorrow, but it might be Thursday at the latest.

We have already started the unit on derivatives, which seems to be going rather well so far.  We did have a little trouble when talking about "rates of change" and how those are actually derivatives, but that will become easier as we continue.

The students decided that Friday, 9/3, would be a good time to have the final draft of the circle limit problem due.  I think we've learned a lot from that problem already!

Just a little reminder that the grades posted in Parent Connection do not include the extra 5 points for AP courses.  That is only added at the end of the semester.