Experience from Week #6
Some good stuff happened this week!! I taught a lesson on Monday, and then the class got some review notes for the AP test, which will take place on the morning of Tuesday, May 5th!! The lesson was the Ring Method, or the "Washer" Method, for finding the volume of a solid. Not to get too technical, but the ring method takes an area between two curves, and then revolves that area around some axis of rotation - this can be the x-axis, the y-axis, or some other horizontal or vertical line. The technique behind this is integration, which they have had an understanding of since before I started the experience. I do not have the notes, but I have two pictures of me teaching that can be viewed below!
The first picture is a picture of the class, while the second picture actually has to do with the lesson. In the notes, we revolved a square around the x-axis. and to show that in #D, we cut a doughnut in half and put it on the projector. And yes, everyone in the class got doughnuts afterwards! :)
Mrs. Roda also put me up to the task of making a lesson plan. In two years, the AP Calculus AB test will include a new topic that has always just been an AP Calculus BC topic. That topic is L'Hôpital's Rule (I had no idea that "Alt+0244" would actually give me the "ô" on here. I'm very happy right now! :D). L'Hôpital's Rule allows for you to take the limit of a quotient of two functions that, when evaluated at the given value, give some indeterminate number like 0/0. I made a notes sheet on the topic, which can be downloaded in its entirety below (for some reason, this document can't be displayed through weebly)! The practice worksheet that I was assigned to make is still in progress.
Mrs. Roda also put me up to the task of making a lesson plan. In two years, the AP Calculus AB test will include a new topic that has always just been an AP Calculus BC topic. That topic is L'Hôpital's Rule (I had no idea that "Alt+0244" would actually give me the "ô" on here. I'm very happy right now! :D). L'Hôpital's Rule allows for you to take the limit of a quotient of two functions that, when evaluated at the given value, give some indeterminate number like 0/0. I made a notes sheet on the topic, which can be downloaded in its entirety below (for some reason, this document can't be displayed through weebly)! The practice worksheet that I was assigned to make is still in progress.
lhopitals_rule_notes.docx |
Midterm Evaluations!!
We have reached the midpoint of the trimester!! Woop woop!! Exciting! We got to evaluate ourselves and get evaluated by our supervisor. The sheets that we filled out can be seen below!!
The first two sheets are from Mrs. Roda, with a couple of comments from me about what she said. The last sheet is the one that I filled out. Mainly, I gave myself a "G" if I thought that I do a good job at it, and I gave myself an "E" if I thought that that particular skill was one of my stronger skills. The one skill I gave myself an "S" in was "contributing to the team effort by sharing information". This is basically how I would communicate new ideas from MMSTC over to Mrs. Roda. So far, I have not done much of that, and while I could, there is a reason. Some of the things that we do at MMSTC are very advanced - some things that students with only AP Calculus AB knowledge would probably not understand. Most of the things that I have been teaching have not been too different from how I learned them, so I have not been able to really share new ideas like I had hoped. However, there is always room for improvement, which I will start working on in the coming weeks! Looking at the sheet she filled out, it looks fairly similar to mine. Most of the marks are very similar, which means that Mrs. Roda and I are on the same track. Very exciting stuff overall!!