RE: Can I just say, and I'm just being honest...
May 4, 2017 at 11:22 pm
(This post was last modified: May 4, 2017 at 11:23 pm by Kernel Sohcahtoa.)
CIJS,
Tonight I finished helping out a co-worker in his studies of calculus 1 (we met up at Barnes and Noble). Specifically, he is taking a college business/economics math course (it is an online course) and the instructor has covered the topics of limits, derivatives, and integrals within the span of a month; thus, it is only natural that my co-worker has questions, as the material is being covered very quickly.
With that said, my co-worker told me that he found my explanations useful: he observed that, during his initial attempts on his quiz questions, he had made some careless mistakes due to arithmetic errors, trying to work problems too fast (skipping steps), not paying attention to the wording of the questions, etc. The most rewarding feeling that I had during this experience was listening to him think about the problems (like rewriting functions into a simpler form before differentiating, etc.) and catch on to key ideas (and previous mistakes) by himself and work them out as a result. I also enjoyed our coverage of limits and algebraically manipulating (factoring is a cool skill to have here) the function in order to get it into a form where the limit could be evaluated.
Well, his final is due at some point this weekend, so I hope that he is able to accomplish his course goals along with being able to walk away from this course with an appreciation for the knowledge that he has gained.
Tonight I finished helping out a co-worker in his studies of calculus 1 (we met up at Barnes and Noble). Specifically, he is taking a college business/economics math course (it is an online course) and the instructor has covered the topics of limits, derivatives, and integrals within the span of a month; thus, it is only natural that my co-worker has questions, as the material is being covered very quickly.
With that said, my co-worker told me that he found my explanations useful: he observed that, during his initial attempts on his quiz questions, he had made some careless mistakes due to arithmetic errors, trying to work problems too fast (skipping steps), not paying attention to the wording of the questions, etc. The most rewarding feeling that I had during this experience was listening to him think about the problems (like rewriting functions into a simpler form before differentiating, etc.) and catch on to key ideas (and previous mistakes) by himself and work them out as a result. I also enjoyed our coverage of limits and algebraically manipulating (factoring is a cool skill to have here) the function in order to get it into a form where the limit could be evaluated.
Well, his final is due at some point this weekend, so I hope that he is able to accomplish his course goals along with being able to walk away from this course with an appreciation for the knowledge that he has gained.