Part 3 is the actual Startup and Orientation phase of the course, where you are introduced to the homepage for your course, and where you begin to submit actual content based on skills and knowledge you have developed in prerequisite courses and in your general education.
document short description of content what you'll know when you're done Preliminary Question-Answer-Self_Critique an introduction to the process of submitting work using the of question, answer, self-critique format; the document consists of instructions and two easy questions requiring most students about 10 minutes the meaning of self-critique how to answer questions, read a given solution, and if necessary provide a self-critique
Introductory question_answer more practice using the question, answer, self-critique process, consisting of 10 questions some of which will require self-critique; most students report spending 20-30 minutes on this part but some spend more improved meaning of self-critique Course homepage, due dates, course of study locating and understanding the course homepage, including assignments, objectives, due dates, course of study and more, requiring most students about 20 minutes where to find your course homepage with assignments, due dates and much more
Understanding learning_objectivesunderstanding learning objectives as used in this course, requiring most students about 10-15 minutes more about how to interpret learning objectives Using your DVD's accessing the information on your DVD's, requiring most students 10-15 minutes how to get to menu structure to play the videos on the DVDs More about communication the process of communication between you and your instructor, requiring most students 15-30 minutes more about how to communicate in this course How to succeed in your course advice on how to succeed in your course, requiring most students 15-30 minutes more about the work habits necessary to succeed in this course
The Startup and Orientation continues with a series of documents designed to introduce some notational conventions, review some of the skills typically developed in prerequisite courses, and become accustomed to the central learning style of the course. A well-prepared student might spend an average of 30 minutes per document. If the document takes longer, it's typically because some concepts weren't well understood in prerequisite courses. These ideas are all important for this course and time spent on them now will save considerable time and effort later.
document short description of content what you'll know when you're done typewriter notation introduces the 'text-only' notation and reinforces the important of the order of operations how to interpret and constructed text-only mathematical expressions using a strict interpretation of order of operations describing graphs introduces students to a rudimentary vocabulary for describing graphs a basic vocabulary for describing some important aspects of graphs calculus review of some basic ideas from prerequisite mathematics maybe some things you forgot from your mathematics prerequisites rates introduces the key concept of rate of change the meaning of average rate of change and how it might be applied areas reviews the meaning, reasoning and calculation of areas of some common geometric figures the meaning of areas, reasoning about areas, some important formulas for areas surface areas _ misc reviews the meaning, reasoning and calculation of surface areas of some common 3 dimensional geometric figures the meaning of surface area, reasoning about surface areas, some important formulas for surface areas volumes reviews the meaning, reasoning and calculation of volumes of some common geometric figures the meaning of volume, reasoning about volumes, some important formulas for volumes