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copy access page
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Welcome
08-26-2006_____orientation_part_i
08-29-2006_____orientation_part_ii
08-29-2006_____orientation_part_iii
08-29-2006_____orientation_part_iv
08-29-2006_____orientation_part_v
09-06-2006_____initial_problems
09-06-2006_____introductory_problems_communication
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Responses
Welcome
Responses to your emails and to work submitted through the form will posted, in the order received. This document will provide a menu of your responses. Each response will be indicated by the date on which it is posted, and the title you have given it.
process of finding access page<
prelim assts completed, anything missing?
I've completed it, and it's posted.
any notes on documentation/self critique
copy of due dates or details of process
Week 01: Week of 09/04/06 - 09/10/06. Assignments 0, 1, 2 and associated class notes
>copy of asst 1
See also Class Notes #01 and #02.
This means to click on the link (the words Class Notes in the preceding sentence are a link), locate Class Notes 1 and 2 and read them. However the video links aren't active on that version. So you should:
Go to your CD or DVD and run it according to instructions given in the Orientation (it's CD #2; see the link in Prelim Assignments entitled CD Contents). You can locate Class Notes #01 and #02 there; and the video links work.
Run and submit using the Submit Work form the SEND**** file created by the q_a_ program for Assignment 1.
Be sure you have downloaded the q_a_ program from the Supervised Study page, under Course Documents, Downloads, Precalculus I. Its title is q_a_pc1_1_15, and it applies to the first 15 assignments in your course. Another q_a_ for the remaining assignments will be posted before you have completed Assignment 15.
Distance Students: Note that CD's contain class notes with video clips, starting with CD #2.
Suggested Review: Text Sections 1.1 and 1.2, if necessary
Read and think about Introduction to Central Themes; Examples
Do the Introductory Flow Experiment and conduct the experiment; you do not yet need to go to the documents referred to at the end of the experiment, but you do need to answer the questions posed in the experiment.
If you wish to use simulated data for this experiment, go to Randomized Problems, choose Precalculus I and choose Simulated Data for Flow Experiment.
Distance Students: View Precalculus material on GEN 1 CD and ponder questions posed in documentation.
Run the GEN1 CD as instructed. The html page that runs the CD will give you a menu clearly delineating Precalculus material from Calculus and Physics material.
When you have completed the entire assignment run the Query program and submit the resulting SEND file using the Submit Work Form. The Query program was downloaded in your Orientation and its filename begins with the word Query.
links in asst 1
Class Notes, Introduction to Central Themes; Examples, Introductory Flow Experiment, Randomized Problems.
description of content of each link
class notes takes me to a list of the class notes; introduction to central themes; examples takes me to a page about the basic concepts we'll be covering; introductory flow experiment takes me to a page that gives directions for conducting an experiemnt; randomized problems takes me to a page where I can get simulated data for the introductory flow model.
instructions for qa and/or query
Run and submit using the Submit Work form the SEND**** file created by the q_a_ program for Assignment 1.
Be sure you have downloaded the q_a_ program from the Supervised Study page, under Course Documents, Downloads, Precalculus I. Its title is q_a_pc1_1_15, and it applies to the first 15 assignments in your course. Another q_a_ for the remaining assignments will be posted before you have completed Assignment 15.
When you have completed the entire assignment run the Query program and submit the resulting SEND file using the Submit Work Form. The Query program was downloaded in your Orientation and its filename begins with the word Query.
qa and query filenames for asst 1
q_a_pc1_1_15_040108 (this one applies to assignment 1)
query_pc1_qa_format_part_2_complete
query_pc1_qa_format_thru_16_040108
instr for text assts
work text probs on paper; submit thru query after completing asst
what must be and what may be submitted
Submit questions about text problems with the submit work form, detailing my thinking and where the trouble with my understanding is. No handwritten homework.
include everything in one document
OK. Submit all statements made in the problem and details of work and the process i use to get the answer.
use paper
Writing them on paper keeps a record of the problem and work, as well as just making it easier to work with initially and allowing you to sketch graphs and so forth.
Your responses have been reviewed and everything looks good.
Please let me know if you have any questions related to this orientation assignment.