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__TERM 2 WEEK 4 (11 - 15 May):__
Well it's been a while since I have written up the week's plan for you in the wiki.... :(

On Monday we'll tidy up loose ends with our preparation for the Summative Trig Assessment on Tuesday/Wednesday. On Monday we'll look at another practice task and what's expected for each level. Tuesday and Wednesday will be test time. Friday should see us start our next topic, Complex Numbers... Yahoo!! (that's mainly because I probably won't have the assessment completed by then) which means that you'll get it back next week and we'll re-think about mark 2 trig assessment.

__WEEK 8 (23 - 27 March):__
This week we'll wind up Differentiation. Revision on Monday and test it on Wednesday. Tuesday will probably see a start on our next topic, Trigonometry, an Internal topic worth 4 credits.

__WEEK 7 (16 - 20 March):__
We're nearly there with this topic.... but we'll come back for more later and re-visit several times over the year.

The first couple of periods will see us do more on "Related Rates of Change" then we'll have a period on each of Implicit Differentation (this is when y isn't the subject of the formula any more) and Parametric Differentiation (which is when you have an equation for y in terms of "t" for example and another equation for x in terms of the same letter ie two equations make up the function).


 * Hwk book: p 146 for Implicit Differentiation and p 142 for Parametric Differentiation.**

We'll be ready for an assessment next week.....

Please don't stop yourself if you feel the urge to get ahead with this work. It means you can ask relevant questions to confirm your understanding. Remember that you MUST do the extra groundwork at home, it's like playing your chosen sport, playing it really well - as you get older, just turning up and playing doesn't work any longer, you have to commit to more if you want to get the best out of it.... Lecture over and out!!

__** WEEK 6 (9 - 13 March): **__ = = =This week we will spend another period investigating features of graphs, using y' and y'' to justify stationary points and non-stationary points of inflection. Of course we can check our graphs by using our Graphics Calculators but in a Calculus test calculus is expected to be used (funny that!) so we have to know about negative y'' values for maximum points etc. = = = =After that we will graph derived functions, and then start applications of Differentiation. Finding maximum areas, volumes etc. We will probably get to look at Related Rates of Change this week, using "strings" of derivatives. FUN!! =

=Hwk book pages: = =p 125 - 142 for graphing = =p 149 - 153 for Related Rates of Change = =p 154 - 161 for Applications =