Blog Post One

1.     Marley O’Neil Kraft

2.     No I do not

3.     73 inches

4.     22 years = 8,030 days = 192,720 minutes. And counting

5.     9 to 10 am

6.     I may be fat, but I do not like candy, more of a savory guy personally

7.     Tortilla chips + Salsa/Guac

8.     Nasty Nas

9.     I abhor fun

10.  I have taken, basic math, algebra 1+2 + trig, and I have taken statistics/precalculas at the college level.

11.  I seem to be somewhat comfortable; I often get overwhelmed at first by the amount of information and generally miss the obvious key that this formula or this is the way to do it. Its why I work better in groups because I can bounce Ideas off of people.

12.  Comfortable

13.   You may as well have titled this one; Here Is A Frighteningly Long List of Things Marley Doesn’t Understand. Very uncomfortable if I had to rate it. 

Curve sketching

Instantaneous rate of change

Derivatives (of constant, linear, polynomial, power, rational, exponential, trigonometric, logarithmic functions)

Difference quotient

Limits

Continuity

Chain rule (an application of composition of functions)

Product and quotient rules for derivatives

Finding local and global maximums and minimums

Determining inflection points

Area under a curve

Anti-derivatives

Integration (of constant, linear, polynomial, power, rational, trigonometric, exponential, logarithmic functions)

Integration by parts

Integration by substitution

14.   

Very comfortable (V)    comfortable (C)                uncomfortable (U)    extremely uncomfortable (E)

Equations V

Factoring  V

Adding/subtracting/multiplying/dividing fractions/rational expressions V

Simplifying expressions V

Simplifying rational expressions (fractions and fractional polynomials) V

Operations on roots and fractional exponent expressions V

Operations involving whole number exponent expressions V

Finding common denominators  V

Inequalities V

Functions V

Absolute value V

Linear functions V

Systems of equations V

Domain and range V

Inverse functions C

Transformations (shifting, scaling, stretching, etc) C

Quadratic functions C

Completing the square V

Exponential functions V

Logarithmic functions U

Base e  U

Graphing (trigonometric, quadratic, linear, exponential, and logarithmic functions) C

Trigonometric concepts C

15.  Have you taken American university’s math 160 (applied precalculus) class? If yes, was your grade a “b” or better? No I did not

16.  If you have not taken American university’s math 160 (applied precalculus) class, have you taken a college level (not a college equivalent high school class) equivalent?  If yes, was your grade a “b” or better? No I did Not

17.  Yes I did take this class and I believe I got a C, which was mostly due to external factors happening in my life at the time culimanting in a poor final month in the class that saw my grade drop. This was also years ago, sophomore or freshman year.

18.  If you have not taken American university’s math 170 (precalculus mathematics) class, have you taken a college level (not a college equivalent high school class) equivalent?  If yes, was your grade a “b” or better?

19.  What in gods name is yik yak? Texting, Facebook, Wordpress, Tumblr, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat

20.  Which social media formats do you use most frequently? Texting, Facebook, Snap Chat, Twitter

21.  Marketing

22.  It’s a Requirement

23.  As a senior this will be my final math class

24.  I just hope to get back to the comfort level I was at with math in general, you seem like a good teach so I think that will be a success.