Here is the order in which the teams were picked...

Remember, you MUST email me at Ms.Milkosky at gmail.com with your choice of topic.  This post will be updated accordingly, so keep checking.  Don't wait too long or else you might lose your spot...

Each team now has 1 hour to respond with their choice before we move to the next group.  The 1 hour begins when the previous team's choice is posted.

It's a free for all!!!  Anyone can pick, order doesn't matter anymore!!  Email when you are ready with your topic!!!


Chatty Kathys    5.6    Law of Cosines, Area of Triangle, Heron's Formula  (9:55am)
Jeff&Brian  9.1    Permuations (12:14pm)
Gingers  5.5    Law of Sines (Ambiguous Case) (12:38)
RAGE   9.2    The Binomial Theorem  (2:05)
You Know, A Zebound  5.3    Sine Sum and difference Identities  (2:07)
Panthers   6.4    Coordinate Conversion (3:40)
Kool-Aid     5.2    Proving Non-aglebra Identities
Wingaersheek  6.3    Eliminating the Parameter  (6:55)
Shy Ronnie  6.6    Multiplication and Division Complex Numbers
Foley2 Gifford   9.1    Combinations  (7:50am)
the BEST    9.2    Powers of Binomials & Pascal's Triangle
HZH    5.3    Cosine Sum and difference identities  (9:56am)
Quiz Group    6.5    Rose and Limacon Curves
Weber     5.1    Fundamental Identities (12:43pm)
Shannon Palmer    6.6    De Moivre's Theorem
Team Wicked Awesome    5.3    Tangent Sum and difference Identities (12:56pm) 
skillz dat killz    5.4    Power Reducing Identities
Blue Baboons    6.3    Simulating Motion  (2:01)
Gingerlicious Mathletes    6.3    Parametric Equations and Parametric Curves
Scheffel-r=cos0    9.1    Multiplication Principle of Counting
h^2    6.6    The Complex Plane, Trig Form of Complex Numbers (2:40)
Ally and Mike
Team Matt    8.5    Eccentricity & Writing Polar Equations for Conics
I heart Pat Harney's Anti-liberal propaganda   9.3    Conditional Probability
The Beach Girls (Sarah and Shannon)   9.3    Venn Diagrams and Tree Diagrams
Ace's (Sarah and Lizzie)     6.4    Polar Coordinate System  (2:40)

List of Topics

5.1    Simplifying Trig Expressions & Solving Trig Equations
5.4    Double Angle Identities
5.4    Half Angle Identities
6.4    Equation Conversion
6.4    Finding Distance Using Polar Coordinates
6.5    Graphs of Polar Equations ( Symmetry)
6.5    Analyzing Polar Graphs
6.6    Powers of Complex Numbers
6.6    Roots of Complex Numbers
8.5    Analyzing Polar Equations of Conics
8.5    Orbits
9.1    Subsets of an n-set
9.2    Factorial Identities
9.3    Sample Spaces aand Probability Functions
9.3    Determining Probabilities
9.3    Binomial Distributions

Final Project

You are going to get into groups of 3 and make a 2-5 minute video of a topic that we learned this semester.  This project is optional so you do not have to do it if you do not want to.  There will be more details given in class. 

If you are choosing to participate, you MUST give an index card listing the following to Ms. Camiel, Ms. Martino or myself by Tuesday, May 31th, 2011 at 2:00pm:

1) Team Name
2) List the team members
3) List the team members' teachers
4) List the team members' sections

You are allowed to work with ANYONE taking Pre-Calc 40.  That means that someone from my class could work with someone from Ms. Camiel's class and someone from Ms. Martino's class. 

After school on Tuesday we will post the order in which the teams were drawn and then we will post the topics.  If you are the first group chosen, you must email me at Ms.Milkosky at gmail.com with the topic your group has chosen.  I will then update the list showing what topic the first group chose (and removing it from the master list).  Once that has been done, the second group will email me with their choice and I will update the list.  Then the third group, etc, until all groups have chosen.

6.3-6.5 Assessment

DO NOT PANIC ABOUT YOUR GRADE ON IT!!!!  I'm serious, don't worry, there is going to be some sort of scale.  From short talks with several of you, it seems like the multiple choice was not a good idea.   It stressed some of you out and made you second guess yourselves.  It also made it extremely difficult to give partial credit.  On tests I want to be able to reward you for what you know, even if it's not everything in the question.  Plus, life's not a multiple choice test, it's more like an open response one.


Peace out and enjoy your weekend.


And remember, no worrying about your grade allowed!!

Tonight's HW

Make sure that you copy down the green box that we talked about in class.  That is where we will begin tomorrow.

Also, notice how there is homework tonight from both 6.3 and 6.4.  That's because we finished 6.3 today and we started 6.4.  Make sure you do both, and not just the HW from 6.4.

Today's class

So I just learned that we didn't have to do the problems with vectors that we did today in class.  They have been removed from your HW.  Yay!!  Don't worry about them.