The 3rd Term Begins and We Leap Back into Exponential Growth Explorations

Today's class was dedicated to two pursuits:

1. Getting students right back into the exploration of exponential growth we left in December by having them solve three problem sets provided in class today.
This document can be found at http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dcszzgg_72dxjzcpzk
2. Giving students a clear sense of what to expect in the 3rd term. This document can be found at http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dcszzgg_70dt98m2f4

Parents and students alike are encouraged to look over the second document to get an idea of what is upcoming for the remainder of this school year.

Home Nugget #1 of the 3rd Term
Assigned on Thursday January 3, 2008
Due on Friday January 4, 2008

Problems 1, 2, 3 of practice sheet provided in class today
AND
In the book Growing...
Page 12 #21 a, b, c
Page 14 #24 a, b, c
Page 17 #47 a, b, c

FCAs
2 points: all problems genuinely attempted in their entirety
2 points: abundant evidence that quality time and effort were spent thinking about, responding to and presenting solutions