Monday, January 19, 2015

Blog Post #1

1.     My name is Matthias Ng
2.     I prefer to be called Matthias
3.     I’m 67 inches tall
4.     I am 21 years old
5.     I prefer to wake up at around 9:30 am on a given day
6.     My favorite candy is Snickers
7.     I like to snack on cereal and chips
8.     I like Drake and 2 Chainz
9.     I enjoy going to the gym in my spare time
10.  I took pre calc last semester!!!
11.  uncomfortable (U)
12.  uncomfortable (U)
13.  Curve sketching - uncomfortable (U)
Instantaneous rate of change - uncomfortable (U)
Derivatives (of constant, linear, polynomial, power, rational, exponential, trigonometric, logarithmic functions)- uncomfortable (U)
Difference quotient - uncomfortable (U)
Limits - uncomfortable (U)
Continuity - Very comfortable (V)
Chain rule (an application of composition of functions) - Very comfortable (V)
Product and quotient rules for derivatives - Very comfortable (V)
Finding local and global maximums and minimums - Very comfortable (V)
Determining inflection points - Very comfortable (V)
Area under a curve - Very comfortable (V)
Anti-derivatives - Very comfortable (V)
Integration (of constant, linear, polynomial, power, rational, trigonometric, exponential, logarithmic functions) - Very comfortable (V)
Integration by parts - Very comfortable (V)
Integration by substitution - Very comfortable (V)

14.   Equations - comfortable (C)
Factoring - comfortable (C)
Adding/subtracting/multiplying/dividing fractions/rational expressions - comfortable (C)
Simplifying expressions - comfortable (C)
Simplifying rational expressions (fractions and fractional polynomials) - comfortable (C)
Operations on roots and fractional exponent expressions - comfortable (C)
Operations involving whole number exponent expressions - comfortable (C)
Finding common denominators - comfortable (C)
Inequalities - comfortable (C)
Functions - comfortable (C)
Absolute value - comfortable (C)
Linear functions - comfortable (C)
Systems of equations - uncomfortable (U)
Domain and range - uncomfortable (U)
Inverse functions - uncomfortable (U)
Transformations (shifting, scaling, stretching, etc) - uncomfortable (U)
Quadratic functions - uncomfortable (U)
Completing the square - extremely uncomfortable (E)
Exponential functions - comfortable (C)
Logarithmic functions - extremely uncomfortable (E)
Base e - extremely uncomfortable (E)
Graphing (trigonometric, quadratic, linear, exponential, and logarithmic functions) - extremely uncomfortable (E)
Trigonometric concepts - extremely uncomfortable (E)


15.  Yes, I received an A
16.  N/A
17.  No
18.  I took applied pre-calc
19.  Yik Yak, Snapchat, Texting,
20.  Texting
21.  Business Administration
22.  This class is a major requirement
23.  I plan on taking statistics and econ with calc in the future
24.  I hope to get a good calculus foundation to help me moving forward

25.  I’m glad you’re teaching the night class!

2 comments:

  1. Hello Mathies. Wish you a very blessed, prosperous and a very Christ centered New year. I am so glad to know you through your profile on the blogger and the blog post. I am glad to go through your list of items introducing yourself and the choices or preferences you have. Well I am in the Pastoral ministry for last 35yrs in the great city of Mumbai, India a city with great contrast where richest of rich and the poorest of poor live. We reach out to the poorest of poor with the love of Christ to bring healing to the broken hearted. We also encourage young people as well as adults from the West to come to Mumbai on a short/ long termmissions trip to work with us in the slums of Mumbai during their vacation time. We would love to have you come with your friends to Mumbai to work with us in the slums of Mumbai during your vacation time. I am sure you will have a life changing experience. My email id is: dhwankhede(at)gmail(dot)com and my name is Diwakar Wankhede. Looking forward to hear from you very soon. God's richest blessings on you.

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  2. Hey Matthias( or in spanish mattias) always enjoy taking class with you!

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