Ms. Liefland @ Harper Junior High: Algebra 2 10/29/12 through 11/02/12

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Algebra 2 10/29/12 through 11/02/12

Monday - Introduction to Exponential Functions
367: 10-21 all; 29-33 odd
Linear, Quadratic, or Exponential?
Growth/Decay
Compound Interest Formula

Tuesday
375: 57-85 odd (Due Thursday)
Converting between Exponential and Log Form

Wednesday
Halloween!

Thursday
CW: Logarithm Worksheet

Friday
Properties of Logarithms (Intro.)
382: 29-32 All, 43-53 odd

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The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colors or the words must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in this world for ugly mathematics.

- G. H. Hardy (1877 - 1947), A Mathematician's Apology, Cambridge University Press, 1994.

"Legend has it that the Pythagorean philosopher Hippasus used geometric methods to demonstrate the irrationality of while at sea and, upon notifying his comrades of his great discovery, was immediately thrown overboard by the fanatic Pythagoreans."

It seems to me now that mathematics is capable of an artistic excellence as great as that of any music, perhaps greater; not because the pleasure it gives (although very pure) is comparable, either in intensity or in the number of people who feel it, to that of music, but because it gives in absolute perfection that combination, characteristic of great art, of godlike freedom, with the sense of inevitable destiny; because, in fact, it constructs an ideal world where everything is perfect but true.

- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), Autobiography, George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1967, v1, p158

Gauss: You have no idea how much poetry there is in the calculation of a table of logarithms!

-Jane Muir, Of Men & Numbers, Dover, 1996.