Tuesday, April 24, 2007

MrSiwWy's DEV Project

Welcome to the blog for my DEV project. Well, I spent way too much time on this project, and in my opinion it didn't turn out too well. I guess the questions have potential, but aren't exactly stellar in any sense. I hope you enjoy my project, I put more a lot of thought and effort into this project, though much of it was to no avail. Well, enjoy!

Before I post my questions, I'm going to post a brief lesson plan I laid out for everyone to learn the jist of limits and derivatives. I hope I taught it well (= Here it is!
(For each slide show you have you click pause, sorry I had to use slide.com and it's like that. I couldn't use slideshare or any other website like that, so this was the best I could do.)





First Question
My first question is a composition of a system of equations and trigonometric identities. I really enjoyed completing this question, and it set the style for the DEV project as very simplistic, yet ahead of it's time. xD (Note: In the fifth slide, it says "Add eq 1 and eq 2 together to the z variable" That should say: "Add eq 1 and eq 2 together to REDUCE the z variable." Without further ado, here's the question:



Second Question
My second question is a composition of differentiation and trigonometric identities. I hope the brief lesson I layed out is helpful for your understanding of derivatives and differentiation.






Third Question
My third question is made up of simple transformation and differentiation once again. Though the alternate solution is frustrating that it's so easy!





Fourth Question
The fourth and final question on my DEV project is not too scary of a problem, especially at first. This question is a mixture of transformations and integration. I couldn't entirely go over integration in my brief lesson, but it's basically the reverse process of differentiation. I kept the integration problem simple so that it's not too confusing to the reader. Enjoy!




Conclusion

This was my DEV project, I'm glad all of this is over. I hope it was a good project and I lived up to at least par. Now on to the reflection period.
I chose these specific concept by chance, they just came to my mind out of nowhere really. These concepts didn't come easily, however, I had more than just trouble thinking about what to base my questions around. So each problem set caused me more problems than it should have . And as for what I have learned so far, honestly I'm not sure how it articulates my mathematical comprehension of previous units. Though it does show my calculus work. XD Well, overall, I didn't like this project haha. I couldn't do it at all, I couldn't think, it was very, very, very difficult for me to think of questions. I just couldn't do it. So I ended up with this project, and I could be happier, but I'm not, and overall, from this I did learn something....DEV is a soul killer )=
Well this was my DEV, hope it was good, at least...Bye! Have a good day!