Getting to Know Me - Jackson Yellen

Jackson Yellen

Applied Calculus

Professor Little

Blog 1

1. Jackson Wolfe Yellen

2. No

3. 72 inches

4. 19

5. 10 - 11 am

6. Sour Patch Kids

7. Potato Chips

8. Flume or Arctic Monkeys

9. Play soccer and look up new music.

10. Basic math, algebra 1, algebra 2, probability, trigonometry, Precalculus

11. C

12. VC

13. Comfort levels with Calculus concepts

   Curve Sketching – U

   Instantaneous rate of change - U

   Derivatives (of constant, linear, polynomial, power, rational, exponential,

   trigonometric, logarithmic functions) - C

   Difference quotient - U

   Limits- U

   Continuity - U

   Chain rule (an application of composition of functions) - U

   Product and quotient rules for dervatives - C

   Finding local and global maximums and minimums - C

   Determining inflection points - U

   Area under a curve - C

   Anti-derivatives - C

   Integration (of constant, linear, polynomial, power, rational, trigonometric,

  exponential, logarithmic functions) - C

  Integration by parts - C

  Integration by substitution – C

13. Comfort levels with precalculus concepts

Equations - VC

Factoring  - VC

Adding/subtracting/multiplying/dividing fractions/rational expressions - VC

Simplifying expressions - VC

Simplifying rational expressions (fractions and fractional polynomials) - VC

Operations on roots and fractional exponent expressions - C

Operations involving whole number exponent expressions - C

Finding common denominators  - VC

Inequalities - VC

Functions - C

Absolute value - VC

Linear functions - C

Systems of equations -U

Domain and range - U

Inverse functions - U

Transformations (shifting, scaling, stretching, etc) - U

Quadratic functions – U

Completing the square - C

Exponential functions - C

Logarithmic functions - UV

Base e - U

Graphing(trigonometric quadratic linear exponential and logarithmic functions) - U

Trigonometric concepts - C

15. Yes.

17. Texting, Facebook, Pinterest, Fickr, Wordpress, Tumblr, Twitter, Instagram

18. Texting, Facebook, and Instagram

19. Business and Entertainment with a concentration in film

20. Because it is a requirement.

21. I am taking statistics next semester.

22. I hope to learn Calculus concepts that will help me in the future.

23. Nothing else to say.