Lesson Plan Week 2
09/03-09/04/2008
Activities:
Wednesday
1. QOD “ We don’t receive wisdom: we must discover it ourselves after a journey
that no one can take for us or spare us.” Marcel Proust
2. Attendance
3. Q &A
4. Decimal Rounding Warm-up – Students generate their own problems on index
cards and students choose one form the deck. This counts as Group Activity 3.
5. Quiz 1- worth 10pts
6. Division and Multiplication Patterns Worksheet Decimals
7. Exponents lecture: Notation for self-multiplication. Base and Exponent
component Positive exponents/Negative exponents, A0 = 1, A1 = 1
8. Calculators and Exponent key. Exponents Handout (Math Concepts) for
Practice
9. Exponential Numbers where the Base is 10
10.Exercise: Construct Table of Powers of 10 from 10-10 to 1010, fraction equivalent,
decimal equivalent. We will add metric prefixes to this. My HANDOUT- Metric
Prefix Table
11.YouTube Powers of 10 video – for next week. 9 minutes
12.Scientific Notation Power Point
13.Practice converting numbers from scientific to standard notation and reverse
(Kuta software worksheets)
14.Rules of Exponents Handout. Multiplying, Dividing exponential numbers
15.Flash Cards with metric prefixes – Handout and index cards for students
Bill’s Metric introduction handout with flashcard template
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Thursday
1. Rules of Exponents Handout. Multiplying, Dividing exponential numbers
2. Calculators and Scientific Notation
3. Practice multiplying/Dividing exponential numbers – Kuta software worksheets
Students both estimate an answer and use calculator. Compare answers
4. Metric Conversions PP or lecture
5. Conversion factor equalities- making pairs of conversion factor fractions
practice
6. Handouts:
Conversion Table – from SWTC Math Science Resource Center
Checklist for Dimensional Analysis
Dimensional Analysis Method
Rules of Exponents Handout.
Assignment 2: Applied Math for Chemistry
Due Thursday September 11 at the beginning of class
SWTC Math Science Resource Center: Pharmacology Chapter
http://www.swtc.edu:8082/mscenter/mathrev.htm
Read pgs 6-14. Fill in the chart on pg.11.
Chemistry text Chapter 2 Paired Exercises pgs 42-43. Do the following problems on
separate sheets of paper: 1, 2, 3, 11, 19, 21, 23
Reminder: I am in my office in room 141C on Mondays from 12-1pm.
Please stop by for help if you need it.
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