Today's soundtrack is White Zombie: La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Vol. 1, a rock project featuring Rob Zombie on vocals. I bought the album after seeing his film "The Devil's Rejects." This afternoon, my wife kept the kids occupied whlie I did a thorough house-cleaning, the afterglow of which I'm still basking in. I love having … Continue reading 04.18.2019: One Lesson of Math – Catching Up
04.17.2019: One Lesson of Math – Circular Functions, 7/10: Sinusoidal Functions with Rational Periods
Today's soundtrack is Lecrae: Rehab, a solid rap album with a positive message. So far, we've been working with functions whose periods were irrational. Today, we'll be learning about trigonometric functions with rational periods. In yesterday's lesson, we learned that we can determine the period of a trigonometric function by using the equation p=2π/b. But … Continue reading 04.17.2019: One Lesson of Math – Circular Functions, 7/10: Sinusoidal Functions with Rational Periods
04.16.2019: One Lesson of Math – Circular Functions, 6/10: Transformations of Trigonometric Functions, Part 2
Today's soundtrack is The Everly Brothers: Bye Bye Love, a compilation of their hits. This morning, I'm continuing where we left off yesterday in learning about the various transformations that we can apply to trigonometric functions. So we already know how to phase shift (horizontally translate), change the amplitude (vertically expand or compress), and vertically … Continue reading 04.16.2019: One Lesson of Math – Circular Functions, 6/10: Transformations of Trigonometric Functions, Part 2
04.15.2019: One Lesson of Math – Circular Functions, 5/10: Transformations of Trigonometric Functions, Part 1
Today's soundtrack is Tegan and Sara: The Con, an album that reveals more of its true complexity and brilliance with every listen. This afternoon, I'm learning about the different ways that we can change the graph of a trigonometric function. There are some new terms that we'll be learning today. I want them all in … Continue reading 04.15.2019: One Lesson of Math – Circular Functions, 5/10: Transformations of Trigonometric Functions, Part 1
04.14.2019: One Lesson of Math – Circular Functions, 4/10: Graphing the Sine and Cosine Functions
Today's soundtrack is The Tragically Hip: Music @ Work, a rock album by this Canadian band. I accidentally spilled coffee on my textbook. Fortunately, I own this book, but I still drew an apology note for my teacher. This afternoon, I'm learning how to graph the sine and cosine functions. Sine and cosine functions go … Continue reading 04.14.2019: One Lesson of Math – Circular Functions, 4/10: Graphing the Sine and Cosine Functions
04.13.2019: One Lesson of Math – Catching Up
Today's soundtrack is Cryptopsy: The Unspoken King, a technical deathcore album. Today, I finished up the assignment that I started yesterday; after doing that, I wrote a math quiz, and did quite well on it.
04.12.2019: One Lesson of Math – Circular Functions, 3/10: Exact Values, Special Angles, and Reciprocal Trigonometric Ratios
Today's soundtrack is Lil Wyte & Jelly Roll: No Filter, a collaborative rap album that I blasted in my car for months when I first got it. I was going through some rough stuff at the time, and this album helped me get through. I was working a stressful physical nightshift job at the time; … Continue reading 04.12.2019: One Lesson of Math – Circular Functions, 3/10: Exact Values, Special Angles, and Reciprocal Trigonometric Ratios
04.11.2019: One Lesson of Math – Circular Functions, 2/10: Sine, Cosine, and Tangent Functions of Angles in Standard Position
Today's soundtrack is Primus: Tales From the Punchbowl, a really weird album with great musicianship. Primus sucks btw. This afternoon, I'm learning about the sine, cosine, and tangent functions of angles in standard position. I started by watching this video as an introduction to the subject. Let's start by looking at the sine-cosine functions. When … Continue reading 04.11.2019: One Lesson of Math – Circular Functions, 2/10: Sine, Cosine, and Tangent Functions of Angles in Standard Position
04.10.2019: One Lesson of Math – Circular Functions, 1/10: Radian Measure – Angles in Standard Position
Today's soundtrack is Brahms: Symphony #4. This afternoon, I'm learning about angles in standard position. Some of the terminology will be familiar, as I covered angles in standard position in these three lessons back in January. We can measure the angle of something either in degrees or in radians. What is a radian, though? To … Continue reading 04.10.2019: One Lesson of Math – Circular Functions, 1/10: Radian Measure – Angles in Standard Position
04.09.2019: One Lesson of Math – Next Unit Preparation
Today's soundtrack is The White Stripes: White Blood Cells, a minimalist rock album with the great Jack White in the spotlight. I wrote my Module 2 exam last night; I feel like it went really well. Today, I got myself set up for the next unit, which covers circular function: first, I tagged all the … Continue reading 04.09.2019: One Lesson of Math – Next Unit Preparation
04.08.2019: One Lesson of Math – Exam Day
Today's soundtrack is Bryan Adams: Waking up the Neighbors. Here we are. It's test day. Over the past couple of days, I've been studying hard for this. Today, I've gone to go over my unit tests one more time in preparation for tonight's scheduled exam. I'm pretty nervous about this; Precalc 12 feels much more … Continue reading 04.08.2019: One Lesson of Math – Exam Day
04.07.2019: One Lesson of Math – Module 2 Review, Part 2
Today's soundtrack is Dethklok: The Dethalbum, a death metal album based off of the songs from the hit show "Metalocalypse." The album is tötally bröötal, technically and musically sound, and hilarious. Today, I'm reviewing all of my Unit 3 and Unit 4 quizzes in preparation for Monday's exam.
Steven Mills 