Governor's Career & Technical Academy Arlington

CSC 208 Weekly Goals and Tasks: Week 8

CSC 223


Overview

We will have three days this week will to continue working our way through Chapter 2: Sequences. Given the results from the first chapter test, we want to focus on refining our study so that we can demonstrate stronger performance our second time out.

Friday, March 22nd

Classwork

We will use class time to work on exercises from Section 2.3: Polynomial Fitting. Please make good use of this time! We need to have another test on April 8th, and we have only two more class periods between now and then.

Homework

Read and take notes on Section 2.4: Solving Recurrence Relations. Be sure to read the example exercises presented in the section, since it is by understanding these that you will be able to complete the exercises at the end of the section on your own.

Wednesday, March 20th

Classwork

We'll start class today with a short discussion of the reading assigned for homework. We will then proceed as is becoming our custom, dividing up the exercises from the end of section 2.2 and then completing them.

Homework

Read and take notes on Section 2.3: Polynomial Fitting. Be sure to read the example exercises presented in the section, since it is by understanding these that you will be able to complete the exercises at the end of the section on your own.

Monday, March 18th

Classwork

During class today we will do a deep dive into soluctions to the exercises from Section 2.1: Describing Sequences. Presenters will share their solutions to the exercises for which they signed up last week.

I will start the process off by sharing my notes from the section and my solutions to the first exercise.

Homework

Read Section 2.2: Arithmetic and Geometric Sequences, taking notes that include the key ideas in a markdown file using latex for math markup in your git repo.