Hi all. I appreciate students who have brought the following to my attention.

• Calculus Exam 1, MC#7: We agreed in class on Thursday that while b is an acceptable answer because of the match in slope sign and turn-around points, “none” should also have been an acceptable answer because of the mismatches in concavity. If you put down “none” because you saw the mismatches in concavity and I didn’t mark it correct, you should mark it correct yourself.
• Calculus Exam 1, MC#17: The correct answer as we discussed Thursday in class is b. However, I seem to have made a fairly consistent mistake in grading, and marked b as incorrect. If I did that on your paper, I apologize; you should mark it correct yourself.

• You can find detailed guidelines for Exam 1 Revisions here.
• Exam 1 Revisions are due 9am Tue. Nov. 3. The extended deadline is:
  • to provide you more time to produce high quality Exam Revisions, and
  • to ensure that you are able to adequately prepare for Monday’s Seminar.

• You can gain electronic access and view the multiple choice questions from the first fall calculus exam by following the instructions here.
• You will be prompted to log in (if you’re not already logged in). Note: if you get an error message when you try to access the page in question, return to this post and try again.

In order to support you as you work on Exam Revisions, Pat and Pyxie are offering special work sessions this week:

• Thu. Oct. 29, 3:30 – 5:30 pm in Sem 2 C3105, Pat will be available.
• Fri. Oct. 30, 10am – noon in Sem 2 C3105, Pyxie will be available.

We encourage you to use these opportunities.

For Week 6 Monday November 2, we have a few changes to our schedule and a number of exciting events!

• 9am – 11:30am: Seminar on Nobel Prize Women in Science (see this post). Meet in Sem 2 D3105.
• 11:30am – 12:45pm: Social gathering with students from Atoms, Molecules, and Reactions. Lunch provided! Special guest: Evergreen alumna Jennie Russ Kunitake (B.A., B.S ’11). Meet in Sem 2 B2105. Optional but recommended. More info coming.
• 1pm – 1:50pm: Calculus Lecture. Meet in Lab 2 2238.
• 2pm – 2:50pm: Chemistry Lecture. Meet in Lab 2 2238.
• 3pm – 5pm: “From Greener to Grad Student” – Jennie Russ Kunitake (Evergreen B.A., B.S. ’11; PhD candidate, Cornell University Materials Science & Engineering, The Lara Estroff Research Group on Bio-Inspired Materials Synthesis) will talk about her research (on Breast Cancer Microcalcifications: mapping mineral-matrix, phase, and composition using correlative spectroscopy and imaging), her path from Evergreen to Cornell, and applying to graduate school. Meet in Sem 2 C1105. Optional but awesome! More info coming.  

On Thu. Oct. 29, we meet:

• 9 am – noon in Sem 2 C3105 for your Exam Revision Workshop. Please bring your class notes, homework sets and notebooks, textbooks, etc. – any resources that will be useful to you in reviewing and revising questions from the Exams. We’ll provide access to versions of the Exam questions.
• 1 pm – 3 pm in CAL West for Math Lab. (We have Math Lab at this time since our Week 6 Math Lab slot is devoted to the Week 6 Seminar material instead.)

• The Week 6 Seminar Reading was available at the Chemistry Exam. Copies are also available outside the door to Krishna’s office, Lab 2 3255. We only have paper copies available. Please keep your copy in a safe place. Bring it with you to Monday’s Seminar.
• For the Week 6 Seminar, we’ll be reading excerpts from McGrayne’s Nobel Prize Women in Physics: Their Lives, Struggles, and Momentous Discoveries (2nd edition).
• Below are some writing prompts that we hope will help you engage with the text and prepare for Seminar.
  • Please type up responses to the questions below (short responses are fine, but take the space you need).
  • Bring 2 (two) copies with you to Seminar: one to submit and one to keep for the discussion and to include in your portfolio.
  • Make sure your name is at the top of the one you submit.

Seminar Writing Prompts:

1. For each scientist, what personal and societal obstacles did they face during their training and careers?
2. To what extent do these obstacles for minority or “non-traditional” scientists persist in society today? In what ways do you think society has improved or gotten worse?
3. For each scientist, what questions do you have regarding their scientific or academic work?
4. In addition to addressing our program goal of increasing understanding of how issues of power, identity, privilege, and equity intersect with the teaching, learning, and practice of math and science, the seminar is intended to support Academic Statement writing. In this week’s reading we see several examples of scientific/academic biographies. What elements of these biographies could you utilize in writing your Academic Statement?
5. What other topics would you like to raise for discussion after reading Nobel Prize Women in Science?

• It’s likely that some of you know which questions you struggled with on the Exams and would like to get started reviewing and revising before our Exam Revision Workshop session on Thursday October 29 starting at 9 am in Sem 2 C3105.
• You can find the Calculus Exam 1 problem-solving questions, all of the Chemistry Exam 1 questions, and all Physics Exam 1 questions here (these are formatted a bit differently than the in-class versions to save paper, but are essentially the same as what you saw during the exams).

• You can find copies of lab handouts here.
• You can find blank versions of previous quizzes for study purposes here. As we talked about during our exam discussion at the end of week 4, simply reviewing past quizzes will be insufficient preparation for the exams.

You can find solutions to the Week 4 Calculus, Chemistry, and Physics problem sets and the Week 4 Chemistry Workshop solutions here.