Wednesday, November 19, 2008 - Blocks 1 and 3

Students had lots of difficulty with the homework problems, mostly because they refused to follow the problem solving strategy and tried to take shortcuts but omitting steps.

I asked the students to work BY THEMSELVES on the problems and to raise their hands if they needed help. I really wanted the students to solve the problems by themselves and not just rely on my showing them how to do them or relying on one of their neighbors.

It took the entire period for them to complete the problem set so we did not have time to move on to the rest of the lesson. I assigned the end of the chapter questions and exercises for homework. Tomorrow I will go over any questions on those problems, look at problems 2 and 4 on the front side of the Applying Newton's Laws problem sheet and finish the review for the test on Friday.

Asked students to do end of chapter questions, chapter 4 for homework: Ex 17, 18, 19, 20, 24, 25, 26, 30, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 44, 48, 49, Prob 8