The Gaby Guide

Look for the new file area on the home page, with the Napoleon Dynamite icon. This is where the Gaby Guides will be after each lecture.

The Gaby Guide is just the streamlined "study guide" that I get CPS to produce in PDF for Gaby's work. It shows each question, each of Gaby's answers, and the correct answer. Works pretty well. It is a good study guide when reviewing CPS questions in case you did not jot down each question in lecture. Also, they are quite nice when preparing for a midterm exam!

CPS scores up for lecture 5 (L5)

Look in your My Grades page. The scores for today's CPS session are now UP inside Webcourses. Every lecture we will have two sets of data like this, e.g.,

L5 correct	7
L5 answered	8

This is how your My Grades page will look if you answered 8 questions this morning and got 7 of them correct.

We will have varying numbers of questions in CPS, usually a handful, sometimes more than that. At the end of the semester, if I have asked 120 CPS questions and you have answered 102 of them, that is 85% answered. Therefore you will get all 20 points in the CPS part of your semester grade, as explained in the syllabus. If, however, you only answered 81 out of 120, that would be 67.5% answered, and you would get proportionally fewer points on your semester grade; in this case, the number of points, n, is 15.88, which I would round up to 16 points for simplicity.
The "number correct" score for each session, starting with L5, will tally up this way for you at the end of the semester.

HW 3 is now ready to go.

I just finished setting up HW 3, which goes over some of the concepts in our computation of the acceleration of skateboarder Alan in Thursday's lecture. It also refers to the data set, which I typed up and posted - so that you can double check your own lecture notes.

Office hours now until 4:15 PM

I am now at Starbuck's in the UCF Bookstore (center campus) for office hours. I will be here until 4:15 PM, as noted on our calendar. I have an easy chair.

HW 2 is ready to go

OK, now you can try out a few simple calculations in HW 2. It will be due at 10:30 AM on Thursday, as usual. It is related to today's lecture, in which we computed Alan's and Nikki's average speed rolling down the aisle.

Don't forget to bring your skateboard again on Thursday.

HW 1 is now available; due Tuesday

I just finished activating your first homework in Webcourses, HW 1. Click on the yellow pickup truck icon, then on the assignment itself.

This assignment is designed as

1. a preview that
2. expects you to study your notes and the textbook.

Yes, offensive as that may sound, it is now time to STUDY! :)

De-activate popup blockers for CPS registration

Some of you have mentioned some difficulty clicking all the way through on the CPS registration method. Make sure to turn off popup blocking before trying it again. Apparently Windows users also must be aware of this.

Matter of fact, you should ALWAYS demobilize popup blocking when working in Webcourses. Or, if you have fancy popup blocking, allow popups from webcourses.ucf.edu.

Problem solving manual, CB&S

I was at CB&S on Tuesday afternoon, and they had a pile of the optional problem solving manuals for sale, unlike the bookstore in the center of campus.

In Thursday's class, we will have some practice CPS activity, so bring your clickers!!

Thirteen × 3 then CPS is free

UCF Students: If you register your CPS in three different classes, not necessarily the same semester, then any other classes you register for free. Or you can buy the "lifetime" subscription immediately for $35.