Fun times in my AP Calc Class

Hearing

My calculus teacher was a very funny man. I will never forget the sound of his voice when he was excited for us or his overly dramatic laugh.

Smell

My teacher loved to drink coffee, in particular carmel coffee. Whenever I smell carmel coffee I am reminded of the early mornings coming in for extra help.

Touch

Calculators. Any time that I am using an advanced Ti84 I am reminded of this class.

Taste

The taste of my pencil as I anxiously studied problems and thought of ways to solve them

Sight

Looking at the actual calculus problems

Emotional

Calculus was a very stressful class. When I am reminded of this class I become a little anxious

I had an amazing teacher in this class. I am reminded of the fun times in the class and how appreciated I felt.

Acronyms

PEMDAS: Please excuse my dear aunt Sally.This was used to help us remember the order of operations

Coming in every single morning every day to come and get extra help from my teacher

Making fun group projects with my peers

Having extra studying sessions with them and supporting each other throughout the class

Listening to my teacher singing funny songs that he had created to make the math more enjoyable

Declarative

Constantly thinking about came next in the equations and how to long it onto the calculator when asked.

Non-declarative

Plotting the points of the graphs. After enough practice it required less thinking and was just more of a process we went through.

Reconstruction

In my precious math class I learned how to change the settings on my calculator. I hadn't quite done it correctly, but I wasn't doing very complicated math and didn't need the advanced settings for what was expected of me. The change in the settings didn't effect what I was doing. In this class I needed to use the advanced settings and had to relearn how to change them correctly.

Reconsolidation

I thought that I first learned the principle of derivatives in my pre-calculus class. I had the same teacher and many of the same students. However, derivatives was the first unit in our AP Calculus class. Because of the similarities I had gotten the memories confused.