9/5 - 9/10: Welcome Back to School & Introduction to the Math Exploration

Welcome back to school!

On this page, you will find resources for our class, IB Math HL for seniors. Please bookmark this site for future reference.

Here is a link to the class syllabus for the year that gives you information about the course as well as class norms and expectations.

This week, we're getting acquainted with the course and starting work on our internal assessment for math class, the Math Exploration.

Thursday, 9/5 - First Day of School - We did introductions and looked at the course syllabus. Here are the slides from our first day. Your HW for tonight is

• Familiarize yourself with Mr. Lao's website (DONE)
• Bookmark Mr. Lao's website
• Read the course syllabus
• Gather materials
  • something in which to take notes
  • something in which to hold class handouts
  • something with which to take notes
  • a small stash of graph paper
  • a GDC ("graphing display calculator")
• Find your textbook
• Find (or re-print) the HL Formula Book

Friday, 9/6 - We are starting the process of writing our Internal Assessments in IB Math HL, called the Math Exploration.

We made and looked at "topic-to-math" mind maps that might help us generate topics for our Explorations. Here are the slides from class.

Your HW is to create one "topic-to-math" mind map for a topic of your choosing, due Monday, to be collected. The idea is not to get a definitive topic out of this exercise (but you might!) but instead to practice making mind maps to help you start thinking more critically about what kind of topic you'd like to write about and also to see the world in a mathematical light.

Monday, 9/9 - we made and looked at "math-to-topic" mind maps that might help us generate topics for our Explorations. Here are the slides from class. Your HW is to create one "math-to-topic" mind map for a stimulus word of your choosing, due tomorrow, to be collected.

Tuesday, 9/10 - we received general feedback on our mind maps and looked at the rubric for the Math Exploration for Math HL. Here are the slides from class. Here also is a list of past questions generated by TBLS students for their Math Explorations. Your next mind map, of your choice, is due on Wednesday, 9/18. You will have one mind map of your choice due every Wednesday for the next few weeks.