okay, so you get some reading. this is a classic in the non-traditional mathematical canon. We are going to talk about it in class to start Thursday. You only need to read to the top of page 10, until the line "So how do we teach mathematics?" You can read further if you want to, but you are not required to.
http://www.maa.org/sites/default/files/pdf/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf
complete the problems in "exponent_word". There might be one that says "use logarithms!" well, we haven't. so don't. try something else.