{"id":235,"date":"2010-12-01T15:12:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T15:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/wordpress\/?p=235"},"modified":"2010-12-01T15:12:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-01T15:12:00","slug":"teaching-calculus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2010\/12\/01\/teaching-calculus\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Calculus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog6\/calc.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This year I picked up Math 31 in my teaching assignment. It is an introductory course to calculus that only students with <\/div>\n<div>   a: high post secondary ambitions <\/div>\n<div>   b: a love of math<\/div>\n<div>   c: lots of spare time<\/div>\n<div>consider taking. All of my students fit into categories a and b.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I&#8217;ve loved the challenge and content of calculus since I took my intro class in grade 12 and I am enjoying revisiting these amazing concepts after a 12 year hiatus. The real joy is working with such dedicated students. The class average is an impressive 90%.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>At the moment, my class is finishing their chapter 3 test on related rates &#8211; lots of furrowed brows, focused stares, sketching and calculator buttons being pushed. Such fun!!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year I picked up Math 31 in my teaching assignment. It is an introductory course to calculus that only students with a: high post secondary ambitions b: a love of math c: lots of spare time consider taking. All of my students fit into categories a and b. I&#8217;ve loved the challenge and content &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2010\/12\/01\/teaching-calculus\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,18,30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-235","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-education","9":"category-math","10":"category-zr"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}