Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

Returning to my discussion of last Tuesday’s Mathematical Methods 1 class, my co-teacher David who is handling the other section of the same subject suggested taking up the next part in the textbook, which is Exponential Functions.

This, for me, did not have that much application though, so I just showed them what the graphs of the common equations involving exponential expressions looked like but I did not give any examples or tell them that they should know how to graph the different exponential equations.

In my Trigonometric Applications class afterwards, just as usual for the meeting before the quiz I gave them several examples that they could solve in the room on the topics covered, which are all the identities except for the first eight.

Again I told them to ask their questions then instead of during the quiz, and when they could not answer all of the items in the hour and a half allotted, I told them that I would be giving the solutions to the photocopier for them to reproduce and study.

In my mechanics lecture (which I had already started discussing in a previous post) was when the students told me about their NSTP Outreach the next day, which would fall on the same time as the schedule for out practical exam.

That meant that I had to postpone it. I initially thought of resetting the time for the afternoon class, but some students (in the morning class) said that it would conflict with their computer lab classes.

So rather than have one class take their practical exams one week before the other class, I decided to move the set time of the afternoon class as well, to Wednesday this week.

That is, until I found out that there will be no classes for Wednesday this week as well.

Because of the two days of class suspension due to the typhoon, both my Trig App and mechanics quizzes scheduled for Thursday last week did not push through.

Today the students were asking if we would still be having the quizzes, but I told them that we weren’t. This is because for the regular sessions this week, they are just enough to finish the topics we have to cover without having to set any make up classes that are not quizzes or exams.

And rather than have an extra session which is just a test, my alternative was to just add to the coverage of the final exam, to which the students had no complaints anyway and quietly accepted my decision.

For my MM1 class today, (first time I’m talking about the current day with no backlog in a long, long while) I finished the last topic for the term, which is logarithms, natural logarithms, properties of logarithms and solving of logarithmic functions in one variable.

Then I had to tell them about David’s new suggestion, which is that we have a comprehensive pre-final exam on Thursday, aside from the finals on Monday.

I’ll explain more about this tomorrow though. I just heard the bell. Class dismissed.