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Algebra: Here is the midterm: https://docs.google.com/document/d/16bpkMUhNLfVtfiqKZC7ZOdxYwmLYkRt9u86CwUBJY48/edit?usp=sharing And here is the 3rd quarter term: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12clf44a1U13raFwxjK6gyd_6LsZJPQqeIbTbm6weJSk/edit?usp=sharing

Here is the concept list for Algebra: the file should end: 35. Solving Quadratics with the Quadratic Formula 36. Graphing Quadratics EC. Solving Quadratics by Completing the Square

I made a final study guide for ISRP , if you are interested. You should also go through this blog and look at the 14 classes we had this year - the presentations, the reading.

We discussed the Kant and Mill reading - see last week. We took a quiz (or not; again, see last week) on the reading. We read this article on how language affects moral judgement: Using a foreign language changes moral decisions We listened to: a Radiolab episode called Golden Balls: or this TED talk by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor: I told you what the Final Exam would be like: I will give you a reading assignment and you have to answer the following 6 questions: 1) What is the most important point of the reading? 2) How would you compare this reading assignment to a previous reading assignment in the course? 3) Give an example or real world application of some idea or concept in the assigned reading. 4) What was the most important sentence in the reading? Why did you think that sentence is so important? 5) What question did you have about the reading or what did you find troubling or disturbing? 6) What was your reaction to the content of

Day 13 - reading quiz, or not. Roll the dice! (see “The 6 questions”, below). Ethics: Kant and Mill slides Discuss - two beliefs on being good - obligation and outcomes. Also, why be good? HW: Read summaries of Kant and Mill Same as last week, Assignment: At the beginning of next class a student will roll a die.  If the die comes up as 1 or 2, a quiz will be given, if it comes up at 3 or higher, then there is no quiz that day. A second roll of the die indicates which of the predetermined questions will be asked. The 6 questions: What is the most important point of the reading? How would you compare this reading assignment to a previous reading assignment in the course? Give an example or real world application of some idea or concept in the assigned reading. What was the most important sentence in the reading? Why did you think that sentence is so important? What question did you have about the reading or what did you find troubling or disturbing? What was your reaction to the content

God and Design  slides and Is Belief in God Reasonable?  slides and God and Evil  slides Discuss HW: Reading: Bro-Summary of Fear and Trembling by Kierkagaard Assignment: At the beginning of next class a student will roll a die.  If the die comes up as 1 or 2, a quiz will be given, if it comes up at 3 or higher, then there is no quiz that day. A second roll of the die indicates which of the predetermined questions will be asked. The 6 questions: What is the most important point of the reading? How would you compare this reading assignment to a previous reading assignment in the course? Give an example or real world application of some idea or concept in the assigned reading. What was the most important sentence in the reading? Why did you think that sentence is so important? What question did you have about the reading or what did you find troubling or disturbing? What was your reaction to the content of the reading? Partial Credit if you

Logic and Dialetheism HW check (questions). Discuss questions and answers. Social contracts. This comic on Sartre and Hobbes and the social contract vs radical freedom. Maybe this comic too, on what-is-versus-what-can-be-known . Logic and Dialetheism. Sentences VS statements - statements assert something. Truth values. My friend’s dad’s favorite riddle: an explorer is captured by a tribe of cannibals. They are going to kill him. He is told to make a statement. If it is true, he will be beheaded; if it’s false he’ll be speared to death. The explorer thinks for a while, says something, and they let him go. What did he say? This statement is false presentation . Exit slip: write a dialethium. Homework - what do they want to know more about? Should we watch or read Tuck Everlasting?

If you are having trouble budgeting your time: 4/28 Get packet. It is 6 sheets of paper. Call one side of a sheet a page. do a page of the packet. 4/29 do a page of the packet. 5/1 do a page of the packet. 5/5 do a page of the packet. 5/6 do a page of the packet. 5/8 do a page of the packet. PROGRAMMING: By today, be able to make an array of pythagorean triples -  unsorted, with duplicated, not necessarily 1_000. 5/12 do a page of the packet. 5/13 do a page of the packet. 5/15 do a page of the packet. Don’t forget about the other parts of the final! 5/19 do a page of the packet. 5/20 do a page of the packet. 5/22 do a page of the packet. 5/26 No school Memorial Day 5/27 5/28 Finish final by today. 6/2 Finish proofs 6/3 Finish proofs 6/4 Last day!