Welcome to my class!

Welcome to my home page. I hope you find this site helpful. Some of the things you'll find here include class assignments, pictures of some of my students (maybe your picture will be here soon), a syllabus and a very broad synopsis of what we will be studying in class.

The main thing I want you to know is that I plan on having a lot of fun in class. You, however, should plan on doing a lot of work in class, heh heh heh. See, I'm having fun already. Seriously, I really want you to have fun too and I want you to learn so much math that you'll be able to breeze through math next year.

Events and Announcements
I'll post the date we begin as soon as I know it.

Numbers in the News.

Did anyone see the article in the Herald about the lawyers suing the tobacco companies for $154 BILLION ? Sheesh, thats a lot of money.

Update. The jury awarded $145 Billion! If that was doled out in one dollar bills how much warehouse space would it occupy? How long would it take for the bank teller to count out that much money if he or she could count out 2 bills per second? If the bills were placed end to end how long a line of money would it make?

Other news: Physicists in Princeton, NJ think they have broken the speed of light barrier. They sent a pulse of laser light through a chamber filled with cesium vapor and they say the pulse traveled 310 times farther than the distance it would have covered if the chamber had contained a vacumn. Question, why didn't they just say the pulse traveled 310 times faster than the speed of light? How does this speed compare to "warp drive"?