Assignment Title:  Letter	Assignment Code: Letr
Due:  before 11:59 pm, Friday, January 24, 2025

1st:	Download this text file.
2nd:	Answer each question.
3rd:	RENAME the file as described below.
4th:	ATTACH and EMAIL the file as described below.

	 Through this page, by answering these questions, 
introduce yourself to me, A^2, your prof.

1. What's your name as listed by the College?
    
2. Given,  
	BLUE, Calc MAT131-10	M/W 10:00  - 11:50 AM
	PURPLE, Calc MAT131-11
	YELLOW, Statistics l MAT123-IN11	
	GREEN, Statistics l MAT123-IN12
What's your class color? 
 
3. What's the (ONLY ONE!) email address that you would 
like me to use to contact you? The college email is not 
suggested but may be used. I have not found it to be reliable.
	
    
4. Use the above info to write your email subject line that will 
look like:
three-digit number.FirstName.LastName.Code
 as in:
 000.asquared.Azzolino.Letr
    
* This info will also be use for your file name as in:   
	000.asquared.Azzolino.Letr.txt
*  It will go into the NAME OF EVERY EMAIL ATTACHMENT.
*  These emails go to: blue@mathnstuff.com, 
green@mathnstuff.com,  yellow@mathnstuff.com or 
purple@mathnstuff.com.
 
5. State the month and year you last attended a math course.   
 
6. What was the name of your last math course?  
  
7. What grade did you get? 
 
8. On a scale from 0 (low) to 10 (high), how good are you at math?    
 
9.    As with the Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, the act of 
measuring makes the measurement less certain. Question #8 may 
do just that, influence the measurement -- hopefully in a positive way.
    Jonathan Malesic, author of "The End of Burnout," one who teaches 
writing at the University of Texas at Dallas, and who, according to the 
NY Times says,  "I have seen that students who are open to new 
knowledge will learn. Students who aren't, won't."
    "But this attitude is not fixed. The paradoxical union of intellectual 
humility and ambition is something that every student can (with help 
from teachers, counselors and parents) and should cultivate. It's what 
makes learning possible."
    Eli Shore, Program Coordinator, Tri-Boro Driver Rehab & Mobility 
Services puts it a different way, "If you are not willing to listen, if you 
'must do it your way' you won't be able to learn to drive."
    Consider: Do I want to be here? Am I here only because my 
parents/others forced me/wanted me to be here? Do I think it is "a waste" 
that I am taking this course? Am I here just to pass the courses I need 
for the degree I want? Am I game to learn something new? Am I looking 
forward to learning something new? Am I "open to new knowledge?"

    On a scale from 0 (low) to 10 (high), how "open to new knowledge" 
are you?    
 
10. What is your major? What are your career plans?
    
 
11. It is your job to teach me who you are. Give me A FEW WORDS about 
you so I can better recall who you are.
    * For example, about me one might write: son Mike tugboat captain, 
likes beads, math prof, webmaster
    
 
12. What is important for me to know about you to make your semester 
more successful? How can I help the most?
    Before answering, consider how other students learn by reading the 
list on How I Learn. They learn by repetition, by review, by slow practice, 
by "storing it until understanding it, or memorizing it if I still don't 
understand it."
    If you wish me to go over a problem then perhaps give a list of 
instructions, this I can probably do.
    If you wish me to go over more problems similar to the first, there is 
no time in class to do this. You will need to come to my office.
    
13. What did I forget to ask? Any additional comments?
    
 
14. The course was designed to be completed on a computer, but, many 
past students used their phone instead. What percent of class/zoom time 
do you anticipate using your phone instead of a computer?  

15. Do you understand that:
	15a. Every file must be renamed as: ###.First.Last.Code?
	15b. Every page of every file must be titled with: ###.First.Last.Code
	15c. Every file must be ATTACHED (often by a "paper clip)?

16. Again, 	Do you understand that:
	16a. Every file must be renamed as: ###.First.Last.Code
	16b. Every page of every file must be titled with: ###.First.Last.Code
	16c. Every file must be ATTACHED (often by a "paper clip")
AND NO CREDIT WILL BE GIVEN FOR INCORRECTLY SUBMITTED 
WORK?

This is the end of  the Letter, the first graded assignment.
Next complete the first quiz, Q1 found 
for Statistics on:  
	https://www.mathnstuff.com/math/stat/23sp25/23sp25.1.5.htm
or for Calculus I on:
	https://www.mathnstuff.com/math/calc/31sp25/31sp25.1.24.htm