Mathematics Education Courses

Fall 2006
 

 

Math 1420 - Tentative Course Schedule

Date

Assignment Due

Reading

In Class

 Notices

Aug. 28

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Syllabus

Relating Decimals and Fractions using Base ten blocks

Packets should be available in printing services on Thurs. or Fri.

Aug. 30

Linking Decimal Operations

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Decimal Number Sense

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Sept. 1

More Decimal Sense,

Decimal Maze (Rules: You must start at #1 with 100 points and end at #12. You can only cross each path 1 time (you burn your bridges). You can only move horizontally or down in the maze, not back up. Try to get as many points as possible.

Also, finish Decimal Number Sense not completed in class.

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Decimal Operations

 

Division by Zero?

(Word format)

Scientific Notation (Word format)

Underlined documents can be printed until the packets are available.

Sept. 6

 

Scientific Notation (Word format)

Division by Zero? (Word format)

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Polygons

You can print dot paper here or for isometric dot paper click here.

Or here (just scroll down to dot or isometric dot paper).

Sept. 8 

 SM 19.1 Ex: Use dot paper for all drawings. 1-4,5abc; 6, 7, 9-11  

More Polygons

Quadrilateral Definitions

 

Sept. 11 

Finish More Polygons handout not completed in class.

SM 19.2 Ex: 3, 4 (Make drawings on dot paper.)

SM 19.3 Ex: 6-9

SM 19.2, 19.3

Ridgid Motion

Rotational & Line Symmetry

Pattern Blocks

Sept. 13 

SM 20.1 Ex: 1, 2, 4
SM 20.2 Ex: 1-4, 7, 9-12
SM 20.1 and 20.2

Similarity (pictures)

More Similarity (rectangles) (Triangles)

 (Toothpick Answer - click below)

Answers for 20.1

Sept. 15 

SM 22.1 Ex: Make drawings on graph paper. 2-4, 13, 23, 24, 26. SM 22.1 More Similarity  

 Sept. 18

Assemble Polyhedra A-M (bring them to class)

SM 22.2 Ex: 3, 4ad

SM 22.2

SM 18, Polyhedra: p 5-11
Discussions 1 and 2

Nets for Cubes

 Cross Multiply?

 Sept. 20

SM 18.1 Ex: 4, 5abc
SM 18.2 Ex: 1-5, 7-10

Find all other nets that would make a cube.

SM 18.1 and 18.2

Prisms

Pyramids

Euler (corrected)

Percent Number Sense

Graph Paper

 Sept. 22

Percent Number Sense: 1-7 in your packet.

SM 22.1 Ex: 15, 17-19.

SM 18.3 Ex: 1, 2, 4a-c,f,g, 5, 7

 SM 18.3

More Percent Number Sense

Spatial Visualization (4 pages from your packet)

 

 Sept. 25

Spatial Visualization 2 (pdf)

Homework Review #1

 

Spatial Visualization 2 (pdf)

Homework Review #1

Answers to Spatial Visualization problems

 Sept. 27

Homework Review #1   Homework Review #1

Answers to Review #1:

Word or PDF (#8 b) is closed only, not convex)

 Sept. 29

. . EXAM 1 .

Oct. 2 

SM 25.1 Ex: 1-3, 5-7 SM 25.1

Decimals and the Metric System (pdf)

Measurement

Perimeter, Angle

Protractor Web Tool

Oct. 4

SM 25.1 Ex: 9-13, 14 (For 14, assume the ruler used measures to the nearest eighth of an inch.), 17-19 SM 25.1 Perimeter, Circumference .

Oct. 6

SM 26.1 Ex: 1-5, 6a-d,h-j. List 10 possibilities for 7a, Do 7bc, 12, 14-16, 19-20, 22, 25a-c,e,f

SM 29.1 Ex: 3, 4, 6

SM 26.1

Area of Polygons

Area of Circles

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Oct. 9

SM 29.1 Ex: 8, 16, 17, 20, 26

SM 27.1 Ex: Use shapes on p. 219 for #1. Do 3, 4ab, 6, 7, 9, 11, 12, 28

SM 27.1 More Perimeter and Area .

Oct. 11

Calculate the areas of Figures A - L on the handout two different ways. PDF version. . Volume of Prisms and Pyramids Answers for Area and Perimeter Handout.

Oct. 13

SM 28.1 Ex: 1-3, 4, 7-10, 11a, 12, 14, 17
Activity 8 - Metric Models and Projects Handout
SM 28.1 and 29.1 Pythagorean Theorem .

Oct. 16

 Fall Break - No Class  .  .  .

Oct. 18

Calculate the perimeters of Figures A - L on the handout. PDF version.

SM 30.1 Ex: 1-4, 7, 13, 14

SM 30.1

More Perimeter

Surface Area

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Oct. 20

SM 29.1 Ex: 18 parts i and iii, 31, 32

SM 30.1 Ex: 9,19

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Volume of Cylinders and Cones

Old homework questions

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Oct. 23

SM 30.1 Ex: 20ab, 21

Homework Review #2

PDF or DOC format

. Homework Review #2  .

Oct. 25

Homework Review #2 . Homework Review #2

Answers to Review #2:

Word or PDF

 Oct. 27

. . EXAM 2 .

 Oct. 30

 .   Parachute Problem  

 Nov. 1

Representations of Parachute Data with your choice of "best" parachute  D 2.1

Students and Basketball Players

Student Representations of Parachute Data

 

 Nov. 3

Making the Data

Drop Off

 

Grade Data Box Plots

Outliers

 

 Nov. 6

 D 2.1 Ex: 8-10, 16 (page 53)  

Standard Deviation

Cubes Activity

 

 Nov. 8

D 2.2 Ex: 3-5, 11 (page 68)  D 2.2

Analyzing Car graph

Group Standard Deviations

Batteries Handout

 

 Nov. 10

 Veteran's Day - No Class      

 Nov. 13

 Batteries Handout   Migraines Box Plots  

 Nov. 15

 D 2.3 Ex: 6, 8,10-12, 14-16

Migraines Box Plots

 D 2.3 Migraines Histograms  

 Nov. 17

Migraines Histograms  

Chance Events

Intro to Probability

(mms website -click on milk chocolate)

Is Rock, Paper, Scissors a fair game?

 

 Nov. 20

U1 Ex: 2-3

Three Player Rock-Paper-Scissors

A wins if all match
B wins if exactly 2 match
C wins if no matches
First predict, then determine probablilities for each.
 U1

Spinner Problem (pdf)

Assigning Probability

Online Spinner

 

 Nov. 22

 U2 Ex: 1-9, 12-13, 15-19  U2

More Probability

The money is in the bag. (pdf)

 

 Nov. 27

 U4 Ex: 6-8, 10  U4 Still More Probability

Some answers to Money in the Bag

Word or PDF

 Nov. 29

 Homework Review #3 (pdf)   Homework Review #3 (pdf)

Answers to Review #3:

Word or PDF

 Dec. 1

     Exam 3  

 Dec. 4

   U6

 Expected Value

Newspaper Route

 

 Dec. 6

 U6 Ex: 1-6    Review for Final  

 Dec. 11

10:30-12:30

    Final Exam MWF class which meets at 10:10  

 Dec. 13

8:00-10:00

    Final Exam MWF class which meets at 9:05