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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Sept. 1
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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(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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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
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, 9-12SM 20.1 and 20.2 Similarity (pictures)
More Similarity (rectangles) (Triangles)
(Toothpick Answer - click below)
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 2Cross Multiply? Sept. 20
SM 18.1 Ex: 4, 5abc
SM 18.2 Ex: 1-5, 7-10Find all other nets that would make a cube.
SM 18.1 and 18.2
Euler (corrected)
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 Spatial Visualization (4 pages from your packet)
Sept. 25
Answers to Spatial Visualization problems Sept. 27
Homework Review #1 Homework Review #1 Answers to Review #1:
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
. 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 HandoutSM 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
. Oct. 20
SM 29.1 Ex: 18 parts i and iii, 31, 32
SM 30.1 Ex: 9,19
. Volume of Cylinders and Cones
Old homework questions
. Oct. 23
SM 30.1 Ex: 20ab, 21
Homework Review #2
. Homework Review #2 . Oct. 25
Homework Review #2 . Homework Review #2 Answers to Review #2:
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 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 Assigning Probability
Nov. 22
U2 Ex: 1-9, 12-13, 15-19 U2 More Probability
Nov. 27
U4 Ex: 6-8, 10 U4 Still More Probability Some answers to Money in the Bag
Nov. 29
Homework Review #3 (pdf)
Homework Review #3 (pdf) Answers to Review #3:
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