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Math 1420 - Tentative Course Schedule
Date Assignment Due Reading In Class Notices Jan. 14
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. Syllabus
Relating Decimals and Fractions using Base ten blocks
Click on the links to download handouts.
Base 10 Blocks
Jan. 16
Linking Decimal Operations . Arcytech (Base 10 Blocks)
Jan. 18
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.
. Free tutoring is available for Math 1420 - Morgan Univ. Center, Room 114
Go to the 1420 D2L course page to download the Shapes and Measurement pages up to Feb 1.
Jan. 21-25
Assemble Polyhedra A-M on the card stock in your packets, pages 380-386.
. No Class
Martin Luther King Holiday
I have a conference out of town.
Books should be in the University Bookstore by Feb. 1 Jan. 28
Also, finish Decimal Number Sense not completed in class.
. You can print dot paper here or for isometric dot paper click here.
Or here (just scroll down to dot or isometric dot paper).
Jan. 30
SM 19.1 Ex: Use dot paper for all drawings. 1-3,5abc; 6, 7, 9-11 SM 19.1 More Polygons
downloads
Feb. 1
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 Go over Homework in Chapter 19 (diagonals and angles)
Ridgid Motions
Feb. 4
Toothpick Problem (p. 65)
SM 20.1 Ex: 1, 2, 4
SM 20.1 Handout - Page 92
-Bring to class
Rotational & Line Symmetry
Pattern blocks, Reflectas (Mira)
Books (Reconceptualizing Mathematics) should be in the University Bookstore today. It will update the schedule Beginning on Feb 8 using the new book, RM. Feb. 6
SM 20.2 Ex: 1-4, 7, 9-12
SM 20.2 Similarity (pictures)
More Similarity (rectangles) (Triangles) These are Sketchpad files - you must be in a Claxton lab to view
Multiplicative Thinking
(Toothpick Answer - click below)
Feb. 8
RM 20.1 Ex: Make drawings on graph paper. 2-4, 13, 24, 26.
RM 20.1 Ex: 17, 19ab.
RM 20.2 Ex: 3, 4ad
Construction of Shapes A-M
RM 20.1 & 20.2 RM 16 - Polyhedra
(Bring A-M to class)
Geosolids
Feb. 11
RM 16.1 Ex: 4, 5abc
RM 16.2 Ex: 1-5, 7-10
RM 16.1 &16.2 Geosolids, C-rods, Centimeter Grid Paper Feb. 13
SNOW DAY SNOW DAY Feb. 15
RM 16.3 Ex: 1, 2, 4a-c,f,g, 5, 7
RM 16.3 Decimals and the Metric System
Measurement
C-rods, Ruler, Tape Measure
Feb. 18
RM 23.1 Ex: 1-3, 5-7
RM 23.1 Ex: 9-13, 17-19
RM 23.1 Angles
More Measurement
Perimeter
Answers to Spatial Visualization problems
Protractor
Feb. 20
. Feb. 22
EXAM 1
Note: Calculators will not be allowed on this exam.
Feb. 25
RM 23.2 Ex: 1-5, 6a-d,h-j. List 5 possibilities for 7a, Do 7b, 12, 14-16, 19-20, 22, 25a-c,e,f RM 23.2 Circumference (This is a Sketchpad file).
Area of Polygons: Parallelograms, Triangles and Trapezoids (These are Sketchpad files).
Centimeter Grid Paper
Feb. 27
RM 25.1 Ex: 3, 4, 6, 8, 16, 17
RM 24.1 Ex: 3, 4ab, 6, 7, 9, 11, 12, 28
RM 24.1 & 25.1 More Perimeter and Area
Calculate the areas of Figures A - L on the handout two different ways.
Centimeter Grid Paper, Multilink Blocks
60
Day Free Trial ofGeometer's Sketchpad software (Click
buy now and scroll down to student version, $39.95)Here is a Sketchpad Tutorial.
Feb. 29
RM 25.1 Ex: 20
Calculate the areas of Figures A - L on the handout two different ways.
. I will be out of town for a conference at MTSU. Go to D2L to get the following handout. Read RM 24.2 and do the homework problems.
Activity 8 - Metric Models and Projects Handout
Answers for Area and Perimeter Handout.
Mar. 3-7
Spring Break - No Class Spring Break - No Class Mar. 10
Activity 8 - Metric Models and Projects Handout
RM 24.2 Ex: 1-3, 4, 7-10, 11a, 12, 14, 17
RM 24.2 Volume - Discussion 7,
p. 564.Pythagorean Theorem (These are Sketchpad files).
Centimeter Grid Paper, Multilink Blocks, Ruler
I entered your Exam 1 score as your Mid-term grade.
Mar. 12
Calculate the perimeters of Figures A - L on the handout. PDF version.
RM 26.1 Ex: 1-4, 7, 13, 14
RM 26.1
More Perimeter and Surface Area
Mar. 14
RM 25.1 Ex: 18 parts i and iii.
. Work on Homework Review #2 (up to #12) in groups or on your own. Mar. 17
Homework Review #2 (up to #12)
. Volume of Prisms and Pyramids
Volume of Cylinders and Cones
Geosolids Mar. 19
SM 26.1 Ex: 20ab, 21
RM 26.1 Ex: 9,19
. Homework Review #2 Mar. 21
. Good Friday - No Class
Mar. 24
Review for Exam 2 Mar. 26
. EXAM 2 Flyer for Block I Fall 2008 Mar. 28
D 2.1 Grid Paper Mar. 31
Individual representations of Paracte Data with your choice of "best" parachute and justification for your choice.
Parachute Discussion
Grade Data Box Plots
Parachute Apr. 2
No Class - APSU President Installation No Class - APSU President Installation
Apr. 4
Students and Basketball Players
Go to D2L, choose Math 1420 and then Content to download the files.
Outliers
Standard Deviation
Last Day for a "W" with instructor approval is Apr. 4, 2008.
Apr. 7
D 2.2 Ex: 3-5, 11 (page 68) D 2.2 Grid Paper
Apr. 9
D 2.3 Migraines Box Plots Apr. 11
D 2.3 Ex: 6, 8,10-12, 14, 16
Chance Events
(mms website -click on milk chocolate)
Apr. 14
U1 Ex: 2-3 U1 Is Rock, Paper, Scissors a fair game?
Assigning Probability
Apr. 16
U2 Ex: 1-9, 12-13, 15-19
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.
- B wins if exactly 2 match
U2 More Probability
Apr. 18
Homework Review #3
Check D2L over the weekend. I will post asap.
Homework Review #3 Three Player Solution Apr. 21
Exam 3 . Apr. 23
Review for Final Apr. 28
8:00-10:00
Final Exam MWF class which meets at 9:05 Apr. 30
1:30-3:30
Final Exam MWF class which meets at 1:25 - A wins if all match