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Math 1420 - Tentative Course Schedule
Date Assignment Due Reading In Class Notices Aug. 27
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. Syllabus
Relating Decimals and Fractions using Base ten blocks
Packets should be available in the bookstore. Aug. 29
Linking Decimal Operations . Arcytech (Base 10 Blocks)
Note: My office hours changed. See the linked syllabus.
Aug. 31
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.
. (Word format)
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shipping charges to be removed at check-out.)Sept. 3
Labor Day - No Class
. . Sept. 5
Also, finish Decimal Number Sense not completed in class.
Division by Zero? (Word format)
. 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. 7
SM 19.1 Ex: Use dot paper for all drawings. 1-3,5abc; 6, 7, 9-11 SM 19.1 More Polygons
downloads
Sept. 10
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
Hanndout - Page 92
Pattern Blocks Sept. 12
Toothpick Problem (p. 65)
SM 20.1 Ex: 1, 2, 4
SM 20.1 Rotational & Line Symmetry Sept. 14
SM 20.2 Ex: 1-4, 7, 9-12
Assemble Polyhedra A-M on the card stock in your packets, pages 380-386.
SM 20.2 & 22.1 Similarity (pictures)
More Similarity (rectangles) (Triangles)
Multiplicative Thinking
(Toothpick Answer - click below)
Sept. 17
SM 22.1 Ex: Make drawings on graph paper. 2-4, 13, 24, 26.
SM 22.1 Ex: 17, 19ab.
SM 22.2 Ex: 3, 4ad
Find all other nets that would make a cube.
SM 22.2 SM 18 - Polyhedra
(bring A-M to class)
Graph Paper Sept. 19
SM 18.1 Ex: 4, 5abc
SM 18.2 Ex: 1-5, 7-10
SM 18.3 Ex: 1, 2, 4a-c,f,g, 5, 7
SM 18.1, 18.2 and 18.3 Spatial Visualization (4 pages from your packet)
Sept. 21
Homework Review #1
Homework Review #1
Answers to Spatial Visualization problems Sept. 24
Homework Review #1 Homework Review #1 . Sept. 26
. . EXAM 1 Note: Calculators will not be allowed on this exam. Sept. 28
SM 25.1 Ex: 1-3, 5-7 SM 25.1 Decimals and the Metric System (pdf)
Measurement
Angles
Protractor Web Tool Oct. 1
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 More Measurement
Perimeter
. Oct. 3
SM 26.1 Ex: 1-5, 6a-d,h-j. List 10 possibilities for 7a, Do 7b, 12, 14-16, 19-20, 22, 25a-c,e,f SM 26.1 Circumference (This is a Sketchpad file).
Area of Polygons: Parallelograms, Triangles and Trapezoids (These are Sketchpad files).
. Oct. 5
SM 29.1 Ex: 3, 4, 6
SM 29.1 Ex: 8, 16, 17, 26
SM 27.1 Ex: 3, 4ab, 6, 7, 9, 11, 12, 28
SM 27.1 More Perimeter and Area
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Oct. 8
SM 29.1 Ex: 20
Calculate the areas of Figures A - L on the handout two different ways. PDF version.
. Surface Area and Volume Answers for Area and Perimeter Handout. Oct. 10
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 (These are Sketchpad files).
. Oct. 12
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
Volume of Prisms and Pyramids
. Oct. 15-16
Fall Break - No Class
. . Oct. 17
SM 29.1 Ex: 18 parts i and iii, 31, 32
SM 30.1 Ex: 9,19
. More Surface Area and Volume . Oct. 19
Homework
Review #2. Volume of Cylinders and Cones
Homework Review #2
. Oct. 22
SM 30.1 Ex: 20ab, 21
Homework Review #2
. Homework Review #2 "Stand and Deliver" will be showing at 11 a.m., Monday, Oct. 22 in the Morgan University Center, Room 308. The film will be shown again at 4 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 23 in the same location. Oct. 24
. EXAM 2 Jaime Escalante will speak at 1 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 24 in the Concert Hall of the Music/Mass Communication building. Oct. 26
. Parachute Problem For 5 points extra credit, you can either view the film or attend the speech and write a couple of paragraphs about what effect the movie or speech has had on your thoughts about teaching. Due Oct. 26. Oct. 29
Individual representations of Parachute Data with your choice of "best" parachute and justification for your choice. D 2.1 Students and Basketball Players
Student Representations of Parachute Data
Spreadsheet of parachute data.
. Oct. 31
Making the Data
Drop Off
Grade Data Box Plots
Outliers
. Nov. 2
D 2.1 Ex: 8-10, 16 (page 53) Standard Deviation
Cubes Activity
Nov. 5
D 2.2 Ex: 3-5, 11 (page 68) D 2.2 Batteries Handout
Migraines Histograms
Nov. 7
Batteries Handout
Migraines Histograms
D 2.3 Migraines Box Plots Last Day for a "W" with instructor approval is Nov. 8, 2007. Nov. 9
No Class - I will be out of town for a conference. Nov. 12
Veteran's Day - No Class Nov. 14
D 2.3 Ex: 6, 8,10-12, 14, 16
Migraines Box Plots
Chance Events
Intro to Probability
(mms website -click on milk chocolate)
Nov. 16
U1 Ex: 2-3 U1 Is Rock, Paper, Scissors a fair game?
Assigning Probability
Nov. 19
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
Three Player Solution Nov. 21
U4 Review Tests 1 & 2 Nov. 22-23
Thanksgiving Break- No Class Nov. 26
U4 Ex: 6-8, 10
Homework Review #3
Money in the Bag
Nov. 28
Homework
Review #3Homework Review #3 Nov. 30
Exam 3 . Dec. 3
Expected Value
Newspaper Route
Dec. 5
U6 Ex: 1-6 U6 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