Mathematics Education Courses

Spring 2007
 

 

Math 1420 - Tentative Course Schedule

Date

Assignment Due

Reading

In Class

 Notices

Jan. 17

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Syllabus

Relating Decimals and Fractions using Base ten blocks

Packets should be available in printing services in the basement of the library.

Jan. 19

Linking Decimal Operations

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Decimal Number Sense

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Jan. 22

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.

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Decimal Operations

 

Division by Zero?

(Word format)

Decimal Number Sense

Underlined documents can be printed until the packets are available.

Jan. 24

 

Also, finish Decimal Number Sense not completed in class.

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).

Jan. 26 

 SM 19.1 Ex: Use dot paper for all drawings. 1-3,5abc; 6, 7, 9-11  SM 19.1

More Polygons

Quadrilateral Definitions

downloads

Square: Word or PDF

Isometric: Word or PDF

Jan. 29 

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

Transformations

Rotational & Line Symmetry

Pattern Blocks

Jan. 31 

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

Feb. 2 

. . Snow Day Free tutoring is available for Math 1420 - Morgan Univ. Center, Room 114

 Feb. 5

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

More Similarity

Multiplicative Thinking

Nets for Cubes

 Cross Multiply?

 Feb. 7

SM 22.1 Ex: 17, 19ab.

SM 22.2 Ex: 3, 4ad

Assemble Polyhedra A-M (bring them to class)

Find all other nets that would make a cube.

SM 22.2

SM 18 - Polyhedra

Prisms

Pyramids

Graph Paper

 Feb. 9

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

Euler

Spatial Visualization (4 pages from your packet)

 

 Feb. 12

Homework Review #1 (Dr. Wilson) - Word or PDF

Feedback #1 (Dr. Witherspoon) - Word or PDF

 

Spatial Visualization 2 (pdf)

Homework Review #1

Answers to Spatial Visualization problems

 Feb. 14

Homework Review #1   Homework Review #1

Answers to Review #1:

Word or PDF

 Feb. 16

. . EXAM 1 Note: Calculators will not be allowed on this exam.

Feb. 19 

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

Decimals and the Metric System (pdf)

Measurement

Angles

Protractor Web Tool

Feb. 21

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 (This is a Sketchpad file).

Area of Polygons: Parallelograms, Triangles and Trapezoids (These are Sketchpad files).

Area of Circles

TI calculator workshop in CX 300 (computer lab) 1:20 - 2:20

Feb. 23

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 29.1 Ex: 3, 4, 6

SM 26.1 I will be out of town for a conference. Work on your homework. You can work in groups in class. .

Feb. 26

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 .

Feb. 28

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.

Mar. 2

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 (These are Sketchpad files).

Sketch 1 Sketch 2

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Mar. 5-9

 Spring Break - No Class  .  .  .

Mar. 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

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Mar. 14

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

SM 30.1 Ex: 9,19

. More Surface Area and Volume  .

Mar. 16

Homework Review #2

PDF or DOC format

Witherspoon Feedback

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Volume of Cylinders and Cones

Homework Review #2

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Mar. 19

SM 30.1 Ex: 20ab, 21

Homework Review #2

. Homework Review #2 .

 Mar. 21

No Class - I will be out of town for a conference. . .

Answers to Review #2:

Word or PDF

 Mar. 23

.   EXAM 2  

 Mar. 26

.   Parachute Problem  

 Mar. 28

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

Remember the East Montgomery Math Fair - Mar. 29-30

 Mar. 30

Making the Data

Drop Off

 

Grade Data Box Plots

Outliers

Remember the Moore Math Fair - Mar. 30

 Apr. 2

 D 2.1 Ex: 8-10, 16 (page 53)  

Standard Deviation

Cubes Activity

 

 Apr. 4

D 2.2 Ex: 3-5, 11 (page 68)  D 2.2

Analyzing Car graph

Group Standard Deviations

Batteries Handout

Migraines Box Plots

 

 Apr. 6

 Good Friday - No Class      

 Apr. 9

Batteries Handout

Migraines Box Plots

 D 2.3 Migraines Histograms  

 Apr. 11

 D 2.3 Ex: 6, 8,10-12, 14-16

Migraines Histograms

 

Chance Events

Intro to Probability

(mms website -click on milk chocolate)

 

 Apr. 13

U1 Ex: 2-3  U1

Is Rock, Paper, Scissors a fair game?

Assigning Probability

Online Spinner

 

 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.
 U2 More Probability  

 Apr. 18

 U4 Ex: 6-8, 10

Spinner Problem (doc or pdf)

 U4

The money is in the bag. (pdf)

Expected Value

Newspaper Route

Some answers to Money in the Bag

Word or PDF

 Apr. 20

Homework Review #3   Homework Review #3 .

 Apr. 23

    Exam 3  

 Apr. 25

U6 Ex: 1-6  U6 Review for Final

 Apr. 30

10:30-12:30

    Final Exam MWF class which meets at 10:10  

 May 2

8:00-10:00

    Final Exam MWF class which meets at 9:05