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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Jan. 22
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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(Word format)
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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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
downloads
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
Rotational & Line Symmetry
Pattern Blocks Jan. 31
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)
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
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
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 Spatial Visualization (4 pages from your packet)
Feb. 12
Homework Review #1
Answers to Spatial Visualization problems Feb. 14
Homework Review #1 Homework Review #1
Answers to Review #1:
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).
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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 HandoutSM 28.1 and 29.1 Pythagorean Theorem (These are Sketchpad files).
. 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
. 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
Witherspoon Feedback
. Volume of Cylinders and Cones
Homework Review #2
. 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:
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 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
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
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