Mathematics Education Courses Summer 2007 Math 1420 - Tentative Course Schedule
Date Assignment Due Reading In Class Notices July 9
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. Syllabus, Relating Decimals and Fractions
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July 10
Linking Decimal Operations to base 10 blocks.
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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July 11
SM 19.1 Ex: Use dot paper for all drawings. 6, 7, 9-11
SM 19.1
More Polygons
Ridgid Motion
You can print dot paper here or for isometric dot paper click here.
Or here (just scroll down to dot or isometric dot paper).
July 12
SM 19.1 Ex: Use dot paper for all drawings. 1-3,5abc
SM 19.2 Ex: 3, 4 (Make drawings on dot paper.)
SM 19.3 Ex: 6-9
SM 20.1 Ex: 1, 2, 4
SM 19.2, 19.3
SM 20.1
Sum of Interior Angles
Diagonals of Polygons
Rotational & Line Symmetry
(Toothpick Answer - click below)
July 13 SM 20.2 Ex: 1-4, 7, 9-12
Assemble Polyhedra A-M (Bring to class).
SM 20.2
SM 22.1
SM 22.2
Similarity (pictures)
More Similarity (rectangles) (Triangles)
SM 18, Polyhedra
July 16
- SM 22.1 Ex: Make drawings on graph paper. 2-4, 13, 26.
- SM 22.2 Ex: 3, 4ad
- Nets for Cubes
- Find other nets that would make a cube.
SM 18.1 and 18.2 Nets
Spatial Visualization (4 pages from your packet)Graph Paper July 17
SM 18.1 Ex: 4, 5abc
SM 18.2 Ex: 1-5, 7-10SM 18.3 Ex: 1, 2, 4a-c,f,g, 5, 7
SM 18.3 Review for Exam 1 Answers to Spatial Visualization problems
July 18
. . EXAM 1 . July 19
SM 25.1 Ex: 1-3, 5-7 SM 25.1 Decimals and the Metric System (pdf)
Measurement
Protractor Web Tool July 20
SM 25.1 Ex: 9-13, 14 (For 14, assume the ruler used measures to the nearest eighth of an inch.), 17-19
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
Activity 8 - Metric Models and Projects
SM 26.1 Perimeter, Circumference (This is a Sketchpad file).
Area of Polygons: Parallelograms, Triangles and Trapezoids (These are Sketchpad files).
. July 23
SM 29.1 Ex: 3, 4, 6, 8, 16, 17, 26
SM 27.1 Ex: Use shapes on p. 219 for #1. Do 3, 4ab, 6, 7, 9, 11, 12, 28
Calculate each of the AREAS of Figures A - L on the handout two different ways.
SM 27.1
SM 28.1 and 29.1
Volume
Surface Area
. July 24
SM 29.1 Ex: 20
SM 28.1 Ex: 1-3, 4, 7-10, 11a, 12, 14, 17
SM 30.1 Pythagorean Theorem (These are Sketchpad files).
Surface Area
. July 25
SM 30.1 Ex: 1-4, 7, 13, 14
Calculate the PERIMETERS of Figures A - L on the handout.
. Volume of Prisms, Pyramids, Cylinders and Cones Answers for Area and Perimeter Handout. July 26 SM 29.1 Ex: 31, 32
SM 30.1 Ex: 9,19,20ab
. Review for Exam 2
. July 27
. . EXAM 2 . July 30
Representations of Parachute Data with your choice of "best" parachute . Spreadsheet of parachute data
Student Representations of Parachute Data
Students and Basketball Players
. July 31 Making the Data
Drop Off
D 2.1 Ex: 8-10, 16 (page 53)
D 2.1 Grade Data Box Plot
Outliers
. August 1 D 2.2 Ex: 3-5, 11 (page 68)
D 2.3 Ex: 10-12, 14, 16
D 2.2 Standard Deviation
Cubes Activity
Migraine Problem
. August 2
Batteries Handout (Sorted Data)
D 2.3 Ex: 6, 8
Migraine Box Plots
D 2.3 Chance Events
Intro to Probability
(mms website -click on milk chocolate)
Is Rock, Paper, Scissors a fair game?
. August 3 Migraines Histograms
U1 Ex: 2-3
U2 Ex: 1-8
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 and U2 Spinner Problem
Assigning Probability
More Probability.
. August 6 U2 Ex: 9, 12-13, 15-19
U4 Ex: 6-8, 10
U4 and U6 Still More Probability
The money is in the bag. (pdf)
Newspaper Route
Expected Value
. August 7 U6 Ex: 1-6
. Review for Exam 3 . August 8 . . EXAM 3 . August 9 . . Review for Final . August 10 . . FINAL EXAM .