** means that the assignment will receive a numerical grade. Other assignments count towards the baseline participation grade.
- ** Final exam** will occur from 9-11:30am for 3:30 class. Take-home portion
- Extra credit crochet model of hyperbolic geometry due (for me to keep).
- **Final exam
**
will occur from 9-11:30am for 2:00 class.
Take-home portion
- Retakes for WebCT quizzes 6-8 due by 11:55pm
- due by 5pm:
a) **Revised Ben Franklin report** printed out. You must also turn in your original draft and graded checklist.
b) **Revised mathematician worksheet** as an attachment onto WebCT to Dr. Sarah at 1339520031 as .doc or .rtf (if not a Word document, Save as... rich text format). You must also turn in your original worksheet draft and graded checklist.
c) **Paper references** Dr. Sarah gave you for your mathematician must be turned back in.
- Work on Ben F and Mathematician revisions
and WebCT quizzes 6-8. After a review
lab, there will be some time in lab on Monday to work on assignments,
so you may want to bring an electronic copy of
your mathematician worksheet and use lab time to complete revisions
with your partner.
- Skim through Universe as Doughnut: New Data, New Debate (NYTimes article dated March 11, 2003), go over Spheres Sliced in 2D and 3D, and go back over Gluing Spaces to Obtain Possible Shapes for our Universe , and Shape of the Universe - Mind Bending Ideas!
- Work on WebCT quizzes
- Work on Ben F and Mathematician revisions.
- Finish up the Shape of the Universe Worksheet if you haven't already done so.
- Re-read Shape of the Universe - Mind Bending Ideas!
- Re-read Gluing Spaces to Obtain Possible Shapes for our Universe
- Go back over Davide Cervone's talk on The Cube and the Hypercube: Rotations and Slices
- Review the answers to geometry
of the earth
problems 0
through 7 and be prepared to share these with
the rest of the class if you are called on.
- Read Heart of Math p. 288-319
- Take try 1 of WebCT quiz 6 and 7.
- Bring your stock packet to lab.
- **Lab 9** due by 5pm
- ** Geometry of the Earth and Universe report** due (assigned on March 19) (NO lates)
-
Bring 1 ball per group of 2 (that you won't mind drawing on) - the ball and should be between 6 inches and a foot in diameter, and it should be round, smooth and the type of ball that has already been completely inflated in the store (so that it does not have a lot of give). 
- If you have masking tape, bring that too. If you have a marker, bring that
too.
- 4/3 Worksheets and suggestions for improvement due
- **Lab 8:** Test 2 revisions and grades assignment due by 7pm
- Re-read the Syllabus and Grading Policies
- Readings and 4/1 Worksheets and suggestions for improvement due
- Presentations and Worksheets on Mary Ellen Rudin,
Frank Morgan, and Ingrid Daubechies
-
**
What is a Mathematician? presentations
and worksheets**
due
(assigned on March 3)
web references
- Readings and 3/31 Worksheets and suggestions for improvement due
- Presentations and Worksheets on Paul Erdos and David Blackwell
- Readings and 3/27 Worksheets and suggestions for improvement due
- Presentations and Worksheets on Georg Cantor and Srinivasa Ramanujan
- **Lab
7** due by 5pm
- Readings and 3/25 Worksheets and suggestions for improvement due
- Presentations and Worksheets on Sophie Germain and Carl Friedrich Gauss
- Readings
- Presentations and Worksheets on Thomas Fuller and Maria Agnesi
- Preliminary writeup of the answers to your math quesions for your mathematician project due (1 per group) references
- If you didn't do so already, then finish up the worksheet on
Andrew Wiles.
- Skim
Fifty-Five Culteral Reasons Why Too Few Women Win at
Mathematics by Patricia C. Kenschaft
from Winning Women into Mathematics, 1990, p. 11-15.
- **Lab 6:
Test 1 revisons and
grades assignment
**
This will count as a lab grade as well as a possible extra +3/65 or +4.6/100
added onto your test.
- Retakes for WebCT quizzes 3, 4 and 5 must be completed by 3:30
- **Test 2
**on Statistics
Study Guide
- Finish up readings from lab if you didn't already complete them.
- Work on homework for the end of the week.
- How Do You Know? p. 186 # 14 and p. 209 #12
- **Lab 4* * on Mean, Median and Mode due by 5pm (complete this yourself outside of class and ignore numbers 8, 9, 10 and the "show Dr. Sarah" parts)
- **Lab 5** on Monday's regression (Part 1 and Part 2) due by 5pm
- Take try 1 of WebCT quiz 5
-
**
Ben Franklin as a printed report**
due at 5pm (assigned on Jan 31)
Appendix 2: Ben Franklin's Will - Part 2 - Major Writing Assignment
Ben Franklin's Will - Web Readings
Sample Ben Word document
html of Sample document
- Work on homework for the end of the week.
- Read How Do You Know p. 190-201 (you will need to understand these ideas before lab).
- Finish regression worksheet from Thursday's class. For the last part,
note that circumference = Pi diameter, and use both predictions and their
strength in order to come up with your prediction.
- Read Heart of Math p. 593-595 and 601-610
- How do you know p. 185 #6 (try numerous examples of small data sets of 3 or 4 points to try and see which measure of center would be best in each case and why the others fail to be good measures of center)
- Do 2 histograms (1 for each gender) for the timed MRT class data each having 3 classes of width 1 each [ 0 less than or equal to score < 1, 1 less than or equal to score < 2, and 2 less than or equal to score < 3]
- Take try 1 of WebCT quiz 4
- Work on Ben Franklin and take a look at the Mean, Median and Mode
lab we would have done on Monday
that will be due next Friday (you must complete this yourself outside of
class - see Fri the 28).
- Read Heart of Mathematics p. 47-50 and 83-90.
- Modular Arithmetic and Check Digits
- Be sure that you bring your stock market packet to this lab (and all
labs in the future).
- **Test 1 ** on Finance Review Sheet Select Answers Test 1 Instructions
- WebCT quiz 2 retakes due by 3:30
- Real life rates -
Collect information that you receive in
the mail, search on the web
and/or go to a bank
to find real interest rates on...
savings, checking accounts,
cds (certificate of deposit), credit card rates,
student loan rates, house loan (mortgage) rates,
and car loan rates.
Write up your findings and be sure to include the source of each rate. - How Do You Know p. 90-92 9, 14, 21 and 24, and p. 101 number 8
- Math 1010 Data Collection Sheet. Fill in the ** questions for homework (Gender through Number of Nonsense Words Remembered) - we will do the rest in lab.
- Read the web reading on Quantitative Literacy
- Read the web reading on What is Math
- Read the web reading on Creative Inquiry Lessons for Life
- WebCT quiz 3 on the condo lab, student loans, web searching, taxes, and stocks.
- If you have them, bring pinecones to lab.
- **
Lab 3**
on Dr. Sarah's condo
is due by 5pm.
- Read Heart of Mathematics p. ix - xii, p. 540-541
(How to Get Rich Quick as a Stock Whiz),
and p. 583-589.
- What would have happened if I had waited until today to buy the condo? Assume that the price of the condo stayed the same (which it wouldn't have!) What is the monthly payment if we use today's mortage rate of approximately 6.125%. How much would I pay in total? How much of that would be interest? (I obtained this rate at Bank of America Page by choosing Conventinal Fixed and looking at the 30 year rate.)
- If I can afford to save $100 per month for a $50,000 car, in an account compounding monthly at 8%, then how long will it take for me to save up? Setup the formula for the problem but do not solve. If I told you that the answer was approximately 18.38 years would that make sense? Show work to explain why.
- What will my monthly payment be if I take out a car loan at 8% compounded monthly for $50,000 for 18.38 years?
- Web based problems need to use Internet Explorer .
Be sure to show work for EVERY entry on the same piece of paper
as the rest of your homework:
Web Problem 1
Web Problem 2
Be sure that you explain how each calculation is completed.
Also note that row 0 of the table at the bottom
is not supposed to be filled in -
fill in rows 1 and 2.
- You will need to stop by my office hours anytime before this, introduce yourself, and sit down and talk with me for a few minutes. Read and take notes on the poster with the orange fruit on it (located outside my door) outside my door), and the "Mathematics is Power" poster (inside my office). This will count as homework participation.
- If you haven't already finished up to the directed point on the condo worksheet, finish that.
- Read Wile E assignment and Dr. Sarah's response (web readings)
- Skim Ben F Web Readings and Writing Project Criterion (web materials).
- For WebCT quiz 2, Review the Jane and Joan
worksheet, the Homer tax worksheet, and the posters from my office.
Review lump sum, periodic payment and loan payment formulas
and philosophy of formulation.
Review "how much we put in" and "total interest" calculations.
Be able to match a problem to the correct formula, and also match a
problem to the correct answer using only common sense (units of the answer
and comparison with other problems). You may bring a "cheat sheet" with you.
- **
Lab 2*
*
on Ben Franklin
and the Stock Market is due by 5pm.
- If you haven't already done so, get a 3-ring binder notebook and hole puncher and use these to keep all of the handouts and homework organized.
- p. 90-91 How Do You Know? 8, 10
- Read p. 97-101 in How Do You Know?
(The answers to You Try It Problems
are in the back of the book.)
- Read lump sum versus periodic payment handout.
- Setup both sides of the equation by plugging in numbers for the problems on the back of the lump sum versus periodic payment handout.
- Read p. 93-97 in How Do You Know? (The answers to You Try It Problems
are in the back of the book.)
- Jane and Joan sheet (to turn in)
- Put in $37 each month for 2 years, at 12.99% compounded monthly. Compare this with putting in $37 and leaving it there for 2 years, at 12.99% compounded monthly. What is the total amount that you will end up with in each case? How much of that is interest ($) in each case? (to turn in)
- Complete the Stock Market homework (to turn in - this is important for your success in lab). You may print this out yourself or pick up the handout from my door.
- Read through Lab 2 Directions
- Get a printer card and bring it to labs.
- WebCT quiz 1 retakes are due by 11:55pm
- The University has cancelled classes today.
Today's homework is now due
on Monday, but you have additional homework due then too.
- p. 90 1 and 2 How Do You Know? to turn in (follow the guidelines in Presenting Homework and Writing Assignments which is located at the end of the syllabus).
- Read Reading Mathematics,
which is accessible as a link from
http://www.mathsci.appstate.edu/~sjg/class/1010/ - Read p. 77-79 in How Do You Know? (The answer to You Try it 2.3 is at the top of page 305). Then slowly read p. 77 a second time so that you are familiar with the ideas in it. Familiarity with p. 77 is imperative for your success in today's class.
- Complete
*
*Lab 1
**
by 11pm.
Dr. Sarah's Sheet on the Main Web Page and WebCT Use
- Re-read the syllabus carefully.
- Follow directions on Dr. Sarah's Sheet on the Main Web Page and WebCT Use to enter WebCT and take the first try of quiz 1.
- Homer's taxes due (to turn in).
- Get a scientific calculator (with a yx, xy, or ^ key on it) and a 3-ring binder notebook and hole puncher.
- Get the How Do You Know? book from the Mat 1010 section of the bookstore.
- If you are in the 3:30 class, also obtain the Heart of Math book by showing your syllabus upstairs in the IDS section of the bookstore.
- Homer's Paycheck homework to turn in
- p. 69-71 #1, 6, 9, 17, 20, 21 How Do You Know? to turn in (follow the guidelines in Presenting Homework and Writing Assignments which is located at the end of the syllabus).
- Bring your calculator, 3-ring binder notebook, hole puncher and How Do You Know? book to classes and labs until otherwise notified.