Math131-03 Course Handouts

Spring, 2006

Number of Hits Since 09/07/05:

Overview: This is where I'll post many (not all) of the handouts I provide in class. It is always your responsibility (if you miss class) to talk to me or another classmate to find out what handouts you may have missed. I can give you a hard copy of any missed handouts if you stop by my office (Wilson 2-232). Monday, 4/24/06 Probability worksheet, due Thursday (PDF) Friday, 4/21/06 Quiz day (PDF) Thursday, 4/20/06 Worksheet on Expected Value ( PDF) [Together, in class] Activity 6.2 (A,B), p. 61 [Will be due] Activity 6.3 [Will be due]: For version 1, use an area model to calculate the theoretical probability of winning. For version 2, use a weighted probability tree to calculate the theoretical probability of winning. For each version, what is the expected profit / loss? A.C.E. #4 (p. 65) [Will be due] Musser (Sec. 11.4), Set A #7 (p. 553) [Will be due] Tuesday, 4/18/06 [Will be due] Activity 6.1 - Follow-up #1, #2, #3 (p. 60) A.C.E. #2 (p. 64) Musser Sec. 11.2, Set B, #16 (p. 533) Monday, 4/17/06 Activity 5.1 and 5.2 (p. 51, 52) Do 5.1(A-E) together (not due) Do 5.2(A-B) together (not due) Do 5.1 Follow-up #1,2 [Will be due] Do A.C.E. #1, 3, 8 [Will be due] Do Musser p. 532 (11.2) Problem Set B #12 [Will be due] Do Musser p. 553 (11.4) Problem Set A #8 [Will be due] "Grade your own" quiz from last Tuesday, marking incorrect work and making comments that explain the nature of the mistake. Your grade will depend on the quality of your comments, not on the original quiz performance. Thursday, 4/13/06 Class cancelled! (You should have received an email about this late Wednesday evening) For Monday, do this worksheet (PDF) over Chapter 11. [Will be due] Also for Monday, do this worksheet (PDF) over Activity 4.2. [Will be due] Tuesday, 4/11/06 Activity 4.1 - Zark's Dungeon. Do 4.1 Follow-up #1-5. [Will be due.] Do A.C.E. #1, 4, 7. [Will be due.] Probability Project handed out ( PDF). Please read though it a.s.a.p.! Monday, 4/10/06 I passed my doctoral defense. Did we have class today? (Oh yeah, we did that external assessment, remember?) Friday, 4/7/06 Activity 3.1 A,B,C (together, not due) Activity 3.1 Follow-up #1,2 (together, not due) Activity 3.2 ACE #22, 23 (page 30) [May be due] Activity 3.2 A,B,C,D [May be due] Activity 3.2 Follow-up #1,2 [May be due] A.C.E. #3,6 (page 38) [May be due] Also, be working on the remaining homework from Musser 11.1. Please note, Monday's class will be a little different (but please attend!) so Friday's assignment will actually be due on Tuesday. There will also be a quiz on Tuesday over the Musser homework and our in-class activities. Thursday, 4/6/06 Reviewed the five Properties of Probability on p. 512 (Musser). Discussed Activity 2.2 - "The Multiplication Game" p. 23 (Problem 2.2) B thru D [May be due] p. 23 (Follow-up) #1 [May be due] p. 24 (A.C.E.) #5(a-d), 6, 8, 9, 10 [May be due] Also, do the remaining Musser problems from Sec. 11.1 (similar problems will appear on Tuesday's quiz). Tuesday, 4/4/06 Law of Large Numbers Applet Probability Selected Readings (with HW) (PDF) Discussed Activity 1.4 - "Making Purple" p. 12 (Follow-up): #2abc [May be due] p. 16 (A.C.E): #9abc [May be due] Also, Musser p. 513-517 #A2, A7, B17 [May be due] Monday, 4/3/06 Play Match / No Match, and do A-D [Will not be due] p. 7 (Follow-up): #1-3 [May be due] p. 14-15 (A.C.E.): #6-8 [May be due] Friday, 3/31/06 p. 6 (Follow-up): #1ab, 2, 3 [May be due] p. 13 (A.C.E.): #1-5 [May be due] Exam 2 Bivariate Data "Tying Up Loose Ends" (PPT, PDF - Handouts) Numb3rs Activity (hard copy only) SPRING BREAK! Friday, 3/10/06 Summary of Visual Displays of Data (PPT, PDF - handouts) Speed Trap Lab (hard copy only) Thursday, 3/9/06 Section 10.3 - Misleading Data (PPT, PDF - handouts) Tuesday, 3/7/06 Quiz through 10.2. (hard copy only). Monday, 3/6/06 Lab on Normal Distributions and Histograms (hard copy only) Thursday, 3/2/06 Finding Outliers on Boxplots (PDF) Variance, Standard Deviation, and z-scores (PDF) (requires calculator!) Tuesday, 2/28/06 Bivariate Data - Part 1 (PDF) Bivariate Data - Part 2 (PDF) Monday, 2/27/06 Lab - Counting Rectangles (hard copy only) Friday, 2/24/06 Statistics Project Description (PDF) Worksheet on Analyzing Data using the TI-73 (PDF) Tuesday, 2/14/06 Counting on Frank excerpt (hard copy only). Volume and Surface Area worksheet (Word DOC) Monday, 2/13/06 Volume and Surface Area Lab (Word DOC) Friday, 2/10/06 Notes for Section 13.3. See a classmate, or me, to copy them down. Thursday, 2/9/06 Lab - Making Triangles. (Hard copy only) Tuesday, 2/7/06 Metric Mania Game - Use it in your own classroom! (Word DOC) Monday, 2/6/06 NCTM Standards for Measurement (hard copy only) Friday, 2/3/06 Worksheet - Dimensional Analysis (PDF) Thursday, 2/2/06 Worksheet - Classifying Polyhedra (Filled-in) (PDF) Worksheet - Parallel Line Angles (PDF) Tuesday, 1/31/06 Terminology for Three-Dimensional Solids (PDF) Monday, 1/30/06 Regular Polygons Extension (PDF) Tesselations Lab (see me for the actual assignment) Tesselations Lab Powerpoint (PDF | PPT) Friday, 1/27/06 Polygon Activity (hard copy only) Quiz 02 - Thru 12.3 (there were two different forms) (PDF) Thursday, 1/26/06 Today was a long lecture day with lots of notes that are pretty important for doing the "proofs" in your homework (Sec. 12.3, #10 and #11). Better get them from a friend (or see me) if you missed class today! Tuesday, 1/24/06 Warm-up Activity - "At least one" vs. "Exactly one" (hard copy only) Terms from 12.3 - List of words you presented in class (PDF) Blank Template: Examples and Non-Examples (PDF) Monday, 1/23/06 MIRA Lab (hard copy only) Friday, 1/20/06 MIRA Activity (next-to-last slide on PPT from yesterday) Quiz 1 - Geometry: (PDF) Thursday, 1/19/06 Section 12.2 Powerpoint: (PDF) | (PPT) Alphabet and Crossword Puzzle Handout (hard copy only) Tuesday, 1/17/06 Geometry Lab - Venn Diagrams and Quadrilaterals (hard copy only). Friday, 1/13/06 Section 12.1 Powerpoint - Part 1: (PDF) | (PPT) Section 12.1 Powerpoint - Part 2: (PDF) | (PPT) Thursday, 1/12/06 Course Syllabus: (PDF) Course Schedule: (PDF) Introduction and Standards: (PDF) | (PPT) NCTM and Montana mathematics Standards and Benchmarks (hard copy only)