Great Ideas in Mathematics

Math 110 - Fall 2007

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Book list: Excursions in Modern Mathematics, Tannenbaum and Arnold - latest (6th) edition

 

31 review questions from Chapter 5 are posted HERE. (answers not guaranteed.  If you have doubts, ask in class)

 

32 review questions from Chapter 6 are posted HERE. (answers not guaranteed.) 

 

Semester Calendar 

 

Week

M

T

W

Th

 

September

1

 

9/4 - Introduction; Begin Chapter 1: the mathematics of voting

9/5

9/6 - properties of plurality, Borda count.

2

 

9/11 - properties of instant runoff and paired comparison.

 

9/13 - WebCT Quiz 01 due

Begin Ch. 3 - fair division

3

 

9/18 - HW #1 due: Ch. 1 p. 30 # 2, 4, 12, 13, 17, 20, 24, 27

More fair division

 

9/20 - HW #2 due: Ch. 1 p. 30 # 30, 40, 56, 60, 61, 70, 72

Typo: Problem 60c: B should drop out, not D.

4

 

9/25 - last diminisher, sealed bids

 

9/27 - 

 

 

October

5

 

10/2 -HW # 3 due Ch. 3 #2, 6, 8, 14,17, 19, 20, 22

 

10/4 - HW # 4 due: Ch 3 # 24, 31, 32, 41, 42, 52, 54, 55, 59. 60, 61

6

 

10/9 -  Test - chapters 1 and 3: voting methods, fair division

10/10

10/11 - Return test.

Start new chapter: symmetry

7

 

10/16 - more rigid motions

 

10/18 - kinds of symmetry

8

 

10/23 - Midterm grades are in

 

10/25 - HW # 5 due: p. 394 ff. # 1, 4, 5, 7, 11, 13, 15, 20

Begin Ch. 15 - Odds

 

 

November

9

 

10/30 - HW # 6 due p. 394 ff. # 21, 23, 24, 27, 28, 34

 

11/1 - HW # 7 due p. 394 ff. # 35, 36, 38, 39, 40, 42, 49, 50, 52

Review for test

10

 

11/6 - Test - Chapter 11: Symmetry

Review questions HERE

11/7

11/8 - HW # 8 due: Read “Profile” – pages 529-530 Ch. 15 p. 531 # 2, 3, 6, 7, 10, 11, 20, 22, 32, 33

11

 

11/13 - HW # 9: Ch. 15 p. 532 # 24, 35, 36, 40, 42, 44, 48, 49, 53, 60, 61, 62

 

11/15 - Test Chapter 15: Odds and probability

Review questions HERE

12

 

11/20 - HW #10: Ch 15 p. 535 # 63, 64, 66, 68

Begin chapter 5.

 

11/22 - Thanksgiving - no class

13

 

11/27 - Finish chapter 5, start chapter 6.

 

11/29 - HW #11: Ch 5, p. 185 # 1, 2, 3, 5, 12, 13, 15, 18.

 

 

December

14

 

12/4 -  HW #12: Ch 5 p. 189 # 16, 22, 24, 27, 28, 30, 38, 39.

 

12/6 - HW # 13: Ch 6, p. 221 # 2, 4, 8, 9, 11, 12. 14, 16, 17, 20, 21

15

12/11 - Test chapters 5 and 6

12/12

12/13 - Review for final

Friday is our only reading day this semester

Exams

week

Final exam

Wednesday, December 19 - exam period 2

2:00 to 4:30 pm

 

 

 

   Clinic Open !!

MATH CLINIC HOURS FOR FALL 2007

 Monday                9:30 am – 9 pm

Tuesday               9 am – 8:30 pm 

Wednesday         9 am – 8:30 pm

Thursday             9 am – 8 pm 

Friday                  9 am – 3 pm

Saturday              9 am – 12 pm

 

Be there!  Take a friend!

 

calendar updated December 10, 2007

 

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What we've done so far:

 

 

35 review questions from Chapter 15 are posted HERE. New questions added 2pm Saturday.

 

A practice worksheet for the first test is available here.

 

Answers below.

 

 

Snow days during exams?  

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Syllabus is now complete

 

The classroom has changed.  Now the class meets 11:00 to 12:15 Tuesday and Thursday in Higgins 117 (instead of Higgins 107)

 

Make sure you know how to take WebCT quizzes

 

 

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

 - Jonas Salk

 

Practice worksheet answers

 

1.          B

2.          A

3.          B

4.          81

5.          15

6.          C

7.          B

8.          D

9.          A

10.        D

11.        A

12.        I don’t know

13.        22

14.        A

15.        D

16.        D

17.        D

18.        28

19.        B

20.        A

21.        C

22.        D

23.        D

24.        C

25.        C

26.        D

27.        C

28.        D

29.        C

30.        E            B            E

31.        D            E            A

32.        A

33.        D

34.        B

35.        B

36.        B

37.        B

38.        C

39.        C

40.        E

41.        D

42.        D

43.        B

44.        B            D            E

45.        D

46.        D

47.        A