Ms. Schettino's Heart of Mathematics Class Calendar

  • The homework listed per day is assigned that day FOR the next day.
  • "MP" denotes Motivational Problems on worksheet hand-outs
  • All other assignments are from the text book Page #/Problem #'s

 

Course Syllabus for Fall 2007
 

May 2008

Tuesday
Thursday
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  Part of class today we will be in the library again!
HW for Thursday: Read ps. 682-694 (please really read it!  It's about different types of voting methods - you need to be up on it to have a good discussion. )
 
Study: one-coin method, two-coin method, sampling bias, types of sampling bias, mean, median, mode, reading data displays , finding expected value,
 
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Last problem Set !
 
In Library again for more work!
 
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Please be prepared to show me what you have done so far.
 
Poster Presentations
 
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Poster Presentations
Last Class - Paper Due
     

Final paper for project: Individually written, Should have 5 distinct parts:

1. Introduction to your topic: What are the nuts and bolts of your topic - why did you choose it? how is it relevant to society? What are the important pieces and how did it interest you? is it historical, scientific, humanitarian?  Give backgroun information?

2. Data Analysis and calculation:  This should be the majority of your paper.  You should discuss in this section not only the mathematics of how you did your calculations, but why you did the ratios, arithmetic, or other calculations you did. What made you compare the data that you actually compared?  Why did you pick the numbers you did?  You had so much data to choose from you need to be able to justify the numbers you used.  Not only should you justify the numbers ers you used, but the mathematics you used as well.  Remember that this is research paper and all data and infromation must be cited.  I would like you to use APA style please.  This section can also include any calculations of medians, means, modes or 5 number summaries as well.

3. Data displays - you can included here any nice visual disaplays and analyses of them that you include on your posters.

4. Numerical Conclusions - this sections should have all final calculations like "I found that 30% more children than adults eat chocolate because I divided the total number of children who eat chocolate by the total number of people who eat chocolate"

5. Philosophical or General Conclusions - this section should have your overall conclusions like "These numerical conlusions from part III lead me to believe that kids eat way more chocolate than adults do.  I thnk this is major problem in our society and we should all do something about this."

and of course your REFERENCES!!