Be sure to read the margin notes in your reading as well!
M Aug. 27:
Read and Think about: Timelines on inside front and back cover of text, Ch. 2 Intro.(p.51) , and Section 2.1 (pp.52-55).
HW Exercises 2.1: #1-35: all multiples of 7 (i.e., the set {7, 14,...,35}), AND #40-80: all multiples of 5 (i.e., the set {40, 45, 50, ...,80}), AND #87 and #88.
W Aug. 29:
READ Section 2.2.
HW Exercises 2.2: #1-21, 47-49, 54, 70-72.
F Aug. 31:
Finish 2.1 and 2.2 HW.
READ Section 2.3.
EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITY The theme of this semester's Mathematics & Statistics Problem of the Week (POW) is "Japanese Pencil Puzzles". The weekly problems will be distributed in class, or can be picked up in Roop Hall outside of Room 119. (They will also appear on our department's "Puzzle of the Week" link.) Here's how you can use these for extra credit in our class. Complete any 3 POWs for an extra percentage point on your final grade. Complete 6 POWs for 2 extra percentage points, and complete 10 POWs for 3 extra percentage points! For example, a final course average of 77% is a C, but with 10 POWs this becomes an 80% which is a B-. To turn in POWs, you simply follow the same rules as everybody else, except you should clearly put the label "D.Warne-M103" at the top of your solution in the line after "class". Dr. Taalman will make sure that I get them to give you proper credit. If your solution is incorrect, you may still get some fraction of a point toward your point goal. NO LATE submissions will be accepted!!! These are always due on Wednesdays by noon in the box outside of ROOP 119 (NOT turned in to me)! A new problem will be posted after the due date for the previous week's problem.
F Sep. 28:
TEST 1: Chapter 2 and Sections 3.1, 3.2.
HW: READ Section 3.3.
M Oct. 1:
Re-READ Section 3.3.
HW Exercises 3.3: #1-50 multiples of 5 (do more if you need to!), and 53-56, 60-62, 65, 67, 68, 71, 73, 79, 85, 87, 89-91, 94, 95, 97-99, 101, 105.
W Oct. 3:
Keep working on 3.3 HW above.
F Oct. 5:
Read Section 3.4.
HW Exercises 3.4: All multiples of 6 AND 13, 15, 25, 28, 31, 32, 41-45, 47-50, 55-56.
W Oct. 10:
Read the Green Box on p.134 and the sentence that follows it, and Re-Read Section 3.6.
HW#1 for 3.6 Exercises: #1, 4, 6, 7, 10, 12, 13-23 odd, 27-45 odd.
F Oct. 12:
Re-Read Example 6 in Section 3.6.
HW#2 for 3.6 Exercises: #28-34 even, 48, 49, 51, 52.
M Oct. 15:
Read Section 4.3. Ignore ALL calculator shortcuts. Pay attention to Tables 4, 5, and 6, and to Examples 1, 5, 8, and 10 for now.
Finish all 3.6 HW AND Do 1st 4.3 assignment below.
Section 4.3: #1-14. (A 2nd (bigger) 4.3 HW assignment is coming on W. Since Fall Break is F, you'll have lots of time to work on them!)
NOTE: Test #2 will be held on Friday, Oct. 26 and will cover sections 3.3, 3.4, 3.6, and 4.3.
W Oct. 17:
Re-read all of Section 4.3 (except, ignore calculator shortcuts!).
HW#2 for 4.3 Exercises: #15, 17, 19, 23, 25 (expand! skip calculator shortcut) AND #29, 31, 32, 34, 39 (upside down division!), #46 AND #47-54 (use shortcuts discussed in Examples 12-14) AND #57, 59, 61, 83, 85, 87, 88, 89, 91. Be sure to see italicized directions above several of the problems!!
F Oct. 19: HAVE A GREAT FALL BREAK!!!!
Week of Oct. 22-26: Keep working on HW and prepare for 10/26 Test on sections 3.3, 3.4, 3.6, and 4.3!!
F Nov. 2:
Re-read Section 4.4 and Finish all 4.4 HW Exercises.
Read Section 4.5 pp.203-205 (through green box) only, and read Section 4.6.
M Nov. 5:
Re-read Green Box on page 205 and in Section 4.6: beginning paragraphs and Example 3 (skip Examples 1,2, and the rest of the section, except for the margin notes. Read all of the margin notes!!).
Try Section 4.5 #17, 18, 35, 36.
AND Section 4.6 #1, 2, 11, 14-16, 18, 20, 37, 40-42
F Nov. 9:
Read Chapter 5 Intro (p.221) and Section 5.1
Section 5.1 HW#1: All Prime Numbered Exercises! Be sure to READ italicized directions above exercise sets!!!!!! More 5.1 Exercises coming next class!
W Nov. 14:
READ Section 5.2 Goldbach's Conjecture (bot. half p. 235), Twin Primes (top fourth of p. 236) and Fermat's Last Theorem (bot. p. 236-237).
HW Exercises 5.2: #1, 2, 6, 8, 27-34, 37, 38, 40.
M Nov. 19: Finish up any HW from 4.4-5.2. Test #3 on this material (and possibly section 5.4) will be held on Friday, Nov. 30.
Additional EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITY: READ the Extension to Modern Cryptography on pp. 249-257. This gives an important and practical development that uses modular arithmetic, prime numbers, and ideas from binary systems. Turn in the following for up to 1 percentage point credit each toward your final grade:
(a) Do all Even Numbered Extension Exercises on pp. 256-257.
(b) Write a two page paper discussing in more detail anything that branches from the ideas, topics, interests, etc. discussed in this extension to cryptography. Include your references, and DO NOT PLAGIARIZE!!!!!!!!
You may do either, or both, but BOTH are DUE at the beginning of class on Friday, Dec. 7 (the last day of classes). NO EXTENSIONS!!!!!!
M Nov. 26:
READ Section 5.4.
HW Exercises 5.4: #1-6, 10-12, 15, 16, 18, 21, 25, 26, 34. For #10-12 (as done in class for #8) find a general formula for the nth equation in the pattern!
Test #3 on material we covered in 4.4-5.4 will be held on Friday, Nov. 30. You can bring a Fibonacci index card (3x5) and write anything you want on it for the test!
FINAL EXAM will be Weds. Dec. 12, 1-3pm in Duke 209. Study by reworking exams and similar problems in exercise sets, and being sure to understand the main concepts behind the questions!